Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board allocated from its budget to support winter resilience for the 2015-16 season.
The Scottish Government provides baseline funding to NHS boards to deliver services that meet the needs of their local population. Within this context, it is for boards to determine how best to utilise resources including their application towards winter resilience.
However, in addition to baseline funding, the Scottish Government specifically allocated £9.8 million to NHS boards during 2015-16 to help ease pressure on Scotland's NHS across the winter months. In addition, other funding allocated during 2015-16 assisted with winter pressures, including:
more than £30 million from the £100 million investment over three years to tackle delays in patients being discharged from hospital.
£9 million from the £50 million Unscheduled Care Fund which boards are using to implement the Six Essential Actions Programme to improving unscheduled care.
£5 million to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to support resilience and capacity over the first winter (2015-16) following the opening of the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and other linked acute services changes.
This brings the total investment by the Scottish Government for winter resilience to around £54 million for 2015-16.