Improving Outcomes and Reform funding: FOI release
- Published
- 22 January 2025
- Topic
- Money and tax, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400443866
- Date received
- 5 December 2024
- Date responded
- 7 January 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
Information about the ‘Improving Outcomes and Reforms’ budget line in the 2025-2026 health and social care budget. Specifically, information about what this budget line is, what exactly it funds and the analysis/calculation behind the cut in this year’s budget.
Response
The ‘Improving Outcomes and Reform’ line in Scottish Budget 2025-26 comprises the following funding:
- Access Support
- Waiting Times Improvement Plan
- Board Recovery
- National Treatment Centres
- Modernising Patient Pathways
- Winter Funding
- Urgent Care
- Unscheduled Care
- Detect Cancer Early
- Cancer Policy
- Waiting Times
The difference between the 2024-25 amount of £387.6 million and the 2025-26 amount of £305.2 million shown in Scottish Budget 2025-26, i.e. a net reduction of £82.4 million, is explained as follows:
- £185.6 million relating to the 2024-25 budget transfers permanently to NHS Health Board core budgets from 2025-26 (this amount is shown elsewhere in the Scottish Budget 2025-26 and is therefore not acut);
- An additional £100 million to reduce waiting times is included for 2025-26;
- Other increases and inward transfers for 2025-26 total £3.2 million.
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Contact
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Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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