Question reference: S6W-00676
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 14 June 2021
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of pancreatic cancer patients were prescribed pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy in the last year, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
The data is collected by individual NHS Health Boards and would require permissions from each to be obtained in order to conduct appropriate data linkage analysis by Public Health Scotland.