FOI release

Surgical Workforce Data

Case reference FOI2026/03478

Received 26 July 2026

Published 20 August 2026

Request

Please provide the following information for your Trust/hospital site(s) for the most recent complete 12-month period available (please state the exact start and end dates used). If your data are only available at Trust level (not site level), please provide Trust-level figures and state this explicitly.

Please report data separately for each of the following specialties (use 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 current number of employed at the trust:
• Number of Consultant surgeons (substantive/headcount)

• Number of SAS surgeons (headcount) (i.e., Specialty Doctor and Specialist grades)

Please provide headcount (not WTE). If you can only provide WTE, please state that clearly.

2) Population served

Please provide the total population served by your Trust/hospital (the figure you use for planning/catchment), and specify the source/definition used (e.g., “ICS population”, “catchment population”, etc.).

3) Surgical admissions activity

Please provide the total number of admissions (elective + emergency combined) to all surgical specialties provided, stratified across each specialty for the same 12-month period. Period: 01-07-2025 to 30-06-2026

Response

1. Cardiothoracic Surgery - 12
2. General Surgery (including breast, colorectal, endocrine, upper GI, lower GI, and transplant—kidney, liver, pancreas) - 38
3. Neurosurgery - 14
4. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery - 17
5. ENT / Otolaryngology - 15
6. Paediatric Surgery - 18
7. Plastic Surgery - 24
8. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery - 43
9. Urology - 16
10. Vascular Surgery – below 10

• Number of SAS surgeons (headcount) (i.e., Specialty Doctor and Specialist grades)

1. Cardiothoracic Surgery - below 10
2. General Surgery (including breast, colorectal, endocrine, upper GI, lower GI, and transplant—kidney, liver, pancreas) - below 10
3. Neurosurgery - below 10
4. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery - below 10
5. ENT / Otolaryngology - below 10
6. Paediatric Surgery - below 10
7. Plastic Surgery - below 10
8. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery - 10
9. Urology - below 10
10. Vascular Surgery - below 10

As a large tertiary centre we serve our local population in Oxfordshire and for some specialities we serve populations across the Thames Valley and nationally.

The ICB population is 2,013,989 and we use this information, the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JNSA) for planning purposes.

3) Surgical admissions activity

Please provide the total number of admissions (elective + emergency combined) to all surgical specialties provided, stratified across each specialty for the same 12-month period. Period: 01-07-2025 to 30-06-2026

1. Cardiothoracic Surgery: 109
2. General Surgery (including breast, colorectal, endocrine, upper GI, lower GI, and transplant—kidney, liver, pancreas): 18213
3. Neurosurgery: 3014
4. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: 2484
5. ENT / Otolaryngology: 2919
6. Paediatric Surgery: 1861
7. Plastic Surgery: 4855
8. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery: 6129
9. Urology: 6400
10. Vascular Surgery: 1710

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