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FOI – 2024-000067 - National Treatment Centre Expenditure (HTML)

Published on 21 February 2024

Date received – 07 February 2024 | Date responded – 21 February 2024

Request

  1. Total expenditure, from January 2015 to date, on National Treatment Centres, broken down by project and year of expenditure. Please separate out operational costs from all other costs.
  2. Total expenditure, from January 2015 to date, on National Treatment Centres up to their date of opening, if applicable by each project. Please break this down by project and year of expenditure.
  3. Total expenditure, from January 2015 to date, on the project to build a new eye hospital in Edinburgh.

Response

We have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

Under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act, 2002 (FOISA) an organisation does not have to provide the requested information if it does not hold that information. NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) cannot provide details regarding the expenditure on National Treatment Centres or any information regarding a new eye hospital in Edinburgh as we do not hold this level of detail. The local Health Boards (HBs) may be able to provide you with more information regarding this.

If you wish to contact the local HBs this can be done using the following email addresses:

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