- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
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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.
Answer
Information on the number of children of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland and who have gone on to develop cancer is not known. In the period when this hormone was prescribed to women no central information system for drugs prescribed to individuals existed.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
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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.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-02400 on 31 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: Monday, 23 August 2021
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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.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-02400 on 31 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: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
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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.
Answer
This information is not currently collected centrally. However, local health and social care partnerships, and their store services, will collect data on the number of loans, and returns, of mobility equipment, including short-term wheelchair loans. As part of our evaluation we will work with local areas to put processes in place to collate this data at a national level .
- 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 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.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-20139 on
26 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, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
