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The information requested on how many school nurses there have been in each local authority area since 2007 is not centrally held.

Information on school nurses by NHS Board has been published on the ISD website available here:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2019-06-04/Non-Medical_Trend_M2019.xls

Note: Pre-2015 data is not comparable with recent ISD data therefore it has been omitted from the trend table.

The Scottish Government does not hold information on NHS staff residential properties each NHS board owns.

This information is not held centrally. It may be available on request from health boards.

Information is not held centrally on numbers supported by the NHS with an eating disorder. However, the numbers of patients admitted to hospital with an eating disorder, broken down by NHS Board since 1999 can be provided.

Number of patients admitted to hospital with eating disorder diagnoses1 by health board of treatment, 1999 - 2017

This information is not held as private health sector treatment, which is not funded by the NHS, is not recorded on a national database.

No information is collected specifically on how many people have been diagnosed with dementia in each year since 2007, either nationally or broken down by NHS Board.

The table below, published by NHS National Services Scotland, shows the number of formal dementia diagnosis registrations on the GP Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Dementia Register, for years 2006-07 to 2015-16.

The year-on-year rise of registration numbers does not directly correlate with all of the new diagnosis registrations in each year, as the overall number is also affected by the removal of registrations as individuals die. This data underpinned NHS Board-level performance against the Scottish Government’s national dementia diagnosis HEAT target between 2007-2011.

The overall QOF was replaced by the GP Clusters approach as the mechanism to help drive improvement in primary care, effective from 1 April 2016.

The Scottish Government’s Estimated Annual Diagnosed Dementia Incidence report (published in 2016) estimates that almost 20,000 dementia cases will be diagnosed per year by 2020.

A Student Mental Health and Well-Being Working Group has been established to collaboratively support the implementation of the 2018-19 Programme for Government commitment to provide more than 80 additional counsellors in Further and Higher Education over the next four years, with an investment of around £20 million. Representatives from the university and college sector, including Colleges Scotland and Universities Scotland, NHS Scotland and Health and Social Care Partnerships are included in this Group, alongside other key stakeholders. Part of the remit of the Group is to also support improved local partnerships between colleges and universities and NHS Scotland, Health and Social Care Partnerships, local authorities and the third sector.

We also provided funding to Universities Scotland for the preparation and distribution of 50,000 stickers, which will provide information for students on where to get help in respect of Gender Based Violence and mental health issues and will be for use in student accommodation, student’s unions, sports areas and teaching and learning areas. These were launched on the 9 May 2019.

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that sexual health services in Scotland are all-inclusive and accessible to all individuals and groups. It is the responsibility of NHS Boards and Local Authorities to ensure that young people have access to appropriate sexual health services in their local area. The Scottish Government has funded the Sexual Health Scotland website, which provides a source of information and advice and signposting to local services to young people in all parts of Scotland.

Since 2016, through the Bank, Agency and Rostering Group (and its predecessor the MASNET group) the Scottish Government has engaged with NHS Boards on Staff Bank developments. Through this, Staff Banks have expanded to include nursing, medical, AHP and administration staff, and to work on a regional basis, allowing staff the opportunity to work across NHS Board boundaries. Representation on this groups includes Scottish Government, NHS Employers and Staff Side representation.

The case for a national Staff Bank has been fully considered. Evidence shows that in most cases such a service would provide limited benefit due to the fact the majority of staff prefer to work within their local radius. There are however areas where technological advances mean a national bank would be of benefit. Such a case is the Radiology Reporting Service, which will launch in late summer 2019, allowing Radiology staff the opportunity to provide additional reporting capacity across NHSScotland through the use of a national IT connectivity platform that enables images taken anywhere in Scotland to be reported on from anywhere in Scotland.

Scottish Government do not hold information on the amount of waste that has been set to a landfill going back to 2007. Since 2016, a national contract has been available for domestic waste across NHSScotland and this is used currently by 11 NHS Boards. The total amount of waste collected via this contract was 20,753 tonnes in 2017, and 20,848 tonnes in 2018. Of these totals, 20.5% (2017) and 23.7% (2018) was either recycled, reclaimed or reused. The majority of the remaining residual waste is sent to landfill. These totals do not include clinical waste or construction and demolition waste which are subject to separate contracts and collection regimes

NHSScotland are working towards the reduction of all waste types and aspire to the Scotland-wide challenge to recycling of 70% of all waste types with a maximum of 5% permitted in landfill by 2025, as part of “Scotland’s zero waste plan”.

Additionally, NHS National Services Scotland is in the process of procuring a new waste data tool that will improve the provision of waste data going forward.

This data is not held centrally.