NHS Scotland ill health retirement application statistics: FOI release

Information requested

1) The number of ill-health retirement applications across NHS Scotland for the calendar years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

a) The number of successful ill-health retirement applications across NHS Scotland for the calendar years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, ideally for each board.

b) The number of failed ill-health retirement applications across NHS Scotland for the calendar years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, ideally for each board.

Response

Please see the attached document, which contains a response to your queries.

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• FOI - 202400439813 - Information Released - Data PDF 157.1 kB

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