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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.

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Question reference: S5W-24189

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many “did not attend” appointments have been recorded in each NHS board in each year since 2007.

The table on the number of Did Not Attends (DNA's) for New Outpatient Appointments in each NHS Health Board of Treatment from 2007-2018 is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 60855)

Please note that DNA recording for NHS Lothian from May 2018 is incorrect resulting in lower than expected DNA figures for 2018.

The Modern Outpatient Programme is working within NHS Boards to test a ‘Smarter Booking’ system which will allow patients to re-engage with secondary care specialist services and to cancel appointments on-line. The system would also allow short notice and same day cancellations to be notified to individuals on the waiting list thus reducing the impact of wasted appointments.

Question reference: S5W-24171

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many operations have been undertaken in independent hospitals in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-24098

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of operations that have taken place in the private healthcare sector in each year since 1999.

The figures in the following table represent the number of NHS funded operations that have been undertaken in independent hospitals in each year since 1999 and reported to ISD.

This Government is absolutely committed to a publicly-owned, and operated NHS. So the people of Scotland continue to have free timely access to health services.

Through the Waiting Times Improvement Plan, activity undertaken by the Independent Sector has been brought under a National contract. This will reduce costs, maximise effectiveness and enable value for money and performance to be clearly evidenced. The new approach will only be used as required while NHS capacity is expanded over the longer term.

Calendar Year	Number of Inpatient Operations	Number of Outpatient Operations 4
1999	397	-
2000	245	-
2001	638	-
2002	645	-
2003	1,066	3
2004	1,185	-
2005	1,922	38
2006	1,807	50
2007	2,288	419
2008	4,085	364
2009	6,075	395
2010	2,447	401
2011	1,581	221
2012	6,592	383
2013	7,832	1,608
2014	9,034	1,386
2015	8,864	1,366
2016	4,022	227
2017	3,734	491
2018	4,230	130

- denotes zero

1 Relates to NHS patients treated in non-NHS locations such as private hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, care homes etc. The data recording/completeness of Non-NHS Provider data varies from year to year. Therefore, please treat any data provided with caution. If a patient is treated privately (i.e. treatment paid for by patient or private insurer) and there is no NHS involvement, then this patient activity is not recorded in SMR and is not included in the figures above.

2 Note that figures for the years 1999 to 2002 exclude the Golden Jubilee National Hospital as data were not provided to ISD.

3 There was no activity reported to ISD for the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre at Stracathro Hospital after January 2010.

4 There is variation in the completeness of recording of outpatient procedures. Outpatient data only include patients that attended their outpatient appointment and were seen.

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR00 and SMR01, extracted July 2019

Question reference: S5W-24020

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-20442 and S5W-20444 by Jeane Freeman on 6 December 2018, what progress it has made in ensuring that all cancer patients receive a treatment summary at the end of their treatment.

Question reference: S5W-24101

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action NHS Scotland is taking to reduce its carbon footprint.

NHSScotland has already made significant progress in reducing the emissions from its estate. At the end of 2018-19, greenhouse gas emissions were down by more than 61.6% on 1990 levels.

Measures in place to see these reductions include:

the eradication of the use of coal, and significant reduction in the use of heavy fuel oil;
upgrading energy centres to take advantage of latest energy efficiency technologies;
upgrading lighting across their estates to enable the use of high efficiency LED lighting;
the procurement of a national contract with WarpIt to enable Boards to reuse office equipment across their estate and within other public and third sector estates; and
the development of a plastics hierarchy to assist the movement towards a single-source recyclable plastic for use across all NHS applications.

Question reference: S5W-24096

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients who have started an initial consultation through the NHS have gone on to have surgery in the private sector in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-24190

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many dedicated community nurses there have been in each NHS board in each year since 2007.

The number of dedicated community nurses by NHS Board from 2007 to the most recent published data as at 31 March 2019 is on the ISD website, available here:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2019-06-04/Non-Medical_Trend_M2019.xls

The link above shows the number of nurses who have a location of service delivery recorded as (i) hospital, (ii) community, (iii) combined hospital / community, (iv) other or (v) prison. This information can be found by selecting the Nursing & Midwifery tab where the drop down can be used to select community.

Further notes:

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data are collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the 'FAQs' section of the Workforce Statistics website at http://www.isdscotland.org/workforce/ .

Question reference: S5W-24172

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many GPs have been working in private GP services in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-24184

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many referrals have been made using the ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) mental health service in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

ALISS is an on-line directory service, openly accessible to all, which lists community assets and connects people with sources of support in their area to help them to manage their own health conditions effectively. The directory includes sources of support in the community across the full range of health and care services, not just mental health. It does not record information about referrals made by GPs. Information on the number of referrals broken down by NHS board is therefore not available.

Question reference: S5W-24191

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS staff residential properties each NHS board owns.