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Current Status:
Withdrawn
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the £50 million for improving access to mental health services for expectant and new mothers, announced by the First Minister in March 2019, will be allocated to NHS boards.
Answer
The Scottish Government has committed £50 million of investment to perinatal and infant mental health services over the next 4 years.
The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board was established in March 2019 to provide strategic leadership and will oversee allocation of funds. The 2019-2020 Delivery Plan published in August by the Programme Board laid out plans for the first year of the Programme. The plans focus on building the foundations for investment in future years. For this year, £1 million allocation of funding will include: increased staffing at Mother and Baby Units, support for existing third sector services and developing a model for infant mental health services and community perinatal mental health services which can be rolled out more widely in subsequent years.
The Programme Board will publish a Delivery Plan yearly, laying out plans for the subsequent financial year including more details of funding allocations. The next Delivery Plan is due to be published in early 2020 which will outline funding details for the third sector and NHS services for 2020-2021.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether funding will be allocated by local authorities to deliver commitment 18 of the Alcohol Framework 2018.
Answer
Local authority funding is a matter for local authorities. We would expect Children’s Services Strategic Partnerships, which are charged with improving outcomes for children, to consider need at a local level.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when electronic prescribing will be rolled out nationally in hospitals.
Answer
The implementation of HEPMA ( Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration ) has been successfully rolled out in 4 NHS Boards. HEPMA supports the complex change to clinical practice in electronic prescribing and the current plan is for all NHS Boards to implement HEPMA in the next 5 years. The delivery of HEPMA is critical to a number of Scottish Government strategies including Achieving Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care and delivery of the data recommendations within the Montgomery Report.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on introducing a nationwide model for anti-microbial teams, with a dedicated funding pathway and minimum standards for staffing.
Answer
Each NHSScotland Board has an Antimicrobial Management Team (AMT). The AMT’s role is to develop and implement local antimicrobial policies, monitor antimicrobial use and compliance with local and national policy, ensure clinical staff are appropriately trained in terms of antimicrobial stewardship, and feedback data regarding antimicrobial use to clinical staff in order to support local quality improvement. Each AMT includes an antimicrobial pharmacist funded by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 3 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many health and social care professionals have completed training on the diagnosis and management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder since the first session was delivered in 2013, broken down by NHS board, and whether any further training sessions are planned.
Answer
Scottish Government does not hold a formal record of health and social care professionals who have completed training on the diagnosis and management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. This information may be held by individual Health Boards.
Two additional sessions have been delivered since the first session in 2013. While there are no immediate plans to invite the team from Manitoba to deliver their training again, we have provided funding to NHS Ayrshire and Arran FASD Team to deliver training nationally which builds on the learning from the Manitoba FASD Clinic.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 July 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether there are any plans to improve the sharing of relevant patient information between primary and secondary care, beyond that which is covered by the Key Information Summary (KIS).
Answer
The Digital Health and Care strategy sets out the vision for a national digital platform through which relevant real-time data and information from health and care records, and the tools and services they use, is available to those who need it, when they need, wherever they are, in a secure and safe way. This work is being taken forward by the NES Digital Service (NDS). NDS will develop services such as ‘need to know’ services, which includes information summaries to better meet the needs of person-centred practice, with an overall aim to deliver the information professionals and citizens need at the point of care.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that integration joint boards engage adequately with third sector partners at the earliest stages of service commissioning in order to ensure that their views are considered as part of the commissioning process.
Answer
On 4 February 2019 the Ministerial Strategic Group for Health and Community Care, Review of Progress with Integration of Health and Social Care - Final Report was published, which is available via the Scottish Government website https://www.gov.scot . It sets a challenging and ambitious agenda setting out 25 proposals for Integration Authorities, NHS Boards and Local Authorities, working with key partners, including the third and independent sectors to make progress with the implementation of integration over the next 12 months.
A specific proposal was made about relationships and partnership working with the third and independent sectors, which must improve. As part of the delivery of the review proposals, each partnership has undertaken a self-evaluation of where they currently assess themselves to be in relation to the proposals. As part of this, partnerships have begun the work of critically evaluating the effectiveness of their working arrangements and relationships with colleagues in the third and independent sectors, and will be expected to take action to address any issues identified.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to increase research into palliative and end of life care, and what funding it has allocated to this in each of the last three years.
Answer
The Scottish Government was a funding partner in the Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership (PeolcPSP), facilitated by the James Lind Alliance (JLA). The purpose of this partnership was to identify and publish the top 10 research questions or evidence uncertainties in palliative and end of life care. The final report was launched at the Palliative and End of Life Care Research Summit, hosted by Public Health England’s National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, and, NHS England on 15 January 2015 and can be accessed at http://www.lindalliance.org/PalliativeCare.asp
The Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office (CSO) provides funding to support health research in Scotland. The level of CSO funding that can be directly attributed to support research into palliative and end of life care each year from 2017 to 2019 is
2017 £181 K
2018 £148 K
2019 £86 K
The figures (rounded to the nearest thousand) combine: the funding committed to research projects and fellowships in these areas awarded in the given year and commitments to co-funded initiatives with medical research charities.
- Asked by: Mark McDonald, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Independent
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2019
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 21 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Research Forum for Palliative and End of Life Care last met, and when it will next meet.
Answer
The Forum last met in its entirety in May 2018, to recognise the work of the retiring Chair and to discuss the next steps for the Forum. A new Chair has now been appointed and the Forum plans to next meet in Autumn this year.
