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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-18967

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many children requiring a wheelchair have not received one within the 18 weeks’ time from referral in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

The following table shows specialist provision of wheelchairs
per year for children under the age of 18 from 2014-15 onwards.

Data for earlier years is not held in any comparable format. Data
for 2018 only part year.

		2014-15		2015-16		2016-17		2017-18		Apr’8-Aug’18
		Total	> 18wks	Total	> 18wks	Total	> 18wks	Total	> 18wks	Total	> 18wks
NHS Board	Ayr & Arran	237	9	198	2	251	7	220	7	71	3
	Borders	44	1	29	1	30	9	22	9	19	7
	Dum & Gal.	95	6	69	2	88	4	55	3	22	3
	Fife	216	18	199	22	120	50	111	52	67	18
	Forth Val.	149	4	136	6	184	7	169	13	75	5
	Grampian	239	45	187	45	173	86	185	80	99	36
	GG&C	657	27	691	16	822	18	603	13	279	9
	Highland	61	2	60	5	72	10	53	5	35	4
	Lanark.	327	21	340	10	379	21	328	12	153	4
	Lothian	457	28	400	28	269	87	304	128	154	49
	Orkney	5	2	6	3	1	1	3	3	1	0
	Shetland	9	2	8	3	7	2	11	1	3	1
	Tayside	312	10	266	12	285	25	267	14	103	4
	West. Isles	0	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	1	1

Sourced from ReTIS

The table includes all provision by the Wheelchair Services to children under the age
of 18 and not just “new wheelchairs” i.e. it will include referrals for provision of wheelchair
seating.
We only have records of performance against the 18 week target for provision requiring
a specialist assessment. Other data is not collated.
While there are 5 wheelchair services in Scotland, some NHS Boards have wheelchairs
provided by more than one service. This cross border activity makes it more difficult to
get a comprehensive picture of the activity within these Health Boards.

Question reference: S5W-18988

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS consultants who are not resident in Scotland have worked in the NHS in each year since 2007, and how much has been spent on meeting their (a) travel costs and (b) accommodation, both also broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5W-18955

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time has been to access hearing aid maintenance support in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5W-18982

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of student nurses did not complete their courses before graduation in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-18965

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many children have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

The following table shows the number of new cases of diabetes amongst those aged 0 to 19 in each year from 2009 to 2016.

Type 2 diabetes: Number of new cases, age 0-19

Age	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
0 to 9	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
10 to 19	22	18	10	21	8	19	20	17

Source: Scottish Diabetes Survey 2016, NHS Scotland: Scottish Diabetes Survey Monitoring Group

The survey does not present the number of cases for this age group broken down by NHS Board. The number of cases prior to 2009 is also not available.

Question reference: S5W-18976

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many nurses working in the NHS in Scotland are resident in other parts of the UK.

The National Census data, which is held centrally by ISD Scotland, are for staff employed directly by NHSScotland and includes the postcode of residence.

Staff working as and when required, such as bank and agency staff, are excluded from this data capture.

At 30 th June 2018 census, this information was complete for 97.8% of census records for nursing and midwifery staff in post. Of the 68,111 staff (headcount) involved, 69 (0.1%) staff had a non-Scottish postcode of residence.

Question reference: S5W-18966

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 2 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many breastfeeding services have been removed or closed since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Information on local breastfeeding services is not held centrally. It is for each NHS Board to plan services to meet the needs of its population including how best to utilise funding, facilities and staff to deliver these services.

Maternity and Community services across NHSScotland are now fully accredited by Unicef UK as Baby Friendly. All Midwives, Health Visitors, Family Nurses and support staff have been trained and are competent to provide high quality feeding and relationship building care for mothers and babies in all their infant feeding decisions.

In Scotland. the proportion of babies being fed any breast milk at their first visit has increased slightly over the last 10 years.

Question reference: S5W-18978

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government when it estimates that it will end delayed discharge from hospitals.

Delayed discharges are on an annual downward trend, with the latest annual report showing a 7% reduction on 2016-17, builds on a 3% reduction the year before and a 9% reduction 2015-16.

This is good progress which we recognise. None the less, more needs to be done and officials are currently working with Health and Social Care Partnerships to explore ongoing challenges and drive long-term, sustainable improvements.

Question reference: S5W-18975

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish monthly updates on the financial position of integration joint boards.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-18974 on 2 October 2018. 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

The timing of financial reporting by individual Integration Authorities is aligned to the local release of information in to the public domain and associated with Board Meetings which generally take place every few months. For practical reasons there is currently no intention to increase the frequency of reporting from quarterly to monthly.

Question reference: S5W-18972

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 2 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what services are available to help support people with sleep apnoea with the maintenance and support of their devices, and what guidance it has issued to NHS boards in this regard.