- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has conducted the second national Digital Maturity exercise with health and care organisations, and what the snapshot is of priority areas.
Answer
The second national Digital Maturity exercise commenced in March 2023 and concludes in June 2023. A national report summary will be published in the Autumn.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether the ability for people to refer themselves to digital mental health therapies for common conditions including depression, anxiety and insomnia exists.
Answer
A range of digital mental health therapies are available to support people to self-refer. These include treatments for: Insomnia, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Stress, Resilience, Space from COVID, Supporting An Anxious Child, Supporting An Anxious Teen.
These treatments are open to anyone through self-referral across all areas of Scotland. In addition to this we have about 12 treatments open to self-referral for Health and Care staff, this including depression, a range of anxiety disorders. Table 1 provides more detail on what is currently available.
Table 1: Digital Therapies - Available treatments
Condition | Treatment Name | Platform | Access Route | Availability |
cCBT General |
Depression Mixed Anxiety | Beating the Blues | Beating the Blues | Referral | National |
Depression | Space from Depression | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Anxiety | Space from Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Depression & Anxiety | Space from Anxiety and Depression | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
cCBT Anxiety Disorders |
Social Anxiety | Space from Social Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Health Anxiety | Space from Health Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Panic DIGITAL | Space from Panic | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
OCD | Space from OCD | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Phobias | Space from Phobias | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Generalise Anxiety Disorder | Daylight | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
cCBT Long Term Conditions |
Chronic Pain – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Chronic Pain from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Lung Conditions – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Lung Conditions from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Diabetes – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Diabetes from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Chronic Heart Disease – Depression and Anxiety | Space in CHD from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Rheumatoid Arthritis – Depression | Space in RA from Depression | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Multiple Sclerosis - Depression and Anxiety | Space from MS | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
cCBT Specialist |
Young People – Anxiety | EBook Digital Mental Health for YP | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Young People – Low Mood | EBook Digital Mental Health for YP | Silver Cloud | Referral | Test of Change – 4 Boards |
Young People – Low Mood & Anxiety | EBook Digital Mental Health for YP | Silver Cloud | Referral | Test of Change – 4 Boards |
Young People – Parent/Carer Support | Supporting An Anxious Child | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Young People – Parent/Carer Support | Supporting An Anxious Teen | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Perinatal – Depression and Anxiety | Space for Perinatal Wellbeing | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Insomnia | Sleepio | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
Psycho Educational – Wellbeing |
Resilience | Space for Resilience | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Stress | Space from Stress | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Sleep Problems | Space for Sleep | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
COVID-19 – Anxiety | Space from COVID-19 | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Therapist Lead ieCBT |
Internet Enabled CBT | IESO | IESO | Referral Psychology | National with limited treatments |
Staff Wellbeing |
Resilience | Space for Resilience | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Depression | Space from Depression | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Anxiety | Space from Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Social Anxiety | Space from Social Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Health Anxiety | Space from Health Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
OCD | Space from Panic | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Panic | Space from OCD | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Phobias | Space from Phobias | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Stress | Space from Stress | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Sleep Problems | Space for Sleep | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Money Worries | Space from money Worries | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
COVID-19 – Anxiety | Space from COVID-19 | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Mindfulness | Space for Mindfulness | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Chronic Pain – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Chronic Pain from D&A | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Chronic Heart Disease – Depression and Anxiety | Space in CHD from D&A | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Alcohol | Space from Alcohol | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Insomnia | Sleepio | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
Generalise Anxiety Disorder | Daylight | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has developed new service design resources to support local skills and understanding of how to embed digital transformation, through completion of the Transforming Local System pathfinder programme and associated evaluation report.
Answer
Yes. The Transforming Local Systems programme concluded in May 2023. Work continues to ensure the key benefits of the programme can now be realised across health and care with Healthcare Improvement Scotland now taking ownership of the service design resources. While it is still being developed, the online resource is available now for organisations to learn from the programme’s experience - Designing person-centred services for housing, social care and health - Designing person-centred services for housing, social care and health v.6 (ihub.scot)
The final evaluation report for Transforming Local Systems is going through final governance sign off though we expect to publish at www.tec.scot before the end of June.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has carried out the identification of requirements (roles, responsibilities, knowledge and skills) for an IG competency framework across health and care.
Answer
The National Information Governance (IG) Competency Framework for health and care is currently under review as part of the Data Strategy for Health & Social Care. NHS Education for Scotland has been commissioned to review and update this framework. This will identify roles, responsibilities, knowledge and skills, as well as learning resources and career pathways in various Information Governance areas, including privacy, information security and data science. The IG Competency Framework is being co-produced through close engagement with the many stakeholders across health and care, academia, supervisory authorities and professional bodies.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has created a Knowledge, Information and Data (KIND) virtual learning academy.
Answer
The KIND learning network channel continues to grow and currently has 830 members. Weekly community meetup sessions are provided. Learning priorities are guided from learner requirement insights and the focus has been building advanced analytic capacity across the sector providing learning resources for a range of analytic platforms.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has further developed its UK and international collaborations, bringing inward investment in support of improvements, and innovations and industry collaborations.
Answer
The Scottish Government, NHS Scotland and our partners have an ongoing commitment to developing UK and international collaborations. This includes active participation in European and International networks as well as hosting of inward study visits to Scotland and outward visits to international partners. Inward visits include from the Netherlands, Denmark, Andalucia, Wales, World Health Organisation (Georgia and Macedonia) and Spain.
The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) play a key role in supporting inward investment opportunities. This has included:
- The AICE Horizon Europe Project for AI-supported Image Analysis in Large Bowel Camera Capsule Endoscopy (AICE) which has seen 1m euros made available to Scottish partners as part of a 6m euro programme
- The Northwest Europe CHANCE project, funded by Interreg Europe, focussed on development of promising eHealth applications and nanotechnology for heart failure patients at home.
- The £5m Moray Growth Deal supported by UK Government funding
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, what it has done to develop its approach to the introduction of legally mandated standards for the safe and effective sharing of information across health and social care, under the powers proposed by the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
Work on the National Care Service Bill continues as it progresses through the parliamentary process. The Bill allows Ministers to set out, in secondary legislation, the details of a scheme to support information sharing so services can be provided effectively and efficiently by, and on behalf of, NCS and NHS. Second, the Bill will also allow Ministers to set out information standards so there is a consistent approach to how information is defined, stored and reported.
However, prior to conclusion of the bill, and in support of the introduction of data standards, COSLA and the Scottish Government are currently in the process of convening a Data Standards Board for health and social care. This will allow us to create clear governance regarding the preferred data standards for use across the sector.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, what it has done to commence a programme of work to improve how clinical information in its systems is recorded against common, internationally defined standards.
Answer
COSLA and The Scottish Government published our Data Strategy for Health and Social Care which has committed to setting out the preferred information standards for use across Scotland’s health and social care sector. Scottish Government will seek to align with international and UK defined standards to facilitate interoperability and bring consistency to the ways in which clinical information is recorded. Work is progressing to implement SNOMED CT in health settings (with a new Ontology server now operational), alongside the recent implementation of ICD 11 codes in mental health. Furthermore, work is now underway to stand up a Data Standards board for Scotland’s health and care data in summer 2023.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it is providing a Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care MSc for 60 people a year.
Answer
Applications closed on the 15 January with 72 applications in total received. Following a rigorous panel selection 48 applicants were successful in obtaining a place on the programme. The MSc programme launched in March and is constructed to provide the 48 participants with the opportunity to achieve Certificate, Diploma, or Masters level accreditation as they progress. Programme participants represent 31 organisations across the health and care sector. The first module, 'Fundamentals of Leading Digital Transformation' commenced in April.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has increased self-management opportunities for people with high blood pressure by further modernising and expanding its Connect Me service to all primary care settings for management of hypertension.
Answer
We are further modernising and expanding our Connect Me service to all primary care settings for management of hypertension. Over 70,000 people have now been supported through Connect Me to manage their blood pressure from home in Scotland with improved outcomes. It is estimated to have prevented more than 170,000 unnecessary appointments. We expect Connect Me for hypertension management to be operational in every Health Board in Scotland by the Autumn.