- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to tackle the socio-economic inequalities that impact on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates.
Answer
Reducing inequalities in survival is a priority aim for the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy (OHCA) for Scotland (2015).
Bystander cardiopulmonary (CPR) is where maximum impact on survival will be achieved. That is why Save A Life for Scotland was launched in 2015 to encourage people to learn CPR and raise awareness of OHCA. Save A Life for Scotland partners are working with multiply deprived communities across Scotland to increase CPR learning.
Incidence of OHCA is related to income inequalities and population health. That is why the Scottish Government is taking action focussing on addressing the underlying causes of inequalities: ending poverty, fair wages, supporting families, and improving our physical and social environments and to support people to live healthier lives.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making towards the target set out in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Strategy for Scotland of having "500,000 people equipped with CPR skills".
Answer
Since the launch of the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Strategy for Scotland (2015), the Save A Life for Scotland (SALFS) partnership has made significant progress in equipping people with CPR skills, with more than 260,000 people recorded having learned CPR since then.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how the survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Scotland compares with the rest of the UK; what steps it is taking to improve survival rates, and, in light of its current strategy on this issue ending in 2020, what (a) plans it has for future public engagement and (b) approach it will take post-2020.
Answer
The Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Data Linkage project report published on 13 March 2018 shows the 30 day survival rate from OHCA in Scotland rose from 6.2% in 2011 – 2014-15 to 8.3% in 2016-17. This is similar to that of 7.8% in England for data published in 2016.
The OHCA Reference and Delivery Groups will consider what steps to take regarding future public engagement and approach beyond 2020.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to the British Heart Foundation's campaign to make CPR training mandatory on the school curriculum in each local authority.
Answer
The Scottish Government supports Save A Life for Scotland (SALFS) as the partnership for the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy (OHCA) for Scotland (2015), working to encourage people to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and raise awareness of OHCA. Working with schools to support CPR learning is a priority for SALFS. It is up to individual schools and local authorities to decide if and how best to deliver this. In many schools across Scotland CPR learning is already embedded with support from SALFS partners.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 August 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it will put in place to ensure equitable access to thrombectomy procedures for patients across all NHS board areas.
Answer
A Directors of Planning Thrombectomy Advisory Group is developing a national planning framework for the provision of thrombectomy for Scotland. The development of the framework will consider all the elements required to deliver the service including for example: referral criteria and pathways for patients, workforce, facilities, training and education. It is anticpated the framework will be completed by spring 2019.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what provision for children and young people with type 1 diabetes will be offered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde after the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill fully closes, and whether it will provide an update on the board's proposed integrated type 1 service for 0 to 25-year-olds.
Answer
Planning is in progress for the relocation of services from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill once it fully closes. Moving the service onto the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus is one of the options being considered. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are fully committed to engaging with patients and families during this planning process.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have made a number of incremental steps towards the '0 to 25 years old' service. For example, diabetes paediatric services extended from an age threshold of 13 to 18 years, and the service is supported by joint working between paediatricians and adult diabetes consultants. The Board has also created a "Transition" specialist role aimed at developing the transition pathway for young adults.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that the Scottish Ambulance Service has sufficient resources.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 20 September 2018
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 15 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether there is any funding scheme in Scotland for the securing of places of worship similar to the scheme recently announced by the UK Government.
Answer
We are clear that any form of hate crime or prejudice is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. We are taking a range of steps to tackle hate crime as set out in our ambitious Tackling Prejudice and Building Connected Communities Action Plan, and have established a multi-agency Action Group to drive this work forward.
While there is no specific security funding scheme for places of worship, we are fully committed to working with Police Scotland and others to safeguard all communities and potentially vulnerable people and sites, and would encourage organisations with concerns about their security or the safety of their members to contact Police Scotland.
We are working to build inclusive, resilient and safe communities in Scotland where everyone feels connected, has a sense of belonging and feels valued.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 July 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by James Wolffe QC on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time taken was in the last five years for a death certificate to be produced where a death was (a) reported to a procurator fiscal and (b) referred to a pathologist.
Answer
This information is not held by Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
Where the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) is being completed by the reporting doctor the MCCD should be issued without unnecessary delay and ,where applicable, within the timescale specified in section 24 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965. Where COPFS instruct a pathologist the MCCD will be issued by the pathologist upon completion of the post mortem examination.
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 July 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by James Wolffe QC on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of deaths recorded in each of the last five years that were referred by a procurator fiscal to a pathologist (i) involved an examination performed as a view and grant and (ii) were carried out using non-invasive scanning, also broken down by each health centre that recorded the death.
Answer
The following table shows the number of deaths reported to the Procurator Fiscal in the financial years 2013 to 2018, the number and percentage of post mortem examinations carried out along with the number and percentage of view and grant examinations as a subset of the total number of post mortem examinations.
No examinations were carried out utilising solely non-invasive scanning equipment.
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) does not hold information about the health centre areas however the table shows a breakdown of the figures for each of the SFIU area teams.
(1) Subset of total PM examinations | | | | |
| | | | Post Mortem Examinations |
Financial Year | SFIU Area | Death Reports Received | Total PM examinations | as a % of total death reports received | View and grant examinations (1) | as a % of total PM examinations |
2013-14 | EAST | 3,334 | 1,797 | 54% | 230 | 13% |
| | NORTH | 2,082 | 1,367 | 66% | 319 | 23% |
| | WEST | 4,133 | 2,765 | 67% | 319 | 12% |
| | Total | 9,549 | 5,929 | 62% | 868 | 15% |
2014-15 | EAST | 3,301 | 1,959 | 59% | 257 | 13% |
| | NORTH | 1,724 | 1,387 | 80% | 309 | 22% |
| | WEST | 4,148 | 2,992 | 72% | 410 | 14% |
| | Total | 9,173 | 6,338 | 69% | 976 | 15% |
2015-16 | EAST | 3,298 | 2,120 | 64% | 321 | 15% |
| | NORTH | 1,944 | 1,426 | 73% | 312 | 22% |
| | WEST | 4,337 | 3,073 | 71% | 455 | 15% |
| | Total | 9,579 | 6,619 | 69% | 1,088 | 16% |
2016-17 | EAST | 3,168 | 1,693 | 53% | 153 | 9% |
| | NORTH | 2,825 | 1,190 | 42% | 186 | 16% |
| | WEST | 4,938 | 2,889 | 59% | 337 | 12% |
| | Total | 10,931 | 5,772 | 53% | 676 | 12% |
2017-18 | EAST | 3,124 | 1,730 | 55% | 104 | 6% |
| | NORTH | 2,460 | 1,243 | 51% | 171 | 14% |
| | WEST | 5,272 | 2,862 | 54% | 237 | 8% |
| | Total | 10,856 | 5,835 | 54% | 512 | 9% |
