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The information is not held ventrally. The Recommendations for the Management and Treatment of Eating Disorders in Scotland recognises prevalence estimates for the number of people with eating disorders in Scotland are difficult to calculate given the likely numbers who do not seek medical help, but does not offer an estimate of the number of cases that are not reported.

The majority of people with an eating disorder will be treated in the community by specialist eating disorder or community mental health teams. A small number may need specialist psychiatric or acute inpatient care. NHS boards, working in partnership with primary and secondary care services will agree post-discharge support including arrangements about the nature and frequency of post-discharge monitoring. A range of support will be offered depending on individual circumstances and the level of need, including contingency plans made in advance about how to get help in crisis should it be needed.

The number of newly qualified nurses recruited by the NHS each year since 2005, broken down by NHS board, is not held centrally.

However, in terms of current nursing staff levels, we are better equipped to deliver services than ever before. Under this government, the number of qualified nurses and midwives (including interns) working across NHSScotland has increased by 2,357.0 whole time equivalent – up 5.7 per cent to a record high.

In addition, the Scottish Government has provided £450,000 further investment over the next three years to attract 75 former nurses and midwives per year back into practice. Furthermore, in January 2015 the Scottish Government announced a third successive rise in pre-registration student nursing and midwifery intake, with a 3% increase for 2015-16 complementing the 6% increase for 2014-15.

Information on psychiatric inpatient and day case discharges is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04). Data on SMR04 is routinely published by financial year and 2013-14 is the latest year for which information is available.

Table 1: Number of patients¹ discharged from psychiatric hospitals in Scotland^2,3,4 who were treated in the same or different NHS board areas⁵ from the one in which they reside, 2005-06 to 2013-14.

1. Patients are counted in every category they satisfy, so may be included in multiple rows for each year.

2. Psychiatric inpatient and day case activity is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04).

3. Data from the State Hospital (Carstairs) have been excluded.

4. Data from the learning disability specialty have been excluded.

5. Where the data was assigned to a non-NHS provider, patients were allocated to an NHS board based on the location of the facility they were treated in.

6. ‘Non-resident or unknown’ contains all patients for which information on council area is not available on SMR04, which includes patients living outside of Scotland and patients with no fixed abode.

Source: SMR04 (psychiatric inpatient and day case database)

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Information on psychiatric inpatients and day case discharges is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04). Data on SMR04 is routinely published by financial year and 2013-14 is the latest year for which information is available.

Table 1: Number of patients¹ discharged from psychiatric hospitals in Scotland^2,3,4 who were recorded as discharged to⁵ a private residence in which they live alone, 2005-06 to 2013-14.

1. If a patient has multiple discharges in a year, each with different discharge destinations they have been counted once in each applicable row.

2. Psychiatric inpatient and day case activity is recorded in Scottish morbidity record 04 (SMR04).

3. Data from the State Hospital (Carstairs) have been excluded.

4. Data from the learning disability specialty have been excluded.

5. The “Discharge/Transfer to” field records patients discharged to various settings. This field has been used to generate these data.

6. This is identified using the “Discharge/Transfer to” field with the value “Private residence – living alone”

7. This includes the “Discharge/Transfer to” codes of “Private residence – type not known” and “Private residence – no additional detail added”.

8. The “Discharge/Transfer to” field also records patients discharged to various “temporary places of residence”. In some of these places patients may be living alone, however these have not been included in the table above. More details of the SMR04 dataset and the “Discharge/Transfer to” variable can be found in the data dictionary (http://www.ndc.scot.nhs.uk/Dictionary-A-Z/) section of the Information Services Division (ISD) website.

Source: NHS ISD SMR04 (psychiatric inpatient and day case database)

After a homelessness assessment has taken place, local authorities record the additional support needs which the household may have, including support needs for mental health problems.

The following table shows:

1. The number of cases assessed each year as homeless or threatened with homelessness.

2. The number of these cases which, in addition to being assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness, have had a support need identified due to a household member having a mental health problem.

The extent to which mental health problems directly contributed to the episode of homelessness is not known.

Funding for mental health will be drawn from the overall resources available this year for healthcare and local government with NHS boards and councils responsible for local decision making and delivery, funding is not ring-fenced.

Details on child and adolescent psychiatry expenditure by NHS board is available from the Scottish Health Service Costs Report and supporting data tables published by Information Services Division Scotland. Published annually the latest report for financial year ending March 31, 2014, (published 2 December 2014), is available online at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Publications/index.asp [ref data table R04 LSX].To support the delivery of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) the Scottish Government has invested over £16 million over last six years to increase the number of psychologists working in specialist CAMHS by over 70%, with a further £3.5 million committed this year. In addition £85 million funding for mental health was announced on 24 May 2015. This follows the £15 million over three years announced in November 2014 for the Mental Health Innovation Fund providing £100 million in total. This funding will be invested in improving mental health services and will partly be used to further improvements to child and adolescent mental health services and bring down waiting times.

Information on how many hours have been filled by A&E locum staff in each year since 2010 is not held centrally.

However, we currently have the highest medical staffing levels ever. Under this government, the number of consultant medical staff working in NHSScotland has increased by a record 37.5%. A&E has seen an unprecedented increase of 171.7% in consultant staff.

The Scottish Government is also working with doctors and nurses to design the new emergency workload planning tool to be rolled out later in 2015. This will help NHS boards ensure they have appropriate staffing levels in place to meet variable workload demands.

This investment in emergency medical staff was recognised in March 2015 by Dr Martin McKechnie, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scotland, who stated: “The College welcomes the support the Scottish Government has given to increasing staffing and tackling crowding in our A&Es.” (Royal College of Emergency Medicine release, 24 March)

The planning and provision of local healthcare services are matters for individual NHS boards. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde advise that, to improve patient flows during peak activity, there are additional beds available across all maternity hospitals that can be accessed immediately to meet demand. The health board has been clear that having urology patients in the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital has not reduced their ability to open additional beds on the obstetric floors where required.