NHS Scotland assets and facilities 2016: annual report

Annex B: Review of NHSScotland's Vehicle Assets

Analysis of vehicle assets is based on annual pro-forma information returned by each NHS Board. NHSScotland's vehicle assets comprise of approximately 10,000 vehicles, the majority of which are staff car scheme vehicles (55%) and operational cars (17%). The chart below provides a breakdown of NHSScotland's vehicle assets by type.

2016 Analysis of Vehicle assets by type (9,780 total vehicles)

This excludes national logistics vehicles

The distribution of these vehicle assets and their ownership arrangements across NHS Boards and Special Health Boards is shown in the following two charts.

2016 Distribution of Vehicles and ownership arrangements across NHS Boards

2016 Distribution of Vehicles and ownership arrangements across Special Health Boards

The vehicle age profile for all NHS Boards is shown in the charts that follow and shows that circa 85% of the vehicles are less than five years old. This represents a reasonable age profile for this asset group and indicates that investment is currently maintaining a reasonable standard of vehicle asset provision.

2016 Vehicle Age Profile

Comparative information on vehicle mileage is sufficient this year to monitor annual changes from the previous year (see table below).

The type of fuel used by these vehicles is also an important consideration and the following chart shows the current reliance on diesel fuel (79% of vehicles). However, there has been an increase of 21 alternatively fueled vehicles that are operated within the NHSScotland fleet and the number of vehicles now sits at 66.

2016 Fuel Types used by Vehicles

Electric accounts for 0.4%, and the other alternatives 0.03%