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The information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government, and should be requested from NHS Boards.

The breakdown of the £10.6 million cost of the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry to 31st August 2019 is as follows.

We support the development of powerchair and para-football and provide funding to the Scottish FA, through sport scotland, to encourage everyone to play our national game.

sport scotland provides direct funding to Scottish Disability Sport, the co-ordinating body for all sports for people of all ages and abilities with a physical, sensory and learning disability. sport scotland’s investment in many Sports Governing Bodies also supports sport-specific activity for participants with disabilities.

The Scottish Government welcomes this new report from the Red Cross and officials will be meeting with the organisation this month to discuss further. We are committed to ensuring that discharge planning procedures are improved across Scotland and that people experience a seamless journey through the health and social care system.

To drive improvement, a cross sector team of health and social care professionals, including clinicians, social work and the Scottish Ambulance Service will provide focussed support on unscheduled care and delayed discharges. This will contribute to the delivery of the proposals in the Ministerial Strategic Group for Health and Community Care's review of progress with integration.

This information is not collected or held centrally.

Pre-2014 Position:

From records available between 2007-08 and 2013-14, 315 settlement agreements containing confidentiality clauses signed by the relevant staff were agreed. This information is at national not individual health board level, however, and is given in the following table:

The information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government, and should be requested from NHS Boards.

The Scottish Government, along with the rest of the UK, takes its advice on screening policy from the UK National Screening Committee (NSC). Following a review of the evidence in August 2019, the NSC does not currently recommend introduction of national screening.

The review found that it is not clear how well treatment works in people with atrial fibrillation (AF) found through screening or whether screening is better than the current approach.

The SAFER trial (currently ongoing in the UK) is starting to try to find out if screening is more effective than the current situation for people with AF. This will help the UK NSC understand more about the benefits and harms of screening.

sport scotland offer targeted health checks for cardiac issues to all Institute-nominated athletes via established questions, family history checks, examination and access to ECGs. Additional support and checks are directed to the facility based at Hampden Stadium if needed.

The Scottish Government and sport scotland will continue to work with the sporting sector and other partners, such as the Cardiac Research in the Young (CRY) and Scottish HART, to establish partnerships to discuss what steps can be taken forward in this area.

It is up to each NHS board to determine how to fund case finding. The rationale for eliminating hepatitis C is clear both in terms of the benefit to patients and the saving of future costs associated with the consequences of advanced hepatitis C.

If NHS boards do not meet their hepatitis C treatment targets, there is a risk that Scotland as a whole will not reach the 2024 elimination target. Scottish Government officials are monitoring progress towards treatment targets in order to identify and address boards that may be at risk of failing to meet their targets.

In April 2019, Scottish Government wrote to NHS Boards asking them to work with Information Services Division (ISD) to deliver an individual patient-level core dataset – the Child Adolescent and Psychological Therapy National Dataset (CAPTND).

Scottish Government recognises that some of the current systems used by Boards to record Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Psychological Therapies activity require significant improvement. While these improvements take place, NHS Boards have been asked to deliver a subset of 15 of the core variables as a minimum. Type of diagnosis will be recorded in the final core dataset, although not in the minimum dataset.

The first data transfer (for the minimum dataset) from NHS Boards to ISD is expected at the end of September. Once each Board and ISD are content with the quality of individual level data, the aggregate collection will be discontinued for that Board. The dataset will then form the basis of the official statistics on mental health waiting times, produced by ISD. NHS Boards are currently working with ISD to agree a timeframe for moving from the minimum to core dataset.