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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S6W-38502

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when it last asked the UK Government when the results of the UK National Screening Committee consultation on offering HPV self-sampling will be released.

Question reference: S6W-38506

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to not placing any NHS board or hospital, which does not meet diagnostic and cancer waiting times, under a recruitment freeze.

Question reference: S6W-38511

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Radiologists workforce census 2024, which shows that there has been 0.2% growth in the WTE consultant radiologist workforce in 2024, and the 2023 Diagnostic Imaging Workforce Plan for Scotland, which projected a yearly increase in CT and MRI demand of between 7-9% and 7-11% respectively, how it plans to tackle this increasing disparity without outsourcing to private firms, ad hoc locums or overtime payments to existing staff, which has reportedly cost £20 million in 2023-24.

Question reference: S6W-38507

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Radiologists workforce census 2024, how it plans to reduce the number of clinical (a) radiologists and (b) oncologists leaving the workforce below the age of 50.

Question reference: S6W-38505

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it will support (a) NHS boards and (b) cancer alliances to develop local and regional long-term workforce plans to meet the radiology and oncology demands that they face.

Question reference: S6W-38504

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to encourage an increase in the uptake and provision of the number of specialty training places for radiology, in light of the figures from the Royal College of Radiologists recent workforce census showing that there is a 25% shortfall in the profession.

Question reference: S6W-38503

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting radiologists in Scotland, in light of the figures from the Royal College of Radiologists recent workforce census showing that there is a 25% shortfall in the profession.

Question reference: S6W-38510

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Radiologists workforce survey 2024, how it plans to address the regional variation in the recruitment of radiology doctors in relation to diagnostic treatment and cancer services.

Question reference: S6W-38509

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to reduce the reported delays that patients are facing as a result of a shortage of doctors responsible for diagnostic and cancer care across Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-38508

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 23 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of investing in more NHS-based clinical radiology and oncology specialty training places compared with the outsourcing of NHS contracts to the independent sector.