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Initial findings have just been announced and compare very closely with the key industry skills priorities. In order to address these challenges OPITO (The Oil and Gas Academy) are working with Scottish Funding Council, Skills Development Scotland, colleges and universities on solutions and support.

A good example of an important contribution colleges make to the direct delivery of the skills required by the oil and gas sector and to encouraging interest in those skills by young people, is the Schlumberger Schools Engineering Challenge run jointly by Banff and Buchan College and the oilfield services company Schlumberger.

In partnership with Skills Active and Skills Development work we have recently concluded a short study into the workforce and skills required to support our legacy ambitions for increasing participation in physical activity and sport. The strategic priorities of the Legacy Skills Plan are to develop leadership and management skills, support new entrants to the paid and voluntary sector, make more effective use of paid and voluntary workforce and address skills deficiencies and gaps.

This work together with the ongoing revision of Coaching Scotland should provide us with a clearer picture of the current coaching workforce and identify future needs to support specific target groups such as elderly people.

However, there are civil remedies which are open to NHS boards to control the use of their land, including car parks. Accordingly, in a number of NHS boards, where conditions of car park use are breached, an unauthorised parking notice will be issued and any follow up action pursued as a civil matter.

Information on the number of unauthorised parking notices issued or collected is not held centrally.

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Prior to 2007 NHS Workforce Information was published based on the Whitley pay structure. For this reason it is not possible to compare the Whitley staff in post information to Agenda for Change bandings. Whitley nurse information for the years 1999 to 2006 is available at:

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The data in tables 1-3 are the numbers of positive specimens identified by NHS laboratories throughout Scotland, regardless of referral setting (e.g. GP, GUM, sexual health clinic etc).

Table 4 contains data extracted from the National Enhanced Surveillance of Infectious Syphilis in Scotland (NESISS) database.

The data in table 5 is presented by year of report. In many instances, reported cases are known to have been diagnosed some time previously, particularly those cases who are known to have been infected outwith Scotland.

The information in tables 1-4 is not yet available for 2009.

It is important that those at risk of infection come forward for testing and treatment. Current sexual health policy encourages this and has also improved access to sexual health services. This will initially lead to increases in recorded incidents of STIs, particularly chlamydia.

Table 1 - Genital Herpes Simplex Virus, Scotland 1999-2008: Laboratory Diagnoses by NHS Board of Report

Note: Under/non-reporting for Fife from 1999 to 2002 and for Argyll and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, Forth Valley and Lanarkshire in 2001. HPS experienced a problem with the receipt of genital herpes data from Tayside during the last quarter of 2006 and the first quarter of 2007.

Table 2 - Genital Chlamydia Infection, Scotland 1999-2008: Laboratory Diagnoses by NHS Board of Report

Note: under/non-reporting for Fife in 1998-99.

Table 3 - Gonorrhoea, Scotland 1999-2008: Laboratory Reports (Episodes) by NHS Board of Report

Note: one episode of gonorrhoea corresponds to an infected individual from whom more than one isolate could have been recovered.

Table 4 - Reports of Infectious Syphilis, Scotland 1999-2008 by NHS Board and Year of Report

Data extracted from the National Enhanced Surveillance of Infectious Syphilis in Scotland (NESISS) database.

Table 5 - HIV-infected persons, Scotland 1999-2009 by NHS Board and Year of Report (as at 31 March 2010)

Note: Cells featuring four cases or less (marked with *) have been suppressed in order to maintain confidentiality. In some instances, secondary suppression of cells featuring greater than four cases has been necessary in order to prevent calculation of figures.

Source - Tables 1 to 5: Health Protection Scotland - June 2010.

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In other board areas, NHS inpatient care for eating disorders is provided in general or adolescent psychiatry beds in mental health hospitals and general medical beds in acute hospitals. Specialist inpatient treatment is also provided under contract with the independent sector at the Priory Hospital (17 beds) and Edinburgh Huntercombe Hospital (22 beds).

NHS boards in the East of Scotland have recently approved proposals for a 12 bed specialist eating disorder in-patient unit to be based at St John''s Hospital, West Lothian. Once operational, this will be a welcome addition to the spectrum of care already provided.

Specific information requested on specialist staff dedicated to treating anorexia nervosa is not available centrally.

Appropriate management and treatment of eating disorders requires input from a number of disciplines and a range of specialist professionals working together across hospital and community settings will be involved. These may include clinical psychologists; psychiatrists; dieticians; social workers; family therapists; occupational therapists; physiotherapists; art therapists; pharmacists, and general physicians.