Initial outcomes from the NHS Hospital and Community Health
Service in England workforce statistics proposed developments
consultation
Response Form
If you have any remarks, suggestions, objections or other feedback please add it
under the relevant heading and send it to
bernard.horan@hscic.gov.uk
before 15th January 2016.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of this document before you respond please call
Bernard Horan on 0113 25 47040 or write to him at the above address.
A final response to the original consultation will be published after the 15th January
2015.
Proposed development 1: Only count paid staff
Proposed development 2: Publish bank staff paid through ESR
Proposed development 3: Locums with contracted hours are not locums
Proposed development 4: New category for Very Senior Managers
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Proposed development 5: Exclusion of some contract types
Proposed development 6: Inclusion of nurses undertaking additional
training in the nurse statistics
Proposed development 7: Reclassification of staff with mismatched
grades and occupation codes
Proposed development 8: Staff groups
Proposed development 9: Publish Area of Work and Job Role
Proposed development 10: Publish Pay Grades
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Proposed development 11: Rename Doctor grades
Proposed development 12: Rationalisation of ethnicity
Proposed development 13: Incorporate Flexible Tables
Proposed development 14: Better bulletins
Proposed development 15: Moving GP practices paid through ESR to
Primary Care statistics
Proposed development 16: Only discard doctors who are double
counted
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Proposed development 17: Classifying primary care doctors in
secondary care and vice versa
Proposed development 18 (NEW): Monthly staff numbers publications to
be quarterly?
Proposed development 19: No role count in publications
Proposed development 20: Clarity on how to get unpublished
information
Proposed development 21: Classify Social Enterprises and CICs as nonNHS statistics
Proposed development 22: Include extra organisations and separate
central bodies statistics
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Proposed development 23: Close of the Health Visitor MDS
Proposed development 24: UK cross border counting
Proposed development 25: Quarterly earnings publications
Any other comments
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