Question reference: S6W-04542
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 19 November 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 8 December 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the (a) sexual orientation and (b) gender identity of people accessing mental health services is routinely recorded.
Answer
This information is not routinely recorded at present. The Scottish Government has commissioned Directors of eHealth in NHS Boards, working with others, including Public Health Scotland (PHS), to work to improve the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) digital infrastructure. This will enable the recording and extraction of the full CAMHS and Psychological Therapies (PT) National Dataset (CAPTND), which contains equalities characteristics of patients accessing these services.