Publication - FOI/EIR release

National Treatment Centres correspondence: FOI review

Published: 23 January 2024
Directorate: Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate
Part of: Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202200326416 Review of 202200316268
Date received: 17 August 2022
Date responded: 7 February 2023

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

All written communication, including associated briefings, to and from Ministers for the past six months relating to the Scottish Government’s National Treatment Centres.

Response

In accordance with section 21(4) of FOISA, I have also reached a decision on your request.

I apologise for the delay in responding to you. At the time of receiving the original request and request for review, the team were dealing with a high volume of work and, due to pressures from other core business work coupled with the expansive nature of the request, it has unfortunately taken longer than expected to finalise a response.

I can now provide our response to your original request.

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested in the attached documents.

Document number	Document
01	FoI 202200316268 Collated Emails chains
02	NTC Update for Cab Sec on slippage March 2022
03	2022-04-13 Ministerial Visit Cabinet Secretary HSC
04	2022-04-13 Ministerial Visit Cabinet Secretary HSC
05	Document 34 Cab Sec Brief - NTC Ayrshire - 13 April 2022 A briefing for the visit to Ayr Hospital by Cabinet Secretary
06	Document 35 Ministerial Submission - NTC Highland Update - April 2022
07	Ministerial - Submission - NTC Highland Update June
08	NCTP - Cab Sec Seep Dive Session - July 2022 v4 ppt
09	Document 39 NTC Workforce - NTC Programme Deep Dive 11 July 2022 V3 word
10	Ministerial Submission NTC Programme FM updateAugust 2022)
11	NTCP - Ministerial Submission Programme update July 2022

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because exemptions under s.29(1)(a) (policy formulation), s.30(b)(i) – free and frank provision of advice and s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. The reasons why these exemptions apply can be found in Annex A.

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