Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) neuropsychologists and (b) trainee neuropsychologists there are, broken down by NHS board.
The latest data received by the Scottish Government from NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is as follows:
a) WTE Applied Psychologists working in Neuropsychology in NHS Scotland as of 30 September 2024:
NHS Board | WTE Applied Psychologists working in Neuropsychology |
NHS Scotland | 53.1 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 5.9 |
NHS Borders | 0.0 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 0.8 |
NHS Fife | 2.3 |
NHS Forth Valley | 2.4 |
NHS Grampian | 8.6 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 14.8 |
NHS Highland | 3.1 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 3.6 |
NHS Lothian | 8.3 |
NHS Orkney | 0.0 |
NHS Shetland | 0.0 |
NHS Tayside | 3.4 |
NHS Western Isles | 0.0 |
State Hospital | 0.0 |
Golden Jubilee National Hospital | 0.0 |
NHS Education for Scotland | 0.0 |
b) NHS Education for Scotland (NES) does not hold this information centrally.