FOI 26-314 Business Continuity, Critical Incidents or Major Incidents
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 26-314 Business Continuity, Critical Incidents or Major Incidents
- Request Date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Response Date
- 04 Aug 2026
- Information Requested
In regards to the National incident response levels: guidance for health boards, please provide the following information for each calendar year from 2019 to 2026 (most recent).
- The number of times that your health board declared a: -
- Business Continuity Incident
- Critical Incident
- Major Incident
- In response to the answer to Question 1, please specify, where relevant, the i) reason for the incident being declared, ii) date(s), and iii) location (e.g. hospital, ward/department).
- Response
The Scottish Ambulance Service does not hold a reportable dataset identifying occasions where a Business Continuity Incident, Critical Incident or Major Incident was declared.
To provide the information requested, the Service would be required to manually review records held across the period 2019 to 2026 to determine whether any such declarations had occurred, together with the reasons, dates and locations associated with them. This information is not recorded in a way that can be readily searched or extracted.
The process would require the application of professional judgement to interpret the records reviewed and would result in the creation of new information rather than the retrieval of recorded information already held.
It is for this reason I have applied section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002, as information not held.
