NHS: Staff
(asked on 18th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS finance (a) workforce and (b) finance directors are female; and if he will make a statement.
The following table shows the number and proportion of male and female staff who work in the National Health Service finance workforce and are finance directors, headcount as at November 2018. These figures include staff who work in NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups, support organisations and central bodies in England.
| Female | Male |
NHS Finance workforce | 9,702 | 5,800 |
Proportion of whole NHS finance workforce | 62.6% | 37.4% |
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Finance Directors | 52 | 135 |
Proportion of all finance directors | 27.8% | 72.2% |
Source: NHS Digital
The data is based on how NHS organisations record their staff categories.
Staff are categorised as part of the NHS finance workforce if the work of the team they belong to is described as ‘Finance’, and as Financial Directors if they have a Job Role described as a ‘Finance Director’. Some organisations may not categorise their workforce who have these responsibilities as such because this is dependent on each organisations’ structure.