Question reference: S6W-02354
- Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 19 August 2021
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 September 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what support is in place for people with the condition, essential tremor.
Answer
In December 2019, we published a Neurological care and support framework for action with a vision to ensure everyone with a neurological condition, including tremor-causing conditions, can access the care and support they need to live well on their own terms. Over five years we will invest £4.5 million of funding to implement the Framework’s 17 commitments.
Since October 2020, we have invested almost £1.4 million to collaborative and innovative projects to improve care and help deliver the aims of the Framework. The aims include improving the provision of co-ordinated health and social care and support, developing sustainable workforce models and ensuring high standards of person-centred care.
Implementation of the Framework has remained supported and prioritised throughout the pandemic. Key priorities for delivery in 2021-22 focus on improving information for patients and carers, better options to support self-management, developing improved care pathways, workforce, accurate data gathering, and use of digital health to support improvements in services
The Framework commits to ensuring that the legislation, policy and guidance that the NHS use when planning and commissioning services are designed to support consistent, timely and appropriate provision of care and support to people with neurological conditions, including those which cause tremor.