Parliamentary questions
Jim Hume
1,310 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many clinics in each NHS board specialise in treating eating disorders.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: The information is not held centrally. All NHS boards work in partnership to provide appropriate care, services and support in a range of settings to those living with an eating disorder on the basis of comprehensive, multi-disciplinary needs assessment. The…
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it is implementing the actions noted in Chapter 3 of its Better Heart Disease and Stroke Care Action Plan.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Better Heart Disease and Stroke Action Plan has been refreshed and separate Heart Disease and Stroke Improvement Plans were published in 2014. These plans are backed by a significant amount of Scottish Government funding and, in line with our 2020 Vision …
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much the Keep Well programme costs.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: In excess of £70 million has been spent on the Keep Well programme since it began in 2006.
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider making the funding for the Keep Well programme recurring and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: In 2011 a process of mainstreaming Keep Well began across NHS boards in Scotland, with the Scottish Government phasing out ring-fenced funding for the programme between 2014-15 to 2016-17. The expectation is that by the end of March 2017 NHS boards will have …
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each NHS board area have used the Keep Well service since 2010, broken down by age.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: This information is not held centrally.
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much money it has allocated to the Keep Well programme in each year since 2010, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: 2010-11* 2011-12* 2012-13 NHS Ayrshire and Arran 180,000 635,715 913,000 NHS Borders 181,000 83,500 110,000 NHS Dumfries and Galloway 63,760 229,694 209,000 NHS Fife 17,892 640,291 638,000 NHS Forth Valley 222,212 356,594 451,000 NHS …
24 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government which NHS boards have been providing a Keep Well service since 2010.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: All NHS boards have been providing a Keep Well service since 2010.
22 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what guidelines NHS boards follow regarding acceptable rates of emergency patient readmissions for (a) surgical and (b) medical specialties.
Answer · Shona Robison: Every quarter, the Scottish Government and NHS boards monitor hospital readmission rates within 7 and 28 days for surgical and medical specialties. If readmission rates in a hospital are statistically high then the Scottish Government engages with the NHS boa…
22 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people were living alone in their post-discharge period from a mental health unit in each year since 2005.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: Information on psychiatric inpatients and day case discharges is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04). Data on SMR04 is routinely published by financial year and 2013-14 is the latest year for which information is available. Table 1: Number of pa…
22 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients treated outwith their NHS board area have died by suicide in the post-discharge period in each year since 2005.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: For the purposes of this question the post discharge period has been defined as within 90 days of discharge from either acute or psychiatric hospitals in Scotland. Table 1: Number of Scottish residents1 who died from suicide2,3,4 within 90 days of their last…
22 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health patients have been accommodated in a hospital (a) in their own NHS board area and (b) outwith their NHS board area in each year since 2005.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: Information on psychiatric inpatient and day case discharges is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04). Data on SMR04 is routinely published by financial year and 2013-14 is the latest year for which information is available. Table 1: Number of pat…
22 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it (a) supports and (b) resources the provision of talking therapies for under-18-year-old (i) schoolchildren and (ii) inpatients in mental health facilities.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: The provision and resourcing of talking therapies within mental health service provision funding is provided from within the overall resources available this year for healthcare and local government with NHS boards and councils responsible for local decision …
22 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many under-18-year-old (a) inpatients in mental health facilities and (b) schoolchildren have received talking therapies in each year since 2010.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: The information is not held centrally.
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many student nurses have (a) begun, (b) completed and (c) discontinued their four-year course in each year since 2005.
Answer · Shona Robison: The Scottish Government manages the supply of registered nurses and midwives into NHSScotland through the commissioning of student numbers on nursing and midwifery programmes at Scottish higher education institutions. This process is informed by workforce pla…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many student nurses have (a) begun, (b) completed and (c) discontinued their 18-month conversion course in each year since 2005.
Answer · Shona Robison: The Scottish Government manages the supply of registered nurses and midwives into NHSScotland through the commissioning of student numbers on nursing and midwifery programmes at Scottish higher education institutions. This process is informed by workforce pla…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many medical students have (a) begun, (b) completed, (c) interrupted and (d) dropped out of their training in each year since 2005.
Answer · Angela Constance: The latest data for medical students at Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data for 2013 to 14. Tables 1 and 2 provide information by year for entrants to and graduates from degree level medicine cours…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many newly qualified nurses the NHS has recruited in each year since 2005, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Shona Robison: The number of newly qualified nurses recruited by the NHS each year since 2005, broken down by NHS board, is not held centrally. However, in terms of current nursing staff levels, we are better equipped to deliver services than ever before. Under this govern…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-26333 by Shona Robison on 13 July 2015, how many student nurses have (a) begun, (b) completed, (c) interrupted and (d) dropped out of their nursing training in each year since 2005.
Answer · Shona Robison: The Scottish Government manages the supply of registered nurses and midwives into NHSScotland through the commissioning of student numbers on nursing and midwifery programmes at Scottish higher education institutions. This process is informed by workforce pla…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that midwives are facing extreme pressure to discharge new mothers from Glasgow’s maternity hospitals as soon as possible because of capacity pressures.
Answer · Shona Robison: In February 2015 the Scottish Government announced plans to review our maternity and neonatal services to make sure that Scotland has the right services in place to continue to deliver and indeed enhance the excellent care provided. As part of this process we…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government which NHS services and treatments are not available in each NHS board area, requiring patients to travel outwith their NHS board area for treatment.
Answer · Shona Robison: The information requested is not collected centrally. There are very good reasons why people are treated outside their board areas as specialist care is provided in the most appropriate environment, regardless of board boundaries. In many cases it is simpler…
21 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that urology patients have been moved from Gartnavel General Hospital to the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, causing increased capacity pressures.
Answer · Shona Robison: The planning and provision of local healthcare services are matters for individual NHS boards. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde advise that, to improve patient flows during peak activity, there are additional beds available across all maternity hospitals that ca…
20 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what is included in primary care spend when calculating the Scottish allocation of the pharmaceutical industry rebate payment under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.
Answer · Shona Robison: Licensed branded medicines are included. Primary care data is used as this is the most consistent data set available across the UK. The health departments explored with industry whether an accurate four country split of Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme …
20 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated value is of the Scottish allocation of the pharmaceutical industry rebate payment under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme for (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.
Answer · Shona Robison: As set out in the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme agreement between the Department of Health and the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry, payment percentages are adjusted annually. The annual payment percentages for 2016 and 2017 are not yet…
14 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many locum A&E consultants have been used to fill shifts in emergency departments in each year since 2010, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Shona Robison: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-26703 on 4 August 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybu…
14 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many hours have been filled by A&E locum staff in each year since 2010, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Shona Robison: Information on how many hours have been filled by A&E locum staff in each year since 2010 is not held centrally. However, we currently have the highest medical staffing levels ever. Under this government, the number of consultant medical staff working in NHS…
14 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on A&E locum staff in each year since 2010, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Shona Robison: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-26703 on 4 August 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybu…
14 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health inpatients there have been in each year since 2010, broken down by (a) age and (b) gender.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: Data on the age and gender of inpatients in psychiatric hospitals and on discharges from psychiatric hospitals is published by Information Services Division. The publication is available at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Mental-Health/Publications/d…
14 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what provisions there are for people with learning disabilities to be treated in the community.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: The Scottish Government is committed to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities, their families and carers through the implementation of The keys to life in Scotland. The focus of the keys to life strategy is to reduce the significant health …
14 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people (a) up to and (b) over 18 years of age have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals with a principal diagnosis of learning disability in each year since 2010, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Jamie Hepburn: Information on psychiatric inpatients and day case discharges is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04). Data on SMR04 is routinely published by financial year and 2013-14 is the latest year for which information is available. Due to the small numb…
10 Jul 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers have sought specialist referral for mental health-related issues in each year since 2010, broken down by local authority.
Answer · Alasdair Allan: The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. Statistics on sickness absence rates for local authority employees are published by the improvement service: http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/benchmarking/tool.html.