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The £12 minimum pay-rate from April 2024 for Adult Social Care workers represents a 14.3% increase for these workers in the last two years; with pay rising from at least £10.50 per hour in April 2022. Four out of five people who will benefit from this uplift in pay are women.
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Date answered:
29 January 2024
The service aims to frees up GP practice appointments and pressures on Emergency Departments and Out of Hours (OOH) services, ensuring people get the Right Care at the Right Place at the Right Time. In 2022-23, over 3.6 million Pharmacy First consultations were undertaken.
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Date answered:
17 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07053 by Mairi McAllan on 18 March 2022, whether it will provide an update on its policy regarding unexploded ordnance disposal at sea.
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Date answered:
8 January 2024
The latest figures show that this funding has helped contribute to the highest recorded number of support staff in schools, 16,606 in 2022. We are committed to supporting the education workforce, and we are providing local authorities with £145.5m in this year's budget to protect increased teacher numbers and support staff.
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Date answered:
29 December 2023
The learning modules “Preparing for work in Health and Social Care in Scotland”, designed to support incoming staff, have been completed by 3,941 learners in the last 12 months. In financial year 2022-23, NHSSA was provided with £3.5m in funding.
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Date answered:
19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the Mental health quality indicator profile, published last week by Public Health Scotland, which states that there were 111,130 delayed discharge bed days occupied in mental health specialties in 2022-23, compared with 98,716 bed days in 2021-22.
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Date answered:
19 December 2023
The emergency, temporary measures within the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 are expected to remain in place until 31 March 2024.
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Date answered:
28 November 2023
The total paid for these services was £224,956.05:£54,331.80 in 2018-19£30,758.37 in 2019-20£9,614.00 in 2020-21£88,307.64 in 2021-22£15,647.50 in 2022-23£26,296.74 in 2023-24 S6W-22925
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Date answered:
22 November 2023
The publication can be found below: Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (annual) - Annual – year ending 31 March 2023 - Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (annual) - Publications - Public Health Scotland Published data is only available for a ten year period, from financial year 2013-14 to financial year 2022-23, and is only av...
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Date answered:
7 November 2023
Two in-person policy lab events have been held in Scotland with officials attending from WEGo member governments - in Edinburgh on 1-2 May 2019 and in Glasgow on 21 November 2022. Two Scottish Government officials took part in a short WEGo meeting with officials from other governments in Reykjavik, Iceland on 15 June 2023 whilst attending the Wellbeing Eco...