Sunday 27 September 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9506
Date Request Received: 02/07/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 17/07/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Surgical Workforce and Activity Data
Request Category: Students (Educational)
| Question Number 1: I am writing for a study of the surgical workforce of the UK. Please provide the following information for your Trust and/or hospital site(s) for the most recent complete 12 month period available. Kindly state the exact start and end dates used. If data are only available at Trust level rather than site level, please provide Trust level figures and specify this clearly. Please report data separately for each of the following specialties (using the exact labels below): 1. Cardiothoracic Surgery 2. General Surgery (including breast, colorectal, endocrine, upper GI, lower GI, and transplant—kidney, liver, pancreas) 3. Neurosurgery 4. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 5. ENT / Otolaryngology 6. Paediatric Surgery 7. Plastic Surgery 8. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery 9. Urology 10. Vascular Surgery If a specialty is not provided at your Trust/hospital site(s), please record 0 for that specialty and note “not provided”. 1) Workforce (headcount) - For each specialty listed above, please provide: • Number of Consultant surgeons (substantive/headcount) • Number of SAS surgeons (headcount) (Specialty Doctor and Specialist grades) Please provide headcount rather than WTE. If only WTE data are available, please state this. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 9506.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Population served - Please provide the total population served by your Trust/hospital (the figure used for planning/catchment purposes) and specify the source or definition used (e.g., “ICS population”, “catchment population”). | |
| Answer To Question 2: As per the Trust website, the population served by the Trust is approximately 270,000 people in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire. | |
| Question Number 3: Surgical admissions activity - Please provide the total number of admissions (elective and emergency combined) to all surgical specialties provided, stratified by specialty, for the same 12 month period. If your admissions data are recorded using different specialty groupings, please map these as closely as possible and outline any assumptions made. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see response in the spreadsheet attached. Note, 0 for Vascular Surgery as this service is not provided at SFT. To accompany this answer to question 3 please also see the documents listed below: 13848 - FOI_9506 - Surgical Workforce and Activity Data PG.xlsx | |
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