Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 1 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to expand access to specialist migraine care through community and primary care services.
We recognise the distress and pain that migraines cause and we take the issue of migraine seriously.
The Scottish Government funded £221,176 to the Migraine Trust across 2022-2024 to work upskilling community, primary and secondary care pharmacists across NHS Grampian to help people with migraine manage their condition more effectively. This included funding to partner other health boards to extend the reach of this model and increase care and support for people living with migraine.
An eLearning programme for NHS Education for Scotland’s (NES) platform TURAS was developed through the project, comprising a suite of training materials available for all pharmacists and pharmacy teams in Scotland to access.