Departmental report : 1999/2000 / Department of Health presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health
Date:
2000
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Credit: Departmental report : 1999/2000 / Department of Health presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Advisers. Recruitment 6.61 The Department of Health has systems in place to ensure that external recruitment is carried out on the basis of fair and open competition in accordance with its policies and with the requirements of the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Code. These systems are subject to internal checking. An external audit of the Department of Health’s systems in 1997 found them to be satisfactory. 6.62 The number of successful candidates in external competitions is shown in Figure 6.4 and, as required by the Code, gives the number of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people successful at each level. All recruitment was conducted by fair and open competition in accordance with the Recruitment Code, apart from the following permitted exceptions (where exceptions were made relating to the Senior Civil Service, they were with the permission of the Office of Civil Service Commissioners): - 18 casual staff were made permanent; - 12 Fixed Term Appointments were made permanent; - 3 inward loans were made permanent; - 1 inward secondment was made from the NHS; and, - 28 inward loans were made from other Government Departments. 6.63 A new permitted exception was introduced by the Commissioners in April 1998 to assist the long-term unemployed through short-term Civil Service appointments. The appointments are for up to a maximum of 3 years and are restricted to unemployed people eligible for support under special Government programmes, e.g. the New Deal. Two appointments were made under New Deal provisions during 1998. Figure 6.4: Recruitment into the Department of Health, 1998 Total Male Female Ethnic Disabled minorities Permanent staff joining during 1998 who are still employed by Department of Health 2s Pi qm 2S Senior Civil Service 23 2 1] 1 0 g z Fast stream 1] 6 5 0 bp E Posts at former UG6 and below 496 180 316 50 14 @ | Total 530 198 332 51 15 . 2 Permanent staff joining during 1998 who are no longer employed by Department of Health E £ Senior Civil Service 1 ] 0 0 0 a Fast stream ; 1 0 0 0 Posts at former UG6 and below 68 2M 41 1 2 Total 70 28 42 1 2 All permanent staff joining during 1998 Senior Civil Service 24 13 1] 1 0 Fast stream 12 6 6 0 Posts at former UG6 and below 564 207 357 61 16 Total 600 226 374 62 17 1 These figures include all exception categories except for the two New Deal candidates. 2 All figures apart from those for the SCS exclude NHS Estates Agency staff.