How many NHS apprenticeships have been delivered in each NHS board area in each of the last 10 years.

Data held by the Scottish Government on the number of NHS apprenticeships has been provided in the following tables. While this Management Information provides an indication of apprenticeship activity within NHS Scotland, the figures across years should be treated with caution because of the changes in collection method, coverage and definitions. The data records the number of individuals who have been recruited or started on an apprenticeship programme in the reporting year, rather than the total number of apprenticeships delivered.Data for the total number of apprenticeships recruited is not held by the Scottish Government for 2016-2017 and there is no data for 2019-2020 to 2021-2022, as no annual Staff Governance Monitoring return was undertaken during COVID. Apprenticeship data is not yet available for 2024-25 or 2025-26 but will be collected via NHS Anchors Metrics.NHS BoardApprenticeships Recruited 2017-18*Apprenticeships Recruited 2018-19*Apprenticeships Recruited 2022-23**Apprenticeship Starts 2023-24***NHS Ayrshire and Arran15314639NHS Borders0011-NHS Dumfries and Galloway00--NHS Education for Scotland112-4NHS Fife2511149NHS Forth Valley37310NHS Golden Jubilee01-9NHS Grampian23253824NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde6569069NHS Health Scotland04--Healthcare Improvement Scotland11--NHS Highland1610-NHS Lanarkshire60202476NHS Lothian28597270NHS National Services Scotland17172NHS Orkney81255Public Health Scotland---20NHS Scottish Ambulance Service110-NHS Shetland11-7NHS State Hospital0111NHS Tayside1583720NHS Western Isles152801NHS 2441601NHS Scotland total260245355507* For 2017-18 and 2018-19, local NHS apprenticeship data was collected through Staff Governance Monitoring. Health Boards noted that variation in apprenticeship contracts could affect consistency.** For 2022-23, following a pause in data collection via Staff Governance Monitoring due to COVID, data collection was resumed via a direct data request.***The latest NHS apprenticeship data held by the Scottish Government is from the NHS Anchors Metrics for 2023-2024. For this year, the data was collected on a different basis, recording apprenticeship starts rather than headcount recruited on apprenticeships. The number of apprenticeships recruited cannot be compared directly with apprenticeship starts, as starts may include existing staff who were not newly hired.