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This question seeks police data, which is not held by the Scottish Government. The Government understands that complete figures may not be available for the time period requested, due to differing approaches among legacy forces.

Due to developments in the NHS Research Scotland infrastructure, directly comparable data across the clinical specialties is only available from 2015-16. The following table shows patient recruitment to clinical trials by year, broken down by the 27 NHS Research Scotland clinical specialties. The 2017-18 figures are subject to final verification.

The number of health visitors employed by NHSScotland is published quarterly by Board.

• Data from 2015 to the most recent data, published on 5 December 2017, can be found at https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-03-06/Health_Visitors_D2017.xls .

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/

The Scottish Trauma Network (STN) aims to better meet the needs of the population of Scotland. The STN has been established to support four regional networks (North, East, South East and West), the Scottish Ambulance Service and the Scottish Trauma Audit to working collaboratively across traditional specialty and geographical boundaries to effectively deliver high quality, integrated care to severely injured patients. The STN has made assessment of trauma-informed emergency services, from pre-hospital through acute and into rehabilitation provision. This new approach will save more lives and improve patient outcomes.

Information on consultant numbers, of which consultants working in surgical specialities is a sub category, is published by ISD Scotland and is available at the following web links:

Data from 1997-2007 can be found here: https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Historic-Data/WFB03_B04_HB_REG.xls

Data from 2007-Dec 17 can be found here: https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-03-06/Medical_Trend_D2017.xls

The Cost Recovery Scheme is administered by the DWP on behalf of the Scottish Government and all recoveries are paid directly to the Health Boards. Although the Scottish Government does not therefore hold information on the amounts recovered by Health Boards individually, total amounts recovered, by year, are detailed in the following table.

There is currently no centrally held data for the number of people entitled to an adult respite care break. The new Carers Census will collect data from Carer's Centres and local authorities about Carers who have an adult care support plan, whether they have a need for a respite care break and whether they received a respite care break. Initial data will be available later in 2018.

This specific information is not held centrally.

Integration Authorities are responsible for strategic planning of adult social care services. Since April, Integration Authorities also have new responsibilities under the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 for local carer strategies setting out carer support available locally, including short breaks, and an assessment of demand. They are also responsible for publishing short breaks services statements providing information about short breaks available for both carers and those they care for.

Data from the Respite Care Survey 2014-15 ( http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/12/6824 ) shows that:

• 31% of respite weeks were for overnight care such as in a care home; 65% was daytime respite care and 4% was provided as a direct payment.
• Older people aged 65+ were more likely to use overnight respite. 36% of older people using respite services had overnight respite care compared to 23% of those aged 18-64 and 31% of children.
• 89% of overnight respite nights took place in a care home setting, 4% at the person’s own home and 7% in another setting.

No analysis has been carried out specifically on the impact of adult respite care on the number of primary care admissions. Section 4.6.7 of the “Scotland’s Carers” publication published 24 March 2015 talks about the impact of short breaks or respite. The Carers Act Monitoring and Evaluation Group is currently carrying out an Evaluability Assessment and this will be looking at what data currently exists on respite and what the priorities are for further analysis going forward.

The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 took effect on 1 April 2018. Adult carers now have the right to an adult carer support plan to identify their personal outcomes so that their eligible needs are supported. Local authorities must consider whether support to a carer should take the form of, or include, a break from caring.

Integration Authorities also have new responsibilities under the Act to:

• establish and maintain an information and advice service for carers; and
• publish short breaks services statements providing information about short breaks available for both carers and those they care for.

The Scottish Government is supporting local delivery of these duties by:

• Publishing statutory guidance to accompany the Act which covers the provision of short breaks and provides examples of what a short break may consist of;
• Publishing a Carers’ charter which provides clear, accessible information on carers rights under the Act;
• Funding of the Coalition of Carers in Scotland (COCIS) to produce a leaflet on short breaks under the Act for use by local authorities;
• Funding Shared Care Scotland to maintain an online short breaks directory that local authorities can access;
• Supporting the development of a short breaks services statement template by a group of local authority representatives and Shared Care Scotland.

The Scottish Government has also provided over £23 million between 2010-11-2017-18 for the voluntary-sector Short Breaks Fund, administered by Shared Care Scotland and the Family Fund. We have committed a further £3 million for 2018-19.