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Source: ISD Scotland.

Notes:

1. Consultants are defined as medical consultants including directors of public health.

2. In each period, consultant joiners are doctors employed as a consultant at the later date, and not employed as a consultant in a substantive post at the earlier date.

3. Doctors are defined as all medical staff employed in the hospital and community sectors of the NHS. This includes consultants, other career grade doctors and doctors in training, but excludes GPs.

4. In each period, doctor joiners are doctors employed in the hospital and community sectors in any grade at the later date, and not employed in the hospital and community sectors in any substantive grade at the earlier date.

5. In each period, nurse and midwife joiners are nurses and midwives employed in the hospital and community sectors in any grade at the later date, and not employed in the hospital and community sectors in any substantive grade at the earlier date.

The Scottish Executive is committed to increasing the capacity within the consultant, doctors and nursing and midwifery staff groups and have a number of recruitment and retention initiatives underway to support this.

Estate revenue costs are taken to be property costs, and include costs such as property maintenance, cleaning, utilities, rent and rates, rental/repair of furniture and capital charges.

The savings per division as a percentage of the board’s unified budget allocation are as follows:

The total savings per division cannot be shown as a percentage of each operating division’s budget or as a proportion of the population for each division as this information is not held centrally by the department.

The information requested above is not held centrally by the Executive.

The information requested above is not held centrally by the Executive.

Analysis by Speciality – Argyll and Clyde

Notes:

1. These figures do not include GP Registrars.

2. Figures are board predictions for the number of doctors in training expected to be WTR non-compliant at 1 August 2004.

3. An unknown rota occurs where the return has provided insufficient information to distinguish which of the above specialties apply.

4. Compliance with the European Working Time Regulations includes working no longer than 58 hours per week, taking a minimum 11 hours rest in a 24 hour period, and receiving four weeks' paid annual leave.

Analysis by Speciality – Argyll and Clyde

Notes:

1. These figures do not include GP Registrars.

2. Figures are board predictions for the number of doctors in training expected to be WTR compliant at 1 August 2004.

3. An unknown rota occurs where the return has provided insufficient information to distinguish which of the above specialities apply.

4. Compliance with the European Working Time Regulations includes working no longer than 58 hours per week, taking a minimum 11 hours rest in a 24 hour period, and receiving four weeks' paid annual leave.