Clinical Nurse Specialists - FOI Response Register

1. I would like to know the number of full-time-equivalent vacancies of Clinical Nurse Specialists (or Clinical Nurse Practitioner) and Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialists for each period in the last five years in the health board area, for the following areas of practice:

Our system can only report on who is a CNS currently – we cannot pull historical accurate reports on this therefore figures provided is data held as at time of report

• Adult Acute Care 10.92 WTE
• Primary and Community Care 0 WTE
• Mental Health                  4.0 WTE
• Paediatric Acute and Community Care           -           0 WTE
• Neonatal              0 WTE

These roles are set out at Level 6 and Level 7 in the Scottish Government’s 2021 review of Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Practitioner Roles within Scotland.