Written answers
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Department of Health and Children
Health Service Staff
9:00 pm
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 320: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people employed in the health service for each of the years 1997 to 2009 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15054/10]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The number, in wholetime equivalent terms, of people employed in the public health service is set out in a table:
| Numbers (WTE excluding career break) employed in the public health service, from 1997 to 2009, by grade category | |||||||||||||
| Grade Category | Dec 1997 | Dec 1998 | Dec 1999 | Dec 2000 | Dec 2001 | Dec 2002 | Dec 2003 | Dec 2004 | Dec 2005 | Dec 2006 | Dec 2007 | Dec 2008 | Dec 2009 |
| Medical/ Dental | 4,976 | 5,153 | 5,385 | 5,698 | 6,285 | 6,775 | 6,792 | 7,013 | 7,266 | 7,712 | 8,005 | 8,109 | 8,083 |
| Nursing | 27,332 | 26,611 | 27,044 | 29,177 | 31,429 | 33,395 | 33,766 | 34,313 | 35,248 | 36,737 | 39,006 | 38,108 | 37,466 |
| Health & Social Care Professionals | 5,969 | 6,422 | 6,831 | 7,613 | 9,228 | 12,577 | 12,692 | 12,830 | 13,952 | 14,913 | 15,705 | 15,980 | 15,973 |
| Management/ Administrative | 8,815 | 9,478 | 10,555 | 12,366 | 14,714 | 15,690 | 15,766 | 16,157 | 16,699 | 17,262 | 18,043 | 17,967 | 17,611 |
| General Support Staff | 20,705 | 21,973 | 22,928 | 25,216 | 13,803 | 13,729 | 13,838 | 13,771 | 13,227 | 12,910 | 12,900 | 12,631 | 11,906 |
| Other Patient & Client Care | 14,842 | 13,513 | 13,647 | 14,640 | 15,586 | 16,739 | 17,846 | 18,230 | 18,714 | ||||
| Total | 67,797 | 69,638 | 72,744 | 80,070 | 90,302 | 95,679 | 96,501 | 98,723 | 101,978 | 106,273 | 111,505 | 111,025 | 109,753 |
| Note 1: Excludes home helps | |||||||||||||
| Note 2: Management/Administrative includes staff who are of direct service to the public and include Consultant's Secretaries, Out-Patient Departmental Personnel, Medical Records Personnel, Telephonists and other staff who are engaged in front-line duties together with staff in the following categories Payroll, Human Resource Management (including training), Service Managers, IT Staff, General Management Support and Legislative and Information requirements | |||||||||||||
| Note 3: The methodology under which employment figures are compiled changed during the course of 2007 with the addition of personnel not previously included in subsumed agencies such as the Health Service Executive-EA (HSEA), the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (GMSPB), Health Boards Executive (HeBe) and the Office for Health Management (now part of the HR function) together with many other posts in projects or post previously excluded such as HRBS/PPARS and Value-for-Money posts (all of which are largely in the Management/Administrative stream) together with the inclusion of student nurses and chaplains. This change was undertaken to represent health service employment on a like-for-like basis with employment ceilings and to more accurately represent a reconfigured health service's employment information. As a result of this change year-on-year figures are not comparable | |||||||||||||
| Note 4: Caution should be exercised in making grade category comparisons due to changes in category composition over time | |||||||||||||
| Note 5: Student nurses are included in the 2007 and 2008 employment ceilings on the basis of 3.5 students equating to 1 wholetime equivalent. The employment levels adjusted for student nurses on the above basis are 110,664 WTE (Dec 07) and 111,001 WTE (Dec 08) | |||||||||||||
| Note 6: Data source - Health Service Personnel Census |
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