- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 23 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will abolish non-residential social care charges.
Answer
In the Programme for Government announced on 7 September 2021 the Scottish Government committed to developing options to remove charging for non-residential social care. We are working to deliver these as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 23 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what criteria are used when determining the use of well-known public figures in public information campaigns, and whether there is any application process.
Answer
Every public information campaign has a unique set of objectives and associated target audience.
The Scottish Government carries out research to ascertain the most effective strategy and messaging for all public information campaigns.
In some cases, a well-known public figure can deliver a message in a more compelling way thus increasing the potential impact of the campaign. Where that is the case, the Scottish Government consider various options recommended by their rostered agencies based on the personality and profile of the celebrity required and appointments are made based on suitability, availability and level of budget (if any) required.
A new protocol is being created and put in place by the Scottish Government to improve the approach to vetting public figures used in campaigns. This protocol will improve the sharing of knowledge between public sector bodies and the Scottish Government central communications function regarding the use of public figures.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Ben Macpherson on 22 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many community centres there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
Answer
Local authorities are independent corporate bodies with their own powers and responsibilities, separate from the Scottish Government. As such, the information requested is not held by the Scottish Government and would have to be obtained directly from individual local authorities or from COSLA.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what training has been provided to staff in its Clinical Priorities Unit in relation to engaging with people on issues such as disabilities, equality measures, fairness and human rights, including with people with long-term conditions, and when any such training was provided.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all our staff have the necessary training/skills to fulfil our commitments to equalities and diversity and dealing with specific groups of stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion capability building, including learning and development, for Scottish Government staff is set out in our Mainstreaming Equality Outcomes Report 2021. In July 2021, we launched new mandatory diversity and inclusion training. This aims to ensure everyone working within the Scottish Government develops and maintains a foundational level of knowledge about inclusion and supports individual self-reflection and personal development.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is regarding policies that are in place to ensure single-sex ward provision in hospitals.
Answer
The Scottish Government expects everyone to be treated with consideration, dignity and respect when accessing and using NHS services. NHS staff will make every effort to ensure that the privacy and dignity of all patients are maintained in Scottish hospitals.
All patients should routinely be cared for in wards or bays which are for single sex occupancy. The Scottish Government provided guidelines and recommendations on the elimination of mixed sex accommodation in 1999 and 2000. Further guidance and direction regarding the provision of clinically appropriate single room accommodation in all planned new buildings and major refurbishments was provided in 2008 and 2010.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether chronic pain patient representatives and other stakeholders will be given advance sight of papers relating to the content of a proposed draft Framework for Chronic Pain Service Delivery.
Answer
A public consultation on the draft Framework for Chronic Pain Service Delivery is expected to begin this Autumn. We are grateful for the input provided to date by people with lived experience, clinical, third-sector and other stakeholders in helping us to shape this draft and welcome further feedback as part of the public consultation in order to help us improve services and support for people with chronic pain in Scotland.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients returned with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) within 90 days of discharge following (a) orthopaedic and (b) any type of surgery in (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2020.
Answer
The following table presents the information requested.
Table 1 : Number of readmissions with a diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis readmitted within 90 days of discharge following an orthopaedic or any type of surgery.
Year | Number of readmissions after orthopaedic surgery | Number of readmissions after any surgery, including orthopaedic |
2010 | 93 | 265 |
2015 | 87 | 243 |
2020 | 53 | 164 |
1. Year based on the date of admission when the surgery was carried out.
2. Surgeries have been defined as clinical procedures occurring in a surgical specialty excluding diagnosis imaging, testing and rehabilitation procedures. This may misclassify a few procedures, and there might be a slight overestimation of the number of procedures, as this leads to the inclusion of some procedures that may not be perceived to be ‘surgery’ – such as those not requiring anaesthetic or any incision.
3. A readmission has been counted when a patient has undergone a surgical procedure and within 90 days of discharge they have been re-admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). A patient may have multiple ‘readmissions’ for any reason during the 90 day period following surgery but only the first readmission of the year for a patient has been counted. It is not possible to determine if the DVT was caused by the surgical procedure.
Source: Public Health Scotland
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) there have been since the start of the pandemic where the patient had previously tested positive for COVID-19, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information requested is not currently available.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what funding it will provide to NHS Lothian to maintain the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion while a new eye hospital is being built in Edinburgh.
Answer
As announced in our Programme for Government, we are investing £10 billion in health infrastructure over the next decade, to renew and replace health facilities across Scotland. The Scottish Government provide NHS Boards with over £140 million of capital funding each to invest in maintaining their existing estate and replacing and upgrading equipment. Over the next five years, as detailed in the Infrastructure Investment Plan published in February 2021, we will double our annual funding for maintenance, so that in total £1 billion will be invested in enhancing or refurbishing existing facilities, and updating and modernising key equipment.
The Scottish Government have asked NHS Lothian to submit a Full Business Case for the new Eye Pavilion following our approval of their Outline Business Case. It is for NHS Lothian to manage their local budget and determine where their maintenance budget is directed, but we would expect them to maintain a safe and compliant facility, until the new eye hospital opens.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people died from a pulmonary embolism due to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) within 90 days of discharge following (a) orthopaedic and (b) any type of surgery in (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2020.
Answer
The following table presents the information requested.
Table 1 : Number of people that died within 90 days of discharge following an orthopaedic or any type of surgery, with pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis among the causes of death.
Year | Number of deaths after orthopaedic surgery | Number of deaths after any surgery, including orthopaedic |
2010 | 16 | 35 |
2015 | 9 | 25 |
2020 | 7 | 16 |
1. Year based on the date of the hospital admission when the surgery was carried out.
2. Surgeries have been defined as clinical procedures occurring in a surgical specialty excluding diagnosis imaging, testing and rehabilitation procedures. This may misclassify a few procedures, and there might be a slight overestimation of the number of procedures, as this leads to the inclusion of some procedures that may not be perceived to be ‘surgery’ – such as those not requiring anaesthetic or any incision.
3. A death has been counted if both pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) were recorded on the death certificate, either as the underlying cause of death or in the contributory causes of death, and the patient had a hospital admission with a surgical procedure recorded in the prior 90 days to their date of death. The patient may have had an unrelated underlying cause of death but have DVT and PE recorded in the contributory causes of death. We are not able to determine if the deep-vein thrombosis was the cause of the pulmonary embolism.
Source: Public Health Scotland
