Digital health and care directorate staffing statistics: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for the number of staff in the digital health and care directorate by year for each year from 2021 until 2026.

Please also provide me with the number of staff who have left the digital health and care directorate every year for each year from 2021 until 2026.

Response

I enclose the information you requested for directly employed staff in Digital Health and Care directorate or division at the end of each financial year

Year end	Number of employed staff
31/03/2021	26
31/03/2022	32
31/03/2023	35
31/03/2024	64
31/03/2025	43
31/04/2026	38

The number of paid directly employed staff leaving Digital Health and Care directorate or division in each financial year.

Year end	Number of staff who have left Digital Health and Care at Year end
31/03/2022	5
31/03/2023	5
31/03/2024	7
31/03/2025	27
31/04/2026	10

Note this includes staff that moved to other parts of the organisation or were moved as part of planned organisational restructuring.

Digital Health and Care now sits within the Directorate for the Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland.

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