Question reference: S6W-01710
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 21 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many breast cancer radiologists are currently employed by each NHS board.
Answer
This government has seen a 54.2% increase in the consultant radiologist workforce (from 223.5 WTE in September 2006 to 344.6 WTE in March 2021). While information on numbers of radiologists according to specialist cancer fields is not centrally held, the numbers of Clinical Radiology Consultants currently employed in each NHS Board, including Doctors in Training, are as set out in the following table:
NHSScotland Clinical Radiology Consultants, staff in post by NHS Board in Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) including Doctors in Training.
NHS Boards | Consultants as at Mar 2021 | Doctors in Training Mar 2021 |
NHSScotland | 344.6 | 154.8 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 23.3 | 3.8 |
NHS Borders | 6.0 | 1.0 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 5.8 | 1.0 |
NHS Fife | 7.3 | 0 |
NHS Forth Valley | 10.6 | 6.0 |
NHS Grampian | 26.5 | 18.4 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 111.7 | 61.8 |
NHS Highland | 12.7 | 2.0 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 38.3 | 8.6 |
NHS Lothian | 73.3 | 38.2 |
NHS Orkney | - | - |
NHS Shetland | - | - |
NHS Tayside | 27.3 | 15.0 |
NHS Western Isles | - | - |
National Bodies and Special Health Boards | 2.0 | - |
Source: ISD published national data from Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).