Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how much each NHS board will receive from the £25.5 million of additional funds for the NHS that it announced on 3 November 2025.
As announced by the First Minister of 3 November 2025, Health Boards have been allocated an additional £25.5 million this year to allow them to deliver more planned activity for the longest waiting patients.
This funding is focused on Health Boards in the most populated areas and targeted at specialties where it can most effectively reduce the longest waiting times, ensuring the greatest benefit for patients.
This brings total additional funding to £135.5 million for Planned Care in 2025-26.
The following table set out the allocation of the £25.5 million funding by Health Board.
Table 1
Health Board | Total Cost 25-26 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 589 |
NHS Fife | 1,333 |
NHS Grampian | 2,034 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 10,250 |
NHS Highland | 495 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 133 |
NHS Lothian | 10,458 |
NHS Shetland | 85 |
NHS Tayside | 106 |
Total | 25,482,000 |
I have also provided a breakdown of this funding by Planned Care speciality.
Table 2
Speciality | Total Cost 25-26 |
Cardiology | 554 |
Dermatology | 5,930 |
Diabetes & Endocrinology | 502 |
ENT | 476 |
Gastroenterology | 696 |
General Surgery | 2,621 |
Gynaecology | 1,692 |
Maxillofacial Surgery | 58 |
Neurology | 593 |
Neurosurgery | 1,079 |
OMFS | 324 |
Ophthalmology | 331 |
Orthopaedics | 7,587 |
Paediatric Cardiology | 33 |
Paediatric Surgery | 238 |
Paediatrics | 27 |
Pain Service | 140 |
Plastic Surgery | 889 |
Rheumatology | 115 |
Waiting List Initiatives (various specialities) | 725 |
Waiting List Validation (various specialities) | 250 |
Miscellaneous | 622 |
Total | 25,482 |