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We do not hold this information centrally as this is a matter for individual NHS boards as employers.

It is for the prescriber to determine the which products are marked as repeat items and the frequency of supply. This includes whether the supply is continuous or as and when required.

While we have not issued specific guidance on the type of ward or unit to be used for transfers of patients with cognitive impairment, the organisation of care for all people with cognitive impairment will be informed by best clinical practice; and for dementia patients by the Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland, which describe the standards required in all hospitals to ensure that care for all people with dementia, regardless of setting, is safe, effective and person-centred.

The recording of movement of older patients within hospitals will be in line with best clinical practice and relevant standards and guidelines, including the Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland, published in June 2011. The standards require boards to ensure that “systems are in place to monitor the number of moves people with dementia are subjected to while in hospital”. These Standards complement guidance on moves within hospital, Preparing for Winter 2011-12, issued in October 2011.

NHS boards are responsible for monitoring moves within hospital locally in line with the standards. The Scottish Government collects boarding data, as described in Preparing for Winter 2011-2012.

The recording of movement of older people within hospitals is an area that will be inspected against by Healthcare Improvement Scotland as part of the current programme of inspections into the care of older people in hospitals.

Prior to inspection, NHS boards are required to carry out a self-assessment, which includes assessing their practice against the eight core standards for people with dementia in hospitals set out in Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland. Inspection teams will inspect against these core standards.

The Scottish Government has set up a national Implementation and Monitoring Group to oversee the implementation in hospitals of the dementia standards, in order to ensure that all strands of this work are joined up and to monitor progress.

NHS boards have been asked to confirm that they have implemented the advice from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority.

No hospital departments or Doctors in Training have any derogations from the Working Time Regulations.

The national delayed discharge census does not collect information on any movement of patients prior to discharge, it collects the setting and principal reason for delay on the day of the census.

NHS Scotland published National Occupational Standards in 2011, which give detail of the skills required to encourage individual behaviour change to achieve a healthy weight.

Funding for adult weight management will be devolved to NHS boards in 2012-13. Many NHS boards have indicated that they will continue to use Counterweight to deliver local services. Central funding and distribution of resources will be facilitated for 2012-13.

Transport Scotland do not monitor the noise levels of trains either during the day or at night. Transport Scotland and Clackmannanshire Council arranged noise monitoring of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail line for the purposes of assessing eligibility for mitigation. Further noise monitoring will take place at those properties where barriers have been installed, in order to test their effectiveness in reducing noise impact.

We have no plans to increase the speed limit on motorways in Scotland to 80 mph.

The power to set speed limits lower than the national speed limit of 30 mph generally applicable on urban roads is already devolved.

Through Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020, we are committed to encouraging local authorities to consider 20 mph zones in all residential areas. Accordingly, Transport Scotland is assisting City of Edinburgh Council with the evaluation of a pilot scheme in South Central Edinburgh, which has designated all side streets and some of the main routes in that area as 20 mph. However, we recognise that it is for each local authority to decide on appropriate speed limits on its local roads, based on available evidence.