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Question reference: S6W-07249

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of heart-related hospital admissions were repeat admissions, broken down by NHS board in each of the last five years.

Table 1: Number and percentage of heart-related repeat hospital admissions: Years ending 31 March 2017-2021

NHS Board	Number of repeat hospital admissions					Percentage of repeat hospital admissions
	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021		2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Ayrshire and Arran	384	378	392	436	351		21.3	21.1	20.8	22.3	19.8
Borders	52	62	69	81	50		14.0	16.3	17.1	19.0	11.8
Dumfries and Galloway	68	84	107	81	87		13.2	15.2	17.9	13.5	14.1
Fife	170	183	166	179	133		17.8	17.6	16.0	16.3	13.0
Forth Valley	103	110	117	151	139		12.2	14.1	13.2	14.7	15.2
Golden Jubilee Hospital	720	506	562	487	332		17.7	12.4	13.4	12.4	10.7
Grampian	444	478	508	547	357		18.6	19.9	20.0	21.3	16.4
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	571	547	522	660	448		14.7	14.2	13.4	15.3	12.4
Highland	208	234	225	172	181		16.2	17.1	17.5	13.5	15.1
Lanarkshire	653	576	623	610	526		19.6	17.5	17.9	17.7	17.0
Lothian	627	544	649	661	508		15.9	13.6	16.3	15.9	14.2
Non-NHS Provider/Location	3	-	4	-	-		13.6	-	28.6	-	-
Orkney	17	10	12	3	23		21.8	14.3	20.0	4.3	25.0
Shetland	8	14	5	4	8		12.9	18.9	8.6	7.0	12.5
Tayside	503	440	396	472	319		23.9	20.0	19.0	23.1	17.3
Western Isles	1	12	10	15	14		1.5	12.9	11.1	14.7	14.7

The data presented here show information on admissions for ischaemic heart disease (including angina and myocardial infarction; ICD10 codes I20-25) and heart failure (ICD-10 code I50). These are the most frequent heart-related diagnoses in hospital discharge data, and data are published annually in the PHS Scottish Heart Disease Statistics report ( https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11607/2022-01-25-heart-disease-report.pdf ). Not included in these data are admissions for other heart-related conditions, such as problems with the heart valves, disorders of cardiac rhythm, congenital heart disease and infection or injury of the heart.

Source: SMR01, Public Health Scotland

Question reference: S6W-07248

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of alcohol-related hospital admissions were repeat admissions, broken down by NHS board in each of the last five years.

Table 1: Percentage of repeat alcohol-related hospital admissions by NHS board and financial year.

NHS Boards	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	33.9	34.9	34.5	32.9	31.1
NHS Borders	30.0	28.2	31.0	35.1	36.4
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	30.8	28.5	25.3	26.2	30.2
NHS Fife	29.9	28.7	32.0	31.4	34.0
NHS Forth Valley	30.3	30.3	31.2	35.5	36.1
NHS Grampian	30.0	34.1	33.0	35.0	33.9
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	37.4	38.1	37.5	36.9	37.2
NHS Highland	29.5	33.2	31.4	29.6	31.9
NHS Lanarkshire	34.9	34.3	34.8	36.2	36.2
NHS Lothian	36.5	34.0	33.1	33.4	35.5
NHS Orkney	31.8	38.8	32.5	31.6	47.6
NHS Shetland	22.9	33.1	23.8	28.8	26.2
NHS Tayside	34.5	34.3	33.9	35.6	36.8
NHS Western Isles	31.5	25.5	30.2	30.0	30.0

1. The definition of an alcohol-related admission aligns with the PHS annual publication definition. Further information is available in the Alcohol related hospital statistics website .

2. Hospital admissions include acute general and psychiatric hospitals.

3. ‘Repeat admissions’ figures include the second and subsequent hospital stays of an individual patient during a financial year.

4. Figures are presented by NHS board of treatment.

1. Information on inpatient and day case data completeness can be found on the Hospital records Data webpage

Source: Public Health Scotland

Question reference: S6F-00984

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will provide an update on what the £10 million Long COVID Support Fund has been allocated for and how much has been spent.

Question reference: S6F-00968

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government anticipates the impact will be of the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land, which will launch on 1 April.

Question reference: S6F-00962

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the First Minister what immediate safeguarding measures will be in place to ensure that arrivals from Ukraine are protected from organised criminal activity, human trafficking and exploitation.

Question reference: S6F-00958

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the First Minister what immediate improvements the Scottish Government plans to deliver for passengers when it takes control of ScotRail on 1 April.

Question reference: S6F-00955

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-00954

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-00957

Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the First Minister what changes the recent shifts in fossil fuel prices and the need for energy security have made to the Scottish Government's plans for decarbonisation.

Question reference: S6T-00630

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that decisions about the procurement of vessels 801 and 802 were rushed "for political purposes".