Meetings held regarding health board funding: FOI release

Information requested

1. How many meetings there has been between the Scottish Government and each health board regarding plans and funding since the announcement on June 2nd.
2. When the Scottish Government expects to finalise how much each health board will receive of the £50 million.
3. If a decision about the amount of money each health board will receive has been made, please reveal the figures.

Response

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

The answer to the second and third part to your question, NHS Boards received notification on the 11 August 2022 detailing their share of the £50 million investment which has been allocated in its entirety to support NHS Health Boards to improve A&E waits through a new National Collaborative for Urgent and Unscheduled Care.

A proportion of the funding has been provided to NHS 24 and SAS. The remainder is based on the National Resource Allocation formula (NRAC) by NHS Board. The Formula is used to inform the geographical allocation of the NHS Budget. This formula projects how the geographical need for services will be distributed in 2022/23.

Each board’s share of the £50 million fund is listed below:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran	£2,600,000
NHS Borders	£760,000
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	£1,055,000
NHS Fife	£2,420,000
NHS Forth Valley	£1,930,000
NHS Grampian	£3,500,000
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	£7,815,000
NHS Highland	£2,330,000
NHS Lanarkshire	£4,340,000
NHS Lothian	£5,275,000
NHS Orkney	£175,000
NHS Shetland	£170,000
NHS Tayside	£2,750,000
NHS Western Isles	£235,000
NHS 24	£15,100,000
Scottish Ambulance Service	£400,000
Total	£50.85 million

The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for because we engage with and support Boards on a daily basis, including through virtual meetings and site visits. Within this, a variety of colleagues across multiple teams have met with NHS Health Board colleagues since 2 June but no information is held on whether financial plans were discussed as part of wider discussions.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

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