Chamber and committees

Translabial scanning is not offered routinely by the NHS, either in Scotland or in England. This is because clinicians in both jurisdictions advise that there is no clinical evidence to support routine use.

This position is supported by draft NICE guidance entitled “Urinary incontinence (update) and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management,” which recommends that further research into translabial scanning be undertaken because, at present, there is no data to support claims that it is a necessary tool in the diagnosis and management of mesh complications.

The draft NICE guidance is presently open to public consultation and can be viewed here: www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10035/consultation/html-content-2 .

The information requested is not held centrally. The number of places offered will be held by the University of Strathclyde and the University of Dundee who had intakes in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

This data is not collected centrally. Although audiology services are covered by the 18 weeks referral to treatment target the information ISD receive from health boards are aggregated returns and specialty information is not published. Audiology services are not covered by the stage of treatment standards asthis is not a consultant led service. However individual health boards will be able to provide the member with this information.

The numbers of babies reported in the Scottish Birth Record (SBR) as having a diagnosis of ‘foetus and newborn affected by maternal use of drugs of addiction’ or ‘neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drug addiction’ in Scotland during the period 2006-07 to 2016-17 are provided in the following table. The figures presented cover three year aggregates to avoid disclosing small numbers in each individual year. Further suppression of small numbers has been applied as per ISD’s Statistical Disclosure Control policy in order to protect patient confidentiality.

Care should be taken when comparing these data over time as there has been an improvement in drug misuse recording in recent years. It is also worth noting that recording practice of drug misuse diagnoses may vary between hospitals, which may explain some of the variation between NHS Boards.

Table of information has been lodged with SPICe under reference Bib number 60118.

Funding is provided to Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) by Local Authorities and Health Boards. Levels of funding are set out in the annual accounts for IJBs and published on each IJB’s website. Funding is allocated on the basis of the IJB’s strategic plan for delivery of delegated services, and is not allocated solely on the basis of population levels.

Information on the number of self-funders residing in a Care Home in Scotland is not held centrally.

Information on Care Homes in Scotland is collected via the Scottish Care Home Census for adults which takes place annually on 31 March and covers all adult care homes in Scotland registered with the Care Inspectorate. The Scottish Care Home Census collects information on the numbers of residents who are fully or partially funded but this information is only available for long-stay residents. Information on the source of funding for short-stay residents is not collected.

The care home census is incomplete as it is not a mandatory data collection. Approximately 80% of all long stay residents' records were submitted by Care Homes to the census over the time period and information on the source of funding was submitted for approximately 86% of these records in 2017. ISD and the Scottish Government work with the Care Inspectorate on an annual basis in order to improve data quality in this non-mandatory data return.

The number of mainly or wholly self-funding long stay residents in adult care homes for whom information is available is presented in a table available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (BIB. number 60065). Figures are presented as a snapshot on the census date of 31 March each year since 2007, and are presented by the Local Authority in which the Care Homes are located.

Vaccination policy in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, is based on recommendations from the JCVI, an independent expert panel which provides impartial advice on matters relating to vaccination.

In light of the JCVI advice we introduced a shingles vaccination programme in 2013. People are eligible for the shingles vaccine in the year they turn 70 up until the age of 80. We also offer the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for everyone aged over 65 years.

The following table shows the number of gastric lavage procedures carried out in Scotland in each year since 2007 when a person has been admitted to hospital. Due to changes in clinical practice, gastric lavage is not generally carried out within an A&E department but these figures will not include any that may have been. Due to the small number of cases, it is not possible to provide a breakdown by NHS Board.

Number of gastric lavage procedures carried out in inpatient/day case setting, Scotland, 2007 to 2017

A flag to indicate if alcohol was involved in an A&E admission was introduced into the A&E datamart in July 2010.

The ‘alcohol involved’ flag is optional and currently poorly recorded or not recorded at all by some NHS Boards. For this reason, the data requested cannot be reliably provided. ISD are working with NHS Boards to try and improve the quality and completeness of recording this data item.

Alcohol-related hospital discharge statistics are published annually by Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland. The latest report , Alcohol Related Hospital Statistics 2016/17 was published on the 21st November 2017.

This information is not held centrally. Further information may be sought directly from NHS Scotland Health Boards.

Youth employment returns issued to the Scottish Government indicate that NHS Scotland Boards employed 556 new modern apprentices in the period 1 August 2014 – 31st March 2018.

Furthermore, health boards across Scotland routinely meet and exceed annual requirement to provide 1 new youth employment opportunity for every 100 employees, pursuant to Scottish Government’s National Youth Employment Strategy “Developing the Young Workforce”.