- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has published a scoping review of Allied Health Professional (AHP) and Health Care Science (HCS) education; what gaps it has identified in training programmes, and what actions are required to meet future service needs.
Answer
The Scottish Government has recently conducted an Allied Health Profession Education & Workforce Policy Review. The recommendations of this review will be published shortly with an implementation plan published thereafter. The National Health and Social Care Workforce Strategy has a commitment to undertake a scoping review of Healthcare Science education and to this end have recently conducted and published the first baseline review of the provision of Healthcare Science education.
Healthcare science - education and training provision: baseline review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has developed an engagement programme across the health and social care workforce to inform a set of shared values.
Answer
As part of Leading to Change, the National Leadership Development Programme, we have been running a series of engagement events for the health, social work and social care sectors to promote compassionate and inclusive leadership at all levels and create an open and welcoming culture that will enable people to thrive.
Details of the events can be found here: Events | Leading to Change | Leadership Development | NHS Scotland
An update on the National Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care will be published later this year.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has (a) reviewed any wider opportunities available to access a career in nursing and midwifery, as an Allied Health Professional (AHP) or in Health Care Science (HCS) and (b) explored the potential to further increase the use of approaches such as the Open University and apprenticeship models.
Answer
The Scottish Government continues to work closely with partners including Higher Education Institutions, Health Boards, Skills Development Scotland, and the Scottish Funding Council on skills development, employability and widening access to NHS Scotland careers, including the development of progressive career opportunities for existing staff and the development of apprenticeship models to provide an ‘earn and learn’ pathway.
Career pathways are actively promoted to staff and those who may be interested in an NHS career, through NHS Scotland Careers website and social media accounts. This has included the development of resources such as the Shape Your Future – Find the Career For You in NHS Scotland.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has completed a needs assessment of available health and social care workforce data and sources, and used this to build recommendations for workforce data collection design, quantity, and quality.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-13517 on 24 January 2023. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many funded places for (a) nursing and (b) midwifery there have been in each year since 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Government funded places offered since 2007 can be seen in the following table.
Year | | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Funded Places | | 3283 | 3035 | 3037 | 3037 | 2680 | 2410 | 2510 | 2930 | 3018 | 3189 | 3340 | 3668 | 3893 | 4104 | 4449 | 4837 |
Nursing | | 3083 | 2815 | 2853 | 2853 | 2580 | 2310 | 2370 | 2770 | 2845 | 3007 | 2978 | 3462 | 3656 | 3834 | 4162 | 4536 |
Midwifery | | 200 | 220 | 184 | 184 | 100 | 100 | 140 | 160 | 173 | 182 | 191 | 206 | 237 | 270 | 287 | 301 |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done in collaboration with (a) NHS staff and (b) external partners to develop race-specific staff equality training, and whether this covers (i) identifying structural racism, (ii) the impact racism has on mental and physical health, (iii) racialised health inequalities, (iv) intersectional racism, and (v) reporting structures and support.
Answer
‘The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) has been awarded the contract to develop anti-racist training resources for NHS staff, by end of 2024. These resources will have a specific focus on
- Understanding and identifying systemic and structural racism both in general and within health and social care settings in particular;
- The impact of racism on mental and physical health of both the victims and the witnesses;
- Racialised health inequalities;
- Intersectional racism, including islamophobia, and prejudice affecting specific groups such as minority ethnic women, asylum seekers and refugees;
- Reporting of incidents; and
- Support structures and resources across NHS Health Boards in Scotland.
CRER will work in collaboration with the NHS National Ethnic Minority Forum, NHS employers and other key partners to ensure that the resources developed are relevant to the experiences of staff and patients in Scotland.’
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many undergraduate medical school places there have been in each year since 2007, broken down by university.
Answer
The number of undergraduate medical school places available since 2007, broken down by University, has been provided below. It should be noted that these include international students and reflects the places available; rather than the eventual entrants.
| University | Total |
Academic year (A/Y) | Aberdeen | Dundee | Edinburgh | Glasgow | St Andrews | Per year |
2007-08 | 175 | 154 | 218 | 241 | 167 | 955 |
2008-09 | 175 | 154 | 218 | 241 | 112 | 900 |
2009-10 | 175 | 154 | 218 | 241 | 112 | 900 |
2010-11 | 175 | 154 | 218 | 241 | 112 | 900 |
2011-12 | 175 | 154 | 218 | 241 | 112 | 900 |
2012-13 | 164 | 144 | 205 | 227 | 105 | 845 |
2013-14 | 168 | 147 | 207 | 228 | 98 | 848 |
2014-15 | 168 | 147 | 207 | 228 | 98 | 848 |
2015-16 | 168 | 147 | 207 | 228 | 98 | 848 |
2016-17 | 178 | 154 | 217 | 238 | 108 | 898 |
2017-18 | 178 | 157 | 217 | 238 | 108 | 898 |
2018-19 | 178 | 157 | 217 | 238 | 163 | 953 |
2019-20 | 208 | 157 | 217 | 268 | 163 | 1013 |
2020-21 | 208 | 157 | 242 | 268 | 163 | 1038 |
2021-22 | 219 | 172 | 259 | 298 | 169 | 1117 |
2022-23 | 276 | 198 | 303 | 323 | 217 | 1317 |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has set targets to recruit (a) nurses and (b) medics to meet its commitment to 1,500 new staff for National Treatment Centres (NTCs) in the period up to and including 2027, and, if so, what these targets are.
Answer
The Scottish Government is providing a range of recruitment support, as well as training and development activity to assist Health Boards with securing the right mix of new and experienced staff for their NTCs.
Detailed plans relating to the size and composition of the workforce for each NTC site has been or will be developed by the relevant territorial NHS Board and submitted to the Scottish Government as part of the wider planning and approval process for the site in operation.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has set new international recruitment targets (a) focusing on key areas of shortage and (b) directly supporting key commitments set out in their NHS Recovery Plan, including meeting its anticipated 1% net growth, and, if so, what these targets are.
Answer
I refer the Member to my statements in Parliament on 5 October 2021 and 4 October 2022 where I set out details of new international recruitment targets. Boards undertake this recruitment focussing on key areas with current vacancies.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has developed national workforce strategies for the Allied Health Professional (AHP) and Health Care Science (HCS) workforce.
Answer
In March 2022 the Scottish Government published The National Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care in Scotland. This Strategy sets out a framework to shape our health and social care which includes Allied Health Professionals and Healthcare Scientists, over the next decade, placing training, wellbeing, job satisfaction and Fair Work at its heart. As part of the Strategy’s work, the Scottish Government has undertaken an AHP Workforce and Education Policy Review and a Healthcare Science Baseline Education Review.