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Data Provider: Welsh Government Welsh language skill and ability of wider practice staff (headcount) by local health board
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[Collapse]Wales59732682989668.The data item is not applicable1,429
WalesBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board134524643216.The data item is not applicable410
Powys Teaching Health Board30.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable2451.The data item is not applicable87
Hywel Dda University Health Board771713143270.The data item is not applicable214
Swansea Bay University Health Board712124369.The data item is not applicable152
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board661212678.The data item is not applicable156
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board1421.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable3.The data item is not applicable116.The data item is not applicable262
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board827.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable183.The data item is not applicable173

Metadata

Title

Welsh language skill and ability of wider practice staff (headcount) by local health board

Last update

30 January 2025 30 January 2025

Next update

To be confirmed

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS)

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local health boards

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This shows the number of (headcount) nurses, direct patient care and admin/non-clinical staff employed in general practices by Welsh language skill (speaking, reading, writing) and ability and local health board, at every quarterly snapshot date since 31-Dec-20.

Data collection and calculation

Figures for headcounts are unique staff counts. So if one person is employed multiple times in one local health board (LHB) or staff category, they are only counted once (but if the person is also employed in another LHB or staff category, then they would be counted once in each LHB or staff category). Therefore figures cannot be summed by LHB or staff category.

The Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS) provides a secure web based tool developed to capture information on staff working in general practices in Wales.

In broad terms, the system works by practice managers inputting details of their staff onto the system, confirming the details every quarter. Data is then extracted on the last day of each quarter (March, June, September, December). NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) perform validations to improve data quality before anonymised data are shared with Welsh Government statisticians to validate further and produce these official statistics.


Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown as at 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Rounding applied

None

Statistical quality

A number of practices did not confirm their WNWRS data as being up-to-date in the quarter up to each snapshot date. See the statistical release for more information.