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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To ask the Scottish Government how patients can access the results of Health Improvement Scotland inspections carried out at dental practices.
To ask the Scottish Government how inspections carried out by local NHS boards on dental practices differ from those carried out by Healthcare Improvement Scotland on independent dental practices.
To ask the Scottish Government how many independent dental practices have been subject to inspection by Healthcare Improvement Scotland since 2016, and how much these cost.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the NHS treatment time guarantee not being met for a number of treatments, what support is available to patients who face long waiting times for surgery.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to BMA Scotland's comment that ISD statistics underestimate the consultant vacancy rate by excluding posts that have yet to be cleared to be advertised and do not take account of the reliance on locum doctors and “that by not including certain categories of vacancy, the official statistics simply don’t provide the full picture of the scale of consultant vacancies in our NHS”.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason ministers will no longer hold a public session or Q&A as part of the annual review of NHS boards.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to make it easier for women with learning disabilities to access cervical screening.
To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to help women who are survivors of sexual violence to access cervical screening.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve support for women who have lipoedema.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the number of female apprentices completing their training reportedly falling by 11% in the last four years, what it is doing to reverse this trend, and what specific action it will take on this issue in relation to STEM-related subjects.