- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made in each NHS board area to roll-out single hormone closed loop systems to people with type 1 diabetes who fit the criteria outlined by NHS Scotland.
Answer
Our Diabetes Improvement Plan contains a commitment to increase access to diabetes technologies such as closed loop systems for everyone who would benefit from these life changing therapies. The closed loop system is a new technology and the additional £14.6 million of funding that we have made available to NHS Boards in 2022 will help with its introduction, as well as increase access to existing technologies such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors.
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether additional funding will be allocated to the Deposit Return Scheme, in light of the reported estimation by Circularity Scotland Limited that there are 37,000 return points, rather than the 17,000 outlined in business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) and, if so, how much more will be allocated.
Answer
In line with the principle of producer responsibility, the operational costs to industry of discharging its obligations under the Regulations are not funded by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05517 by Lorna Slater on 24 January 2022, whether the 27% figure was calculated without accounting for landfill releasing less biogenic CO2 than incineration, and what its position is on this matter.
Answer
The treatment of biogenic carbon is detailed in Section 2.1 of the technical note to the report, which was carried out in line with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methodology. Both the report and technical note are available on the Zero Waste Scotland website: The climate change impact of burning municipal waste in Scotland | Zero Waste Scotland .
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been taken into account in the Scottish Ambulance Service's demand and capacity review.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service continues to provide data each year to Operational Research in Health (ORH) to continually update the model. This enables resourcing requirements to be modelled each year to take account of changes in the data and wider health and social care system, therefore the most recent modelling includes the impact of COVID 19.
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-02394 by Maree Todd on 15 September 2021, what action it is taking to address reported disparities in access to flash glucose monitors and insulin pumps in economically deprived and minority ethnic groups.
Answer
We are committed to improving outcomes for people living with diabetes across Scotland. Our Diabetes Improvement Plan contains specific commitments to support increased access to diabetes technologies, with significant focus on equity of access to care and services.
Our national policy is to further increase access to diabetes technologies for everyone who would benefit from these life changing therapies, and we expect NHS Boards to provide insulin pumps and flash glucose monitors to all clinically suitable children and adults.
We are aware that children and adults from the most deprived areas are less likely to use diabetes technologies and we are committed to understanding the reasons for this. We are working in partnership with Diabetes Scotland and the Alliance to ensure that the needs of people living with diabetes are fully understood. In December 2021 we launched a lived experience network through the Alliance, to ensure that the experiences of those living with diabetes are taken into account when shaping policy. We are working to ensure that to the membership of this panel is as diverse as possible.
We will take targeted action to ensure equity of access across Scotland and share progress of this using data from SCI-diabetes.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown for the most recent year for which data is available of direct CO2 emissions recorded through calibrated flow rates and calibrated CO2 continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) from each municipal waste incinerator in Scotland; what proportion of the CO2 was (a) fossil-based and (b) biogenic, and how this split was derived.
Answer
There is no requirement for the direct measurements of CO2 via calibrated flow meters and calibrated CO2 CEMS in SEPA permits for municipal waste incinerators (MWI) in Scotland. The requested information is therefore not available either in total, or as a breakdown by proportion derived from fossil fuel and proportion derived from biogenic sources.
Permit holders are however required to report their annual CO2 emissions via the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) and SEPA can therefore provide this data for the last reported year although this may include CO2 from additional sources to those from the incineration process eg. standby generators. This data can be found in SEPA’s SPRI data tool informatics.sepa.org.uk/SPRI/ . This is usually estimated using emission factors. There is no requirement in SPRI for MWIs to further breakdown their reported CO2 emission data into the proportions derived from fossil fuel or biogenic sources so this data is not available.
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to increase access to psychological therapies and other mental health support for people with kidney disease.
Answer
Mental Health remains an absolute priority for the Scottish Government, and we are committed to ensuring that everyone who needs support can get access to services that are appropriate to their needs. Through this approach we recognise that long term conditions can impact a person's mental wellbeing. We encourage anyone struggling with their mental health and wellbeing to approach their clinical support team in the first instance, who can advise on appropriate support avenues. Information can also be found on the NHS Inform website.
The Scottish Government is currently developing a new site to support the mental wellbeing of the general public in Scotland. The website will offer tips and advice from mental health experts and related professionals and people with lived experience of mental health issues. The website will include a range of resources that are accessible to people disproportionately affected by mental health problems. The Scottish Government plan to launch these resources by Spring 2022.
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has commissioned work to establish the (a) set-up and (b) running costs of a National Care Service, and what (i) other assessment it has made of these costs and (ii) it estimates these costs will be.
Answer
The Scottish Government has committed to increasing public investment in social care by 25 per cent during the current parliamentary session. This is expected to equate to £840 million additional annual investment by the end of this parliament and will support plans for the delivery of commitments relating to social care, including the creation of a National Care Service.
These plans are currently being developed and will be considered by Ministers and by Parliament in due course, taking account responses to the National Care Service Consultation, input from stakeholders and the forthcoming Resource Spending Review to ensure that services are sustainable and best meet the needs of those who access care, and those who deliver care.
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) training in schools.
Answer
Scottish Government is a key partner in the Save a Life for Scotland (SALFS) partnership. Since 2015, the SALFS has equipped more than 640,000 people in Scotland with CPR skills. Over the same time period the rate of people surviving an Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Scotland has increased from one in 20 to one in 10.
In March 2021, the partnership published an updated strategy, which can be found at: Out of hospital cardiac arrest: strategy 2021 to 2026 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
Within this, there is a clear commitment to working closely with Local Authorities to ensure that all school aged children have the opportunity to learn CPR. SALFS partners continue to work collaboratively to implement the strategy.
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to promote early diagnosis of kidney disease.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people living with kidney diseases are able to access the best possible support and benefit from healthcare services that are safe, effective and put people at the centre of their care. We expect NHS Boards to adhere to current guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment options from authorative sources such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the UK Kidney Association (UKKA).
In Scotland we are at the forefront of using service and performance data to improve care and diagnosis of kidney disease. This includes the work of the Scottish Renal Registry which reports on patients receiving renal replacement therapy and promoting excellence in renal care in Scotland through best practice audits.
The National Cancer Quality Steering Group (NCQSG) has responsibility for the development and oversight of tumour specific national quality performance indicators (QPIs) to measure the quality of care for patients, this includes a set specifically for renal cancers.
We have also invested in research which is intended to inform new approaches for earlier diagnosis of kidney disease through the Scottish Chief Scientist Office: Kidney function and cancer risk: An analysis using creatinine and cystatin C in a cohort study (nih.gov) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413238/ .
