Question reference: S5W-36055
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 11 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist (a) osteoporosis nurse and (b) radiographer positions are (i) filled and (ii) vacant in each of the NHS boards.
Answer
The information requested on how many specialist (a) osteoporosis nurse positions are filled and vacant, broken down by NHS board is not centrally collected.
The information requested on how many radiography positions are filled in each of the NHS Boards can be found in the following table:
NHSScotland Allied Health Professionals with a specialty of Radiography, staff in post by NHS Board (Whole Time Equivalent) as at Dec 2020.
NHS Boards | Staff in Post as at Dec 2020 |
NHSScotland | 2442.3 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 172.8 |
NHS Borders | 32.8 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 44.8 |
NHS Fife | 109.0 |
NHS Forth Valley | 90.3 |
NHS Grampian | 207.3 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 769.7 |
NHS Highland | 122.8 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 181.0 |
NHS Lothian | 411.4 |
NHS Orkney | 5.8 |
NHS Shetland | 9.8 |
NHS Tayside | 201.7 |
NHS Western Isles | 9.1 |
NHS Golden Jubilee | 74.0 |
Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).
Information on how many radiography positions are vacant in each of the NHS Boards is not centrally available.
Scotland-level data on vacancies for Consultants, Nursing & Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals for March, June and December 2020 is not available.
Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on collation of more detailed data by Boards, reduced vacancy data was reported for March, June and December 2020.