The Scottish Government sets national direction of policy on mental health and provides funding to agencies - including NHS boards and local authorities - to support implementation of policy. The management of local actions in implementing national policy, and decisions on local spending priorities - are the responsibility of relevant local agencies.

NHS boards working with their statutory and voluntary partners, have primary responsibility for designing and delivering service to their local populations. It is for NHS boards to decided the age at which a young person is transferred to the care of adult services.

NHS boards and their statutory partners will ensure that contact with health services is maintained when patients move between services, such as adolescent to adult services, or move to another geographical area to attend university or take up employment, and will have arrangements in place to ensure minimisation of disruption to care and to avoid loss of contact. Services will work together to ensure that transition between services is achieved as smoothly as possible and at the optimum time to best meet the clinical needs of patients.

The service age provision for each health board can be found on the CAMHS workforce survey database (http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/CAMHS/).

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-01754 on 11 August 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Healthcare professionals are expected to follow agreed local and national guidelines, and are supported by the agreed pathways in NHS boards for the management of various health conditions, including Pernicious Anaemia.

Doctors are expected and professionally required to keep up to date by their Regulatory Body, The General Medical Council (GMC), through Continuing Professional Development activities. Personal development needs are identified through the process of appraisal and reflect the healthcare service needs of their local population that is served by the doctors.

The education and training of doctors delivering care to patients is supported by the NHS boards where they are employed and contracted, as well as by other organisations such NHS Education for Scotland and the Medical Royal Colleges and peers. The training materials are available to them in various formats such as lectures, articles, e-learning modules and others. This will include any updates in the management of Pernicious Anaemia.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-01754 on 11 August 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

The information requested is not centrally available.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-01754 on 11 August 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-01754 on 11 August 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is seeking a suitable site for HMP Highland, which will replace the existing HMP Inverness.

The construction works for HMP Highland will commence following the acquisition of a site and planning permission for this development and the subsequent completion of a procurement process for the award of a construction contract. A date for the commencement of construction works will be set following completion of these events.

The Report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support – Fairer Care Funding makes a recommendation to the UK Government to increase the upper capital limit beyond which no means-tested help is available for care home residents to £100,000.

We will consider the recommendations as part of the Scottish Government work on funding of social care in Scotland, but on the basis that the solutions we adopt need to be appropriate and relevant to Scotland.

The report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support – Fairer Care Funding makes recommendations to the UK Government on how to develop a fairer system of funding social care in England.

We will consider the recommendations as part of the Scottish Government’s work on funding of social care in Scotland, but on the basis that the solutions we adopt need to be appropriate and relevant to Scotland.