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There are, as you would expect, separate disposal procedures in place for healthcare settings. Extra precautions on disposal of personal waste are also necessary if someone in a household has, or suspects that they have, Covid-19.
To ask the Scottish Government what action (a) it and (b) NHS boards are taking to ensure that all NHS staff are being paid for the extra hours they have worked during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Date answered:
15 April 2020
In addition to this, we are seeking to augment capacity through the use of the private sector and we recently set up the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow to create capacity for an initial 300 extra hospital beds, with the ability to expand to over 1,000 if required.
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Date answered:
19 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it provided to local authorities ahead of the extension of free personal care to people under 65, including on how the extra funding for this extension should be used.
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Date answered:
28 February 2019
In 2018-19 the Scottish Government provided the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) with a total fiscal budget i.e. resource and capital of £296.9 million which included additional spending capacity of £15.5 million. This comprised of £5.5 million extra direct funding and ensuring SFRS was able to benefit in full from being able to recover £10 million i...
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Date answered:
26 February 2019
Gainshare offers were considered and accepted at extra-ordinary meetings of the respective DSSB Strategic Management Boards, which comprise representatives from public sector investors.
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Date answered:
6 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the cost to Police Scotland of future overtime payments in relation to the judgement that police officers are entitled to an extra shift payment for every 24 hours that they work away from home.
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Date answered:
6 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the cost to Police Scotland of backdated overtime payments in relation to the judgement that police officers are entitled to an extra shift payment for every 24 hours that they work away from home.
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Date answered:
8 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-17676 by Jeane Freeman on 23 July 2018, what extra funding it will provide to dentists to undertake an Oral Health Risk Assessment for adult NHS patients.
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Date answered:
21 December 2017
Decisions on the use of reserves are rightly the responsibility of individual local authorities to take where it is prudent and sustainable to do so. Dundee City Council have an extra £18.9 million to support services in 2017-18 which equates to an additional 6.3 per cent on 2016-17.