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NHSScotland has already made significant progress in reducing the emissions from its estate. At the end of 2018-19, greenhouse gas emissions were down by more than 61.6% on 1990 levels.

Measures in place to see these reductions include:

• the eradication of the use of coal, and significant reduction in the use of heavy fuel oil;
• upgrading energy centres to take advantage of latest energy efficiency technologies;
• upgrading lighting across their estates to enable the use of high efficiency LED lighting;
• the procurement of a national contract with WarpIt to enable Boards to reuse office equipment across their estate and within other public and third sector estates; and
• the development of a plastics hierarchy to assist the movement towards a single-source recyclable plastic for use across all NHS applications.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-24098 on 22 July 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 .

The number of dedicated community nurses by NHS Board from 2007 to the most recent published data as at 31 March 2019 is on the ISD website, available here:

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

The link above shows the number of nurses who have a location of service delivery recorded as (i) hospital, (ii) community, (iii) combined hospital / community, (iv) other or (v) prison. This information can be found by selecting the Nursing & Midwifery tab where the drop down can be used to select community.

Further notes:

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data are collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the 'FAQs' section of the Workforce Statistics website at http://www.isdscotland.org/workforce/ .

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.