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Through the Heart Disease Action Plan Funding call in 2021, we provided funding for a second NHS board to implement aspects of the OPERA study within its local service provision.

The learning from this will support ongoing work by the Centre for Sustainable Delivery and the Heart Failure Hub to better understand the opportunities for improvements to the Heart Failure diagnostic pathway.

The Scottish Government recently awarded Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland and the Research Resuscitation Group (Edinburgh University) funding to deliver a pilot project of telephone support and the development of website information for people who witness an out of hospital cardiac arrest/sudden cardiac death.

Delivery of this action is a long term objective of the plan. The National Heart Disease Task Force will consider the prioritisation of work to be undertaken in 2023/24 as part of our ongoing implementation of the commitments within the Heart Disease Action Plan.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-14676 on 6 March 2023. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

There have been two pieces of work carried out in relation to training and education for the wider Healthcare Science professional group of which cardiac physiology is one specialty. The baseline exercise Healthcare science - education and training provision: baseline review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) has provided an overview of the education and training landscape for Healthcare Science.

The outcomes of this work has informed the context of the scoping review committed to within the National Workforce strategy 2022. Recommendations have been made as to the next steps and once confirmed these will be shared with the wider stakeholder groups.

The following table provides a breakdown of the number of homes in the South Scotland region delivered through the demand-led Rural and Islands Housing Fund in each year since 2016-17, broken down by local authority area.

The homes provided through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme comprise homes for social rent, for mid-market rent and for low cost home ownership. These homes take various forms including; new build homes, rehabilitation projects, conversions and off-the-shelf purchases of both new and second hand homes.

The following table provides a breakdown of the spend on the demand-led Rural and Islands Housing Fund in the South Scotland Region each year since its introduction in 2016-17, broken down by local authority area. The Rural and Island Housing Fund plays an important role in offering support to community organisations and others while complementing the significant delivery through our mainstream programme by Councils and Registered Social Landlords in rural and island areas .

Scottish Government have published the data requested from NearForm's Management Information on SPICe reference 63965.

The information requested is not collected or held centrally by the Scottish Government and would require to be obtained from Health Boards.

The information requested is not held centrally.