- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Royal College of Psychiatry or child and adolescent mental health services staff have made a recommendation on the appropriate number of inpatient beds for child and adolescent patients.
Answer
We have been working closely with NHS boards to determine the number of beds that would best meet the needs and demand of the children and adolescent population in Scotland. We have also been working on encouraging the development of new models of service delivery which either shorten admissions or act as alternatives to admissions.
The 2005 report Building and Sustaining Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, recommended 20 to 40 inpatient beds per 1 million population across each of the five jurisdictions (England, Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic).
The Scottish Executive inpatient working group recommended in its document Psychiatric Inpatient Services for Children and Young People in Scotland: A way Forward, that planning should commence now for a phased increase to 60 psychiatric inpatient places for young people in Scotland with ongoing review of need and demand.
We are operating a regional model of service delivery and presently have 51 beds with plans in place to increase the size of the Dundee unit (which serves the North of Scotland Boards) from six beds to 12 and this will take the total bed numbers for children and young people in Scotland to 57.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to alcohol and drug partnerships regarding meeting the new HEAT targets for drugs and alcohol.
Answer
There are two HEAT targets for alcohol and drugs:
HEAT A11: to ensure that by March 2013, 90% of clients wait no longer than three weeks from referral received to appropriate drug or alcohol treatment that supports their recovery.
HEAT H4: to deliver 149,449 alcohol brief interventions (ABIs) in primary care, accident and emergency and antenatal care by March 2011 with an extension to deliver an additional 61,080 ABIs by March 2012.
With regard to HEAT A11 we have developed guidance on referral pathways (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/law/DrugsStrategy/recovery/HEAT/referral-pathways) in addition to a national resource, A Wait off Our Shoulders (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/06/02115503/0), which aims to share learning of good practice to improve access to treatment and reduce waiting times through service redesign.
Further guidance on Drug and Alcohol Treatment Types (www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/wtpilot/DATWT_TreatmentTypes_rev.pdf) was published in 2010, which provides alcohol and drug partnerships (ADPs) and specialist services with advice on data entry to the new Scottish Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Database.
Guidance for delivery of the HEAT H4 target on alcohol brief interventions for 2011-12, will be issued to health boards and ADPs by the end of February 2011. This will subsequently be published on the NHS Health Scotland website.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what definition of homeless is used in determining the per-patient fee as part of the national enhanced service for care for homeless people.
Answer
As defined in the national enhanced services guidance for GP practices, homelessness is described as a wide range of circumstances where people have no secure home and is defined in legislation for the purpose of determining entitlement to assistance and support from public service providers.
Groups defined as homeless for Healthcare provision include: rough sleepers, hostel/night shelter residents; residents in bed and breakfast premises, squatters; people staying temporararily with friends and family; all those with physical/mental health problems and all vulnerable people who have experienced domestic or racial abuse.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-35505 by Shona Robison on 24 August 2010, whether the Minister for Public Health and Sport will update the Parliament on current statistics from local authorities on the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement Programme.
Answer
A report compiled by the Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland which provides details of local authorities'' engagement with the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement Programme has now been published. Copies of the report will be made available through the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52522).
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 25 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38441 by John Swinney on 21 January 2011, what payments were made to each area data sharing partnership in 2009-10 and how much is budgeted for 2011-12, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
No funding was provided to data sharing partnerships in 2009-10. No funding will be provided in 2011-12.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children under 16 years old were admitted to adult psychiatric wards and how many of these admissions were deemed inappropriate, in each of the last three years.
Answer
The number of children under 16 admitted to an adult psychiatric ward are:
2007-08: 28
2008-09: 34
2009-10: 35
The latest figures from the Mental Welfare Commission show that the number of young people under the age of 16 who were admitted to adult mental health beds is similar to that of the previous year. However the number of young males admitted has increased whilst the number of females has decreased. This may be due to young males requiring urgent admission for other mental health problems with young women more likely being admitted on an arranged basis, often for eating disorders.
With regard to the number who were deemed to be admitted inappropriately this information is not available.
Further information can be obtained at:
http://reports.mwcscot.org.uk/annual_monitoring/overview2009-2010/monitoringourpriorityareas2010/young_people_under_18_2010.aspx.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the European average is, per 1 million of population, of beds for mental health admissions for children up to 16 years old.
Answer
This information is not available. The World Health Organization has a European Health for All Database with various indicators, however beds per 1 million of population for mental health admissions for children up to 16 years old are not one of the indicators.
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/data-and-evidence/databases/european-health-for-all-database-hfa-db2.
Information on child/adolescent beds for Scotland is published on the ISD website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3426.html.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-medical prescribers (a) have completed the appropriate course to allow them to become independent prescribers, (b) are registered to prescribe and (c) are prescribing in the field of drug and alcohol treatments as either supplementary or independent prescribers.
Answer
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) supports non-medical independent prescribing programmes for relevant NHS staff. The courses run to different timescales therefore the data available reflect this.
NHS NES has advised that, as at February 2010, 2,196 nurses and midwives had completed the training programme; as at November 2010, 390 pharmacists had completed the training programme; and, as at February 2011, 30 optometrists had completed the training programme.
Successful completion of the independent prescribing training programme enables the healthcare professional to register as a prescriber with the relevant professional body. Data on all active registrations is not held centrally.
The total number of non-medical prescribers who are prescribing in the field of drug and alcohol treatments as either supplementary or independent prescribers is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-35505 by Shona Robison on 24 August 2010, what the reason is for the delay to the report on progress made under the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement, which was due to be published in 2010.
Answer
The reason for the delay was the extended absence and subsequent resignation of the Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS) National Co-ordinator who is responsible for compiling the report. The appointment of an interim co-ordinator has meant that this work can be completed to enable the report to be published by the end of February.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have issued their governance arrangements to permit non-medical staff qualified to prescribe to do so in the field of drug and alcohol treatment.
Answer
This information is not available centrally.
