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This information is not held centrally. The member may wish to consider contacting individual Health Boards to obtain this information.

Since 1999 over 67,000 cancer patients have accessed clinical trials in Scotland, broken down by NHS Board as shown in the following tables:

The information requested is not held centrally. However, the number of hospital discharges where a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease was recorded, per year, for the last 10 years in Scotland, is available.

Note that the same person may be counted more than once in these figures, and that they do not include patients with Parkinson’s disease who were not admitted to hospital during this period.

Number of discharges from an acute hospital with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease recorded, by year, Scotland, 2009-18*.

Once the Respiratory Care Action Plan is finalised we will have a better understanding of the financial challenges and opportunities lying ahead and this will inform funding decisions.

SIGN is part of the Evidence Directorate of Healthcare Improvement Scotland and receives core funding from Healthcare Improvement Scotland. It is editorially independent from Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Scottish Government.

Any group or individual can propose or request a review of a SIGN guideline by completing a proposal form and returning it to the SIGN Executive. Guideline topics are selected on the basis of burden of disease, the existence of variation in practice, and the potential to improve outcomes. There is a defined process that SIGN follows to support proposers to develop their proposals and then selection criteria that aid the Guideline Programme Advisory Group to decide which proposals to accept for guideline development. The SIGN Council ratifies these accepted proposals.

Since starting inspections in September 2009, a total of 295 safety
and cleanliness inspections have been undertaken in hospitals by
the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate. This is broken down as
follows:

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-21522 on 26 February 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 .

Ensuring patients receive their medication on time when in hospital is a fundamental aspect of good quality care. This is set out in professional guidance, published in January 2019 by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, on 'the Administration of Medicines in Healthcare Settings'.

In addition the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer has published a strategy 'Achieving Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care' that makes reference to the use of people’s own medicines when they are inpatients to facilitate medicine compliance in hospitals. This practice supports the medicines reconciliation process and ensures medicine changes are shared with care providers.

Other initiatives, such as semi-automated medicines cabinets, are also beginning to be used in hospital wards and departments that enable timely access to medicines. These cabinets provide automatic ordering of required medication and allow keyless but secure access to stored medication through fingerprint identification, which also enables greater accountability and tracing of medication. We will continue to encourage hospitals to invest in these technologies.

Between April 2017 to March 2018 14 new implantations and 20 battery replacements were performed. Between April 2018 to December 2019 12 new implantations, 1 explantation and 22 battery replacements were performed.

In total 69 surgical interventions were completed.

Source: NHS National Services Scotland

Alcoholic Liver disease is one of 15 conditions included in the Alcohol Specific Deaths statistics published annually by National Records of Scotland.

Data for number of deaths by underlying cause of death is available in table 2 of the NRS Alcohol-specific Deaths (new National Statistics definition) Data Tables which are available at the following link.

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme
/vital-events/deaths/alcohol-deaths/alcohol-specific-deaths-new-definition/tables-and-chart

The data for alcoholic liver disease is detailed in the following table.

Alcohol-specific deaths (new National Statistics definition) by underlying cause of death (ICD-10): registered in Scotland, 2000 to 2017