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Total number of health professional posts

DefinitionTotal number of health sector posts (health professional categories) including dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, radiography and psychology professions.

Data from 2002 also includes environmental health professionals.

Note that older data from PERSAL also included some vacant posts for each profession. Newer data has most of the vacant posts identified, and therefore the number of posts primarily reflects filled posts.
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Indicator Type: -> Health Services -> Health Personnel

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ECFSGPKZNLPMPNCNWWCZA
Total number of health professional posts [Definition]
2001 Public sector97 92914 10342 89939 59122 6039 4723 82015 57021 659[1] 268 122
2002 Public sector29 75214 28443 14841 40118 0829 8433 93715 75621 328[2] 197 898
2003 Public sector21 99112 10432 87337 33815 45219 0183 24811 58915 401[3] 169 121
2003 Public sector (filled)15 7517 17622 37528 20513 3766 2012 3607 76413 268[4] 116 547
2005 Public sector24 05713 23730 65542 12216 95313 2983 69411 16813 977[5] 169 246
2005 Public sector (filled)17 6507 87122 48229 64014 2747 4672 3998 58512 844[6] 123 268
2006 Public sector (filled)17 3897 87023 38130 87914 7817 7202 4788 76213 171[7] 126 485
2007 Public sector (filled)18 0807 93024 00632 02716 1838 1032 7778 44913 539[8] 131 145
2008 Public sector (filled)18 0166 89725 87335 83616 7588 2302 6978 16214 458[9] 136 985
EC: Eastern Cape  FS: Free State  GP: Gauteng  KZN: KwaZulu-Natal  LP: Limpopo  MP: Mpumalanga  NC: Northern Cape  NW: North West  WC: Western Cape  ZA: South Africa  

Notes and References

  1. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Note that this total includes 153 727 vacant posts across the various professions. Total for South Africa is the total of all the provincial figures, plus includes 476 posts within the National Department of Health (of which 379 are vacant). Extracted 2001-11-30.
  2. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Note that this total includes 84 205 vacant posts across the various professions. Total for South Africa is the total of all the provincial figures, plus includes 367 posts within the National Department of Health (of which 290 are vacant). The number of posts in 2002 is substantially lower than the total in 2001 primarily due to the reduced number of vacant posts reflected in the PERSAL system. Extracted 2002-09-30.
  3. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Note that this total includes 52 574 vacant posts across the various professions. Total for South Africa is the total of all the provincial figures, plus includes 107 posts within the National Department of Health (of which 36 are vacant). The number of posts in 2003 is substantially lower than the total in 2002 primarily due to the reduced number of vacant posts reflected in the PERSAL system. Extracted 2003-19-30.
  4. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Note that this total includes only the posts that are filled at time of data extraction. Extracted 2003-19-30.
  5. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Extracted 2005-05-31. Note that this total includes 45 978 vacant posts across the various professions. Total for South Africa is the total of all the provincial figures - plus includes 56 posts within the National Department of Health (of which 29 are vacant).
  6. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Extracted 2005-05-31
  7. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Extracted 2006-03-31. Note that this total includes only the posts that are filled at time of data extraction. The South African total also includes 54 posts within the National Department of Health.
  8. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Extracted 2007-03-31.
  9. PERSAL: PERSAL Personnel Administration System
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/HumanResources/PERSAL/
    Data extracted 2008-03-31. Note that this total includes only the posts that are filled at time of data extraction. The South African total also includes 58 posts within the National Department of Health.
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