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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 ��˿�� to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-00274

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 6 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how its international development programme can help girls and young women in the developing world access the information and products that they need to effectively manage their periods.

<>The Scottish Government's £9 million per annum International Development Fund currently supports projects in our seven priority countries of Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the three poorest states in India. These projects cover a range of themes, including water, sanitation, health and education and many of the projects have a strong emphasis on women and girls. For example since 2013, the Scottish Government has funded Opportunity International to deliver a project in Bihar, India called 'Empowering communities for water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and clean energy'. This project has helped to build healthier communities, by training local women as community health facilitators in gender-sensitive health, hygiene and nutrition, and enable them to educate their own communities providing them with knowledge and financial tools to access health-related services and products including menstrual products.

Question reference: S5W-00140

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 1 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the number of specialist inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) nurses in the NHS Lothian area.

Information on how many specialist inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) nurses there are, broken down by NHS board and hospital, is not centrally held or published by National Services Scotland (Information Services Division).

The Scottish Government has invested over £2.4 million of recurring funding to improve access to specialist nursing and care, including the appointment of additional specialist nurses. It is for NHS boards to determine in which specialities this general investment is spent, but the Scottish Government expects NHS boards to ensure that patients with specialist conditions have appropriate access to a range of professionals, including specialist nurses, to ensure optimum management of their condition.

Furthermore, using funds provided by the Scottish Government, Crohn’s and Colitis UK has established a Scottish IBD Steering Group, with a remit for designing a programme for improving the quality of clinical care and sharing new approaches for the management of IBD.

The Scottish IBD Steering Group is currently in the process of producing a National Blueprint for the treatment of IBD in Scotland. This blueprint includes best practice advice in relation for the provision of specialist IBD nurses across all NHS boards in Scotland, and will be launched in June 2016.

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