Staff directly employed by the NHS by staff group and organisation

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Variable	Visibility	Selected values	Action
Data description	Shown in table	All 2 values	Change values
Date	Shown in table	All 38 values	Change values
Organisation	Shown in table	All 16 values	Change values
Staff group	Shown in table	All 8 values	Change values

Table

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [t] = total.

Data values	Data description	Date	Organisation	Staff group
72,687.5 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	All staff
5,637.4 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Medical and dental staff
31,159.3 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
16,068.1 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Administration and estates staff
11,254.0 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff
6,500.3 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Health care assistants and other support staff
1,855.1 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Ambulance staff
213.3 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	All organisations	Other non-medical staff
14,218.0 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	All staff
1,082.7	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	Medical and dental staff
6,729.0	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
2,797.6	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	Administration and estates staff
2,177.3	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff
1,321.8	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	Health care assistants and other support staff
109.6	Full time equivalent	2009	Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB	Other non-medical staff
1,959.0 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	All staff
29.6	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	Medical and dental staff
761.3	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
824.9	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	Administration and estates staff
182.1	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff
158.2	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	Health care assistants and other support staff
3.0	Full time equivalent	2009	Powys Teaching LHB	Other non-medical staff
7,336.8 [t]	Full time equivalent	2009	Hywel Dda University LHB	All staff
642.0	Full time equivalent	2009	Hywel Dda University LHB	Medical and dental staff
3,344.3	Full time equivalent	2009	Hywel Dda University LHB	Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff

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Metadata

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Next update expected:January 2026

Updates

• 12th February 2026:

  This update includes the latest quarterly data.

• 12th December 2025:

  See Statistical Quality.

• 5th November 2025: Dataset first published.

Main information

• Designation: Official statistics
• Data provider 1: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
• Data source 1: Workforce Services
• Data provider 2: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)
• Data source 2: NHS electronic staff record

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  Assignment count and Full-time equivalent of directly employed NHS staff by grade and area of work. General Medical and Dental Practitioners are excluded as they are independent NHS contractors.

• Data collection or calculation:

  Extracted from the NHS Electronic Staff Record system. Staff groups and areas of work are determined from NHS occupational codes - see linked manual for more detail.

• Statistical quality:

  See quality report - link in weblinks

  Data for all organisations initially published on 30 July 2025, for reference date 31 March 2025 was revised on 02 October 2025 following the discovery of an error in the source data. Data for the same time period was subsequently revised on 5 November 2025 for NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, Public Health Wales, Velindre and Welsh Ambulance Services Trust following the discovery of a processing error that resulted in all staff from these organisations being reported as NHS Shared Services Partnership staff. All other organisations and the Wales-level data were unaffected. Data for the same time period was also revised on the 12 December 2025 after discovering an issue caused by a presence of a new grade code in Powys Teaching LHB and Cardiff and Vale University LHB. All other organisations and the Wales-level data were unaffected.

• Rounding applied:

  Full-time equivalents are rounded to 1 decimal place.

• Related reports:
  • NHS workforce: staff directly employed by NHS Wales
  • Staff directly employed by the NHS: quality report
  • NHS Occupation Codes

Published by

• Organisation: Welsh Government
• Contact email: stats.healthinfo@gov.wales