Question reference: S6W-10479
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 August 2022
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 September 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of bullying have been recorded in each year since 2019 in NHS Scotland, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Since 2018-19, as part of our annual Staff Governance Monitoring exercise, the Scottish Government requests information on the number of bullying and harassment cases raised locally each year. This information was not requested in 2019-20 due to the pandemic.
Please note than when numbers of cases are less than 5, we cannot give specific figures for reasons of maintaining anonymity.
The following table contains the figures for each Health Board.
NHSScotland Boards | No. of B&H formal complaints 2018-19 | No. of B&H formal complaints 2020-21 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 12 | 18 |
NHS Borders | 6 | 7 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 8 | 7 |
NHS Fife | 16 | 9 |
NHS Forth Valley | 12 | Less than 5 |
NHS Grampian | 14 | 8 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 17 | 7 |
NHS Highland | 14 | 38 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 27 | 7 |
NHS Lothian | 37 | 36 |
NHS Orkney | Less than 5 | 5 |
NHS Shetland | Less than 5 | 5 |
NHS Tayside | 5 | 13 |
NHS Western Isles | Less than 5 | 6 |