Question reference: S6W-23927
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 15 December 2023
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Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 January 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much public money was provided to (a) the Health and Social Care Alliance, (b) Pain Association Scotland, (c) Pain Concern, (d) Versus Arthritis and (e) all other external (i) national and (ii) regional (A) groups and (B) charities offering support on chronic pain issues, in the financial year (aa) 2021-22, (ab) 2022-23 and (ac) 2023-24.
Answer
a) The Health and Social Care Alliance were funded £10,776 by the Scottish Government in 2021-22 to carry out specific work to support people with chronic pain.
Since 2009, The Health and Social Care Alliance has also administered the ‘Self Management Fund’ on behalf of the Scottish Government which has included projects which support chronic pain issues. Details of funded projects can be found on The Health and Social Care Alliance’s website: Funded Projects – Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (alliance-scotland.org.uk)
The funding outlined in the following tables includes funding from the Chronic Pain Winter Support Fund which, in 2021, provided an additional £240,000 to increase the capacity of local support available for people with chronic pain during the winter period.
b) Pain Association Scotland
2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
£58,518 | £13,500 | £10,000 |
c) Pain Concern
2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
£32,700 | £19,020 | 0 |
d) Versus Arthritis
2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
0 | £7,250 | £9,982 |
e) Other
2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | |
Health All Round | £21,875 | 0 | 0 |
Purple Orchid | £37,450 | 0 | 0 |
Fife Sports and Leisure | £15,100 | 0 | 0 |
Live Borders | 0 | £4,938 | 0 |
Moray Wellbeing | 0 | £2,240 | 0 |
Affa Sair | 0 | 0 | £13,207 |
The 2023-24 Scottish Budget has delivered record funding of £19 billion for health and social care, including increases in funding for community and primary care health services such as GP practices where the vast majority of people with chronic pain seek support.