UK healthcare hiring statistics you can quote.
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Median pay for senior clinical leadership in UK independent providers sits near £146,000, an adult ADHD pathway costs roughly £300 to £400 per assessment in clinician and supervision time, and a hundred referrals a month needs around fifteen clinical sessions a week to hold steady state.
What are the key UK healthcare workforce statistics for 2026?
Pay
Median UK pay for a c-suite clinical leadership role in a regulated health provider is £200,000, with a band of £165,000 to £242,000.
annual. Sample of 9, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a c-suite commercial role in a regulated health provider is £186,000, with a band of £150,000 to £224,000.
annual. Sample of 5, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a director ai & data role in a regulated health provider is £170,000, with a band of £140,000 to £202,000.
annual. Sample of 3, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a director clinical leadership role in a regulated health provider is £146,000, with a band of £120,000 to £172,000.
annual. Sample of 17, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a director commercial role in a regulated health provider is £140,000, with a band of £115,000 to £167,000.
annual. Sample of 13, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a head of ai & data role in a regulated health provider is £136,000, with a band of £110,000 to £162,000.
annual. Sample of 6, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a consultant clinical delivery role in a regulated health provider is £132,000, with a band of £105,000 to £160,000.
sessional. Sample of 21, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Median UK pay for a director governance role in a regulated health provider is £126,000, with a band of £105,000 to £148,000.
annual. Sample of 4, reviewed August 2026. Source: Scale Health placement and offer data, UK regulated health.
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Cost to deliver
Delivering a adult adhd pathway costs about £632 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 2.5 clinician hours per assessment, 12 percent DNA rate, £420 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a child and adolescent adhd pathway costs about £946 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 3.5 clinician hours per assessment, 10 percent DNA rate, £480 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a adult autism pathway costs about £769 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 4.5 clinician hours per assessment, 10 percent DNA rate, £450 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a child autism pathway costs about £1,016 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 5.5 clinician hours per assessment, 9 percent DNA rate, £500 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a right to choose adhd pathway costs about £744 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 3 clinician hours per assessment, 15 percent DNA rate, £430 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a titration and shared care pathway costs about £531 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 1 clinician hours per assessment, 12 percent DNA rate, £400 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a general adult mental health pathway costs about £824 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 1.5 clinician hours per assessment, 15 percent DNA rate, £400 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Delivering a talking therapies pathway costs about £716 per assessment in clinician and supervision time.
Modelled at 100 referrals a month, 1 clinician hours per assessment, 16 percent DNA rate, £230 a session. Excludes premises, admin overhead and software.
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Capacity
A hundred adult ADHD referrals a month needs roughly 34 clinical sessions a week to hold steady state.
Assessment plus first-year titration reviews, grossed up for DNA, at 3.5 usable clinical hours per four hour session.
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That same volume is about 4.2 clinician WTE, plus 0.8 WTE of coordination.
Eight sessions a week per WTE, coordination at 25 percent of clinical hours.
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Supervision adds 1 consultant sessions a week at that volume.
One supervising session holds six clinician WTE on adult ADHD, costed at 1.4 times the delivery session rate.
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Live market
Scale Health currently has 23 live UK health mandates published with a stated salary.
Counted from roles published on scalehealth.co.uk at the moment this page was requested.
Cite as: Scale Health, Live market statistics, retrieved 6 September 2026.
The busiest band right now is senior clinical delivery, with a live median of £51,500.
Median of the advertised midpoints across live published roles in that function and level.
Cite as: Scale Health, Live market statistics, retrieved 6 September 2026.
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Can I quote these statistics?
Yes. Every figure is free to quote with attribution to Scale Health and a link to scalehealth.co.uk/statistics. Quote each number with its stated basis rather than rounding it into a headline.
Where do the numbers come from?
Pay figures come from Scale Health offers, placements and declined offers in regulated UK health. Cost and capacity figures come from the published Scale Health capacity model, which states every planning assumption on the page.
How current are they?
Pay bands are reviewed as new offers and placements complete. Cost, capacity and live market figures recalculate from published data every time this page is requested.
Full methodology sits on the Workforce Index and the capacity planner.
These figures came from mandates we ran. Yours will be different.
Tell us the pathway or the role and we will model it against your referral volume, your rota and your region, then tell you what it takes to staff it.