PHS FOI 2026-002473
- Date of request
- 08 September 2026
- Date of response
- 06 October 2026
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2026-002473
- Finance
Request
“Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, I am requesting access to information regarding your Health Board’s specific financial allocations, ring-fenced budgets, and tracked expenditures tied to the Scottish Government’s Women’s Health Plan.
This request references the mandatory frameworks established across both Phase 1 (2021-2024) and Phase Two (2026-2029) of the Plan. Please provide the following information, broken down by the financial years 2021/22 to present.
- Endometriosis Care Pathway and Specialist Service Funding
With reference to Phase 1 (Menstrual Health and Endometriosis: Medium-Term Actions 30 and 31), which mandated access to primary care specialist knowledge and the implementation of managed clinical pathways for complex conditions like extra-pelvic endometriosis:
- What is the exact total funding allocated by your board for the development, staffing, and maintenance of specialist endometriosis care pathways?
- Please provide a breakdown of how much of this funding was absorbed by administrative IT systems/record management versus direct clinical service delivery.
- Regional Institutional Infrastructure Funding
With reference to the foundational requirements of Phase 1 (Governance) and Phase 2 (Section 3: Cross-Cutting Actions – Strategic Alignment):
- Please provide the budget allocation and total expenditure utilized to recruit, support, and maintain the role of your regional Women’s Health Lead
- If this role is split or integrated with existing duties, please provide the exact percentage of the funded role dedicated exclusively to executing the Women’s Health Plan
- Data Disaggregation Infrastructure and Intersectional Metrics
With reference to Phase 2 (Section 3: Cross-Cutting Actions – Better Data, Research, and Information), which explicitly tasks NHS Boards with collaborating on data disaggregation by sex and demographic intersectionality:
- What specific funding or resource hours have been allocated to upgrade your Board’s internal IT systems to successfully record, track, and extract data for gynaecological and menstrual conditions?
- Please provide any internal audit reports or assessments conducted by your Board regarding data tracking gaps in women’s health metrics.
- Backlog Elimination Expenditure (Gynaecology Waiting Lists
With reference to the Scottish Government’s Phase 2 commitments and the accompanying Programme for Government funding injections targeted at addressing the gynaecology waiting list crisis:
- What is the exact amount of funding your board received from the central £13 million gynaecology backlog fund?
- Please provide an itemised breakdown of how this funding was spent (e.g., outsourced clinical capacity, weekend/overtime surgical clinics, or hiring permanent clinical staff[SI1.1][NH1.2]).
If the board holds this information as part of a wider gynaecology or primary care budget, please extract the specific line items or provide the closest proportional estimates available.”