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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.

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Question reference: S6W-02400

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government who the members are of the Mobilisation Recovery Group.

The Mobilisation Recovery Group (MRG) was an advisory group established by the previous Cabinet Secretary under Re-mobilise, Recover, Re-design: the Framework for NHS Scotland.

Membership, the dates on which meetings took place, and minutes of those meetings can be found on the MRG website, available at Mobilisation Recovery Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .

Minutes include a list of attendees at each meeting. The number of attendees varied depending on the meeting.

In 2021, the MRG met on 22 January, 15 February, 5 March, 26 March, and 16 April. All meetings scheduled to take place after Friday 16 April have been cancelled. Meetings were scheduled to take place on 5 June, 25 June, 16 July, 6 August, 27 August, 24 September, 15 October, 5 November, and 3 December.

The minute of the meeting held on 16 April will be published on the website shortly.

Question reference: S6W-02401

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government on which dates in 2021 meetings of the Mobilisation Recovery Group have been scheduled and subsequently cancelled.

Question reference: S6W-02404

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have attended each meeting of the Mobilisation Recovery Group.

Question reference: S6W-02301

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will establish a public inquiry into the prescribing of diethylstilbestrol (DES) to women in mother and baby homes in Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s.

Question reference: S6W-02302

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of children of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland who have gone on to develop cancer.

Question reference: S6W-02140

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information is recorded by NHS boards on patients (a) loaning and (b) ineligible for short-term mobility aids.

Question reference: S6W-02139

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been provided with a short-term mobility aid since the roll-out of guidance on the provision of these earlier in 2021, broken down by health and social care partnership.

Question reference: S6O-00076

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
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.

Question reference: S6W-02150

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
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.

Question reference: S6W-02123

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
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.

Please find the requested information set out in the following table.

Emergency Incidents Attended, 01-04-2021 - 31-07-2021

		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.