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We have invested £19.8 million to increase the number of psychologists working in specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). This investment has seen the psychology workforce increase by 70%.

NHS Education Scotland (NES) provide essential CAMHS training to all staff working in specialist CAMHS. The training covers antenatal, perinatal and post natal periods and up to 18 years old children. The recently revised training for health visitors and school nurses includes attachment, child development and parenting as well as maternal mental health. Furthermore, NES also provide training in paediatric psychology which focuses on infants admitted to neonatal units, the Psychology of Parenting Programme for families of three and four year olds with elevated levels of behavioural problems and the Solihull Approach which focuses on building relationships between parents and their infants/children.

We are currently engaging with a wide range of stakeholders including people who use services, service providers and professional bodies about the next mental health strategy which will be produced in 2016, and informed by that engagement with interested parties. This is an open process and all organisations and individuals who want to contribute can do so.

The Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN) procurement strategy was developed and agreed by the Scottish Government in collaboration with the four SWAN Vanguard Partners: NHS Scotland, Education Scotland, Pathfinder North (a consortium that comprises the Highland Council, Argyle and Bute Council, Orkney Island Council, Moray Council and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar) and Pathfinder South (a consortium that comprises Dumfries and Galloway Council and the Borders Council). The Vanguard Partners were responsible for the procurement, led by NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), on behalf of all public sector bodies within Scotland.

The procurement was intended to deliver a framework agreement with a single contractor for a single solution with associated services accessible to all Scottish public sector bodies. The lifetime value of the framework was estimated to be between £110 million and £325 million, with the eventual value dependent upon the number of organisations calling off services from the framework over a seven year period.

As the strategy called for a single supplier, the contract was awarded on that basis to Capita IT Services (Capita). As part of the contract, Capita now act as the services integrator and as such, use and manage their supply chain and sub-contractors as needed in order to deliver the range of SWAN services defined under the framework. That supply chain may include small to medium-sized enterprises and the contract terms would be agreed as appropriate between Capita and the enterprise concerned.

The structure of the Capita contract is that there is an overarching framework contract, where NSS are the contract signing authority on behalf of the Scottish public sector. There is also a shared services call-off contract (the services all SWAN members use), which is also signed by NSS on behalf of the public sector. There are then individual call-off contracts between Capita and the organisations who decide to become SWAN members.

Two recommendations fell directly for the Scottish Government to consider. The first was on continuation and extension of the existing clinical network for acquired brain injury. The Scottish Acquired Brain Injury Network (SABIN) established in 2007 continues to seek to improve outcomes for all acquired brain injury patients. This national managed clinical network continues to undertake a range of activities to fulfil its aim of improving access to and quality of care for people with acquired brain injury in Scotland and its activities are kept under review with patients, carers and stakeholders.

The second recommendation was on the need for a similar network for people with alcohol related brain damage. The Scottish Government has issued guidance to encourage and strengthen the development of national and regional managed clinical networks as a well-established approach to supporting and delivering high-quality healthcare (NHS CEL 29 (2012). That guidance highlights that NHS boards retain statutory responsibility and accountability for the delivery of services, and that there must be close links between managed clinical networks and the appropriate planning, delivery, improvement and governance functions of boards.

NHS National Services Scotland (National Services Division) commission a number of National Managed Clinical Networks on behalf of NHS Scotland, including SABIN, and information on the commissioning process is available on its website for any of those partners who wish to consider establishing their own network:

http://www.nsd.scot.nhs.uk/%5C%5C/services/nmcn/index.html.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-30434 on 16 March 2016. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

The Scottish Government is committed to significantly reducing the number of people in Scotland who are waiting to move from hospital to more appropriate settings. This includes patients with a learning disability and those who have complex care needs.

We welcome the detail of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland’s report which outlines that the majority of care and treatment plans for people with learning disabilities was good and that families and carers were complimentary about the services their loved ones received.

We accept the recommendations put to the Scottish Government by the commission’s report. As part of the draft Budget for 2016-17 the Scottish Government announced an additional £250 million commitment to support health and social care partnerships. This funding is in addition to the three year £90 million we have already invested in reducing delays. This move will see fewer people going to hospital to receive care and people spending less time in hospital.

Since 2011 a more robust reporting mechanism, the Edison reporting system, has been put in place ensuring that all delayed discharges are now accurately reported. Informed by the EDISON reporting system health and social care partnerships are developing joint discharge agreement protocols that will ensure no one is delayed unnecessarily.

The following organisations have approached The Scottish Government to enquire about the 2016-17 Section 16b funding scheme:

Art in Healthcare

Bowel Cancer UK

Cervical Cancer Trust

Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland

Fertility Care Scotland;

Hearts and Minds;

Meningitis Now;

Music in Hospitals

Scottish Recovery Consortium;

In relation to the 2015-16 Section 16b funding scheme, the following table shows those organisations that received funding, including the amount and its designated purpose:

Section 16b organisations awarded funding in 2015-16, and its purpose

Organisations	Amount Received	Purpose
Breastfeeding Network	£5,000.00	Breastfeeding Awareness
Comas	£5,000.00	Recovery Café Improvement
Crew	£5,000.00	Substance Use Harm Reduction
Crohn's and Colitis UK	£5,000.00	IBD Patient View Development
Hearing Link Scotland	£4,780.00	Engagement Programme with GP Surgeries
Independe-dance	£4,500.00	Disabled Accessible Artistic Materials
LGBT Health	£5,000.00	Transgender Lives Resource
MASScot	£5,000.00	Sunburn Prevention Initiative
Meningitis Research Foundation	£4,750.00	Education Awareness Scheme
National AID'S Trust	£5,025.00	Improve Readiness of Carers Dealing with HIV Patients
Outside the Box	£3,800.00	Health Improvement for Vulnerable Women
Pain Concern	£5,000.00	Online Resources for Children in Pain
Quarriers	£5,000.00	Inpatient Seizure Risk Assessment Tool
Roshni	£4,730.00	Healthy Living Education for Children in Minorities
Sands	£6,000.00	Person-Centred Improving Bereavement Care
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs	£5,000.00	Phase 2 of Scottish Families National Campaign
Scottish Kidney Federation	£5,000.00	Health and Social Care Improvement
Scottish Stammering Network	£5,000.00	People Who Stammer Open Days
SiMBA	£5,000.00	Structured Volunteer Programme
Spinal Injuries Scotland	£5,000.00	Social Activities Programme for Patients
Tea-pot Trust Organisation	£5,000.00	Art Psychotherapy for Children
The Cheyne Gang COPD Choir	£6,000.00	Singing For Breathing Choir Expansion
The Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA)	£4,516.00	Children and Young People with a Cleft Initiative
Thistle Foundation	£5,000.00	Physical Activities and Health Initiatives for People with Learning Disabilities
Tommy's	£5,000.00	Expansion of AFFIRM Trials
Trust Rugby International	£5,000.00	Learning Disability Player Learning and Development Post
Total	£129,101.00

We are currently engaging with a number of stakeholders about the next Mental Health Strategy which will be produced in 2016, and informed by further engagement with interested parties. If a national lead to maintain an overall focus on improvement and outcomes in infant mental health emerges as a critical theme as part of this engagement, we will of course give this due attention.

The Scottish Government is pleased that the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland report identified that there is much good practice taking place in units for people with learning disabilities that the majority of care and treatment plans for people with learning disabilities was good and that families and carers were complimentary about the services their loved ones received.

We accept the recommendations put to the Scottish Government by the commission’s report and will work closely with the NHS, joint integration boards and local authorities to ensure that these units are able to improve to the standards expected of them.

As part of the draft Budget for 2016-17 the Scottish Government announced an additional £250 million commitment to support health and social care partnerships. This funding is in addition to the three year £90 million we have already invested in reducing delays. This move will see fewer people going to hospital to receive care, people spending less time in hospital and that all NHS facilities are fit for purpose.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-30196 on 15 March 2016. 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-30196 on 15 March 2016. 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.