- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 28 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the age profile is of MRI, X-ray and CT scanning equipment in use across NHS Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect information on the age profile of scanning equipment held by NHS Boards. As holding bodies, NHS Boards are responsible for the management of their infrastructure assets and for identifying maintenance and replacement requirements.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 28 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it chose to develop a bespoke NHS Scotland app and did not adopt the NHS England model, which has been operating for several years.
Answer
Unlike the NHS App in England, which is currently just for the NHS, our planned service is for both health and social care. The development is also linked into wider digital developments for Scottish public services overall, particularly in relation to a common approach to how the people of Scotland receive official communication digitally. Officials have, however, engaged extensively with NHS England to explore both whether we could use the NHS App and to take learning from the approach to the development of the NHS App.
This engagement confirmed that the NHS App in England was developed specifically in support of NHS Trusts in England and configured specifically for England’s existing IT infrastructure that isn't used in Scotland. We are therefore unable to adopt that product or easily adapt it given our differing structures and requirements. Wales have a hybrid – they are able to use elements of the technology used to create the NHS App, as Wales share a lot of common infrastructure with England, but were also unable to fully use the NHS App in Wales so have also had to create their own app (the ‘NHS Wales App’).
We are, however, keen to learn from that experience, and continue to work closely with NHS England and the other UK nations to share our experiences and encourage common approaches, especially interfacing digital systems that are shared or used commonly across the UK.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 28 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the deadline is for the NHS Scotland app to be fully operational across all NHS boards, and what contingencies are in place should there be delays.
Answer
The online app for health and social care, which is part of our ‘digital front door’ programme, will initially be available to a small cohort of people in Lanarkshire from December 2025. Whilst work continues on preparing for that initial release, we are simultaneously engaging with Health Boards and COSLA to develop the rollout approach beyond Lanarkshire. It is our intention to set this out in more detail from Summer 2025.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 28 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many consultants specialising in endometriosis there are, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested on how many consultants specialising in endometriosis there are, broken down by NHS board is not centrally held.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 28 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on repairing and maintaining imaging equipment in the last five years, also broken down by how many pieces of equipment have been repaired and/or maintained.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect information on maintenance costs for imaging equipment held by NHS Boards. As holding bodies, NHS Boards are responsible for the management of their infrastructure assets and for identifying maintenance requirements. Maintenance costs are usually met from Boards’ delegated budgets.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support the teaching of Latin in state schools.
Answer
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the reasons for any disparities between local authorities in the proportion of children that they identify as having additional support needs.
Answer
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many schools have completed the LGBT Inclusive Education National Implementation and Evaluation Toolkit.
Answer
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will provide a list of all organisations and groups that have exhibited at the Scottish Parliament, broken down by how many times each has exhibited, and which MSP sponsored the exhibition, since May 2021.
Answer
Answer expected on 24 April 2025
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Siobhian Brown on 27 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review the legal status of first-cousin marriages.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not have any plans to review the legal status of first-cousin marriages in Scotland.