Staff a gyflogir yn uniongyrchol gan y GIG: ar 31 Rhagfyr 2023
Data am staff meddygol, deintyddol, nyrsio a bydwreigiaeth, ar 31 Rhagfyr 2023. Saesneg yn unig.
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Introduction
This statistical release provides summary statistics on staff directly employed by NHS Wales and focusses on the number of full-time equivalent staff employed on the last day of the latest available quarter. The release includes analyses by staff group at Wales level. Data categorised by occupational code and NHS organisations are published on StatsWales.
The statistics are sourced from the NHS Electronic Staff Record, provided by Health Education and Improvement Wales. Staffing numbers are best measured by using full-time equivalent (FTE) data as FTE accounts for part-time working. One FTE is the equivalent of a person working the standard hours for their grade (usually 37.5 hours a week) and more detail is provided in the quality report. Overall headcount numbers are also published on StatsWales and are used for analysis of staff characteristics (StatsWales) in the annual statistical release.
Workforce data for primary care services such as general medical practitioners (GPs) (StatsWales) and NHS dental practitioners (StatsWales) are not included in this release and are published separately as they are independent NHS contractors.
Main points
Between 31 December 2022 and 31 December 2023, in terms of full-time equivalents (FTE):
- The total number of staff increased by 3,804 (4.1%) to 96,559.
- Medical and dental staff increased by 331 (4.2%) to 8,233.
- Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff increased by 1,902 (5.2%) to 38,495.
- Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff increased by 729 (4.5%) to 16,949.
- Administration and estates staff increased by 878 (3.8%) to 23,883.
- Ambulance staff decreased by 31 (1.0%) to 2,999.
- Healthcare assistants and other support staff decreased by 5 (0.1%) to 5,880.
- Other staff remained at 120.
The total staff headcount increased by 4,212 (3.9%) to 111,526.
Summary of staff directly employed
Figure 1: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff directly employed by NHS Wales on 31 December, 2018 to 2023
Description of Figure 1: Line chart showing that the number of FTE staff has increased in every year since 2018.
Source: Electronic Staff Record, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)
NHS staff summary by staff group and year on StatsWales
The total number of FTE staff directly employed by the NHS has increased over the long-term with 21.2% more staff in December 2023 than there were in December 2018. Quarterly data has been collected from September 2018.
Figure 2: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff directly employed by NHS Wales on 31 December 2022 and 2023 by staff group
Description of Figure 2: Bar chart showing that nursing, midwifery and health visiting group is the largest staff group with almost 40% of the total workforce. The number of FTE staff for all groups has increased since 31 December 2022, except for the ambulance and healthcare assistants and other support staff groups.
Source: Electronic Staff Record, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)
NHS staff summary by staff group and year on StatsWales
The annual increase in total FTE staff between December 2022 and December 2023 was 4.1%. The change in the number of FTE staff varied from a 5.2% increase in the number of nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff to a decrease of 1.0% in the number of ambulance staff.
Quality and methodology information
The data is sourced from the NHS Electronic Staff Record provided by Health Education and Improvement Wales. Further information is available in the quality report.
The number of staff directly employed by the NHS has some seasonal patterns, linked to set times in the year when newly qualified staff can be recruited into permanent roles. As such, comparisons are made with the same quarter from the previous year.
The percentages in this release are rounded to the nearest 0.1. Percentage point changes are calculated based on the unrounded numbers.
Data on Sickness absence in the NHS and vacancies in NHS Wales are published on a quarterly basis. Note that there are minor differences in how staff groups are defined between the releases. These are detailed in the quality report.
Full details of quality issues identified with the data in recent years are provided in the quality report.
Well-being of Future Generations Act (WFG)
The Well-being of Future Generations Act 2015 is about improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing of Wales. The Act puts in place seven wellbeing goals for Wales. These are for a more equal, prosperous, resilient, healthier and globally responsible Wales, with cohesive communities and a vibrant culture and thriving Welsh language. Under section (10)(1) of the Act, the Welsh Ministers must (a) publish indicators (“national indicators”) that must be applied for the purpose of measuring progress towards the achievement of the wellbeing goals, and (b) lay a copy of the national indicators before Senedd Cymru. Under section 10(8) of the Well-being of Future Generations Act, where the Welsh Ministers revise the national indicators, they must as soon as reasonably practicable (a) publish the indicators as revised and (b) lay a copy of them before the Senedd. These national indicators were laid before the Senedd in 2021. The indicators laid on 14 December 2021 replace the set laid on 16 March 2016.
Information on the indicators, along with narratives for each of the wellbeing goals and associated technical information is available in the Wellbeing of Wales report.
Further information on the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.
The statistics included in this release could also provide supporting narrative to the national indicators and be used by public services boards in relation to their local wellbeing assessments and local wellbeing plans.