- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 28 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has made of the results of the Monitor Farms programme.
Answer
The Scottish Government commissioned an independent review of the Scottish Monitor Farm programme in 2008. ADAS, who carried out the review, reported that, overall, the programme was effective in bringing about physical and financial improvements on the farms involved and on farms not actively engaged in the programme. They concluded that, at a conservative estimate, for every £1 of public funding invested in the programme, the farming economy benefited by £6.50. The full report, An Investigation into the Role and Effectiveness of Scottish Monitor Farms, can be found on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/10/29093936/0.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current waiting time is for (a) drug and (b) alcohol treatment, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Waiting times information for drug treatment, broken down by NHS board is available on the ISD website and can be found at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5962.html.
Waiting times information for alcohol treatment, broken down by NHS board is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it provided to the Long Term Conditions Alliance in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10 and how much is allocated for 2010-11.
Answer
The information requested on the funding provided to the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland is given in the following table:
| Financial Year | Amount |
| 2006-07 | £160.00 |
| 2007-08 | £80,135.00 |
| 2008-09 | £568,949.41 |
| 2009-10 | £747,609.89 |
| 2010-11 | £563,000.00 |
The following is the original answer (published on 26 July 2010); see below.
The information requested on the funding provided to the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland is given in the following table:
| Financial Year | Amount |
| 2006-07 | £160.00 |
| 2007-08 | £80,135.00 |
| 2008-09 | £568,949.41 |
| 2009-10 | £747,609.89 |
| 2010-11 | £976,054.00 |
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what clinical standards have been developed by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland for secondary care chronic pain services and when they will be implemented.
Answer
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is considering this recommendation from the GRIPS report as part of its work in developing an improvement programme that will help NHS boards take forward their chronic pain services.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all patients with a dual diagnosis of a mental health condition and drug or alcohol addiction will be offered treatment for both conditions in order to aid recovery.
Answer
Yes. It is the responsibility of NHS boards to work with other agencies to provide an integrated and recovery-focussed package of care and treatment to all patients with a dual diagnosis of a mental health condition and a drug or alcohol addiction, following a multi-disciplinary needs assessment.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to treat the estimated (a) 75% of drug users and (b) 50% of people with an alcohol problem who may also have a mental health problem as outlined in the Audit Scotland report, Overview of Mental Health Services.
Answer
It is primarily the responsibility of NHS boards to work with other key agencies to provide appropriate services for these groups in a holistic and integrated way.
In 2007 the Scottish Government published the Closing The Gaps guidance to boards, with a series of recommendations including that local substance misuse and mental health services should have in place an agreed assessment tool to identify co-morbidity and enable the package of care to be matched to the range of needs.
Both Changing Scotland''s Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action and Scotland''s national drugs strategy The Road to Recovery recognises the need for better integration of services, to ensure that barriers to an individual''s recovery - such as a mental health problem “ are addressed in conjunction with treatment for drug and alcohol problems. This is a fundamental element of progress in the national health target HEAT A11 which includes an expectation that by 2013 90% of clients will wait no longer than three weeks from referral to treatment to appropriate drugs treatment to support their recovery. A referral to treatment time appropriate to alcohol treatment will be defined and incorporated into a refined target covering both drugs and alcohol by April 2011.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out Priority Action 5 of the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland report, Getting to GRIPS with Chronic Pain in Scotland, to review Scottish Government-funded pain management programmes provided outwith Scotland and consider investment in the development and provision of Scottish regional and local pain management programmes, including a residential facility for patients unable to attend as outpatients and, if so, what the outcome was.
Answer
The role of residential pain management facilities is being considered by the chronic pain steering group as part of the service model our lead clinician for chronic pain has been developing in conjunction with those responsible for the musculo-skeletal programme. The overall aim is to make sure each person with chronic pain gets the treatment they need in the most appropriate place.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money it has allocated to the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland in relation to the management of chronic pain in the last two years.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not allocated any specific funding to the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS) in relation to the management of chronic pain.
LTCAS is, however, responsible for the administration of the self management fund, for which the Scottish Government has made £4 million available during the period 2009‘10 to 2010-11. A number of successful applications to the fund are expected to bring real benefits to people living with chronic pain in Scotland. Details of all successful applications can be found on the LTCAS website.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to address mental health services with long waiting times, as recommended in the Audit Scotland report, Overview of Mental Health Services.
Answer
Those adults accessing mental health services for the first time or within unplanned or crisis care usually do so quickly, and we are already addressing those areas affected by the longest waits in planned access to care.
We have established the first ever mental health waiting time target for access to specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) which means by March 2013 no one will wait longer than 26 weeks. We are also investing £6.5 million over three years to increase the number of psychologists working in specialist CAMHS. A further £2 million per year is available to NHS boards on a recurring basis to accelerate the development of specialist CAMHS.
We are also investing and working with NHS boards and NHS Education for Scotland to expand and improve access to evidence based psychological therapies. This includes a commitment to develop an access target for psychological therapies for inclusion in HEAT in 2011-12.
The Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill will also include mental health services in its aims to establish a 12 week treatment time guarantee for patients receiving elective or planned treatment on an inpatient or day case basis. Where mental health services are delivered on this basis then the treatment time guarantee will apply.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority spent on mental health services in each of the last five years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-24327 on 11 June 2009 which set out net revenue expenditure on social work services for adults with mental health needs for the period 1998-99 to 2007-08. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
Information for 2008-09 is set out in the following table:
| | 2008-09 £000 |
| Scotland | 88,986 |
| Aberdeen City | 5,010 |
| Aberdeenshire | 3,895 |
| Angus | 1,130 |
| Argyll and Bute | 1,386 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1,204 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2,321 |
| Dundee City | 1,336 |
| East Ayrshire | 1,786 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1,839 |
| East Lothian | 1,321 |
| East Renfrewshire | 1,217 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 8,514 |
| Eilean Siar | 592 |
| Falkirk | 2,915 |
| Fife | 7,106 |
| Glasgow City | 8,944 |
| Highland | 2,665 |
| Inverclyde | 1,333 |
| Midlothian | 822 |
| Moray | 1,575 |
| North Ayrshire | 1,582 |
| North Lanarkshire | 6,343 |
| Orkney Islands | 539 |
| Perth and Kinross | 2,124 |
| Renfrewshire | 3,372 |
| Scottish Borders | 2,275 |
| Shetland Islands | 980 |
| South Ayrshire | 2,620 |
| South Lanarkshire | 4,263 |
| Stirling | 1,569 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 4,152 |
| West Lothian | 2,256 |
Source LFR 3 Returns.
Note: For comparisons which span 2007-08 and 2008-09, the rolling up of the former Supporting People ring-fenced grant created a discontinuity (increase in net expenditure) as the expenditure supported by the rolled up grant was included from 2008-09.
