Chamber and committees

The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).

Notes:

1. Includes district nursing staff on Agenda for Change band 6 and above only.

For completeness, Table 2 shows the reported number of District Nurses employed by NHS Board from 2007 to 2014. This data is not comparable with data from 2015 onwards.

Table 2. Number (whole time equivalent) of district nurses in post as at 30 September each year from 2007 to 2014

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).

Notes:

1. Includes district nursing staff on Agenda for Change band 6 and above only.

Scottish Health Service Costs is published annually by ISD Scotland with the support of the Scottish Government. Published costs information for NHSScotland, including for general psychiatric services, can be found at: https://isdscotland.scot.nhs.uk/Health-Topics/Finance/Costs/.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally. Information on emergency ambulance response times, broken down by Board area can be found in the Scottish Ambulance Service annual reports, via the following link:

http://www.scottishambulance.com/TheService/annualreport.aspx

For emergency response times broken down by regional division I would suggest contacting the Scottish Ambulance Service Directly.

The Inpatient Bed Census for mental health, addictions and learning disability identifies 95 NHS Scotland facilities containing wards covered by the census. Anyone with a mental illness can be treated in these wards.

Undertaken in 2014 and 2016 the Inpatient Bed Census has provided detailed data that identifies the status of bed usage across Scotland and provides a basis for planning and development of future mental health services. The census shows a continuing reduction in the number of psychiatric inpatients, with more people being treated in a community setting or while living at home. This reflects the longer term shift in the provision of care from hospital based to community based and that bed occupancy was 85% - achieving the best practice figure set by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for provision in meeting need across Scotland.

NHS Board accounts do not separately identify spending on social care, which prior to April 2016 was a function of Local Government. Since April 2016, NHS and Local Government have been jointly responsible for the delivery of health and care through Health and Social Care Partnerships.

Total NHS investment in integration amounts to £380 million in 2016-17 and, as set out in the Draft Budget for 2017-18, will increase to £487 million next year.

In 2016-17, NHS Territorial Boards contributed £250 million to Health and Social Care Partnerships to support the delivery of improved outcomes in social care and deliver the Living Wage for social care workers. This is set out in the following table for each Territorial Board.

This information is not held centrally. Specific local information may be available from NHSScotland Health Boards.

Data on the number of people receiving treatment across Scotland and at individual NHS Health board level is available is published online on a quarterly basis by ISD and is available at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Publications/ The age range of 0 – 26 falls within both publications with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Waiting Times in NHSScotland covering people up to the age of 18, with some areas providing service up to 16 only while others offer services up to 18 years. The psychological therapies report covering the total number of people of all ages receiving treatment.

The information requested can be found at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Health-and-Social-Community-Care/Publications/data-tables.asp?id=1814#1814

The nine NHS Boards that have signed the memorandum of understanding, each has at least one prison within its territorial boundary. The other five Boards do not. However, going forward, if a prison is to be built within the boundary of any of these five Boards, it is expected that they would sign and implement the memorandum of understanding.