Question reference: S5W-02089
- Date lodged: 22 August 2016
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 September 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many trainee psychiatrists are registered with the NHS and how many trainee psychiatrist posts are vacant in (a) NHS Grampian, (b) NHS Tayside and (c) the rest of the NHS.
Answer
The information is not available in the format requested.
All doctors in training require to be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) to undertake training in Scotland and the rest of the UK. There are circa 5,700 doctors in training in any one year.
NHS Education for Scotland manages GMC approved training programmes in psychiatry for core and higher specialty training, which require individuals to acquire a range of medical training experiences. These programmes are advertised and recruited to at a UK level which enables programmes in Scotland to be advertised to a wider pool of potential applicants. Psychiatric trainees are not allocated to individual boards but to training programmes which involve placing trainees in several NHS boards to ensure that they gain the appropriate range of clinical experience.
At the end of the national 2016 recruitment rounds, fill rates for each of the Psychiatry specialties across Scotland was as follows:
|
Specialty |
Posts advertised |
Posts accepted |
Total Establishment |
Vacancies as percentage of establishment |
|
Core Psychiatry |
59 |
47 |
161 |
7% |
|
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |
8 |
4 |
28 |
14% |
|
Forensic Psychiatry |
7 |
5 |
15 |
13% |
|
General Psychiatry |
31 |
19 |
61 |
20% |
|
Old Age Psychiatry |
13 |
5 |
25 |
32% |
|
Psychiatry of Learning Disability |
4 |
2 |
13 |
15% |