- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 1 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent, and plans to spend over the next four years, on the mitigation of landslips at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 1 September 2021
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 August 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many breast cancer screening appointments have been cancelled in each month since January 2020 to date, and how many patients are currently awaiting an appointment following a cancellation.
Answer
The following table shows office-cancelled breast screening appointments, broken down by month from January 2020 until July 2021. It is important to note, however, that all of these office-cancelled appointments are reappointed as a matter of course and an invitation to screening sent to the participant. Where appointments are rescheduled in this way before a letter of invitation has been sent, the screening participant may be unaware their appointment has been cancelled and reappointed .
The data provided below was provided as management information and has not been subject to quality checks that would be applied in an official publication. Quality assured breast screening programme statistics are published annually by Public Health Scotland.
Office Cancel By Month |
January-20 | 4906 |
February-20 | 5681 |
March-20 | 13008 |
April-20 | 9140 |
May-20 | 860 |
June-20 | 404 |
July-20 | 9 |
August-20 | 3768 |
September-20 | 4567 |
October-20 | 5777 |
November-20 | 3905 |
December-20 | 3825 |
January-21 | 3433 |
February-21 | 4265 |
March-21 | 3845 |
April-21 | 4213 |
May-21 | 5365 |
June-21 | 6021 |
July-21 | 6153 |
The following table shows breast screening appointments cancelled by screening participants, broken down by month from January 2020 until July 2021. All women who cancelled appointments from 1 March to the re-start of the screening programme in August were offered a further screening appointment. These figures do not include cancellations where someone has already rescheduled an appointment.
For those appointments cancelled by a participant after the re-start of screening, the participant can rearrange this at a later date however a new invitation is not issued until their next recall date.
Client Cancel By Month |
January-20 | 2196 |
February-20 | 2101 |
March-20 | 2047 |
April-20 | 175 |
May-20 | 1 |
June-20 | 2 |
July-20 | 4 |
August-20 | 1570 |
September-20 | 2147 |
October-20 | 2455 |
November-20 | 2315 |
December-20 | 2117 |
January-21 | 2503 |
February-21 | 2339 |
March-21 | 2129 |
April-21 | 2117 |
May-21 | 2486 |
June-21 | 2862 |
July-21 | 2880 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 August 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have attended a breast cancer screening programme appointment in each month since January 2019 to date.
Answer
The following table shows the number of people who attended a breast screening appointment from January 2019 to July 2021. 2018-2019 data is provided as a baseline; as the programme operates on a 3 year basis, and as in some years the locations are further away from base sites, these figures are provided as an average. It is important to note that the 2020 and 2021 data provided was collected and used for management purposes for monitoring the recovery of the program and has not been subject to quality checks for official publication. Public Health Scotland publish breast screening programme statistics every year; the last publication was in May 2021 and the next publication is due in 2022.
Month | Jan 18-19 | Feb 18-19 | Mar 18-19 | Apr 18-19 | May 18-19 | June 18-19 | July 18-19 | Aug 18-19 | Sep 18-19 | Oct 18/19 | Nov 18-19 | Dec 18-19 |
Breast Screening Appointments Attended 2018/2019 | 17,093 | 16,997 | 16,947 | 18,128 | 19,675 | 17,542 | 19,715 | 19,426 | 16,028 | 19,770 | 19,765 | 14,030 |
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Month | Jan-20 | Feb-20 | Mar-20 | Apr-20 | May-20 | Jun-20 | Jul-20 | Aug-20 | Sep-20 | Oct-20 | Nov-20 | Dec-20 |
Breast Screening Appointments Attended 2020 | 17,431 | 17,458 | 11,423 | Pause to screening programme | 12,631 | 15,424 | 16,717 | 16,660 | 13,493 |
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Month | Jan-21 | Feb-21 | Mar-21 | Apr-21 | May-21 | Jun-21 | Jul-21 | | | | | |
Breast Screening Appointments Attended 2021 | 14,160 | 15,271 | 19,507 | 18,554 | 19,373 | 21,012 | 19,018 | | | | | |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01536 by Humza Yousaf on 6 August 2021, how many calls to the Scottish Ambulance Service have been responded to (a) within (i) under 10, (ii) 10 to 29, (iii) 30 to 59 and (iv) 60 to 120 and (b) over 120 minutes in each month of 2021-22 to date, broken down by triaged category of call.
Answer
Please find the requested information set out in the following table.
Emergency Incidents Attended, 01-04-2021 - 31-07-2021 | |
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| | | 2021 - 2022 | 2021 - 2022 | 2021 - 2022 | 2021 - 2022 |
| | | April | May | June | July |
Purple | | 1027 | 1203 | 1162 | 1130 |
Purple | 10-29 Minutes | 340 | 477 | 483 | 519 |
Purple | 30-59 Minutes | 8 | 17 | 20 | 11 |
Purple | 60-120 Minutes | | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Purple | >120 Minutes | | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Red | | 4144 | 4566 | 4966 | 5152 |
Red | 10-29 Minutes | 2320 | 2980 | 3406 | 3877 |
Red | 30-59 Minutes | 86 | 185 | 228 | 252 |
Red | 60-120 Minutes | 12 | 23 | 28 | 18 |
Red | >120 Minutes | 2 | 4 | 9 | 6 |
Amber | | 4135 | 4029 | 3837 | 3526 |
Amber | 10-29 Minutes | 9816 | 10763 | 10861 | 10458 |
Amber | 30-59 Minutes | 1974 | 3025 | 3602 | 3965 |
Amber | 60-120 Minutes | 258 | 634 | 1005 | 1153 |
Amber | >120 Minutes | 16 | 129 | 133 | 255 |
Yellow | | 2475 | 2253 | 1736 | 1835 |
Yellow | 10-29 Minutes | 6307 | 5397 | 3990 | 3770 |
Yellow | 30-59 Minutes | 4315 | 3696 | 2999 | 2842 |
Yellow | 60-120 Minutes | 3322 | 3549 | 3023 | 2704 |
Yellow | >120 Minutes | 1801 | 3256 | 3912 | 4599 |
Green | | 66 | 90 | 73 | 53 |
Green | 10-29 Minutes | 25 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
Green | 30-59 Minutes | 13 | 33 | 20 | 13 |
Green | 60-120 Minutes | 16 | 31 | 25 | 14 |
Green | >120 Minutes | 7 | 18 | 17 | 11 |
SAS launched its New Clinical Response Model (NCRM) in November 2016, based on a detailed clinical analysis of around half a million 999 calls. Since then, following triage, 999 calls are coded to one of five categories based on the likelihood of serious outcomes or the requirement for specific interventions:
Purple: where a patient is identified as having a 10% or more chance of cardiac arrest.
Red: where a patient is identified as having a likelihood of cardiac arrest between 1% and 9.9%,or having a need for resuscitation interventions such as airway management above 2%.
Amber: where a patient is likely to need diagnosis and conveyance to definitive care.
Yellow: a patient who has a need for emergency care but has a very low likelihood of requiring life-saving interventions. For example, patients who have tripped or fallen but not sustained any serious injury.
Green: a patient does not fit the above categories and there is potential for an alternative care pathway.
With regard to the three purple incidents identified in the data as being over 120 minutes, reviews were undertaken into each of the incidents. These incidents were triaged as non life-threatening emergency calls and upgraded due to the caller later advising a change in condition of the patient. When this occurs, the response time is counted from the time of original call rather than when the call is upgraded. On clinical review, there was no clinical detriment to patients due to the delay.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on what date NHS stakeholders will meet to discuss a pathway to the delivery of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); who will be at the meeting, and whether the (a) papers and (b) minutes of the meeting will be published.
Answer
NHS Scotland stakeholders will meet in late August 2021. Included within the invitees to this clinically focused meeting are representatives from the specialties of neurology and haematology as well as the commissioners of specialist healthcare NHS National Services Scotland, National Services Division. My officials would be happy to meet with Ms Baillie, once this meeting has taken place.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 August 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-00894 by Humza Yousaf on 29 July 2021, what incidences of hospital acquired infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have ministers been notified of since 1 March 2020, broken down by (a) infection and (b) date of notification.
Answer
The Scottish Government is not able to provide the information requested due to this level of data not being publically available. In particular, individual patients may be identifiable should such hospital level information be published.
Quarterly reports on Clostridioides difficile infection, Escherichia coli bacteraemia and Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia are published, with the data broken down by Health Board, and are available her
Additionally, validated data on Covid-19 hospital acquired infection is published weekly, with information broken down by NHS Health Board to protect patient identity. This information can be accessed here.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many breast cancer radiologists are currently employed by each NHS board.
Answer
This government has seen a 54.2% increase in the consultant radiologist workforce (from 223.5 WTE in September 2006 to 344.6 WTE in March 2021). While information on numbers of radiologists according to specialist cancer fields is not centrally held, the numbers of Clinical Radiology Consultants currently employed in each NHS Board, including Doctors in Training, are as set out in the following table:
NHSScotland Clinical Radiology Consultants, staff in post by NHS Board in Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) including Doctors in Training.
NHS Boards | Consultants as at Mar 2021 | Doctors in Training Mar 2021 |
NHSScotland | 344.6 | 154.8 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 23.3 | 3.8 |
NHS Borders | 6.0 | 1.0 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 5.8 | 1.0 |
NHS Fife | 7.3 | 0 |
NHS Forth Valley | 10.6 | 6.0 |
NHS Grampian | 26.5 | 18.4 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 111.7 | 61.8 |
NHS Highland | 12.7 | 2.0 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 38.3 | 8.6 |
NHS Lothian | 73.3 | 38.2 |
NHS Orkney | - | - |
NHS Shetland | - | - |
NHS Tayside | 27.3 | 15.0 |
NHS Western Isles | - | - |
National Bodies and Special Health Boards | 2.0 | - |
Source: ISD published national data from Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what modelling or scientific advice it has regarding the estimated number of COVID-19-related (a) cases, (b) hospital admissions, (c) ICU admissions and (d) deaths there might be following the planned easing of restrictions on (i) 19 July and (ii) 9 August 2021.
Answer
Since May 2020 the Scottish Government has published 3-4 week projections of infections, hospital and ICU occupancy in its weekly publication Modelling the Epidemicin Scotland Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . It is published each Thursday at 5.30pm. These projections take account of the uncertainty in transmission rates, and indicate the variability as to whether infections will increase, remain level or reduce in coming weeks.
The number of new cases has been increasing over the last week. The estimate of R has increased and now spans one. Hospitalisations have been declining from a peak in mid-July, but have now levelled off. Potential future changes in hospital occupancy and intensive care use depend on both current infection levels and the impact of the relaxations of measures which will take a few weeks to become apparent.
In the publication we have not been projecting the numbers of people expected to die with Covid 19 in recent weeks. The number of daily deaths has fallen to very low levels, too low to produce accurate projections.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it collects data on secondary breast cancer, and, if so, whether it will publish this.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-01706 on
24 August 2021. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist secondary breast cancer nurses are currently employed by each NHS board.
Answer
NHS Scotland’s staffing levels are at a record high and the nursing and midwifery staff group is the largest, accounting for just under 64,000 Whole Time Equivalent (42%) of the workforce, an increase of 5% from the previous year. Information on the number of Clinical Nurse Specialists by specialist cancer fields is not held centrally.
