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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-05332

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many consultants each NHS board employs on a 9:1 contract, also broken down by how many were employed on this basis in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-05337

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the value of stolen medical equipment has been in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5W-05331

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many district nurses each NHS board employs, also broken down by how many have been employed in each year since 2007.

	Sep-15	Sep-16
NHSScotland	1,054.0	1,051.4
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	51.7	50.6
NHS Borders	29.2	26.7
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	22.6	22.9
NHS Fife	87.5	88.5
NHS Forth Valley	45.2	52.3
NHS Grampian	110.5	104.8
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	242.2	233.4
NHS Highland	88.8	96.8
NHS Lanarkshire	116.3	127.4
NHS Lothian	138.5	132.9
NHS Orkney	10.4	10.4
NHS Shetland	18.4	15.6
NHS Tayside	85.3	81.4
NHS Western Isles	7.6	7.8

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).

Notes:

1. Includes district nursing staff on Agenda for Change band 6 and above only.

For completeness, Table 2 shows the reported number of District Nurses employed by NHS Board from 2007 to 2014. This data is not comparable with data from 2015 onwards.

Table 2. Number (whole time equivalent) of district nurses in post as at 30 September each year from 2007 to 2014

	Sep-07	Sep-08	Sep-09	Sep-10	Sep-11	Sep-12	Sep-13	Sep-14
NHSScotland	443.4	445.1	515.1	652.9	677.4	712.5	706.7	716.9
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	52.4	48.0	50.6	53.4	51.2	53.2	61.0	57.3
NHS Borders	32.4	31.7	29.2	25.3	22.9	22.7	21.2	20.8
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	30.7	29.5	22.9	20.2	17.3	20.1	20.9	17.6
NHS Fife	2.0	5.5	10.0	10.0	57.4	62.9	66.1	83.2
NHS Forth Valley	58.2	60.1	57.4	54.2	49.3	47.3	52.8	51.9
NHS Grampian	43.4	38.5	36.7	38.7	36.5	86.5	83.1	88.0
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	20.7	28.7	27.0	169.4	160.7	152.2	153.0	142.7
NHS Highland	28.8	28.0	28.7	30.1	32.7	28.9	23.3	23.5
NHS Lanarkshire	94.0	82.9	95.2	94.0	85.5	85.7	84.6	81.2
NHS Lothian	12.2	20.8	77.8	83.7	81.6	79.6	74.8	77.6
NHS Orkney	1.0	3.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.0
NHS Shetland		0.6	0.6	0.7	1.0	10.2	10.6	14.1
NHS Tayside	56.6	52.4	63.5	59.6	68.4	52.0	44.8	50.7
NHS Western Isles	11.0	15.4	13.6	11.8	10.6	9.2	8.6	7.4

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).

Notes:

1. Includes district nursing staff on Agenda for Change band 6 and above only.

Question reference: S5W-05336

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board is spending on psychiatric care, also broken down by the amount spent in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-05338

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the Scottish Ambulance Service emergency response time has been in each year since 2007, broken down by regional operational division.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally. Information on emergency ambulance response times, broken down by Board area can be found in the Scottish Ambulance Service annual reports, via the following link:

http://www.scottishambulance.com/TheService/annualreport.aspx

For emergency response times broken down by regional division I would suggest contacting the Scottish Ambulance Service Directly.

Question reference: S5W-05334

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many people aged 26 and under with a mental health problem are being treated in adult services, broken down by age group.

Data on the number of people receiving treatment across Scotland and at individual NHS Health board level is available is published online on a quarterly basis by ISD and is available at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Publications/ The age range of 0 – 26 falls within both publications with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Waiting Times in NHSScotland covering people up to the age of 18, with some areas providing service up to 16 only while others offer services up to 18 years. The psychological therapies report covering the total number of people of all ages receiving treatment.

Question reference: S5W-05360

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-04777 by Shona Robison on 5 December 2016, whether it will provide a breakdown by NHS board of the figures provided for patients in the last five years who have been classified as delayed discharge, code 9 (awaiting completion of complex care arrangements in order to live in their own home).

Question reference: S5W-05323

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will encourage the Scottish Prison Service and the NHS to extend their memorandum of understanding from nine to all 14 NHS boards in order to improve through care.

Question reference: S5W-05321

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government in light of the report, Five Years On; Royal College of Nursing Scotland Review of the Transfer of Prison Health Care from the Scottish Prison Service to NHS Scotland, what action it will take to ensure that every prisoner leaving custody is registered with a general practice.

Health boards advise that all prisoners in Scotland with sentences of less than six months retain any registration they hold with their community General Practice and are registered as temporary residents with the prison healthcare centre.

Prisoners with a sentence of six months or more are registered permanently with the prison health centre. Upon release these prisoners are required to re-register with their community General Practice to ensure continuity of care.

The process of re-registration is encouraged and assisted by prison healthcare staff and others involved in the prisoner’s liberation and throughcare planning. Guidance has been issued by Practitioner Services Division, National Services Scotland to General Practices on the re-registration of liberated prisoners.

Question reference: S5W-05319

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report, Five Years On; Royal College of Nursing Scotland Review of the Transfer of Prison Health Care from the Scottish Prison Service to NHS Scotland.

The Scottish Government notes the finding of the report 'Five Years On; Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland Review of the Transfer of Prison Health Care from the Scottish Prison Service to NHS Scotland'.

The report highlights a number of important areas of improvement and innovation in health care for the prison population and welcomes the improvement in access to wider clinical expertise and clearly demonstrates the commitment of nursing staff working with people in prison. However, it is only right and proper to acknowledge that it also details a number of challenges facing Health Boards in the delivery of service for this vulnerable group.

While it remains the responsibility of individual Health Boards to provide appropriate healthcare for its population, including prisons, the Scottish Government will support Health Boards, the Prison Service and their partners, to fully implement the aspirations to reduce health inequalities, integrate prison health care into the wider NHS system without discrimination, increase continuity of care and improve sustainability.