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Written Question · S4W-00026 · Session 4

 To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) full-time equivalent, (b) part-time, (c) casual and (d) other employees were employed by (i) NH…

Answered Asked by Drew Smith Lab Lodged 12 May 2011

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) full-time equivalent, (b) part-time, (c) casual and (d) other employees were employed by (i) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (ii) other NHS bodies in Glasgow on 5 May 2011.

The answer

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 Jun 2011 · 21 days after it was lodged, 7 days after it was due

The information requested is not centrally available. However, the latest information on NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde employees as at 30 September 2010 is published on the NHS National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Overall%20staff%202010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment
Staff in post data at 31 March 2011, will be published on this website on
28 June 2011. Future publication dates for workforce information is shown in the following table:
Time Period
(Publication)
ISD Extract
Taken from SWISS
Data as at
National Statistics
Publication Date
Quarter 4
19 April 2011
31 March 2011
28 June 2011
Quarter 1
12 July 2011
30 June 2011
30 August 2011
Quarter 2
11 October 2011
30 September 2011
29 November 2011
Quarter 3
17 January 2012
31 December 2011
28 February 2012
Information on those employees who hold a temporary contract (casual) is not currently published. However, it has been ascertained from the Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS) that there were 2,080 (head count) and 1856.0 (whole-time equivalent) employees with a contract description of “fixed term” as at 30 September 2010 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. This excludes GPs and GDS dentists.
Information about employees employed by other NHS bodies in Glasgow cannot be provided within the time frame associated with this question. This information will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52922) when available.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4W-00026 by reference.