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Sickness Absence rates for all staff directly employed by NHSScotland are published annually for year ending 31 March. Figures for NHSScotland, and for individual health boards are available from 2002 and 2005 respectively.

This information can be found on the Workforce web page of NHS Scotland’s Information Services Division at https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-06-05/Sickness_Absence_M2018.xls .

The Scottish Government provides baseline funding to NHS Boards, which Boards use to best meet the healthcare needs of their resident population. Funding is not ring-fenced for prevention of and self-help for respiratory disease. It is not therefore possible to provide this proportion of the 2019-20 budget.

Once the Respiratory Care Action Plan is finalised we will have a better understanding of the financial challenges and opportunities lying ahead and this will inform funding decisions.

The information requested is not held centrally. However, the number of hospital discharges where a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease was recorded, per year, for the last 10 years in Scotland, is available.

Note that the same person may be counted more than once in these figures, and that they do not include patients with Parkinson’s disease who were not admitted to hospital during this period.

Number of discharges from an acute hospital with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease recorded, by year, Scotland, 2009-18*.

SIGN is part of the Evidence Directorate of Healthcare Improvement Scotland and receives core funding from Healthcare Improvement Scotland. It is editorially independent from Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Scottish Government.

Any group or individual can propose or request a review of a SIGN guideline by completing a proposal form and returning it to the SIGN Executive. Guideline topics are selected on the basis of burden of disease, the existence of variation in practice, and the potential to improve outcomes. There is a defined process that SIGN follows to support proposers to develop their proposals and then selection criteria that aid the Guideline Programme Advisory Group to decide which proposals to accept for guideline development. The SIGN Council ratifies these accepted proposals.

We welcome this report from Parkinson’s UK and will consider it closely as we continue to work with the neurological community to develop Scotland’s first National Action Plan on Neurological Conditions. Through this engagement we have already identified that we need to: understand the gaps in prevalence for neurological conditions; improve and enhance the capture of data; and further develop systems/ processes that support service planning and workforce development based on this information.

The public consultation on our draft plan closed on 8 February 2019. We will carefully consider all feedback received and publish our final plan later this year.

The Scottish Government works closely with Boards to support their efforts in staff recruitment and retention. To support health boards, we are investing £4 million over the next three years in domestic and international recruitment for GPs, nursing, midwifery and consultant specialties with the highest existing vacancy rates.

We are working to develop a comprehensive plan to help address recruitment and retention challenges across the health and social care sector. This includes consultation on Scotland’s first National Action Plan for Neurological Conditions, which covers a number of areas including workforce planning. We are carefully considering the consultations responses with a view to publishing the final plan later this year.

Between April 2017 to March 2018 14 new implantations and 20 battery replacements were performed. Between April 2018 to December 2019 12 new implantations, 1 explantation and 22 battery replacements were performed.

In total 69 surgical interventions were completed.

Source: NHS National Services Scotland

Data for waiting times is collected at speciality level not procedure level. This level of detail should be sought from individual health boards.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-21522 on 26 February 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .