Scottish Health Boards currently receiving enhanced support: FOI release

Information requested

1. A list of NHS Health Boards in Scotland that are currently receiving enhanced support from the Scottish Government under the tiered approach to enhanced engagement in relation to healthcare service provision, specifically in the area of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS).

2. A breakdown of the number of Health Boards currently assigned to each level of engagement (Levels 1 through 4) within this framework.

3. If available, the criteria or indicators used to determine the level of engagement applied to each Board.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

NHS Board	NHS Scotland: Support and Intervention Framework Staging	Receiving Enhanced Support for CAMHS?
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	1	No
NHS Borders	2	Yes
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	2	Yes*
NHS Fife	2	Yes*
NHS Forth Valley	2	No
NHS Grampian	2	No
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	1	No
NHS Highland	3	Yes
NHS Lanarkshire	2	Yes
NHS Lothian	3	Yes
NHS Orkney	1	No
NHS Shetland	1	No
NHS Tayside	3	No
NHS Western Isles	1	No

*Formal correspondence to remove from enhanced support underway.

Please note that once enhanced support is initiated, all NHS Boards receiving this support for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Psychological Therapies or both are assigned to Stage 2 on the Framework. Escalation on the Framework is against the term “Mental Health Performance” and is not broken down into escalation for specific service areas.

The rest of the information you have requested is available from

• NHS Scotland: support and intervention framework - gov.scot, which details current escalation levels of each Board and
• NHS-Scotland-Support-and-Intervention-Framework-September-2023-Final-Website-2024.docx, which explains the criteria used to determine the level of escalation, and thus engagement, for each Board.

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

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