- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the question S6W-12111 by Humza Yousaf on 28 November 2022, whether it will provide an update on how many people who are awaiting inpatient appointments to access orthopaedic procedures have been waiting for over (a) two years, (b) two years and six months and (c) three years.
Answer
Table 1 presents the latest available statistics on the total waiting list size for patients covered by the Treatment Time Guarantee (TTG) and the number of ongoing waits for treatment within an inpatient or day case setting at 31 December 2022, broken down by waiting times of over (a)two years (104 weeks), (b) two years and six months (130 weeks), and (c) three years (156 weeks) for an orthopaedic procedure.
Table 1 - Number of ongoing waits for an inpatient or day case admission for orthopaedics by length of wait in NHS Scotland, at 31 December 2022
Patient Type | Total number of patient waits | Waits over two years | Waits over two years and six months | Waits over three years |
Daycase | 17,486 | 516 | 217 | 52 |
Inpatient | 26,195 | 1,691 | 578 | 173 |
Total | 43,681 | 2,207 | 795 | 225 |
Note: The patient waits in each time band include those waiting in all subsequent time bands (i.e., the total waits over two years includes those waits over two years and six months, and three years)
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the clinical portal has been rolled out across all NHS boards.
Answer
Further to the answer provided to question S6W-11404 issued on 4 November 2022, I can confirm that all Health Boards now have access to Clinical portals within acute services.
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: Thursday, 20 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the latest expected opening dates are for each of the remaining National Treatment Centres, and what the most recent projected costs are for each.
Answer
NTC Forth Valley will open in summer 2023 at a projected cost of £12.7 million.
NTC Golden Jubilee Phase 2 - will open in winter 2023 at a projected costs of £82.3 million.
The business cases for the remaining National Treatment Centre in NHS Ayrshire & Arran, NHS Grampian, NHS Tayside, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Lothian, including the new Edinburgh Eye Pavilion, are under development and costs/opening dates will be confirmed when final business cases are submitted.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its most recent assessment is of expanding the use of non-invasive liver scans in (a) primary and (b) community care to improve early detection of liver disease.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not assess clinical diagnostic interventions.
However, non-invasive liver scans, including transient elastography devices such as FibroScan, are recommended by NICE in primary care settings and are currently used in several NHS Boards throughout Scotland to assess liver disease.
Currently, there is limited evidence on the efficacy of these scans in a community care context. Trials to test the expanded use of non-invasive liver scans are ongoing in both primary care and for populations at higher risk of liver disease in community care.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its forthcoming 10-year cancer strategy, whether it will commit to producing a supplementary tailored action plan for increasing the survival rates of each of the six less survivable cancers, which are pancreatic, lung, liver, brain, stomach and oesophageal cancers.
Answer
The forthcoming 10-year cancer strategy will be accompanied by a 3-year action plan aligning with the ambitions set out in our strategy. There will not be additional action plans for specific cancer types, however in both the strategy and plan we will continue to focus on those cancer types that are the largest burden and have poorer survival, in particular the less survivable cancers.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether its new 10-year cancer strategy will include specific actions to address the survival rates of the six less survivable cancers, which are pancreatic, lung, liver, brain, stomach and oesophageal cancers.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-16943 on 28 April 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: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether Marine Scotland funding for marine litter removal from the beach at the top of Loch Long, following storms, is still in place.
Answer
There is currently no funding allocated for marine litter removal at Arrochar, Loch Long. This work is eligible for funding through Marine Fund Scotland https://www.gov.scot/policies/marine-and-fisheries-grants/
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether any upgrades to the Community Health Index (CHI) system are planned.
Answer
The Scottish Government are currently undertaking a programme of work to improve the Community Health Index (CHI) systems. The new CHI is a single national system replacing the existing eight separate CHI systems and is due to go live in late summer 2023.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has met its national targets to tackle long waits for planned care, as set out in July 2022.
Answer
Despite ongoing significant pressures, we continue to see progress in reducing long waits following the introduction of targets in July 2022. The latest Public Health Scotland data shows:
- The total number of patients waiting than more two years for a new outpatient appointment was reduced by 60 per cent in six months;
- 18 of 30 inpatient / day-case specialities have fewer than ten patients waiting more than two years
- 61 per cent of new outpatient specialties have fewer than 10 patients waiting over 78 weeks.
We have also progressed significant immediate and long term solutions to support Boards to clear their remaining long waits. In addition to the targets introduced last year, the Centre for Sustainable Delivery is supporting Boards to maximise their capacity and increase theatre efficiencies, including through Active Clinical Referral Treatment and Patient Initiated Review.
Four National Treatment Centres will also open this year, providing significant additional capacity for orthopaedics, ophthalmic and diagnostic treatment. This includes NTC-Fife and NTC-Highland, which opened in March and April respectively, and NTC-Forth Valley and the second phase of the NHS Golden Jubilee which will open later in the year.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the pilot work to tackle litter sinks at the head of Loch Long at Arrochar.
Answer
Since the inception of work to better understand the Arrochar litter sink in 2017, we have determined that approximately half of the litter has originated from the River Clyde catchment, and half from the open sea. We are using this knowledge to focus efforts on tackling the source of the litter over which we can have most influence, that from the River Clyde.
As such, the recently updated Marine Litter Strategy for Scotland includes actions on riverine litter, to prevent it and to support its removal. Our key delivery partner Keep Scotland Beautiful and their Upstream Battle project enables communities, businesses, and schools on the River Clyde to develop local solutions to reduce littering, and also support its clean-up. This initiative also supports citizen science and the outputs will inform further riverine litter policy, aiming to reduce and intercept litter before it reaches our seas. In addition, we are also engaging with Glasgow City Council to consider more options to increase litter removal from the River Clyde.