Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many NHS-recorded smoking cessation attempts there have been by individuals in each of the last five years, also broken down by individual NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14562 by Shona Robison on 28 February 2018, in light of the cabinet secretary's comment that "I expect to see improvements between now and the end of March 2018", what its response is to reports that waiting times for an initial orthopaedic appointment in NHS Lothian have increased to up to 45 weeks.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the number of people in Scotland with phenylketonuria who are unable to consume the artificial sweetener, aspartame, and whether it has discussed with (a) the UK Government and (b) HM Revenue and Customs the impact on this group of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
To ask the Scottish Government, when considering whether to fund sapropterin for the treatment of phenylketonuria, what account the (a) NHS will take of the need to safeguard the reproductive rights of women with the condition, including those who are pregnant and (b) Scottish Medicines Consortium will take of the social and economic impact of the condition.
To ask the Scottish Government what criteria the Scottish Medicines Consortium uses to distinguish between orphan and ultra-orphan medicines, and what its position is on whether a treatment with a licensed indication that it will treat approximately 100 patients should be classed as ultra-orphan.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the findings of the report, Review of Access to New Medicines, what progress has been made in ensuring access to treatments for (a) phenylketonuria and (b) other rare diseases.
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications have been made to study the MSc in educational psychology course at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Strathclyde in each year since 2010, and how many places were offered.
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients it estimates have paid for private medical treatment in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government how many learning disability nurses have been employed by each NHS board in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported concerns regarding the decision by NHS Lothian to close a number of drop-in breast feeding clinics in Edinburgh, and what discussions it has had with the NHS board regarding this.