- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will cost to create the NHS Scotland medical equipment management system.
Answer
The NHS Scotland National Medical Equipment Management System (NMEMS), which aims to provide national oversight and visibility of medical equipment in NHS Boards, is being delivered in 2 phases.
Phase 1, commenced in October 2022 and has a provisional completion date of Spring 2023, has cost £28,000 to date which includes licences, data migration costs and post implementation support.
Costs for Phase 2 are currently being scoped and are expected to be finalised in early 2023.
For more information on the NMEMS delivery phases I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-12907 on 21 December 2022. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at /chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs have taken up the Scottish Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme in NHS boards in the South Scotland parliamentary region, in each of the last five years.
Answer
A total of 254 Target Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) bursaries have been taken up by GP trainees in the South Scotland parliamentary region since 2018. A full breakdown is included in the following table.
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Total |
Ayrshire & Arran | 19 | 27 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 100 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 7 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 59 |
Lanarkshire | 17 | 22 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 95 |
Total | 43 | 61 | 50 | 48 | 52 | 254 |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 20 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has given to local authorities to install, upgrade and maintain CCTV, in each year since 2017.
Answer
Funding for CCTV is provided to local authorities through their block grant and, as with most of that funding, is not ring fenced. It is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available. This includes installing, upgrading and maintaining CCTV, and working with the police, based on local needs and priorities. First, they must fulfil statutory obligations within the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities.
Police Scotland and CoSLA have highlighted ongoing challenges around the use, management, maintenance and funding for an ageing public space CCTV network. In response to this, in July 2022, the Scottish Government commissioned research on public space CCTV in Scotland. The purpose of this research is to collate a baseline of evidence in order to better understand the effectiveness and value of public space CCTV in Scotland. The research is due to conclude by the end of March 2023. The findings will be used to inform policy on public space CCTV and help future discussions with national partners.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 19 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how often the stonemasonry training working group has met and when its last meeting was.
Answer
The Stonemasonry Short Life Working Group held its initial meeting in May 2022 and has since met three further times, with the most recent meeting held on 4 November 2022. After the next scheduled meeting in January 2023, the Stonemasonry Short Life Working Group intends to report to the Our Place in Time Skills and Expertise Group by the end of January 2023 with an outline of what actions are required to put stonemasonry training in Scotland in a sustainable position. Additionally, in order to provide an independent review of 2022-23 Scottish Stonemasonry Skills & Training needs, four stakeholder stonemasonry training workshops have taken place across November and December 2022.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many calls have been received by the long COVID support advice line, and how much funding has been allocated to the advice line through the long COVID Support Fund.
Answer
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland indicate that as of the end of November 2022, a total of 3,444 referrals have been made to the charity’s long COVID Support Service since its inception in February 2021.
Scottish Government funding of £156,924 has been made available to Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland to support the continuation and development of the service over 2022-23. This funding has not been drawn from the long COVID Support Fund.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how much funding has been awarded through the long COVID Support Fund, and to which sources.
Answer
We have made an initial £3 million available from our £10m long COVID Support Fund over this financial year to provide NHS Boards and partners with additional resource to respond to the needs of people with long COVID in their areas.
Territorial NHS Boards’ 2022-23 funding from the long COVID Support Fund has been split into two tranches. The first tranche (70%) was provided to NHS Boards in June. The second tranche (30%) will be made later in the financial year following progress reporting.
This is a well-established practice for the allocation of health board funding to account for any slippage in programme delivery, and is used across a range of policy areas.
The following table outlines the organisations to which funding has been made available for 2022-23, and the associated amounts. The full amount spent for 2022-23 will only be known at the end of the financial year.
Organisation | Total funding amount made available (£) |
NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 187,554 |
NHS Borders | 50,727 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 79,426 |
NHS Fife | 178,051 |
NHS Forth Valley | 142,020 |
NHS Grampian | 254,847 |
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 595,169 |
NHS Highland | 119,641 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 320,007 |
NHS Lothian | 372,215 |
NHS Orkney | 14,716 |
NHS Shetland | 13,676 |
NHS Tayside | 194,620 |
NHS Western Isles | 19,988 |
NHS National Services Scotland | 370,000 |
Thistle Foundation | 87,343 |
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TOTAL | 3,000,000 |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government who produced NHS Scotland’s new National Digital Platform (NDP).
Answer
The development of the National Digital Platform (NDP) is a core commitment from the joint SG/COSLA Digital Health and Care Strategy (2018). This strategy was refreshed in 2021. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) was commissioned as the lead delivery partner.
Information on this important work is available via the website: .
Up to 31 March 2022, a total of £6.838m was spent on the design, development and support for the NDP. NES accounts for spend during 2022-23 financial year have yet to be finalised and so associated costs for the NDP in this financial year cannot be provided as part of the answer.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much NHS Scotland’s new National Digital Platform (NDP) cost to build.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-12895 on 16 December 2022. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at /chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what value of assets it expects to transfer from local authorities to the National Care Service, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The Scottish Government wants Local Government to continue in its role as a direct provider of social care services. This includes continuing to hold and invest in assets and employ staff directly. Ultimately decision on the role will be taken at a local level by individual authorities. It is therefore not possible to provide the detail requested on assets.
More generally an ability to transfer assets is necessary to support the transfer of accountability. It is vital that Ministers will have the ability to step in, or appoint, an operator of last resort as required. That may at some point require the ability for the transfer of Local Government assets and staff. If necessary, assets would be transferred on the most appropriate valuation method. It would therefore be remiss not to include powers to do so on the face of the Bill.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, for what reasons it determined that the period of a strategic plan by the Scottish Ministers must not exceed three years, and how it arrived at that decision.
Answer
The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill requires Ministers to have a strategic plan if they are delivering, or arranging for the delivery of, national services.
In order to ensure that national services remain aligned with changing population need it is important that Ministers regularly review, with partners, stakeholders and people, the strategic plan.
We will continue to liaise with those who plan and deliver services to ensure that the Bill sets out appropriate national and local strategic planning requirements.