Chamber and committees

The Scottish Government does not hold this information. Police Scotland has also advised that it does not maintain records on this detail.

(a) The information is not held centrally for NHS boards. However, under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) (PSR) Act 2010 public bodies are required to publish a statement of any external consultancy expenditure they have incurred that financial year as soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year.

(b) The Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate has incurred the following expenditure on consultancy in each of the last seven years. Consultancy costs cover a wide range of professional services such as management consultancy, IT consultancy, financial consultancy, construction or infrastructure related consultancy, research and evaluation and policy development (including feasibility studies). Management consultancy costs cannot be separately identified from the total consultancy costs.

Consultancy costs for Health and Social Care Directorate 2007-08 to 2013-14

A period of sedation is a common and integrated part of the package of care for people requiring treatment in intensive care units.

Patients are intensively monitored whilst in the intensive care unit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Monitoring continues following discharge from intensive care units using nursing and medical observation and physiological monitoring and is tailored to the persons individual needs at any given time.

The following table shows the number of standard delayed discharge patients in Scotland recorded within a mental health specialty in each quarterly delayed discharge census from January 2012 until October 2014. These are patients who have met the criteria as laid out in section 2.1 of the Delayed Discharges Definitions and Data Recording Manual.

The date of birth is collected to provide a breakdown by age. It is also used to check the accuracy of the Community Health Index number, and vice versa.

This data is not collected nationally as part of the Scottish Intensive Care Audit.

Available data focuses on episodes of critical care, from interventions to outcome; please see our annual report which was published in August 2014 for more details http://www.sicsag.scot.nhs.uk/docs/SICSAG-report-2014-web.pdf?1.

Source: Information Services Division Scotland

The Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates has in place a number of arrangements to assist boards with their, short, medium and longer term financial planning. These arrangements have been discussed and agreed with boards, reflected within their local delivery plan, financial plans and formally approved by the Director General Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHSScotland. Justification for banking and brokerage (including an affordable repayment schedule) are essential in advance of approval.

The projected financial position of each NHS board fully reflects the borrowing and repayment arrangements in place.

The anonymity of patients is not compromised by the recording of patient postcode and Community Health Index number. As part of information governance, Information Services Division Scotland follows strict confidentiality, security and disclosure protocol guidelines.

No money has been allocated specifically for this purpose. These patients are either going through complex discharge planning arrangements, following a lengthy hospital stay, or are waiting to transfer to a more appropriate health and social care setting, as part of a joint commissioning programme.

The postcode is included to identify the local authority of residence of the patient.