Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 17 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has published a remote and rural workforce recruitment strategy for the NHS, in light of its commitment to do so by the end of 2024.
I refer the member to the Committee debate of 12 December 2024 where I set out that to help employers address all potential barriers to recruitment in rural and island areas, a whole system approach was required.
I announced that in partnership with NHS Education for Scotland’s Centre for Workforce Supply and National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Care, we will develop a model of sustained ongoing direct support. A strategy paper detailing this model of direct support will be published in early 2025.