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17 February 2025
S6W-34316
Count 14 materials continue to be used by a range of partners to support public health messaging on alcohol.The Scottish Government provides funding for the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Hub which provides support, training and advice to families, carers and professionals supporting children affected by FASD, the first of its kind in the UK.The Scottish Government is also supporting innovation in early detection of liver disease, working in partnership with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) and local Health Boards, building on learning taken from the innovative intelligent Liver Function Testing (iLFT) pilot pioneered by NHS Tayside. S6W...
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17 February 2025
S6W-34313
To support this, the Equity in Screening Network was also launched in July 2023, allowing individuals that work across screening to share evidence, best practice and learning around screening inequalities.Finally, as part of the Scottish Government’s work to eliminate cervical cancer, an expert group on cervical screening is exploring the effectiveness of a range of strategies to increase cervical screening uptake, and are currently considering how different media interventions could remove stigma and fear for all participants. S6W...
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5 February 2025
S6W-33959
As we have moved out of the pandemic and COVID has become a routine bi-annual programme, there is less need for large clinic numbers and Boards have started to pace the programme more evenly, as they did for flu pre-pandemic, meaning they continue to vaccinate right into mid-December.As of 19 January, the uptake in these groups has increased as follows:Group24-11-2419-01-2565 and over59.473.518-64 at risk21.034.1Healthcare workers26.335.5Residents in care homes for older adults81.084.4By filtering by year and searching on the PHS surveillance website, changes in programme delivery shape can be illustrated in graphs, both weekly and cumulatively. S6W...
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Date answered:
5 February 2025
S6W-33644
However, the likelihood is that older people will be benefitting from these services. S6W-33644
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4 February 2025
S6W-33879
As set out in the draft Scottish Budget we will provide an additional £9.7 million to local authorities in 2025-26 to support an increase in the pay of childcare workers in the private and third sector delivering funded ELC so that they can be paid at least the Real Living Wage of £12.60 from April 2025. S6W-33879
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3 February 2025
S6W-33627
The NHS Scotland Prescribing Advisers’ Network provides support to prescribers on the use of alternative products.The pricing and supply of medicines, including the management of medicine shortages, is a reserved matter for the UK Government, and Scottish Government policy officials continue to engage with them to find lasting solutions to minimise the impact of medicine shortages. S6W-33627
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3 February 2025
S6W-33639
Developed in collaboration with a range of employers, this aims to help employers identify what they can do to improve mental health support for their employees, and work together to be a mentally flourishing organisation.The See Me in Work Programme, led by See Me, Scotland’s anti-mental health stigma campaign. which provides online support for employers to enable them to create stigma-free and mentally healthy working environments.Additionally, since 2019 Scottish Government’s Mental Health Directorate has provided funding to the Lifelines Scotland wellbeing programme, to support blue light responders – Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service – who have had difficult experiences in the course of their work which have affected their mental health and wellbeing. S6W...
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Date answered:
31 January 2025
S6W-33743
Their arrangements will link into generic police, NHS and local authority major incident plans as necessary, within the resilience partnership structures.The Scottish Government supports this partnership activity in many ways including supporting multi-agency partnership meetings, and organising on line multi-agency learning facilities on the Resilience Learning Hub. S6W-33743
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30 January 2025
S6W-33857
This includes specific activity with various stakeholders throughout the supply chain to look at ways of increasing consumption of Scottish seafood in public procurement settings. S6W-33857
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Date answered:
30 January 2025
S6W-33678
This includes maintaining £112 million funding for Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, continuing to fund grassroots organisations through £13m via the Corra Foundation, and supporting a wide range of activity - including supporting residential rehabilitation. S6W-33678
