Health Service Personnel Census [HSPC]

Data Collection Type
National censuses
Organisation

Heath Service Executive [HSE], Strategic Workforce Planning & Intelligence, Oak House Millennium Park, Naas, Co. Kildare.

Year established

1990-2006: Department of Health.

2006 onwards: Strategic Workforce Planning & Intelligence, HSE.

Statement of purpose

Monthly reporting of directly employed public health service staffing by grade for resourcing and planning purposes.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

National; configured based on service delivery structures (Hospital Groups, CHI, Community Healthcare Organisations (CHOs), HWB, HBS, & National Services.

Description/Summary

Collation of monthly employment data from all public health service employers (HSE, Section 38 hospitals & voluntary agencies) in whole-time equivalence (WTE), headcount (HC), grade, gender, functional area and location terms monitoring, resourcing & workforce planning purposes. HSPC has a statutory basis.

Data users

Published information; HSE/ Wider Health Service; Government Departments (D/Health & DPER); WHO; Eurostat; service providers; Workforce Planners; State Claims etc.

Data content

Number (WTE & HC): Gender; contract type (ID, fixed-term, specified purpose; Full-Time, Part-Time; Career break); Grade level (individual level data is not recorded).

Data dictionary

https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/resources/our-workforce/workforce-reporting/hspc-instructions-2022.pdf

National-level identifier variables

N/A.

Equity stratifiers

Gender and occupation.

Data collection methodology

SAP Bex, Excel or CSV files.

Monthly data collection.

Clinical coding scheme

N/A.

Size of national collection

1.7M.

Publication frequency

Monthly.

Accessing data

HSE website (see above) & widely circulated within the Health Service/ Government Departments (Health & DPER) and to other official sources on a monthly/ annual basis. Specific reports generated on request.

Open data portal access

http://databank.per.gov.ie/Public_Service_Numbers.aspx?rep=Health

Telephone contact
Other comments

additional information available at: https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/resources/our-workforce/workforce-reporting/