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Please refer to the answer to question S5W-28879 on 18 May 2020 for a breakdown of admissions to each MBU per NHS Board. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

During the first year of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme, as set out in the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board Delivery Plan 2019/20 , we have focused on a set of initial actions to implements the Perinatal Mental Health Managed Clinical Network’s Delivering Effective Services: Needs Assessment and Service Recommendations for Specialist and Universal Perinatal Mental Health Services recommendations. As part of this work, we have invested in community services in the North of Scotland which will inform the development of a model that can be adapted and rolled out across Scotland in 2020-21 and beyond.

Work to roll out this model across Boards in the current financial year has had to be paused due to Covid-19 pressures.

However, we are now recommencing this work where possible, and the Chair of the Board will shortly meet each health board to agree guidance and protocol for wider roll out of expanded specialist community perinatal teams as well as funding to support these developments.

The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board Delivery Plan for 2020-21 will be published in the coming weeks and will set out further actions to implement the recommendations in the Delivering Effective Services Report, as well as additional actions the Programme Board considers necessary to ensure women, babies and families receive the support they need.

The Programme Board is working with NHS Highland to support its development of Perinatal Mental Health Services. This has included £82,367 in 2019-20 for Community Perinatal Mental Health provision across NHS Highland and Grampian. Forward planning includes further investment in Community Perinatal Mental Health provision along with expansion of Infant Mental Health Services into the Highland area.

I refer the Member to the answer to question S5W-28877 on 18 May 2020. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

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Disabled people and carers have been engaged through one-to-one interviews conducted by an independent research agency on behalf of Zero Waste Scotland to understand their views on Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme.

An independent research agency on behalf of Zero Waste Scotland is currently engaging with national representative organisations and local authority equalities officers to understand best practice regarding communications with key groups which have protected characteristics (in particular disability and age).

The recommendations from this work will inform our approach to communications with these groups regarding Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme and will be shared with any scheme administrator(s) once approved.

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NES Digital Services (NDS) and Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme (IHDP) are currently working on the digital services required to roll out treatment summaries in Scotland. These summaries will cover primary care, secondary care, and people undergoing or having completed treatment. The initial release in NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde was projected for March 2021, but the latter stages of work require significant input from end users- both patients and NHS staff. With the NHS on an emergency footing and current physical distancing measures in place, this will be delayed until we move through the recovery phase. We fully recognise the potential value of these and anticipate work on them resuming with urgency as soon as that becomes possible again.

In the 50 days between 1 March and 19 April 2020, 209 death were registered where the deceased died at home or in a non-institutional setting and heart failure was mentioned on the death certificate either as the underlying cause or as a contributory cause of death. The equivalent figure for the previous 50 days (11 January to 29 February 2020) was 135.

Footnotes

Based on ICD-10 code I50

Figures based on date of registration rather than date of death.

Figures are provisional and may change before final publication in June 2021