Chamber and committees

Many of the measures in the Crofting and Scottish Land Court Act (Scotland) 2026, including the merger of the Scottish Land Court with the Lands Tribunal for Scotland and amendments to the jurisdiction of the Court, will be brought into force by secondary legislation and will therefore be subject to Parliamentary business and timetabling arrangements. It is intended that the expanded Court will be established and operationally ready before other changes to its jurisdiction such as those relating to the 2003 Act are brought in. Officials are currently taking forward the action required to commence the provisions in the Act relating to the Court, and timescales are still to be finalised.

The Scottish Government has committed to a review of the Patient Travel Reimbursement Schemes guidance. However, as the scope, timing, and governance of the review have not yet been agreed and no start date has been confirmed, it is not currently possible to provide details of any wider reform programme that the review may inform or support, or when the work is expected to conclude.

The Scottish Government will provide further information on the review, including its remit and timescales, once these have been established.

The Scottish Government has committed to a review of the Patient Travel Reimbursement Scheme guidance. No further details are available at this stage as the work on determining scope, terms of reference and timings have still to take place.

Public Services Delivery Scotland GP IT Business As Usual Service Management team monitor all adverse events that occur from GP systems. Of the 8 adverse events that have occurred since OneAdvanced have acquired the Vision software, there have been no reported incidents that have impacted clinical safety for patients.

No financial penalties, contractual remedies or performance improvement notices have been issued to OneAdvanced in relation to the performance of the Vision GP IT system.

User feedback from GPs, practice managers and other primary care staff who have migrated to the new Vision system has been collected by Public Services Delivery Scotland through an ongoing lessons learned exercise. There is also continued engagement with stakeholders including GP representative groups including the Royal College of GPs and the Scottish GP Council.

In March 2022, Vision successfully met all Tranche 1 accreditation requirements. Functional and non-functional testing was undertaken covering security, hosting arrangements, clinical safety, support arrangements and training provision, with Health Board subject matter experts contributing to the assessment process.

The Scottish Government does not hold information on how many Scottish-domiciled medical graduates did not enter employment in NHS Scotland in each year since 1999.

Discussions with Public Services Delivery Scotland and Scotland’s medical schools have confirmed that no organisation holds a complete dataset identifying Scottish-domiciled medical graduates and tracking whether they entered employment in NHS Scotland for the period requested.

Data provided by Public Services Delivery Scotland shows the number of individuals who took up a Foundation post with a Scottish Primary Medical Qualification over the last ten years:

The Scottish Government does not hold data for diagnostic waiting times and routes to diagnosis for children and young people presenting with potential cancer symptoms.

The Scottish Government has commissioned a clinically-led review of latest data and evidence to determine whether there is merit in specific, additional or alternative cancer waiting times standards for different types of cancer and cancer treatment, which is underway. This will review the benefit of including data or setting standards for children and young people.

The Managed Clinical Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MCN CYPC) collect a number of data performance measures across children and young people’s cancer services – see their latest published report - MSN-Children-Young-People-with-Cancer-Annual-Report-2024-25.pdf.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) releases statistics, as part of the monthly Stage of Treatment (SoT) publication. This covers waits for new outpatient appointments under the 12-week standard, and for inpatient and day case admissions covered by the 12-week Treatment Time Guarantee (TTG). The latest statistics are published up to 30th June 2026 and can be found using the link below:

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/stage-of-treatment-waiting-times/