Pathology
(asked on 24th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the (a) scale of the difficulty experienced by trusts in recruiting to consultant posts and (b) effect of that difficulty on numbers of occupied consultant posts in cellular pathology.
Individual healthcare providers are responsible for ensuring that they have the right level of staffing to provide high quality care to their patients.
The following table taken from the monthly workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) shows the total consultant figures for May 2010, November 2010 and for November 2015 working in the National Health Service in England. The data for November 2015 is the latest available. The HSCIC statistics do not show cellular pathology, but data is provided for those working in the pathology group.
England full-time equivalent
| May 2010 | November 2010 | November 2015 |
All Consultants | 35,174 | 36,010 | 42,423 |
Consultants in Pathology group | 2,426 | 2,486 | 2,597 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre NHS monthly workforce statistics