Publication - FOI/EIR release

NHS Resilience meeting Jan 6 2023: FOI release

Published: 5 January 2024
Directorate: Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate
Topic: Public sector
FOI reference: 202300336978
Date received: 9 January 2023
Date responded: 14 February 2023

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

Who attended the Scottish Government’s resilience NHS meeting held on January 6?
All minutes from the meeting.
Whose idea was it to hold the meeting in the first place?
All correspondence between Nicola Sturgeon, her advisers/office, Humza Yousaf, his advisers/office and NHS Scotland relating to the meeting in January dating between Jan 1 and Jan 6.

Response

Please see information released within the annexes to this answer.

You have asked for information about attendees of meetings. Note that names and job titles of staff below the level of Director, Deputy Director and Special Adviser have been removed under exemption 38(1)(b) of FOISA.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this case some of the information is exempted under exemption 30(c) of FOISA, where the disclosure of information would, or would be likely to, inhibit substantially the free and frank provision of advice.

Actions arising from meetings, including those for meetings in 2022 and covering the time period of your FOI referenced above, have been released within the annexes to this answer. In the process of considering this FOI request we have taken the view that “minutes” could reasonably be interpreted to include any notes of actions from a meeting, since they reflect key decisions made.

The meeting on 6 January 2023 was convened in agreement between the First Minister and the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, and this decision to convene was made on 4 January.

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