Redesign of Urgent Care Programme costs: FOI release

Information requested

In relation to costs of the redesign of urgent care programme, please could you tell me:

1. How much has been spent on the RUC programme to date, including marketing?

• Please could this be broken down by area of spend (EG marketing, NHS boards etc).

2. How much is budgeted to be spent on the RUC programme under current plans?

3. Please could you provide me with any assessments/evaluations or otherwise held by the Scottish government of any marketing campaigns promoting the RUC to the public.

Response

Point 1
On 29 October 2020 the Scottish Government announced that £20 million would be allocated to NHS Health Boards to support delivery of the Redesign of Urgent Care Programme Helping people get the right care, in the right place - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

In August 2021, and as part of the NHS Recovery Plan, the Scottish Government allocated an additional £23 million pounds to NHS Health Boards to support the next phase of the programme.

A breakdown of the provision for Boards – as included within both funding packages – is set out below.

Health Boards		Funding 2020/2021	Funding 2021/2022
NHS Ayrshire and Arran		£726,845	£737,558
NHS Borders		£207,591	£212,617
NHS Dumfries and Galloway		£292,455	£299,197
NHS Fife		£671,596	£681,277
NHS Forth Valley		£534,870	£544,544
NHS Grampian		£972,300	£973,802
NHS Greater Glasgow &Clyde		£2,194,599	£2,221,251
NHS Highland		£635,061	£659,223
NHS Lanarkshire		£1,212,931	£1,226,508
NHS Lothian		£1,473,828	£1,497,137
NHS Orkney		£47,732	£50,132
NHS Shetland		£47,943	£48,844
NHS Tayside		£768,235	£781,060
NHS Western Isles		£64,014	£66,850
SAS		£150,000	£0
NHS 24		£10,000,000	£13,000,000
Total		£20,000,000	£23,000,000

Below sets out funding allocated to support the Scottish Government’s delivery of a major public information campaign to enable people to get the right care in the right place.

Marketing		Funding 2020/2021	Funding 2020/2021
Right care, Right place campaign		£211,000	£300,000

Point 2
An evaluation programme has been established to deliver a comprehensive evaluation of progress with the Redesign of Urgent Care pathway implementation and to monitor the impact on public confidence, patient expectation, satisfaction and experience, quality, safety and cost benefit. To understand the value of the redesign programme we are extending an invitation to external providers to undertake a review of the programme investment. This will help inform future investment decisions. Funding for 22/23 is still to be agreed.

Point 3
I enclose a copy of the information requested.

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FOI - 202100263117 - Information Released - Annex A

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