Question reference: S5W-33973
- Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 10 December 2020
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Current status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 6 January 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government on what dates it has met the Interim Director of Mental Health at NHS Tayside in the last year, and whether it will publish the minutes.
Answer
Since the Interim Director for Mental Health was appointed to the role, she has attended two virtual meetings I have held with Tayside's Leadership Team. These took place on 11 September and 2 October 2020. The Minister for Public Health was also in attendance during the September meeting with the Interim Director. I will write separately to the member to share a copy of the minutes from these meetings.
In addition, there have been monthly meetings between Scottish Government mental health officials with the Interim Director to discuss progress on Tayside’s mental health action plan, ‘Listen, Learn, Change’. Minutes are not routinely taken at these meetings.
The Interim Director has been also been part of the weekly Tayside Silver Command meetings that were set up in response to Covid to share intelligence and understand where support needs to provided. The Scottish Government was in attendance for approximately 20 of these meetings. The minutes of these are held by and available from NHS Tayside on request.
The Chair of the Perinatal and Infant Programme Board and SG officials met with the Interim Director as part of a series of meetings with the Executive Leads for perinatal mental health at Boards. The meeting was on the 7 August 2020. The output of these meetings are not published but can be provided.
The Director for Mental Health and Social Care also had an additional telephone update discussion with the Interim Director on 11 October 2020. Minutes of this conversation were not taken.