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Question reference: S5W-15518

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of self-harm have been recorded in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.

The recording of self-harm is complex because the decision to report ‘intentional self-harm’ on the patient’s record lies with the clinician. The assessment of intent is a clinical one and subject to variation.

The number of recorded cases of self-harm is shown in the following table for the calendar years 1999 to 2016, broken down by NHS board of treatment. Please note that the complete figures for 2017 and 2018 have not yet been published.

Ref No: IR2018-00574

Extract Date: March 2018

Number of cases with self-harm diagnoses 1 by health board of treatment, 1999 - 2016.

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Ayrshire & Arran	1,472	1,452	1,537	1,668	1,577	1,534	1,428	1,387	1,383	1,223	1,254	1,357	1,399	1,198	1,136	1,201	1,093	1,172
Borders	323	316	352	416	373	396	367	324	354	406	375	350	378	301	343	306	345	334
Dumfries & Galloway	433	410	410	395	385	305	282	253	271	334	323	313	319	301	369	328	349	355
Fife	888	894	926	1,026	1,014	830	803	865	971	1,003	1,063	958	961	1,004	1,085	926	826	921
Forth Valley	898	846	895	927	791	677	586	603	618	636	655	593	680	698	877	843	858	735
Grampian	1,530	1,606	1,676	1,706	1,745	1,398	1,413	1,307	1,380	1,430	1,407	1,484	1,620	1,500	1,694	1,403	1,240	1,310
Greater Glasgow & Clyde	4,189	4,270	4,429	4,358	3,816	3,651	3,081	3,472	3,794	4,135	4,164	4,380	4,471	4,034	3,962	3,524	3,715	4,668
Highland	523	568	523	446	412	732	695	797	767	667	651	643	713	626	780	714	797	712
Lanark shire	1,374	1,478	1,834	1,760	1,659	1,504	1,314	1,245	1,431	1,596	1,438	1,397	1,425	1,451	1,616	1,552	1,742	1,708
Lothian	3,033	2,073	1,734	3,105	2,912	2,577	2,300	2,576	3,149	2,743	2,318	2,398	2,308	2,249	2,395	2,384	2,166	2,021
Orkney	29	35	25	27	29	21	23	23	22	38	35	33	37	29	39	101	61	48
Other 2	*	-	-	*	*	*	-	*	-	6	*	*	*	*	7	*	*	*
Shetland	44	69	48	56	61	68	70	69	46	41	67	45	53	49	70	62	90	60
Tayside	1,560	1,705	1,548	1,535	1,322	1,318	1,097	1,074	1,080	1,189	1,142	1,080	1,090	1,163	1,046	1,074	947	1,070
Western Isles	53	61	56	99	73	92	82	83	83	87	54	80	70	86	65	43	58	42
Source: SMR01, SMR04 Notes * - Denotes values which have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality.
1 - A self-harm diagnosis is based on current classifications in Chapter V of the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders.
2 - Due to small numbers, the National Facility, Non-NHS Provider/Location, and State Hospital health boards have been grouped under Other to protect patient confidentiality.

Question reference: S5W-15522

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 19 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many adult carer places have there been on college courses in each year since 1999, also broken down by college.

Information on the number of adult carers at Scottish colleges has only been collected since the 2013-14 academic year. At the time of first collection not all colleges were in a position to provide this information.

The following table shows the number of college students who have declared caring responsibilities, 2013-14 to 2016-17.

College Students who have declared caring responsibilities, 2013-14 to 2016-17

College	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
Argyll College	-	-	24	-
Ayrshire College	4	20	119	569
Borders College	105	254	110	62
City of Glasgow College	1,644	1,520	1,727	1,879
Dumfries and Galloway College	-	-	-	42
Dundee and Angus College	34	740	835	656
Edinburgh College	-	514	783	959
Fife College	35	101	67	63
Forth Valley College	21	161	212	229
Glasgow Clyde College	269	830	883	906
Glasgow Kelvin College	382	640	203	136
Inverness College	48	148	293	320
Lews Castle College	55	67	90	55
Moray College	35	139	201	224
New College Lanarkshire	25	12	-	3
Newbattle Abbey College	-	1	3	14
North East Scotland College	-	40	99	128
North Highland College	14	38	42	110
Orkney College	18	52	100	113
Perth College	62	162	167	169
SRUC Land Based	-	-	-	24
Shetland College of Further Education	2	10	22	38
South Lanarkshire College	-	2	158	329
West College Scotland	80	539	980	1,413
West Highland College	-	6	11	-
West Lothian College	-	-	36	142
Total	2,833	5,996	7,165	8,583
Source: SFC College Data

NOTE: Data collection is still under improvement and numbers should not be compared across years.

Question reference: S5W-15517

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had on capping the costs that lawyers can recover in NHS criminal negligence cases, including with (a) legal and (b) health organisations.

Where a claim for compensation is made following any prosecution this would be a civil matter.

Under the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill which is currently before the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Ministers would be given a power to make regulations which would cap the success fees which can be charged under success fee agreements. The Government has indicated an intention that it is minded to follow the recommendations of Sheriff Principal James Taylor in his Review of the Expenses and Funding of Civil Litigation in Scotland, which means the caps would be set at 20% of the first £100,000 of damages, 10% of the next £400,000 and 2.5% of anything above £500,000 (inclusive of VAT).

Question reference: S5W-15524

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what the postage costs for the NHS has been in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-15525

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what the NHS publication and printing costs have been in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-15520

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS surgeon positions remained unfilled in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.

NHSScotland staff numbers have increased by over 10% under this Government to a record high of than 127,000 WTE, with staff in post numbers of consultants working in surgical specialities increasing by over 40% in the same period.

Information on how many NHS surgeon positions remained unfilled in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS Board, is not centrally held. Specific local information may be available from individual NHSScotland Boards.

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

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-03-06/Consultant_Vacancies_D2017.xls .

and

http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2012-11-27/Consultant_Vacancies_S2012.xls?40942485 .

Question reference: S5W-15516

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been paid out as a result of successful criminal negligence cases brought against the NHS in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5O-02019

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to encourage more diesel taxi owners to convert to liquefied petroleum gas.

Question reference: S5W-15526

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many children have presented at A&E units in each year since 1999, broken down by unit.

Consistent information on the age of patients attending A&E is only available from 2010. The number of attendances recorded at main hospital A&E sites for patients aged under 16 is provided in the following table.

	Year of Attendance
SITE	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AYR - ED	5241	5338	5447	4968	5042	4765	4958	4859
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CROSSHOUSE - ED	14553	14938	16531	15971	16691	16582	18101	18010
BORDERS GENERAL HOSPITAL - ED	3349	3801	3784	3604	3743	3812	3811	3966
DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY - ED	5793	5712	6224	5812	6151	6159	6481	6607
GALLOWAY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL - ED	2448	2275	2478	2181	2150	2247	2280	2227
NEWTON STEWART HOSPITAL			15	13	8	9	8	3
ADAMSON HOSPITAL							137	509
QUEEN MARGARET HOSPITAL - ED	5128	8185	291
QUEEN MARGARET HOSPITAL - MIU			4670	4739	5059	5607	5954	5935
ST ANDREWS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL								354
VICTORIA HOSPITAL - ED	6175	7676	11114	11401	11673	11248	11995	11665
FALKIRK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	4414	2254
FORTH VALLEY ROYAL HOSPITAL - ED		4627	10231	9946	10446	10201	10764	10763
STIRLING COMMUNITY HOSPITAL		1405	3745	3624	3679	3882	3753	3893
STIRLING ROYAL INFIRMARY - ED	8840	4904
ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY - ED	2244	2221	1433	206	178	135	159	182
DR GRAY'S HOSPITAL - ED	3578	3589	3828	3977	4322	4650	4819	4734
KINCARDINE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	380	295	171
ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - ED	16247	15790	16512	17366	17757	17190	15699	15473
GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY - ED	3944	4794	4973	4997	5109	5145	5399	5128
INVERCLYDE ROYAL HOSPITAL - ED	5228	5159	5064	4608	4770	4586	4675	4601
NEW STOBHILL HOSPITAL - MIU		2492	3226	3380	3815	4237	4360	4650
NEW VICTORIA HOSPITAL - MIU	2698	3154	3640	4567	5165	5762	5943	6325
QUEEN ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL - ED						645	6	9
ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL - ED	10951	10810	10874	10162	10440	9710	10325	9322
ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - ED	42593	43830	47036	44364	47965	49740	55542	59857
SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL - ED	4767	4733	4822	4672	4742	1393
STOBHILL HOSPITAL - ED	4974	980
VALE OF LEVEN GENERAL HOSPITAL	2391	2459	2640	2580	2777	2651	2976	3059
VICTORIA INFIRMARY - ED	5932	5245	5132	5571	5613	1886
WESTERN INFIRMARY/GARTNAVEL GENERAL - ED	1240	1212	1224	1527	1736	602
WEST GLASGOW MIU						919	2013
BELFORD HOSPITAL - ED		792	1145	1109	1120	1197	1190	1209
CAITHNESS GENERAL HOSPITAL - ED		668	760	758	793	818	942	932
LORN & ISLANDS HOSPITAL - ED			684	911	936	929	1023	963
RAIGMORE HOSPITAL - ED	4218	4723	4596	4489	5050	5239	5594	5860
HAIRMYRES HOSPITAL - ED	6938	8450	8839	8196	8368	8241	8761	8629
MONKLANDS DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL - ED	9559	10226	10226	9616	9846	9576	9426	9222
WISHAW GENERAL HOSPITAL - ED	11647	12458	12796	11792	12041	11915	12409	12621
ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN (EDINBURGH) – ED	35699	38798	41200	40472	42826	43799	47267	48107
ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH AT LITTLE FRANCE - ED	4209	4055	3860	3936	4094	3977	3547	3618
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL - ED	9277	9787	9953	9922	10320	9919	10537	10209
WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL	1938	2127	2139	2068	2038	2081	2094	2211
BALFOUR HOSPITAL - ED					828	828	875	934
BALFOUR HOSPITAL - MIU		164	674	675
GILBERT BAIN HOSPITAL - ED	1640	1668	1563	1384	1426	1385	1498	1387
ABERFELDY COTTAGE HOSPITAL	7	4	9	16	1	1
ARBROATH INFIRMARY	2317	3124	3479	3340	3258	3438	3503	4065
BLAIRGOWRIE & RATTRAY COTTAGE HOSPITAL	654	821	734	668	588	626	540	608
BRECHIN INFIRMARY	767	801	726	750	755	564	420	425
CRIEFF COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	458	484	524	408	430	281	264	198
LINKS HEALTH CENTRE	1393	1598	1550	1428	1426	1315	1016	781
NINEWELLS HOSPITAL - ED	7956	8668	8716	8176	8658	8468	9072	9129
PERTH ROYAL INFIRMARY - ED	4104	4602	4917	4552	4619	4743	4797	4532
PITLOCHRY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	143	320	336	223	136	73	107	91
ST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL	8	18	24	69	46	39	66	105
WHITEHILLS HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE	1481	1694	1738	1659	1824	1635	1311	1199
UIST & BARRA HOSPITAL							55	269
WESTERN ISLES HOSPITAL - ED	1149	1171	1139	1075	1073	1041	1033	1061
NHS SCOTLAND	268,670	285,099	297,432	287,928	301,531	295,891	307,505	310,496

Source ISD A&E Data mart

Question reference: S5W-15523

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the percentage of health spend in Scotland compared with that of NHS England in each year since 1999.

Health spend in Scotland is 7.5% higher per head than in England. This equates to over £880 million more spending comparatively on health services in Scotland, compared to England. Comparative spending between Scotland and England is set out as part of HM Treasury’s country and regional analysis. Figures are available from 2008-09 onward from the following location: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis .