FOI 25-155 Relief v's Rostered staff
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-155 Relief v's Rostered staff
- Request Date
- 01 Apr 2025
- Response Date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Information Requested
What is the total number of paramedics and technicians working for Scottish ambulance service? How many of these roles are a relief position as opposed to a roster? Is there a disparity of staff sickness at stations who have adopted the relief to roster working hours in comparison to those which haven't?
- Response
Please see the table below detailing the number of Paramedics and Technicians within SAS broken down into relief and roster positions. These figures are true as on 01/04/2025.
Relief Advanced Practitioner - 0
Relief Paramedic - 578
Relief Technician - 459
Rostered Advanced Practitioner - 133
Rostered Paramedic - 1256
Rostered Technician - 1024
Public authorities are not required to create information in order to answer a request. There’s a distinction between creating new information, and compiling information. Where a request can be answered by compiling information from readily-available resources held by the public authority, this is not the same as creating new information. However, if collation of the information would require skill and complex judgement, the information is not held. The Scottish Ambulance Service does not hold staff sickness in a way that compares rostered staff absence with relief staff absence. Therefore, we have applied section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 to the disparity of staff sickness aspect of your request, as information not held.
