Publication - Progress report
Specialist Nursing and Care Fund: report
This report outlines how NHS Boards across Scotland have utilised the additional £2.5 million recurring funding announced by the First Minister on 7 January 2015.
Annex: Specialist Nursing and Care Fund
Additional clinical nurse specialist capacity in NHS boards, at May 2017
| NHS Board | Nurse specialist posts (not MND) | WTE |
|---|---|---|
| Ayrshire & Arran | Tissue viability (supporting community) | 0.5 |
| Renal (support for home dialysis) | 0.8 | |
| Lung cancer | 0.5 | |
| Borders | Older people (liaison) | 1.0 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Older people (based in community, crossing into acute care) | 1.6 |
| Fife | Adult epilepsy | 0.86 |
| Parkinson's disease | 0.86 | |
| Multiple sclerosis | 0.8 | |
| Forth Valley | Perinatal mental health | 1.0 |
| Grampian | Rheumatology | 1.0 |
| Multiple sclerosis | 1.0 | |
| Parkinson's service | 1.0 | |
| Paediatric allergy | 0.77 | |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | Multiple sclerosis | 2.0 |
| Palliative care | 3.2 | |
| Highland | Lymphoedema | 1.0 |
| Respiratory care | 1.2 | |
| Lanarkshire | Perinatal mental health | 1.0 |
| Long-term conditions, focusing on the care of people in the community with multi-morbidities | 2.8 | |
| Lothian | Child and adolescent mental health | 1.0 |
| Tissue viability | 1.0 | |
| Lead nurse advanced practice | 1.0 | |
| Orkney | Frail elderly and those affected by dementia | 0.5 |
| Shetland | Cardiac | 0.5 |
| Tayside | Parkinson's disease | 0.6 |
| Oncology outpatients (chemotherapy) | 1.0 | |
| Chronic respiratory disease (assistance to help patients manage their conditions at home) | 1.2 | |
| Western Isles | Generic neurology (with a focus on epilepsy) | 0.5 |
| NHS 24 | Cardiac | 0.16 |
| NHS National Services Scotland | Paediatric stem cell transplantation (based in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde) | 1.0 |
| Total | 31.4 | |
Additional MND specialist nurses, at May 2017
| NHS Board | WTE before funding | WTE after funding | WTE increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Fife | 0 | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 0 | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| NHS Grampian | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| NHS Highland | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| NHS Lothian | 1.3 | 2.9 | 1.6 |
| NHS Orkney | 0 | 0.15 | 0.15 |
| NHS Shetland | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| NHS Tayside | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| National Co-ordinator | 0 | 0.33 | 0.33 |
| Totals | 5.9 | 13.54 | 7.6 |