- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many people under 65 have received free personal care since it was extended to include this group.
Answer
Legislation for the extension came into effect on 1 April 2019. To enable us to provide an accurate overview of the impact of the extension, we need to obtain data over an appropriate period of time greater than 12 weeks. Therefore, our first report which will include the number of people under the age of 65 who have received free personal care will be available in early 2020.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many emergency beds there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Official statistics assign beds to
specialities. Official statistics do not assign beds based on admission type:
elective or emergency.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time has been to receive an echo cardiogram in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally. You can obtain this information by contacting individual Health Boards.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21526 by Richard Lochhead on 7 March 2019, whether it will provide this information for each of the last five years, also broken by institution.
Answer
I refer the member to Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) Bib number: 60751.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the hepatitis C elimination strategy, and what the reason has been for the reported three-year delay in doing so.
Answer
Scottish Government officials are working with Health Protection Scotland and NHS Boards to agree treatment targets which will see Scotland reach elimination well in advance of the World Health Organisation target of 2030.
A great deal of work has been done by NHS Procurement and Boards to get medicine to the people who need it most. HPS data shows that, between 2013 and 2016, we delivered a 39 per cent reduction in the incidence of decompensated cirrhosis in people with chronic hep C. This is a clear indication that the Scottish Government’s current commitment to eliminating serious disease associated with hepatitis C is working.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional (a) council-run and (b) private care beds there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Care Homes Census published by ISD Scotland provides information on the number of registered care home places for adults in each local authority area in Scotland at 31 March;
https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Health-and-Social-Community-Care/Care-Homes/Previous-Publications/index.asp .
Information has been published for 2000 to 2017. Within the publication, information is available on the number of registered places for ‘Local Authority and NHS’ and ‘private sector’ care beds.
For years 2000-2014, see data table 4 published on 28 October 2014.
For years 2015-2017, see data table 4 published on 11 September 2018.
The annual difference in the number of registered care home places by local authority can be calculated using these tables.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which NHS boards require additional care beds, broken down by the amount needed.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Responsibility for the planning and commissioning of local care home beds and services is a matter for individual Integration Authorities, alongside their partners in Local Government and the NHS.
Scottish Government policy is to ensure that people receive the right care in the right place, at the right time, and wherever possible, see this care delivered at home or in a homely setting. We are encouraging Integration Authorities and NHS Boards to develop more community based services aimed at early prevention and management of more complex needs at home, with the development of services such as hospital at home. This should ultimately lead to the need for fewer beds, not more.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been in intermediate care places in each year since 1999, broken down by integrated joint board.
Answer
This information is not held centrally, although we estimate that there are around 700 intermediate care beds in operation across Scotland. However, this is only one of a range of Intermediate Care services currently provided across Scotland, with current services ranging from home care reablement, to hospital at home and virtual community wards.
Since the publication of the Framework for Intermediate Care in 2012 we have supported the ongoing development of Intermediate Care services across Scotland. The Framework is available at https://www2.gov.scot/Publications/2012/07/1181 .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of bullying in the NHS have been reported in each year since 1999.
Answer
Boards first provided this information to the Scottish Government in their 2018-19 annual Staff Governance Monitoring return.
NHS Scotland Boards have advised us that 232 formal bullying and harassment cases were raised during 2018-2019 (1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019).
Following John Sturrock`s report into allegations of a bullying culture in NHS Highland we have asked all health boards in Scotland to consider the findings and look again at the effectiveness of their own internal processes for handling concerns, leadership and governance.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 12 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response it reports that hospital admissions arising from the use of cocaine have doubled over the last five years.
Answer
We are aware of recent evidence and data that points to increased cocaine use in Scotland, which we believe is being driven by falling prices and increased purity. We will continue to work with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, stakeholders and Police Scotland to closely monitor the situation to ascertain whether it is a longer term trend, and we expect ADPs to use local data and intelligence to commission appropriate services that respond to the immediate and changing needs of their population.
Addressing drug related harm is a public health priority of this government. I recently announced that I would convene an expert group to determine what further changes, in practice or in law, could help save lives and reduce harm. Our alcohol and drug strategy, published in November 2018, is also clear that the quality and provision of services must be improved in order to make services more person centred in order to better meet the wide range of complex needs of those who are most at risk as a result of their drug use. This is being supported by additional investment of £20m for drug and alcohol treatment services.