Realistic Medicine and National Centre for Remote and Rural Health Care budget: FOI release

Information requested

The total budget allocated to Realistic Medicine and The National Centre for Remote and Rural Health Care.

Response

The Scottish Government and the whole of the public sector faces a financial position that is extremely challenging. It has always been necessary to ensure resources are used economically, efficiently and effectively. The spend control process and procedures that require to be followed by can be found in the Scottish Public Finance Manual at the following link - FGN2024/03 SPFM AO Spend Control August 2024 - Scottish Public Finance Manual - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

The Realistic Medicine budget for 2024/25 was £1.985 million. In September 2024, it was reduced to £1.785 million as a result of the implementation of enhanced spending controls.

As set out in the Programme for Government 2023-24, the Scottish Government has committed £3.03m in 2023-26 to progressing the National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Care, which launched in October 2023.

A total of £387,000 was made available for the establishment of the National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Care in 2023 - 2024. A further budget of £974,007 has been made available for financial year 2024/25.

As yet the budget for 2025/26 has not been agreed for either area.

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