Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on 2 November 2016 (Official Report, c. 65) that "at least half of front-line NHS spending is being invested outwith acute hospitals", whether it will provide the front-line spending figures to which she was referring.
Front-line NHS spending represents investment in NHS Territorial Boards, and Special Boards which deliver front-line services. It is the Scottish Government's assessment that, by 2021-22, half of this spending will be incurred in the community and outwith acute hospitals.