THE 2021 UK CENSUS OF CONSULTANT, HIGHER SPECIALTY TRAINEE AND SAS PHYSICIANS

Two and a half years since the UK’s first national lockdown, Covid-19 continues to have a major impact on the NHS, its staff and patients.

The pandemic has created new challenges for everyone working and training in the health service and has required us to re-think the way we deliver care. The latest annual census – conducted jointly with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians in London – provides crucial insight. It helps us better understand the issues that consultant and trainee physicians across the UK are currently dealing with, and how the workforce is set to change in the years ahead.

Full-time consultants worked

Only of advertised posts were filled. This has decreased year on year, and is the lowest rate recorded to date