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Hospital health professionals. By categories and doctors by services. Provinces

Hospital employees. By categories, type of subsidy and type of hospital Catalonia. 2017
Public (subsidised) Privat (non subsidised)
Acute Socisanitary Psychiatric Psychiatric and socio-sanitary Acute Psychiatric and/or socio-sanitary Total
Total employees (1) 70,484 7,273 2,052 3,015 14,090 367 97,281
Medical staff 56,240 5,741 1,693 2,513 11,651 265 78,103
Facultative staff 17,392 629 196 346 5,961 51 24,575
Medical specialities 5,386 478 32 65 1,712 16 7,689
Surgical specialities 4,515 64 0 0 2,849 0 7,428
Others specialities 4,347 70 135 230 1,353 32 6,167
Resident intern doctors 3,144 17 29 51 47 3 3,291
Nursing staff 21,116 1,490 361 626 3,003 59 26,655
Assistants 20,261 1,466 350 555 2,816 58 25,506
Professional midwife 641 0 0 0 187 0 828
Resident intern nursing staff 214 24 11 71 0 1 321
Orderlies 15,364 3,171 955 1,220 2,329 68 23,107
Other medical staff 2,368 451 181 321 358 87 3,766
Non-medical staff 14,244 1,532 359 502 2,439 102 19,178
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: (1) Excluding dependent non-hospital centres.

Last update: October 3, 2019.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital centre
Centre that provides a permanent service, including admission, with medical and nursing care, and that provides beds for continuous attention. Hospital centres are classified according to the type of hospital care given: acute admission, socio-sanitary and psychiatric to which they dedicate 80% or more of their operative beds. If a centre provides more than one type of care, without any of them reaching 80%, then they are classed as mixed hospitals.

Methodological aspects

Statistics on Healthcare Establishments with Internment Schemes (EESRI) was introduced by the Spanish Government's Presidential Order on 18th May 1973 in order to collect information on the structure, facilities and activity of hospital centres. It is a part of both the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Spanish Government's official statistics; for this reason, all centres operating in Spain are obliged to comply. From 1980 onwards, it is the Catalan Ministry of Health's responsibility to collect, confirm and analyse the data from authorised centres in Catalonia.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".