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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S6W-14685

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that understanding the need for access to (a) timely diagnostic tests, (b) specialist services and (c) cardiac rehabilitation and palliative care for people with heart disease is embedded in wider work on data and quality improvement to enable unwarranted variation to be addressed.

In April 2021, Scottish Government commissioned Public Health Scotland to develop and deliver the Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme. Over 100 clinicians and people with lived experience have been involved in the development of draft indicators for this programme. This includes health care professionals with an interest in specialist services, cardiac rehabilitation and palliative care.

Draft indicators were shared for further feedback in autumn 2022. PHS continue to work to develop the audit programme based on this feedback.

Question reference: S6W-14677

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure appropriate self-management resources are available to people with cardiac disease.

Question reference: S6W-14678

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to develop rehabilitation resources to ensure that quality information and training about cardiac rehabilitation is available to health professionals.

Question reference: S6W-14679

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the workforce aspects of the rehabilitation and recovery framework support for people with heart disease allow them access to the correct professional at the correct point in their journey.

In order to provide a wide-range of rehabilitation approaches, a skilled workforce is required that spans health, social care and third and independent sectors. The workforce brings a range of skills that can vary across sector and by background.

Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) make up a significant proportion of the rehabilitation workforce. The AHP Education and Workforce Policy Review considered the actions necessary to deliver a national education and workforce plan for AHPs. This has now been completed. The recommendations will be published early 2023 and an implementation plan will be developed thereafter.

Question reference: S6W-14667

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to implement a person-centred and co-designed community-based awareness, prevention and detection programme for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Question reference: S6W-14601

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on the Rural Housing Fund in the South Scotland region in each year since its introduction, broken down by local authority area.

The following table provides a breakdown of the spend on the demand-led Rural and Islands Housing Fund in the South Scotland Region each year since its introduction in 2016-17, broken down by local authority area. The Rural and Island Housing Fund plays an important role in offering support to community organisations and others while complementing the significant delivery through our mainstream programme by Councils and Registered Social Landlords in rural and island areas .

Local Authority	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23*	Total (£m)
Dumfries and Galloway				0.416	0.409	0.196	0.197	1.218
East Ayrshire								0.000
East Lothian								0.000
Midlothian								0.000
Scottish Borders			0.208	0.079		0.647	0.090	1.024
South Ayrshire								0.000
South Lanarkshire				0.060				0.060
Total (£m)	0.000	0.000	0.208	0.555	0.409	0.843	0.287	2.302

* 2022-23 spend is based on provisional programme management information to end January 2023 and could be subject to change.

Question reference: S6W-14602

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 March 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many homes in the South Scotland region have been built through the Rural Housing Fund in each year since 2016-17, broken down by local authority area.

The following table provides a breakdown of the number of homes in the South Scotland region delivered through the demand-led Rural and Islands Housing Fund in each year since 2016-17, broken down by local authority area.

The homes provided through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme comprise homes for social rent, for mid-market rent and for low cost home ownership. These homes take various forms including; new build homes, rehabilitation projects, conversions and off-the-shelf purchases of both new and second hand homes.

Local Authority	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23*	Total
Dumfries and Galloway					5	4	7	16
East Ayrshire								0
East Lothian								0
Midlothian								0
Scottish Borders				8		1	6	15
South Ayrshire								0
South Lanarkshire					1			1
Total	0	0	0	8	6	5	13	32

* 2022-23 figures are based on provisional programme management information to end January 2023 and could be subject to change.

Question reference: S6W-14659

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints of patients’ property being (a) stolen and (b) lost have been received in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S6W-14700

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-13966 by Humza Yousaf on 30 January 2023, how much it has spent each year on advertising the service.

Spend for traditional marketing of the Near Me video consulting service was predominantly undertaken through local Health Boards responsible for ensuring the service is appropriately advertised. Wider communication and promotion of the service has been taken forward through programme costs as part of a collaborative approach to implementation.

However, the Scottish Government have invested in communications for Near Me including online resources, online content and website development, though again this was all managed by core programme staff costs and cross-sector collaboration. The programme utilised existing mechanisms such as tv interviews, press releases and First Minister daily briefings.

The Near Me website ( https://www.nearme.scot/ ) was developed in-house and is hosted by NHS National Services Scotland. £10,000 was spent to develop and update Near Me’s animated videos. These help promote the service and are used as a training resource for both staff and callers. Further spend of £700 was used for the translation of key support and guidance for the public into different languages. Cost was minimised as the work was undertaken in collaboration with the NHS in Wales. The development of an equalities impact assessment (eqia) and public engagement exercise which reached in excess of 5,000 people and 500 organisations were undertaken through core staff costs.

The programme has been working alongside key staff such as receptionists to support increased promotion of Near Me as a choice in how people can access an appointment.

Question reference: S6W-14699

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-13965 by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2023, whether it will release the information that it holds on this matter.