- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it does not keep a record of deaths from deep vein thrombosis.
Answer
Causes of death in Scotland are recorded by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) system, which is used in the UK to classify deaths, does not allow deep venous thrombosis to be separated from phlebitis (inflammation of a vein).
Figures from NRS are provided below, for which deep vein thrombosis (DVT) has been taken to refer to thrombosis of the deep veins of the leg. Deaths from DVT frequently occur from complications of the DVT, principally pulmonary embolism, so deaths from pulmonary embolism have been included in these figures. As mentioned above the ICD-10 does not allow DVT to be separated from phlebitis, so these figures may include a small number of deaths due to phlebitis.
Deaths attributed to deep vein thrombosis (DVT)* registered in Scotland, 2014 to 2020
| Year in which death was registered |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
All Scotland | 338 | 356 | 318 | 360 | 322 | 320 | 385 |
* deaths for which one of the following ICD-10 codes was allocated for the underlying cause of the death:
- I26 - Pulmonary embolism
- I80.1 - Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis of femoral vein
- I80.2 - Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis of other deep vessels of lower extremities
- I80.3 - Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis of lower extremities, unspecified
- I80.9 - Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis of unspecified site
- O22.3 - Deep phlebothrombosis in pregnancy
- O87.1 - Deep phlebothrombosis in the puerperium
- O88.2 - Obstetric blood-clot embolism
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by George Adam on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03933 by George Adam on 12 November 2021, what the (a) longest and (b) average time has been for it to respond to correspondence to each (i) cabinet secretary and (ii) minister since January 2021, broken by (A) month, (B) portfolio and (C) whether the correspondence was from (1) an MSP and (2) a source other than an MSP.
Answer
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by George Adam on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03933 by George Adam on 12 November 2021, what percentage of correspondence to (a) cabinet secretaries and (b) ministers since January 2021 was answered within 20 working days, broken down by (a) month, (b) portfolio and (c) whether the correspondence was from (A) an MSP and (B) a source other than an MSP.
Answer
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when a case note review was carried out for the case of Andrew Slorance at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has carried out a case note review in regards to the care of Andrew Slorance.
NHS Lothian have subsequently been commissioned to undertake an independent external peer review into the care of Andrew Slorance, which will be facilitated by 7 clinicians and published once key individuals have been informed.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by George Adam on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03934 by George Adam on 12 November 2021, how many items of correspondence each (a) cabinet secretary and (b) minister has received since January 2021, broken down by (i) month, (ii) portfolio and (iii) whether the correspondence was from (A) an MSP and (B) a source other than an MSP.
Answer
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that there is no tobacco advertising visible outside registered tobacco retailers.
Answer
The Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010 prohibits the display of tobacco related products inside retailer premises. No advertising of branded tobacco products is permitted either inside or outside a premise but stores are allowed to have generic, unbranded signs stating they sell tobacco on in-store gantries, and outside of buildings, however the latter is actively discouraged.
Any concerns around the compliance of a particular premises with Scottish law should be directed to the local authority. The Scottish Government provide funding of £1.34 million annually to councils for the enforcement of the legislation around the sale and purchase of tobacco and NVP’s. Local authority trading standards services treat the enforcement of legislation as a high priority issue.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what resources it is providing for the long-term care required for people with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndromes and chronic pain.
Answer
The 2022-23 Scottish Budget delivers record funding of £18 billion for the health portfolio to support our vital health and care services, including those services that are supporting the needs of people living with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndromes and chronic pain.
We have published ‘Scotland's long COVID service’, which sets out our approach and 16 commitments to improve care and support for people with long COVID in Scotland.
In addition, our £10million ‘long COVID Support Fund’ will provide NHS Boards with additional resource to respond in a flexible and tailored manner to the needs of people with long COVID.
In light of the final National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS being published, we are pleased to confirm that a formal stakeholder consultation project will begin in early 2022. The main focus of this is to work collaboratively with key stakeholders towards implementing the recommendations within these guidelines, in Scotland.
We are continuing to work with Health Boards to ensure the remobilisation of appropriate pain management support as quickly and as safely as possible. As part of this we providing funding to enhance the capacity of pain management care through the Chronic Pain Winter Support Fund. We will shortly announce the outcome of this funding call. The projects we fund will boost the support available for people with chronic pain at the national and local level to help them maintain their health and wellbeing over the months ahead.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional acute beds are planned for the NHS in response to the anticipated winter pressures, and whether these will be permanent or temporary beds, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
A key component to freeing up bed capacity in our hospitals this winter is to reduce the level of delayed discharge and strengthen community services to help avoid acute admissions and maximise capacity. To support this, we are providing £300 million to bolster the workforce and help get people the care they need as quickly as possible this winter. Controlling Covid admissions will also be vital to freeing up hospital beds and helping those who are working so hard in the NHS and social care to keep us safe
We continue to work with NHS Boards and their partners to implement their winter plans which includes increasing the number of staffed beds available. Recruitment for this is underway across acute and community services to ensure best use of available resource.
In November I announced additional winter funding of £10 million for Health Boards to ensure resilience over winter. This funding will be targeted towards enhancing local teams. For example, the deployment of expert physio and occupational therapy staff at A&E units to help triage people best treated elsewhere.
Additionally, as part of our winter plan we’re providing boards with £10 million for two new specialist programmes which will speed up the hospital discharge process or provide an alternative to hospital care altogether.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 22 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has received in total in COVID-19-related Barnett consequentials as a result of health and social care spending in each financial year.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-05135 on 22 December 2021. 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: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 22 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has received in total in health and social care related Barnett consequentials in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answer
The Scottish Government has received the following amounts in (a) health and social care related Barnett consequentials; and (b) Covid-19 Barnett consequentials related to health and social care spend:-
Barnett Consequentials | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m |
Health and Social Care (Resource) | 943.0 | 738.1 | 706.9 | 1,783.9 |
Health and Social Care (Capital) | 79.9 | 139.5 | 108.1 | 120.8 |
Health and Social Care (Covid-19) | - | 4,085 | 2,102.6* | - |
*includes £48.3m capital