- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the timetable is for each NHS board to achieve full implementation of hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration (HEPMA).
Answer
A national Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA) Oversight Board has been established to monitor timelines and milestones of Health Board implementations. HEPMA has already been successfully implemented in four Health boards across Scotland. The Board plan to provide an overview on progress across Scotland by the end of the first quarter of 2020.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25487 by Jeane Freeman on 25 September 2019, what further announcements it plans to make on the roll-out of HEPMA (Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to the question S5W-26471 on 3 December 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what actions it is taking to improve the administration of medicines by NHS boards.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to working with Health Boards to improve the administration of medicines by ensure that Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA) is implemented across Scotland.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported delays in accessing cardiology appointments at NHS Dumfries & Galloway; what discussions it has had with the health board on this, and what support it will provide it with to improve the situation.
Answer
NHS Dumfries and Galloway's cardiology service has a small volume of activity and operates with a visiting workforce. As a result there will be occasions when there are spikes in waiting times however performance has consistently remained within the expected levels for outpatient appointments. In the last year performance has remained at or above 97% of patients receiving an appointment within 12 weeks from referral.
Scottish Government Officials have regular contact with NHS Dumfries and Galloway on their waiting times performance and we have provided £2.65m of additional funding to the Board this financial year to support them to build on their current performance levels.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the role that automated medicine cabinets can play in reducing deaths linked to medication errors in the NHS.
Answer
Automated or semi-automated medicines cabinets are used to promote quicker access to medicines, allow automatic ordering of medicines and release nursing time. There is limited published evidence that these cabinets reduce deaths linked to medication errors. This is more likely to be addressed by access to clinical decision support systems provided through Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA) implementation.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on who researched, wrote and presented the study, “Findings of Scottish Specialist Pain Workforce Study”, which was contained in the minutes of the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain meeting on 26 June 2019, but not published until 31 October 2019; what the cost of this work was, and to whom any payment was made in relation to its production.
Answer
On behalf of the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain (NACCP), the Deputy Chief Medical Officer commissioned Scottish NHS Boards to provide information about the quantity of different healthcare professionals working within specialist pain services across Scotland, as well as qualitative information about recruitment/ retention challenges and succession planning for this workforce group. As the survey and subsequent report were commissioned and produced by the Scottish Government, any associated costs were absorbed internally.
The survey results informed the report “Findings of Scottish Specialist Pain Workforce Study” which was published with the June 2019 minutes of the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain (NACCP). Sessions, rather than whole-time equivalent (WTE) are the basis of consultant contracts and job planning, and thus for understanding available workforce consultant figures show sessions rather than WTE. This allowed a more meaningful response, reflecting actual hours in the pain service. The report also shows the WTE of other healthcare staff working in pain clinics, broken down by discipline where able to do so, in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
The Scottish Government intend to publish all the returns made by NHS Boards to the survey early in the new year. This will be subject to, and in accordance with, Data Protection legislation.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the study "Findings of Scottish Specialist Pain Workforce Study”, which was contained in the minutes of the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain meeting on 26 June 2019, how many whole-time equivalent (WTE) staff work in pain clinics, also broken down by discipline.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to the question S5W-26424 on 27 November 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish all returns made by NHS boards to the study, “Findings of Scottish Specialist Pain Workforce Study", which is included in the minutes of the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain meeting on 26 June 2019.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-26424 on 27 November 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14095 by Aileen Campbell on 8 February 2018 regarding expenditure on smoking cessation campaigns, whether it will provide the information for each of the last two years.
Answer
The total spend on the "Quit your way Scotland" campaign which ran in 2018, was £608,198. Spend from this campaign was frontloaded in Financial Year 2017-18:
2017-2018 - £552,975
2018-2019 - £55,223
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25953 by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 November 2019, what the timeline is for (a) it to report on the outcome of the discussions regarding potential pilot programmes and (b) the UK National Screening Committee's (UK NSC) next evidence review for lung cancer screening.
Answer
Following discussions between Scottish Government officials, academics and the Scottish Screening Committee, a pilot proposal for a feasibility study on lung cancer screening has been submitted for funding and a decision is expected in December 2019.
We are unaware of when the UK National Screening Committee will form a view on lung cancer screening but we understand that they will review the evidence on lung cancer screening again after the results of the NELSON randomised lung cancer screening trial are published.