- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support prisoners to access housing, employment and benefits ahead of being released.
Answer
SPS has a long standing relationship with the DWP who have placed JCP staff in all prisons either on a full time or part time basis. Partnership working is ongoing to ensure that access to employment support and benefit advice is continually improving.
SPS continues to work in collaboration with Scottish Government, third sector organisations and employers to provide Community Placements (release on temporary license) and post-liberation employment.
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
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the timetable is for improvements at the Sheriffhall Roundabout.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-03083 on 6 October 2016.
The options under consideration were presented at two public exhibitions on 6 and 7 December.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many children have been looked after by neonatal units in each NHS board in each of the last three years.
Answer
The number of babies that required specialist neonatal care by NHS Board of residence in each of the last three years is presented in the following table. The data includes live singleton and multiple births; stillbirths are excluded. Babies in Intensive Care, High Dependency Unit, Special Care and Transitional Care are included in the total of babies requiring specialist neonatal care.
Live births requiring specialist neonatal care, by NHS Board of residence, 2013-14 to 2015-16
NHS Board of residence
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2013-14
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2014-15
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2015-16
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Ayrshire & Arran
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376
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368
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403
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Borders
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243
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231
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263
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Dumfries & Galloway
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150
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174
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178
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Fife
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390
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426
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389
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Forth Valley
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256
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274
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209
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Grampian
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764
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744
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804
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Greater Glasgow & Clyde
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1,140
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1,053
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1,294
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Highland
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349
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346
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405
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Lanarkshire
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1,140
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1,099
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1,334
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Lothian
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992
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927
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874
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Orkney
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17
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13
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22
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Shetland
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28
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28
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19
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Tayside
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361
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416
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423
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Western Isles
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24
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9
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14
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Unknown
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49
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98
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65
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Total
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6,279
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6,206
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6,696
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- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether psychological services should be a part of perinatal mental health provision.
Answer
The Scottish Government expects psychological therapies to be provided across the whole breadth of mental health services whenever appropriate, including perinatal mental health services.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether the updated perinatal mental health curricular framework will make reference to improved psychological input for parents.
Answer
The revised perinatal mental health curricular framework, to be published by NHS Education For Scotland, will focus on the educational needs of practitioners who support families in the perinatal period - defined as pregnancy and the twelve months following the birth of a child. The revised framework will emphasise the importance of addressing the psychological needs of women, their partners, and infants, including supporting parent-infant relationships, during this period.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many perinatal clinical psychologists have been employed by each NHS board in each of the last three years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. We expect that mental health care and treatment will be delivered by all NHS Boards in a person-centred manner to meet each individual’s needs. That includes the appropriate provision of clinical psychologists to meet local circumstances.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when the perinatal mental health curricular framework will be updated.
Answer
NHS Education For Scotland aim to publish the revised framework in April 2017.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has undertaken a review into the appropriateness of perinatal mental health services and, if so, what the outcome was.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not undertaken a review into the appropriateness of perinatal mental health services. However, we have taken note of recent reports by the NSPCC (“Getting It Right”, published in April 2015) and the Mental Welfare Commission (“Perinatal Themed Visit Report: Keeping Mothers and Babies In Mind”, published in June 2016). Both of these reports examine perinatal mental health services in Scotland. We are thinking carefully about the best way to improve perinatal mental health services in Scotland, and will lay out more details on how we propose to do that in the forthcoming 10-year Mental Health Strategy, including funding a managed clinical network.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time for treatment at a chronic pain clinic has been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Data is collected quarterly from all Boards for waiting times for a first appointment/assessment at the pain clinic/service and waiting times for a first pain psychology services appointment. These data (both adjusted and unadjusted) are reported quarterly by NHS National Services Scotland’s Information Services Division and is available at https://www.isdscotland.org/. The data published so far is from the quarter ending 31 December 2015. It is important to note that these data are Non-Official Statistics and remain caveated as developmental.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 1 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the annual (a) salary is of the National Chronic Pain Co-ordinator and (b) running cost is of (i) the office of the National Chronic Pain Co-ordinator and (ii) its other chronic pain groups.
Answer
The incumbent National Chronic Pain Co-ordinator is employed by NHS Fife. The Scottish Government provides reimbursement to the Board for protected work time via a Service Level Agreement (SLA). To deliver this service, NHS Fife provides a member of staff at Band 8a for 0.4 Whole Time Equivalent.
For the operating costs of the national chronic pain groups, I would refer the member to the answers to questions S5W-01879 and S5W-01880 on 7 September 2016. 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.