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Section K: Health Service Employment Statistics 253TABLE K2ANUMBERS EMPLOYED IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 1 AT 31 DECEMBER 2006(ALL FIGURES ARE EXPRESSED AS WHOLETIME EQUIVALENTS)Grade CategoryNationalHospitalsOfficePrimaryCommunity &ContinuingCareCorporatePopulationHealthTotalMedical/Dental 5,801 (11.3%) 1,794 (3.5%) 24 (0.8%) 92 (17.6%) 7,710Nursing 20,032 (39.0%) 16,581 (32.2%) 119 (4.0%) 12 (2.3%) 36,745Health and Social Care Professionals 5,971 (11.6%) 8,856 (17.2%) 39 (1.3%) 63 (12.0%) 14,929Management/ Administrative 2 7,943 (15.5%) 6,654 (12.9%) 2,347 (78.5%) 311 (59.3%) 17,254General Support Staff 6,981 (13.6%) 5,449 (10.6%) 445 (14.9%) 1 (0.2%) 12,877Other Patient and Client Care 4,581 (8.9%) 12,115 (23.5%) 15 (0.5%) 46 (8.7%) 16,757Total 51,309 51,449 2,988 524 106,272TABLE K2BNUMBERS EMPLOYED IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 1 AT 31 DECEMBER 2007 3,4(ALL FIGURES ARE EXPRESSED AS WHOLETIME EQUIVALENTS)Grade CategoryNationalHospitalsOfficePrimaryCommunity &ContinuingCareCorporatePopulationHealthTotalMedical/Dental 6,049 (11.3%) 1,821 (3.4%) 35 (1.0%) 102 (19.2%) 8,007Nursing 21,481 (40.0%) 17,353 (32.3%) 161 (4.6%) 14 (2.7%) 39,009Health and Social Care Professionals 6,257 (11.6%) 9,333 (17.4%) 54 (1.6%) 61 (11.5%) 15,706Management/ Administrative 2 8,141 (15.2%) 6,822 (12.7%) 2,782 (80.0%) 310 (58.1%) 18,055General Support Staff 7,131 (13.3%) 5,338 (9.9%) 431 (12.4%) 1 (0.2%) 12,901Other Patient and Client Care 4,667 (8.7%) 13,102 (24.4%) 14 (0.4%) 44 (8.3%) 17,827Total 53,726 53,769 3,477 533 111,505Note: Minor differences between published grade category in tables K1 A/B and the above tables are attributable toclassification and mapping issues together with small numbers of staff in cross functional working arrangements.Note 1 : excludes Home HelpsNote 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 frontlineduties 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 ofcirca 4,000 wte not previously included in subsumed agencies such as the Health Service Executive-EA (HSEA), thePrimary 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 asHRBS/PPARS and Value-for-Money posts (all of which are largely in the Management/Administrative stream) togetherwith the inclusion of student nurses and chaplains. This change was undertaken to represent health service employmenton a like-for-like basis with employment ceilings and to more accurately represent a reconfigured health service’semployment information.Note 4 : Student nurses are included in the 2007 employment ceiling on the basis of 3.5 students equating to 1 wholetimeequivalent. The employment level adjusted for student nurses on the above basis is 110,664 wteSource: Health Service Personnel Census at 31 December