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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-01174

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that 50 people have died by suicide in hospital in the last four years.

Every suicide is a tragedy that has a far reaching impact on family, friends and the community long after a person has died.

The Scottish Government expects NHS boards to provide care to the highest standards of quality and safety whatever the setting, with the person at the centre of all decisions.

Suicides are thoroughly investigated in Scotland. The Scottish Government works closely with its partners, including Healthcare Improvement Scotland, to support the NHS in learning from any deaths by suicide and so inform continuing improvements in patient safety.

Question reference: S5W-01177

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce the number of suicides in hospitals.

Every suicide is a tragedy that has a far reaching impact on family, friends and the community long after a person has died. One of the key themes in the Scottish Government’s Suicide Prevention Strategy (2013 to 2016) is to improve the NHS response to suicide. A range of actions is underway to support this, including work by Healthcare Improvement Scotland to support the NHS in learning from any deaths by suicide and so inform continuing improvements in patient safety, and work on improved use of data and training in accident and emergency departments.

Question reference: S5W-01009

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 14 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to allocate its share of the revenue raised from the UK Government’s proposed soft drinks industry levy to initiatives dedicated to tackling childhood obesity and, if so, how it will do so.

The Scottish Government awaits details on how the proposed levy will operate in practice. The Barnett formula does not adjust to changes in reserved taxation such as the soft drinks industry levy but instead allocates to Scotland a population share of net changes in expenditure on comparable spending programmes in England (or England and Wales). Following the announcements at the UK Spending Review and the UK Budget in March 2016, the Scottish Government’s discretionary budget will fall in real terms by 3.2% over the course of the current spending review period. The Scottish Government will publish spending plans for 2017-18 in due course.

Question reference: S5W-00928

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to help fund and promote pet therapy in the NHS.

Question reference: S5W-00932

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time was to receive a hearing aid in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Audiology Services is included in the Scottish Government’s target that no patient should wait more than 18 weeks from a GP referral to start of treatment since the end of 2011.

Information on the average waiting time to receive a hearing aid is not collected centrally. However we have provided information on the median wait for the fitting of a hearing in each quarter from March 2010 (first published data) to March 2016 (latest available published data) by NHS board in the following table.

Median waiting time (weeks) for the fitting of hearing aids by board

NHS Board	Mar 2010	Mar 2011	Mar 2012	Mar 2013	Mar 2014	Mar 2015	Mar 2016
Ayrshire and Arran	-	0	6	6	4	6	8
Borders	6	5	5	5	5	7	10
Dumfries and Galloway	11	0	5	6	6	6	7
Fife	-	0	-	0	-	0	0
Forth Valley	-	0	5	2	6	5	4
Grampian	5	5	4	4	3	3	2
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	6	7	7	7	7	7	9
Highland	-	4	3	4	3	6	5
Lanarkshire	4	3	2	4	3	4	4
Lothian	0	16	7	7	8	7	7
Orkney	2	3	3	3	3	3	0
Shetland	4	7	6	4	3	2	3
Tayside	-	5	4	5	5	4	6
Western Isles	-	21	5	4	2	6	6

Source: Information Services Division Scotland

a - denotes no patients were seen that month.

b 0 denotes that the 50% of patients were seen in less than seven days.

Question reference: S5W-00931

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time was to see a hearing specialist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5W-00933

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding to that set out in its 2014 Budget it projects that the NHS will receive in each year of the current parliamentary session.

Question reference: S5W-00924

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have received access to continuous glucose monitoring in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-00927

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 11 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time was for both cycles of IVF treatment from 2007 to date, broken down by NHS board.

Information Services Division (ISD) does not hold this information centrally. Data for IVF waiting times are available from the quarter ending July to September 2014 onwards. Information collected by ISD to measure progress towards the waiting time standard is for the first IVF cycle only. Further information on the first IVF cycle can be found at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Waiting-Times/IVF-Waiting-Times/Publications/2016-05-31/.

Question reference: S5W-00929

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 6 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many ex-service (a) men and (b) women have been assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.