NHS Forth Valley have been accused of “secrecy” by a local MSP after the health board failed to respond to a request for information on levels of paid overtime.
Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Alexander Stewart raised the issue after NHS Forth Valley was the only health board in the country which did not provide any details for a Freedom of Information seeking to discover the number of hours and total bill paid for staff overtime.
The request, from the Scottish Conservatives, revealed a whopping paid overtime bill of almost £230m over the five year period between 2017/18 and 2022/23 - with workers carrying out more than 11m hours of paid overtime.
