- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Chief Executive Letter, CEL 12, which relates to hospice funding, will apply to new integration joint boards
Answer
In 2015, the year before integration went live, the Scottish Government published statutory guidance on strategic commissioning setting out that each Partnership's strategic commissioning plan should be based upon a Strategic Needs Assessment of local people, including those with palliative and end of life care needs.
The strategic commissioning plan sets out how Partnerships will plan and deliver services for their area over the medium term, using the integrated budgets under their control. This includes palliative and end of life care services.
Within this wider context NHS boards remain responsible for the procurement of palliative and end of life services, including those provided by Hospices. Therefore the procurement arrangements set out CEL 12 (2012), remain relevant and applicable. There are therefore no plans to update and/or reissue the Chief Executive Letter, CEL 12 (2012).
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much the NHS has spent on (a) adult independent hospices services and (b) services provided by third sector organisations in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not centrally held in the form requested.
Information on NHS board expenditure is published by NHS Information Services Division (ISD) on an annual basis in the Scottish Health Service Costs Report (often referred to as the ‘Cost Book’). Expenditure on treatments provided by third sector organisations over the past five years broken down by NHS board is set out in the following table.
This information only relates to treatment and may not reflect the full spectrum of support and care that voluntary organisations provide to NHS boards.
Expenditure for treatments provided by Voluntary Organisations (£000)1: 2010-11-2014-15
NHS Board
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2014-15
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2013-14
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2012-13
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2011-12
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2010-11
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NHS Ayrshire and Arran
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5,489
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5,370
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5,224
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4,380
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1,424
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NHS Borders
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142
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146
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-
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488
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377
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NHS Fife
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5,460
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4,049
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4,025
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3,849
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4,277
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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22,611
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23,522
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19,787
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19,539
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18,131
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NHS Highland
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6,456
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6,419
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5,790
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4,920
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5,048
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NHS Lanarkshire
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8,609
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7,977
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7,305
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8,141
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8,975
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NHS Grampian
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3,845
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5,406
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3,520
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4,027
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4,854
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NHS Orkney
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70
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79
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23
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56
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55
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NHS Lothian
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9,738
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9,461
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9,359
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16,193
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15,271
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NHS Tayside
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4,425
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4,338
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4,252
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3,616
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4,187
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NHS Forth Valley
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3,827
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2,799
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3,254
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3,536
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3,577
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NHS Western Isles
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410
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413
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412
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254
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-
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NHS Dumfries & Galloway
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1,093
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997
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840
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472
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682
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NHS Shetland
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-
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-
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26
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3
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140
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NHS Scotland
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72,174
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70,976
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63,819
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69,475
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66,997
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1. Expenditure for treatments provided by Voluntary Organisations as recorded in Costs Book (SFR 24.0, Line Number 471).
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs do not have access to the ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) mental health system.
Answer
ALISS is available online at www.aliss.org so is accessible by all GPs. The service includes sources of support in the community across the full range of health and care services not just for mental health.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it provides to NHS boards on the use of taxis to deliver appointment letters and other correspondence to patients.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-04425 on 16 November 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
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many times NHS boards have used taxis to deliver appointment letters and other correspondence to patients since 1999, broken down by (a) board and (b) cost.
Answer
The information requested is not held by the Scottish Government. The issue raised is a matter for Health Boards, which are required to ensure best value in the use of public funds in line with the guidance set out in the Scottish Public Finance Manual.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00648 by Shona Robison on 23 June 2016, whether the expert group to lead the review of national NHS targets is now in place and, if so, who its members are; on what dates it has met; when the full terms of the review will be published, and how stakeholders can feed into it.
Answer
The expert group met for the first time on 7 November 2016. The group is made up of experts from the organisations listed in the following table. The group considered its remit which is based on the News Release of 9 September 2016 http://news.gov.scot/news/national-review-chair-appointed and are being asked to provide final comments on it by 18 November 2016. The group is also considering how it will engage with stakeholders and draw out the relevant key messages from the recent Healthier and Fairer Conversations.
Health and Social Care Alliance
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Service Users (Scottish Health Council)
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British Medical Association
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Social Work Scotland
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Association of Local Authority Housing Representatives
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Society of Local Authority Chief Executives
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Integration Authority Chairs and Vice Chairs Network
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Third Sector Health and Social Care Collaborative
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Integration Authority Chief Officers
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NHS National Services Scotland, Public Health and Intelligence
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NHS Chairs
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health
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NHS Chief Executives
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Care Inspectorate
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Royal College of Emergency Medicine
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Royal College of Nursing
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Scottish Government
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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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COSLA
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- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many pharmacists are based in GP surgeries, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information as requested is not readily available.
As at September 2015 (the most recent figures available), there were 262.2 Whole Time Equivalent health board primary care pharmacist posts in NHS Scotland. These posts include a range of support activities for GP practices from prescribing support to undertaking clinics, and treating patients with common uncomplicated conditions. The following table shows a breakdown of the number of these posts by NHS board.
Health Board
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Number of NHS Board
Primary care pharmacists(WTE) posts
– Sept 2015
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Ayrshire and Arran
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26.4
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Borders
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4.6
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Dumfries and Galloway
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8.8
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Fife
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23.8
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Forth Valley
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15.1
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Grampian
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18.3
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Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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76
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Highland
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16.4
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Lanarkshire
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24.9
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Lothian
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17.1
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Orkney
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1.9
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Shetland
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2
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Tayside
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27.3
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Western Isles
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0
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Total
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262.6
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In addition, the Scottish Government has allocated £16.2 million to NHS Boards over three years through our programme of transformational change in primary care, to take forward our commitment to recruiting up to 140 pharmacists with advanced clinical skills to GP practices. The commitment as set out in the Programme for Government, is that all GP practices will have access to a pharmacist with these skills by the end of this Parliament.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many repeat prescriptions have been issued in each year since 1999, and what time it estimates it has taken GPs to produce these.
Answer
This information is not readily available from the NHS Scotland prescribing information system.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the minor ailment service.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not directly commissioned or undertaken an assessment of the Minor Ailment Service (MAS). However, studies have been conducted by other bodies and in particular the MINA Study undertaken by the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with NHS Grampian and the University of East Anglia, published in January 2014. The final report is available at:- http://www.pharmacyresearchuk.org/waterway/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MINA-Study-Final-Report.pdf
The planned extended MAS pilot in Inverclyde will help to further expand the existing evidence base for MAS and inform the future design of the service.
The pilot, will involve the current MAS being extended to all patients registered with a GP practice in the Inverclyde area and augmented to include treatments for the most common, uncomplicated conditions normally requiring a GP prescription.
The pilot is scheduled to commence from January 2017.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many adverse events have taken place in the NHS since 1999, broken down by (a) NHS board, (b) category and (c) type of event.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally as individual NHS Boards are responsible and accountable for managing their own clinical governance processes.
Adverse event reviews are carried out to determine whether there are learning points to improve the service. Boards then need to implement any improvements identified to support a greater level of safety for all the people involved in its care system. Significant adverse event review reports should be shared with everyone involved and a one-page learning summary completed and published in order to disseminate key learning points.