Health workforce

This publication provides a summary of the current progress towards implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Scottish Government, the SGPC, Integration Authorities and NHS Boards.

Around 12,000 students support healthcare delivery.

New call centre to support non-emergency healthcare needs

SSSC registration and PVG checks to be funded.

This paper informed the Mental Health in Primary Care Short Life Working Group recommendations, providing examples and success factors, of various Mental Health models that are in place across Health Boards in Scotland.

The Mental Health in Primary Care Short Life Working Group recommended the establishment of Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Care Services within areas served by a group of GP practices, providing assessment, advice and support for people who require a mental health or a wellbeing response.

This guidance has been developed by the Mental Health in Primary Care Development Group and will support local planning and implementation of Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Care Services, within an area served by a group of GP practices.

Funding to reach £40 million a year.

Measures to support remote treatment.

Priority given to essential workers and those most at risk.

Breakdown of daily figures over the festive break.

Support to help manage growing pressures.

New trainee numbers double in last decade.

Heartfelt gratitude to health, social care and social work staff.

Visits to people in hospital and care homes to continue with additional measures of protection.

Request for additional military personnel approved.

Health Secretary hails “excellent leadership.”

Support available to ensure care workers can get vaccines and boosters.

Budget focus on pandemic recovery.

Findings from a self-assessment survey as part of the implementation of the framework for supporting people through recovery and rehabilitation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, completed by rehabilitation services across health and social care in spring 2021.

Guidance on arrangements for providing financial support to social care providers for costs relating to the COVID-19 pandemic from December 2020.

£70 million to ensure faster diagnosis.

£30 million will help support more face-to-face appointments.

£33.1 million to retain over 500 posts.

This report highlights our continuing support for the Veterans and Armed Forces community in Scotland and provides an update on this year’s achievements and work undertaken to improve support and access to services for our Armed Forces, Veterans and their families.

Delivering the right care in the right place for patients.

Further £10 million winter funding for NHS.

Military to support national Autumn/Winter vaccination programme.

This consultation paper is for the public consultation on draft statutory guidance on assessment of wellbeing, as required in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.

£32 million for 139 additional trainee doctors.

Refreshed strategy which sets out how we will work together to improve the care and wellbeing of people in Scotland by making best use of digital technologies in the design and delivery of services, in a way, place and time that works best for them.

£482 million for pandemic costs.

Outlines the range of actions we are taking to support our health and social sector care throughout the winter period.

£9 million to enhance health workforce.

Wellbeing support for staff in health and social care.

This report was led on by Professor Philip Cachia to consider the challenges of the maximum 48 hour working week and provide recommendations for the Scottish Government to consider.

48 hour working week remains the long term goal post-pandemic.

Record winter funding package to help increase NHS and social care capacity this winter.

Equality impact assessment (EQIA) for the Eyes.Scot website, Scotland's new national website for eye care and eye health information.

Answers to frequently asked questions by health and social care staff following the announcement of a £500 payment for staff, by the First Minister on 30 November 2020.

Seven standards for services to support children and young people who have neurodevelopmental profiles with support needs and require more support than currently available.

Additional service resources after £20 million investment.

This guidance describes the responsibilities and expectations for all involved in protecting children and will support the care and protection of children.

Guidance to support child protection committees to reflect, learn and improve child protection systems and practice when a child or young person dies, is significantly harmed, or was at risk of death or significant harm or where effective practice has prevented harm or risk of harm.

This report shows the results of the public consultation on the revised national guidance for child protection in Scotland, and our response to the results.

More than £1 billion to improve care and tackle backlog.

The NHS recovery plan sets out key ambitions and actions to be developed and delivered now and over the next 5 years in order to address the backlog in care and meet ongoing healthcare needs for people across Scotland.

Easy read version of the women’s health plan.

The Women’s Health Plan underpins actions to improve women’s health inequalities by raising awareness around women’s health, improving access to health care and reducing inequalities in health outcomes for girls and women, both for sex-specific conditions and in women’s general health.

Recognition of efforts during pandemic means workers continue to be best paid in UK.

Chief Pharmaceutical Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officers announced.

This consultation sets out our proposals to improve the way we deliver social care in Scotland, following the recommendations of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care.

The report of the Short Life Working Group (SLWG) set up by the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to review the role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist as part of the Transforming Roles Programme, and improve national consistency in Scotland for Clinical Nurse Specialist and Specialist Practitioner roles.

This plan, coproduced with our NHS and third sector partners, takes stock of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) services and people that use them, ahead of a more fundamental review of the SHBBV Framework in 2022.

The redesign of urgent care (RUC) programme by definition includes the entire patient pathway from the time of patient or carer need to the conclusion of that episode of care. This evaluation has therefore attempted to explore the whole patient journey in terms of data and feedback from stakeholder groups.

Health Secretary says changes are working.

Support scheme to be introduced this year.

Dedicated portal to reach last group of social care workers.

The 'Once for Scotland' Workforce Policies Programme is designed to review and transform existing workforce policies (previously known as Partnership Information Network (PIN) Policies). This consultation focuses on the homeworking policy.

£5 million to help meet safety standards and see more patients.

Military to help increase number of appointments.

Over 150,000 workers now employed.

Increase of 4% to be implemented.  

Follow-up paper to the Transforming Roles paper on Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) published in December 2017.

Booklet explaining available funding to new students undertaking pre-registration Nursing and Midwifery degree programmes in Scotland in 2021 to 2022.

Uplift for Agenda for Change health workers.

Staff to be paid at least the Real Living Wage.

Scotland’s out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) Strategy 2021 to 2026 reflects progress made since throughout the lifetime of the previous strategy (2015 – 2020), and sets out the next steps we will take to ensure as many people as possible survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Scotland.

The heart disease action plan (2021) sets out our priorities and the actions we will take to minimise preventable heart disease and ensure equitable and timely access to diagnosis, treatment and care for people with suspected heart disease in Scotland.

Improving access to dedicated professionals.

Mental health focus to support pandemic recovery.

This paper seeks views on what the Patient Safety Commissioner role should look like; who it should report to; and how the role should interact with existing legislation and policies, as well as with the various organisations involved in providing and improving health and care services in Scotland.

This Code of Practice sets out the principles and practices for the ethical international recruitment and appointment of all international health and social care personnel in Scotland. This demonstrates Scotland’s commitment to ethical recruitment and protecting the healthcare systems of developing.

This Code of Practice sets out the principles and practices for the ethical international recruitment and appointment of all international health and social care personnel in Scotland. This demonstrates Scotland’s commitment to ethical recruitment and protecting the healthcare systems of developing.

Confidential mental health workforce service.

Increase for 154,000 Agenda for Change health workers.

Bursary available for those who need to repeat a year.

Milestone reached as programme continues to pick up pace.

786,427 people have received first dose.

Next asymptomatic test site to open from Wednesday. 

Frontline workers to get specialist help.

Roll-out continues across Scotland.

Targeted approach planned for high prevalence areas.

Letter from the four countries Chief Healthcare Science Officers regarding the second wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Vaccinators can use the tool in any healthcare setting.

Letter sent by the Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Midwifery Officer and Chief Allied Health Professions Officer to students on Friday 11 December 2020.

First Minister visits vaccination centre.  

Survey reveals pride in service and achievements, despite challenges

Pandemic workforce thanked for their service.

Key workers are using National Wellbeing Hub.

£8.5 million for additional trainees in pandemic response.

Ensuring protection for those who need it.

Testing capacity on track to reach 65,000.

Bill to remove archaic legislative prohibition.

Specialist medical trainee places are 97% full.

More than 300 patients treated at NHS Louisa Jordan.

New helpline will provide round the clock service.

Hospital will support planned non-COVID healthcare and staff training.

Professor Fiona McQueen provides an update to students about the revised programme delivery.

Four nations statement on allied health professionals’ role in rehabilitation during and after COVID-19.

Routine testing of workforce extended as more services resume.

Urgent care to be made widely available.

Careful resumption of paused services.

Guidance on the process for admitting final stage clinical scientist trainees on the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Temporary Register in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sets out how health boards will safely and incrementally prioritise the resumption of some paused services, while maintaining COVID-19 capacity and resilience.

Plans for death in service cover and enhancements to statutory sick pay.

New resources for staff, carers, volunteers and their families. 

Expansion of Scottish manufacturing of gowns.

Letter from Fiona McQueen, Chief Nursing Officer, about indemnity provision for nurses working across NHS and primary care services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Target reached as capacity increases.

Thousands come forward to help in COVID-19 emergency.

Offers of help from more than 1,600 businesses and individuals.

Immediate wage increase and sick pay provision.

Joint statement on PPE guidance.

Thousands offer their skills to support response.

£5.5m to ease coronavirus pressures.

Guidance on student support for medical, nursing and midwifery students during the COVID-19 outbreak. This guidance is not current.

Health Secretary’s ‘thank you’ to those supporting the NHS.

Updated PPE guidance issued for health and social care workers.

Open letter to final year biomedical science students asking them to agree to become part of their local health and social care workforce to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic from Karen Stewart, Healthcare Science Officer, Scottish Government.

Open letter to final year allied health professional students within the last 6 months of study asking them to agree to become part of their local health and social care workforce to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic from Carolyn McDonald, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer.

Letter from the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Dr Rose Marie Parr appealing to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to rejoin the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) register to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary Jeane Freeman MSP and Cllr Stuart Currie, COSLA Spokesperson for Health and Social Care, to all the Integration Joint Boards and local authorities about the definition and status of key workers including links to useful information and guidance.

Improved distribution system for vital equipment.

Household members with symptoms to be tested.

Further guidance to employers published.

UK Coronavirus Bill supported by MSPs.

Patients with concerns about symptoms advised to dial 111 if they need help.

Criteria provided to local authorities to determine local need.

A letter from the Chief Nursing Officer, Fiona McQueen calling for additional health professionals to return to the NHS to help with the current public health emergency.

Immediate action in response to COVID-19.

Whistleblowers given a voice.

Results of staff experience survey published.

Independent report by Webropol providing detailed information and analysis of staff experience in Health and Social Care.

Health Secretary urges EU nationals to continue to work in Scotland’s NHS.

Equality impact assessment (EQIA) for the NHS Scotland Agenda for Change (AFC) Pay Deal for 2018-21.

Building capacity and increasing support.

Easy read version of updates and next steps from the 4 UK Chief Nursing Officers on the actions from the 2012 publication Strengthening the Commitment about learning disability nursing.

Health Secretary accepts recommendations.

Framework to enable maternity services to access useful tools, resources and information to implement continuity of carer and local delivery of care, and track progress.

Updates and next steps from the 4 UK Chief Nursing Officers on the actions from the 2012 publication Strengthening the Commitment about learning disability nursing.

UK’s first integrated workforce plan published.

Sets out our future workforce requirements in a national context and provides revised workforce planning guidance to health and social care employers.

Rise in number of people training to be GPs.

Action on pensions to maintain services.

70 extra frontline medical trainees.

Targeting seasonal pressures.

Summary of the main findings from a major survey of clients of allied health professionals (AHPs), focused on survey respondents who reported having communication support needs.

Provisional analysis of findings from a major survey of clients of allied health professionals (AHPs), focused on survey respondents who reported having communication support needs.

Funding for Foundation Training.

Workforce projections for 2019-2020, based on staff in post whole time equivalent (WTE).

Fill rates are up 4% on last year.

Booklet explaining available funding to new students undertaking nursing and midwifery degree programmes in Scotland in 2019-2020.

Scottish Government to meet cost of NHS employer pension changes.

Health And Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill passes Stage 3.

An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland.

Progress towards 800 additional workers in key settings.

Help to make general practice more attractive. 

First Minister confirms bursary will rise to £10,000 by 2020.

Newly qualified nurses and midwives will receive mentoring from recently retired NHS staff.

Scottish health service staff get UK’s most generous pay deal.

Funding to ensure more midwives across the north of Scotland.

The first in a series of brief papers on the Transforming Roles programme focuses on the background, policy context and education framework.

This is the fifth implementation for NHS Boards, Scottish Government and others to deliver the 2020 Workforce Vision strategy.

The Chief Nursing Officer's long term strategy to shape the future of the nursing workforce.

Framework for health professionals to work in partnership with people in Scotland to help them live healthy, active and independent lives.

The National Standards will provide a focus on the clinical pathway for AHPs working closely with medical and other colleagues to improve Musculoskeletal services.