Table 9.
Number of CSCSTs (2016 cohort) in public consultant posts by medical discipline
| Medical discipline | CSCST 2016 |
Consultant post (public or private) 2021 |
% | CSCST 2017 |
Consultant post (public or private) 2021 |
% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anaesthesiology | 56 | 29 | 52% | 36 | 22 | 61% |
| Emergency medicine | 4 | 4 | 100% | 0 | 0 | NA |
| Medicine | 62 | 41 | 66% | 57 | 32 | 56% |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 8 | 8 | 100% | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| Paediatrics | 12 | 10 | 83% | 14 | 7 | 50% |
| Pathology | 15 | 11 | 73% | 13 | 11 | 85% |
| Psychiatry | 16 | 14 | 88% | 19 | 18 | 95% |
| Radiology | 19 | 11 | 58% | 15 | 4 | 27% |
| Surgery | 20 | 17 | 85% | 23 | 19 | 83% |
| Total | 212 | 145 | 182 | 117 |