1. The consultant workforce expressed in headcount (average of the monthly totals during each year).
2. The consultant workforce expressed in whole time or full time equivalent (WTE/FTE), where WTE/FTE reflects all programmed activities undertaken by consultants, including additional programmed activities (average of the monthly totals during each year). By programmed activities, we mean the unit used by hospitals to plan consultant work.
o For avoidance of doubt, this is different to the FTE figure routinely published in the NHS Digital NHS Workforce Statistics (https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics), where individual consultants contributing to that figure can only take up to a value of 1 FTE, even where they are working more than full-time.
3. The total number of all programmed activities (PAs) performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
4. The total number of additional programmed activities (APA’s) performed by consultants during each of the stated years. By additional programmed activities, we mean programmed activities that are additional to those in consultant main contracts (i.e. those above programmed activities above 10 per week, in the case of a full-time consultant).
5. Total number of programmed activities (PAs) and/or hours of extra contractual work (i.e. excluding APAs, e.g. waiting list initiative activity, additional sessions outside the job plan, etc) performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
6. The total number of programmed activities (PAs) performed by consultants during a.) weekends, b.) weekday evenings, c.) weekday nights, and d.) weekday days during each of the stated years.
o For avoidance of doubt, we mean:
weekends: any time on a Saturday or a Sunday
weekday evenings: 7 pm to 11 pm Monday to Friday
weekday nights: 11 pm to 7 am Monday to Friday
weekday days: 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday
7. The number of consultant vacancies in the Trust expressed in whole time or full time equivalent (WTE/FTE) at the beginning of each of the stated years.
