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Date answered:
28 February 2022
S6W-06297
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people living with kidney diseases are able to access the best possible support and benefit from healthcare services that are safe, effective and put people at the centre of their care.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 December 2021
S6W-04697
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding it will allocate to NHS Ayrshire and Arran to manage drug-related hospital stays, in response to recent Public Health Scotland statistics, which state that the NHS board had the highest rate of drug-related hospital stays in 2020-21. Integrated Joint Bodies are best placed to decide how funding can be used to best respond to local needs in their own communities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 October 2021
S6W-03984
As a government, our ambition is to create the best possible environment for colleges and universities, students and employers to thrive, now and into the future.
Last updated:
2 October 2025
SPICe Ecocide Bill CfV Summary
The Law Society of Scotland also noted the very limited use of the Environmental Liability (Scotland) Regulations 2009 to date, as “the closest comparator from an enforcement and sanctions perspective” and said “It would be useful to review the extent of these Regulations’ use and impact as part of considering how best to integrate the provisions of the Bil...
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27 January 2025
BB20250128
*S6M-16193 Tess White: Grampian Hospital Radio Shortlisted for Five Awards—That the Parliament congratulates Grampian Hospital Radio on being shortlisted for five awards at the Hospital Broadcasting Association Awards 2025; understands that Grampian Hospital Radio has been nominated in the categories of Male Presenter of the Year, Specialist Programme Backstage, Best Newcomer, Best Special Event and Best Speech Package; notes that the Hospital Broadcasting Association is a national organisation that supports and promotes hospital broadcasting across the UK; recognises that Grampian Hospital Radio is a registered charity, which is run by volunteers, and, since 1981, has been broadcasting to patients of NHS Grampian in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and Roxburghe House, and wishes those shortlisted every success at the Hospital Broadcasting Association Awards ceremony in April 2025.
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25 June 2024
Public Bodies Joint Working Act with NCS amendment markup
Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, marked-up to reflect National Care Service (Scotland) Bill draft amendments (June 2024) Strategic planning etc. 29 Requirement to prepare strategic plans (1) The integration authority National Care Service local board for the area of a local authority must prepare strategic plans in accordance with this section. (2) A strategic plan is a document— (za) setting out the board’s assessment of the needs of the population in the area of the local authority that are to be met through the carrying out of the integration functions over the period of the plan, (a) setting out the arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions for the area of the local authority over the period of the plan, (b) setting out how those arrangements are intended to achieve, or contribute to achieving, the national health and wellbeing outcomes— (i) reflect the National Care Service principles, (ii) conform to the National Care Service strategy, (iii) are intended to achieve, or contribute to achieving, the national health and wellbeing outcomes, and (c) including such other material as the integration authority board thinks fit. (3) The provision required to be included in a strategic plan by virtue of subsection (2)(a) is to include provision— (a) dividing the area of the local authority into two or more localities, and (b) setting out separately arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions in relation to each such locality. (4) If the functions of the integration authority board are to be delegated to the authority it before the day prescribed under section 9(3) or, as the case may be, section 15(2), the first strategic plan must specify the day on which functions are to be delegated to the authority. (5) The first strategic plan of an integration authority a board is to be prepared before the integration start day. (6) In this section, “integration start day” means— (a) in relation to an integration authority which is an integration joint board, the day on which functions are delegated to the authority board by virtue of subsection (4) or, as the case may be, section 9(3), (b) in relation to any other integration authority, the day on which functions are delegated by virtue of subsection (4) or, as the case may be, section 15(2) to, or to the constituent authorities of, the integration authority. 30 Considerations in preparing strategic plan (1) This section applies where an integration authority a National Care Service local board in relation to the area of a local authority is preparing a strategic plan. (2) The integration authority board must have regard to— (a) the integration delivery principles (see section 31), and Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, marked-up to reflect National Care Service (Scotland) Bill draft amendments (June 2024) (aa) the National Care Service principles, (ab) the National Care Service strategy, and (b) the national health and wellbeing outcomes (see section 5). (3) The integration authority board must have regard to the effect which any arrangements which it is considering setting out in the strategic plan in pursuance of section 29(2)(a) may have on services, facilities or resources— (a) used in relation to arrangements set out in pursuance of that section in a strategic plan prepared by another integration authority National Care Service local board, (b) which would be used in relation to arrangements which another integration authority National Care Service local board is considering setting out in pursuance of that section in a strategic plan which it is preparing. (4) The references in subsections (3)(a) and (b) to a strategic plan are to a strategic plan relating to the same period as, or relating to part of the same period as, the strategic plan which is being prepared by the integration authority board. 31 Integration delivery principles (1) The integration delivery principles are— (a) that the main purpose of services which are provided in pursuance of integration functions is to improve the wellbeing of service-users, (b) that, in so far as consistent with the main purpose, those services should be provided in a way which, so far as possible— (i) is integrated from the point of view of service-users, (ii) takes account of the particular needs of different service-users, (iii) takes account of the particular needs of service-users in different parts of the area in which the service is being provided, (iv) takes account of the particular characteristics and circumstances of different service-users, (v) respects the rights of service-users, (vi) takes account of the dignity of service-users, (vii) takes account of the participation by service-users in the community in which service-users live, (viii) protects and improves the safety of service-users, (ix) improves the quality of the service, (x) is planned and led locally in a way which is engaged with the community (including in particular service-users, those who look after service-users and those who are involved in the provision of health or social care), (xi) best...
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14 June 2024
BB20240617
Supported by: Colin Beattie*, Paul Sweeney* *S6M-13646 Paul O'Kane: Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice Signs Third Strategic Partnership Agreement—That the Parliament congratulates the Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice (ASCPP) for what it regards as its vital work in supporting people living with dementia and carers; understands that the ASCPP is a long-standing partnership between the University of the West of Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland; celebrates that the partnership was established in 2013, and that it signed its third Strategic Partnership Agreement in May 2024; notes that the partnership works collaboratively with people with dementia and carers, calling for higher standards of dementia care, advancing innovative dementia research, and addressing dementia-related inequalities; further notes that the ASCPP’s award-winning Dementia Champions Programme, which seeks to improve the experience of people living with dementia by supplying adequate training to health and social care professionals, has created over 1,000 Dementia Champions graduates who are making a positive impact in their workplaces; notes that through its Carers’ Academy the ASCPP provides skills, training and information for family carers of people living with dementia, and wishes the ASCPP the very best...
Last updated:
21 March 2024
BB20240322
S6W-26342 Carol Mochan: To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS Education for Scotland has undertaken any work to support (a) the development of best practice guidelines and (b) training opportunities for GP receptionists.
Last updated:
5 February 2024
BB20240206
Motions for Debate *S6M-12079 Shirley-Anne Somerville: Delivering Record Social Security Investment in Scotland to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis and Inequality—That the Parliament believes that social security plays a vital role in tackling poverty and reducing economic and social inequalities, and that the Scottish social security system must have dignity, fairness and respect at its heart; welcomes the Scottish Government’s record investment of £6.3 billion in social security expenditure in 2024-25 and that the Scottish Fiscal Commission has forecast that this is an investment of £1.1 billion more than the funding received from the UK Government through the social security block grant; notes that this investment includes the Best...
Last updated:
31 October 2023
SPBill35FMS062023accessible
The power for Care Experience Assistance will introduce a new line of benefit spend for the Scottish Administration, and the best estimates of that have been set out below.
