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The following table shows the number of gastric lavage procedures carried out in Scotland in each year since 2007 when a person has been admitted to hospital. Due to changes in clinical practice, gastric lavage is not generally carried out within an A&E department but these figures will not include any that may have been. Due to the small number of cases, it is not possible to provide a breakdown by NHS Board.

Number of gastric lavage procedures carried out in inpatient/day case setting, Scotland, 2007 to 2017

Information on the number of self-funders residing in a Care Home in Scotland is not held centrally.

Information on Care Homes in Scotland is collected via the Scottish Care Home Census for adults which takes place annually on 31 March and covers all adult care homes in Scotland registered with the Care Inspectorate. The Scottish Care Home Census collects information on the numbers of residents who are fully or partially funded but this information is only available for long-stay residents. Information on the source of funding for short-stay residents is not collected.

The care home census is incomplete as it is not a mandatory data collection. Approximately 80% of all long stay residents' records were submitted by Care Homes to the census over the time period and information on the source of funding was submitted for approximately 86% of these records in 2017. ISD and the Scottish Government work with the Care Inspectorate on an annual basis in order to improve data quality in this non-mandatory data return.

The number of mainly or wholly self-funding long stay residents in adult care homes for whom information is available is presented in a table available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (BIB. number 60065). Figures are presented as a snapshot on the census date of 31 March each year since 2007, and are presented by the Local Authority in which the Care Homes are located.

Funding is provided to Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) by Local Authorities and Health Boards. Levels of funding are set out in the annual accounts for IJBs and published on each IJB’s website. Funding is allocated on the basis of the IJB’s strategic plan for delivery of delegated services, and is not allocated solely on the basis of population levels.

The following table shows specialist provision of wheelchairs
per year for children under the age of 18 from 2014-15 onwards.

Data for earlier years is not held in any comparable format. Data
for 2018 only part year.

Sourced from ReTIS

• The table includes all provision by the Wheelchair Services to children under the age
  of 18 and not just “new wheelchairs” i.e. it will include referrals for provision of wheelchair
  seating.
• We only have records of performance against the 18 week target for provision requiring
  a specialist assessment. Other data is not collated.
• While there are 5 wheelchair services in Scotland, some NHS Boards have wheelchairs
  provided by more than one service. This cross border activity makes it more difficult to
  get a comprehensive picture of the activity within these Health Boards.

The information on waiting times for hearing aid maintenance is not held centrally. However individual Health Boards will be able to provide the member with this information.

Vaccination policy in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, is based on recommendations from the JCVI, an independent expert panel which provides impartial advice on matters relating to vaccination.

In light of the JCVI advice we introduced a shingles vaccination programme in 2013. People are eligible for the shingles vaccine in the year they turn 70 up until the age of 80. We also offer the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for everyone aged over 65 years.

This information is not held centrally. Further information may be sought directly from NHS Scotland Health Boards.

Youth employment returns issued to the Scottish Government indicate that NHS Scotland Boards employed 556 new modern apprentices in the period 1 August 2014 – 31st March 2018.

Furthermore, health boards across Scotland routinely meet and exceed annual requirement to provide 1 new youth employment opportunity for every 100 employees, pursuant to Scottish Government’s National Youth Employment Strategy “Developing the Young Workforce”.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-18974 on 2 October 2018. 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 timing of financial reporting by individual Integration Authorities is aligned to the local release of information in to the public domain and associated with Board Meetings which generally take place every few months. For practical reasons there is currently no intention to increase the frequency of reporting from quarterly to monthly.

This information is not centrally held.

Musculoskeletal (MSK) waiting time data is collected to allow measurement of the allied health professional MSK target. Physiotherapy is one of the 4 MSK professions (physiotherapy, podiatry, occupational therapy and orhtotics) included and measured for this target. MSK physiotherapy data has been collected from July 2015 but only as NHS Boards were able to provide data of sufficient quality for publication. The MSK data is considered to be developmental.

Further information on waiting times can be found on the ISD website - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Waiting-Times/

The information requested is not held by the Scottish Government. Where a claim for compensation is made and settlement is agreed the information held under the Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS) does not distinguish as to whether liability had been admitted or not.

The CNORIS annual report provides summary details of the number and value of claims made during the financial year, along with historical values. The annual reports are published online at: https://clo.scot.nhs.uk/our-services/cnoris/frequently-asked-questions.aspx