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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S6W-07192

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the monitoring and review procedure is for children and young people who are prescribed antidepressants.

Children and young people who are prescribed antidepressants will receive regular medication reviews with their prescribing clinician. The frequency and structure of these reviews will be based on the clinician’s judgment and on consultation with the patient and, where appropriate, with the patient’s family.

Clinicians will refer to the British National Formularyfor Children (BNFC) when prescribing antidepressant medication to children. The BNFC is the standard UK paediatric reference for prescribing and pharmacology.

Clinicians can also refer to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline NG134 which sets out further advice for the prescribing of antidepressant medication to children and young people.

Question reference: S6W-07003

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what publicly available data exists to demonstrate how well patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) are being managed following an initial episode, and whether this data is being used to facilitate the optimal management, including condition prevention, of patients at risk of recurrent VTE.

Question reference: S6W-07015

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what additional resources are being made available to NHS boards to assist them in reducing their orthopaedic surgery waiting lists, and back to pre-pandemic levels, where this applies.

Question reference: S6W-07050

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 17 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06126 by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022, by what date it estimates that all screening centres will have offered women aged 53 to 70 their breast screening appointments within 39 months of their previous screening.

Modelling work completed prior to omicron suggested it would be March 2023 before all screening centres in Scotland would reach the point of being able to offer breast screening rounds of 39 months. There are however a number of factors at play including the ongoing pandemic, the steps we are continuing to take to increase capacity in the screening programme, as well as options that are being considered to accelerate the recommencement of self-referrals for women over-70.

Question reference: S6W-07049

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 17 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06126 by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022, what its position is on whether over-70s breast cancer screening will have restarted by the end of 2022.

As answered PQ S6W-06126, in recognition of the anxiety the pause is causing, I have asked for work to explore options that will accelerate the restart of self-referrals for women aged 71 and over. Any decision will be informed by clinical advice and the on-going pandemic. As part of these considerations our goal is to restart the option to self-refer by the end of September 2022, with a number of factors still to be worked through. The restart will be done in a phased way without unduly impacting appointment times for the eligible screening population for whom there are clear screening benefits. Every effort continues to be made to increase capacity in the screening programme, including through deploying additional mobile units and offering weekend and evening appointments.

Regardless of their age, women should remain symptom aware and report any symptoms to their GP immediately for these to be investigated.

Question reference: S6O-00900

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will remove the provisions on the extension of emergency powers from the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill.

Question reference: S6W-06760

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S6W-01709 by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2021, how many people have been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in each of the last 10 years, and of those, how many people were diagnosed (a) less than and (b) more than five years after a diagnosis of primary breast cancer.

Question reference: S6W-06761

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S6W-01709 by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2021, what proportion of metastatic breast cancer patients are first diagnosed through emergency presentation.

Question reference: S6W-06759

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S6W-01709 by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2021, how many people have been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in (a) the Dumbarton constituency and (b) Scotland, in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-06758

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01709 by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2021, what proportion of metastatic breast cancer patients are first diagnosed through GP referral.