NHS Recovery Plan - Baseline Data/Year Request

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Dear Scottish Government,

NHS RECOVERY PLAN 2021-2026
There is absence of core detail in this NHS recovery plan, including omissions of baseline numbers. I therefore seek core details for all the below items, including the baseline numbers and the baseline years, for the data projections that are anticipated over the years to 2026.

1 "provide an increase of 78,000 diagnostic procedures and have identified means to increase these procedures by 90,000 by the end of this plan"
What is the number of procedures that will increase by 90,000?
What is this 90,000 as a percentage increase?

2 "it will recruit 1,500 new clinical and non-clinical staff for National Treatment Centres by 2026"
What is the number of clinical and non clinical FTE staff to which 1,500 FTE staff will be added?
How many of the 1,500 new staff will be clinical staff?
What is the proposed breakdown between different job titles for the 1,500 staff?

3 "Provide 1,000 additional staff in Primary care mental health"
What is the number of FTE staff to which 1,000 additional FTE will be added?

4 "Increase the number of medical undergraduate places by 100 per annum and double the number of widening access places"
Increase undergraduate places by 100 per annum from what baseline number?
What is the number of widening access places that will be doubled?

5 "we will provide sufficient funding for around 320 additional staff in CAMHS over the next 5 years, with the potential to increase capacity for CAMHS cases by over 10,000"
What is the number of current FTE CAMHS staff that will increase by 320?
What is the current CAMHS case capacity that will increase by 10,000?

6 "This Plan commits to ensuring that at least 10% of frontline health spending will be dedicated to mental health"
What is the frontline health spend in 2020/21 (assuming this is your baseline year) and how much spending was dedicated in your baseline year to mental health?

7 "expanding the physiotherapy workforce to increase the number of advanced Musculo-skeletal (MSK) practitioners in primary care by 225 by 24/25"
What is the number of Musculo-skeletal (MSK) practitioners in primary care that will increase by 225 in primary care?

8 "Create 30 new reporting radiographer training places over the next 3 years"
What is the number of training places that will increase by 30?
By what date will the 30 new places be in place?

9 "Create 30 training places in cardiac physiology"
What is the number of cardiac physiology training places that will increase by 30?
By what date will these places be established?

10 "800 new mental health workers by 2022"
What was the number of FTE mental health workers that is being increased by 800 FTE workers?
By what month in 2022 will these workers be in post?

11 "500 additional advanced nurse practitioners"
What was the number of FTE advanced nurse practitioners that is being increased by 500 FTE staff?
By what date will this increase be in place?

12 "increasing the GP workforce by 800 by 2026/27"
What was the number of FTE GPs that is being increased by 800 FTE additional GPs?

Please provide links to the specific sections of the published statistics that evidences all your answers to the above 12 questions.
Please state the baseline year used for each component.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Kingston

Scottish Government

Our Reference: 202100243445

Dear Mr Kingston,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 29/09/2021. Your query will
be passed to the relevant area for consideration and has been given a
reference number of 202100243445. Please quote this number in all
correspondence. The Scottish Government aim to respond, where necessary,
as quickly as possible and within the stated timescale as indicated on our
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Yours sincerely
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Dear Scottish Government,

Thank you for your reply.

I request an internal review as the response is unsatisfactory. No information has been provided within the required FOISA backstop time limits, and no timescale is stated for a meaningful response.
("we will contact you in due course")

All the data should be readily accessible to release promptly as it was very recently prepared to inform the NHS Recovery Plan 2021 - 2026.

Please forward today what data you have assembled thus far even if it is incomplete.
Your reference is case number 202100243445

Please acknowledge receipt.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Kingston

Scottish Government

Our Reference: 202100251364
Your Reference: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - NHS
Recovery Plan - Baseline Data/Year Request

Dear Mr Kingston,

Thank you for your correspondence received on 28/10/2021. Your query will
be passed to the relevant area for consideration and has been given a
reference number of 202100251364. Please quote this number in all
correspondence. The Scottish Government aim to respond, where necessary,
as quickly as possible and within the stated timescale as indicated on our
website
(http://www.gov.scot/about/contact-inform...).

Yours sincerely
MiCase
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The Scottish Government takes your privacy seriously. You may have written
to us because you have a question or want to make a complaint. Our privacy
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rights when communicating with us. It is made under Article 13 of the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Dear Scottish Government,

There has been a failure to respond in any way to my request for internal review of 28 October 2021.
None of the information requested has been provided, despite the request being for pre-existing information and data.

I requested on 28 October 2021 that you forward what data you had thus far assembled.
No reply or positive response was forthcoming to that request either.

All the data srequested hould be readily accessible to release promptly as it was very recently utilised to inform the Scottish Government's NHS Recovery Plan 2021 - 2026.

Please reply stating by what EXACT date you intend to release all the information requested?

Please acknowledge receipt.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Kingston

Scottish Government

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