Chamber and committees

The Scottish Government recognises that workforce measures alone are not sufficient to deliver the ambition for reforming public services. The Public Service Reform Strategy sets out a wider programme of reform, including prevention, service redesign and efficiency, with workforce one workstream of the 18 workstreams set out in the strategy. PSR is focussed on improving lives, reducing inequality and ensuring fiscal sustainability.

The Strategy sets out how reform contributes to fiscal sustainability across:

• Prevention: The Strategy emphasises the importance of shifting resource towards prevention to reduce avoidable demand on public services. Analysis published alongside the Strategy indicates that addressing key drivers of demand has the potential to avoid significant long-term public expenditure.
• Improving the quality, and reducing cost, of services through changing our service delivery mode. Through better joining up of services, we can improve the outcomes and experience of services for users (particularly those with disadvantage) and reduce the cost in the system of repeated assessments, telling stories multiple times and administrative costs.
• Efficiency – the Strategy also sets out a programme of efficiency and effectiveness measures, including a commitment to reduce annualised Scottish Government and public body corporate costs by £1 billion over five years.

Taken together, these measures reflect a system-wide approach to reform, rather than one focussed solely on workforce controls, and are intended to ensure that public services are sustainable while continuing to improve outcomes for people and communities.

I refer the member to the answer to question S7W-00214 on 1 June 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found athttps://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

I refer the member to the answer to question S7W-00228 on 1 June 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

I refer the member to the answer to question S7W-00237 on 1 June 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

I refer the member to the answer to question S7W-00237 on 1 June 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

Ministers are in the very early stages of considering how to take forward this commitment and cost estimates will be developed in due course.

The Scottish Government does not hold the data requested.

Ministers are in the very early stages of considering how to take forward this commitment and will commence engagement in due course.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.

Procurement is underway for a national artificial intelligence solution to support rapid identification of patients who would benefit from a thrombectomy procedure. A further update will be provided following the conclusion of the procurement process.