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Digital health and care directorate staffing statistics: FOI release

Published
2026-07-27
Received
2026-06-16
Responded
2026-07-13
Directorate
Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate
Topic
Health and social care, Public sector
Exemptions
None detected

Information requested

You asked for the number of staff in the digital health and care directorate by year for each year from 2021 until 2026.

Please also provide me with the number of staff who have left the digital health and care directorate every year for each year from 2021 until 2026.

Response

I enclose the information you requested for directly employed staff in Digital Health and Care directorate or division at the end of each financial year

Year end Number of employed staff 31/03/2021 26 31/03/2022 32 31/03/2023 35 31/03/2024 64 31/03/2025 43 31/04/2026 38

The number of paid directly employed staff leaving Digital Health and Care directorate or division in each financial year.

Year end Number of staff who have left Digital Health and Care at Year end 31/03/2022 5 31/03/2023 5 31/03/2024 7 31/03/2025 27 31/04/2026 10

Note this includes staff that moved to other parts of the organisation or were moved as part of planned organisational restructuring.

Digital Health and Care now sits within the Directorate for the Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland.

About FOI

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Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Correspondence Unit Email: contactus@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrew's House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG

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