Health workforce

Specialist medical trainee places are 97% full.

More than 300 patients treated at NHS Louisa Jordan.

Guidance to assist health boards with local remobilisation planning of paused aspects of maternity and neonatal care.

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.

Report from the independent Advisory Group established by the Scottish Government to advise on Scotland’s economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Guidance for different health professions consider a return to the NHS Scotland to help in the fight against COVID-19.

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.

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.