Chamber and committees

The Scottish Government’s Directorate for Health Workforce and Performance is leading on the development of the bed planning tool. The directorate will be working closely with a range of clinical professionals and national groups to develop the bed planning tool and its associated guidance during the initial development phase.

NHS boards are responsible for the planning and delivery of local services and will be able to use the bed planning tool to support the development of their local delivery plans.

These must be consistent with national policies, guidelines and frameworks, including the service redesign guidance “Informing, Engaging and Consulting People in Developing Health and Community Care Services”, guidance around “Reshaping Care for Older People”, “Local Delivery Planning Guidance”, the “Quality Strategy” and the “Route Map to the P2020 Vision for Health and Social Care”.

On 8 May 2013, I announced in Parliament the “development of a bed-management tool.” We have started to engage with key stakeholders, including the Scottish Partnership Forum, the Unscheduled Care Expert Group and the Joint Strategic Commissioning National Steering Group. Further engagement will take place over the next few months.

It is an offence under section 318 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”) to make a false statement on a relevant document.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has not received any charges under this section of the Act since 2003.

COPFS does not hold information on whether the police have charged any person under section 318 of the Act and which have not been reported to COPFS.

NHS Education for Scotland have advised that there was no note taken of the discussion between the Healthcare Science Programme Manager at NHS Education for Scotland and the President of the College of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of Great Britain and Ireland.

I requested a meeting with the Secretary of State for Health on 15 January 2013 to discuss value based pricing and its impact on access to new medicines in Scotland. My request for a meeting was subsequently passed to Earl Howe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality.

Officials attended technical stakeholder meetings as well as update meetings and teleconferences with the Department of Health officials. Update meetings have been held on an almost monthly basis since May 2012.

NHSScotland boards are expected to follow workforce planning guidance as outlined in NHS CEL 32(2011). It is the responsibility of each health board to produce workforce plans on an annual basis and to take into consideration the training and development needs of their staff. Demand is based upon NHS board workforce projections for staffing groups while supply is determined by the current stock of trainees.

We are advised by the Golden Jubilee Hospital that its projection to recruit a trainee clinical perfusionist for academic year September 2014, forms part of its workforce planning arrangements, taking into account future succession planning, and potential plans to establish a national training centre or programme at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital for trainee clinical perfusionists.

NHS boards will use locum perfusionists in cases where they have been unable to recruit permanent staff through recruitment. An action plan for perfusionists has been developed and is currently under discussion between the Scottish government and NHS Scotland employers.

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