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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-17583

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 20 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its efforts to reduce the overuse of antibiotics and tackle antibiotic resistance.

Data relating to antibiotic use are available in the Scottish One Health Antimicrobial use and Antimicrobial Resistance Annual Report 2016, published by Health Protection Scotland in November 2017. The full report can be viewed at: http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/haiic/amr/resourcedetail.aspx?id=3378 .

These data demonstrate an overall reduction in antibiotic use driven by reductions in community prescribing and show that antibiotic resistance in key organisms is generally stable. The next report will be published in November 2018. National programmes of work are in place to address antimicrobial resistance and support antimicrobial stewardship.

Question reference: S5W-17453

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist NHS nurses there have been in each year since 2007, broken down by specialism.

Question reference: S5W-17456

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of how much it is costing GPs to comply with GDPR legislation, and what support it is providing to help them to meet this.

The new 2018 GP Contract, jointly agreed with the BMA and supported by £110m investment in 2018-19, supports GPs to comply with GDPR by recognising that contractors are joint data controllers along with their contracting NHS Board. The contract clarifies GP contractors’ and Health Boards’ responsibilities and will ensure GP contractors are not exposed to liabilities beyond their effective control.

Data provisions in the new contract were informed by the work of an Information Sharing Short Life Working Group, carried out with the assistance of the Information Commissioner’s Office in Scotland and in collaboration with experts in managing patient data, including the Caldicott Guardians, BMA, RCGP, NHS Central Legal Office and NHS National Service Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-17445

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 17 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time for access to child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) treatment has been in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Waiting times data for CAMHS treatment was not collected prior to 2012. The following table shows waiting times from 2012 for NHS Scotland as a whole and also by geographical health board. Waiting times are given in weeks.

Waiting times for patients who have been seen/treated by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for financial years 2012-13 to 2017-18.

NHS Health Board	Average (median) CAMHS waiting time for patients seen/treated
NHS Health Board	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
NHS Scotland	7	7	8	8	10	11
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	17	13	9	6	10	10
NHS Borders	3	4	4	4	4	13
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	6	7	7	7	8	9
NHS Fife	7	6	7	7	7	10
NHS Forth Valley	9	9	14	21	15	16
NHS Grampian	..	15	16	17	19	21
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	7	6	6	6	7	8
NHS Highland	7	6	5	4	4	6
NHS Lanarkshire	5	6	6	7	9	10
NHS Lothian	10	9	15	13	17	13
NHS Orkney	6	4	4	3	4	7
NHS Shetland	5	7	7	17	10	10
NHS Tayside	11	12	20	17	15	18
NHS Western Isles	3	3	4	4	3	3

Question reference: S5W-17443

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 17 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many health and food technology teachers there have been in schools in each year since 2007, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S5W-17457

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 17 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many Scotland-domiciled students have studied (a) medicine, (b) nursing and (c) allied health professional courses in each year since 2007.

The number of Scottish domiciled enrolments at Scottish Higher Education Institutions studying health professional courses are included in the following table.

Scottish domiciled enrolments at Scottish Providers
Subject areas	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
Pre-clinical medicine	1,265	1,250	1,180	1,245	1,175	1,150	1,120	1,205	1,060	1,100
Clinical medicine	2,225	2,270	2,320	2,195	2,265	2,315	2,350	2,165	2,210	2,160
Nursing	16,695	17,555	16,760	15,595	14,775	13,620	13,610	13,260	14,015	14,655
Subjects allied to medicine (excluding Nursing)	7,785	7,995	7,995	8,045	7,750	7,405	7,785	7,965	7,925	8,115

Source: HESA student data, SG analysis.

Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.

Enrolments cover all years of study.

Subjects are based on JACS codes and on full person equivalent.

Allied health professional courses have been classified as 'subjects allied to medicine' courses excluding nursing.

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/jacs/jacs3-principal

Question reference: S5W-17440

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been referred to private weight management programmes in each NHS board area in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-17447

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15132 by Aileen Campbell on 20 March 2018, whether it will provide an update on the discussions that it is having with Information Services Division.

Question reference: S5W-17439

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many people in each NHS board area in each year since 2007 have not been registered with a GP.

Question reference: S5W-17446

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) full- and (b) part-time equivalent basis NHS staff there have been in each year since 2007.

Workforce data for whole time and part time staff employed by NHSScotland is available for each September until 2010, and then quarterly from March 2011 onwards.

Whole and Part-time breakdown (by Whole Time Equivalent or Headcount) can be found in the Gender and contract type tab in the following tables and dashboard:

Data from 30 September 2007 to 30 September 2010 can be found at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/data-tables.asp#857
Data from 30 September 2010 to 31 December 2012 can be found at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/data-tables2017.asp?id=2169#2169
Data from 31 March 2013 to 31 March 2018 can be found at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-06-05/Overall.asp

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data are collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the 'FAQs' section of the Workforce Statistics website at http://www.isdscotland.org/workforce/