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We understand that the University of Strathclyde has taken the decision not to invite applications for a 2019 intake to the MSc in Educational Psychology programme. While this is unfortunate, universities are autonomous institutions with responsibility for managing their own course provision and it is for universities themselves to decide the courses they offer.

The Scottish Government has begun discussions to secure alternative provision for the course. We remain committed to delivering a sustainable and regular supply of educational psychologists to meet future need.

Translabial scanning is not offered routinely by the NHS, either in Scotland or in England. This is because clinicians in both jurisdictions advise that there is no clinical evidence to support routine use.

This position is supported by draft NICE guidance entitled “Urinary incontinence (update) and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management,” which recommends that further research into translabial scanning be undertaken because, at present, there is no data to support claims that it is a necessary tool in the diagnosis and management of mesh complications.

The draft NICE guidance is presently open to public consultation and can be viewed here: www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10035/consultation/html-content-2 .

The information requested is not held centrally. The number of places offered will be held by the University of Strathclyde and the University of Dundee who had intakes in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

This data is not collected centrally. Although audiology services are covered by the 18 weeks referral to treatment target the information ISD receive from health boards are aggregated returns and specialty information is not published. Audiology services are not covered by the stage of treatment standards asthis is not a consultant led service. However individual health boards will be able to provide the member with this information.

The numbers of babies reported in the Scottish Birth Record (SBR) as having a diagnosis of ‘foetus and newborn affected by maternal use of drugs of addiction’ or ‘neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drug addiction’ in Scotland during the period 2006-07 to 2016-17 are provided in the following table. The figures presented cover three year aggregates to avoid disclosing small numbers in each individual year. Further suppression of small numbers has been applied as per ISD’s Statistical Disclosure Control policy in order to protect patient confidentiality.

Care should be taken when comparing these data over time as there has been an improvement in drug misuse recording in recent years. It is also worth noting that recording practice of drug misuse diagnoses may vary between hospitals, which may explain some of the variation between NHS Boards.

Table of information has been lodged with SPICe under reference Bib number 60118.

The attached link, to ISD Scotland data, outlines the percentage of student nurses who did not complete their courses before graduation in each year since 2007 - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/data-tables2017.asp?id=2115#2115

The following tables show the number of people from Scotland who have received treatment in hospitals in other parts of the UK in each year since 1999. The data across the UK is not directly comparable due to differences in data definitions.

Information is provided in the following table on the number of finished admission episodes for patients resident in Scotland who have received healthcare from the NHS in England since 1999.

A flag to indicate if alcohol was involved in an A&E admission was introduced into the A&E datamart in July 2010.

The ‘alcohol involved’ flag is optional and currently poorly recorded or not recorded at all by some NHS Boards. For this reason, the data requested cannot be reliably provided. ISD are working with NHS Boards to try and improve the quality and completeness of recording this data item.

Alcohol-related hospital discharge statistics are published annually by Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland. The latest report , Alcohol Related Hospital Statistics 2016/17 was published on the 21st November 2017.

The following table shows the number of new cases of diabetes amongst those aged 0 to 19 in each year from 2009 to 2016.

Type 2 diabetes: Number of new cases, age 0-19

This information is not held centrally. Further information may be sought directly from individual health boards. NHS Scotland health boards have devolved responsibilities in relation to the recruitment, retention and deployment of staff.