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During our engagement on the next Mental Health Strategy, we invited written responses on an engagement paper outlining our proposed priorities, and received nearly 600 responses.

The responses were independently analysed and a full report published online, which can be viewed at: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/12/1634/0

One of the groups suggested as a priority by respondents was families and carers.

All of the feedback we received has helped shape our thinking when developing the Strategy, which we will publish in the coming weeks.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is relatively common, and is managed across primary care and specialist mental health services. The provision of health services is the responsibility of local health boards. The Psychological Therapies Matrix (published by NHS Education for Scotland) provides guidance for Health Boards and Integration Authorities on psychological therapy treatment options, including for OCD:

http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/by-discipline/psychology/the-matrix-(2015)-a-guide-to-delivering-evidence-based-psychological-therapies-in-scotland.aspx

Any referrals to general psychological therapies, including for OCD, are subject to the LDP access standard. The Scottish Government has announced a £54.1 million package of funding over four years from 2016-17 to improve access to mental health services.

The Scottish Government does not directly support the Spartans alternative school in Edinburgh or any other similar institutions across Scotland. Some Edinburgh schools do contribute to costs but that, and funding for any similar institutions, is a matter for schools and local authorities to consider based on their local needs and circumstances.

This information is not held centrally.

The Scottish Government is committed to increasing physical activity and we want to make Scotland a more active country by encouraging people, and in particular young people, to make physical activity a part of their everyday lives.

98% of primary and secondary schools across Scotland continue to provide at least two hours or two periods of PE each week, in line with the Programme for Government 2016 commitment to maintain the PE commitment. There are no plans to review this target.

Subject to the wishes of patients, community mental health teams involve families and carers routinely in the care and treatment of patients. Individual care plans allow consideration to be given to physical, mental and social aspects of the management of patients, including patients with OCD. Social prescribing and community resources are commonly used tools. Digital resources like NHS Inform provide details of a range of such resources for people living with OCD. https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-health/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd

This information is not routinely collected.

Hepatitis C test data is only held centrally for prisons within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Grampian, Lothian and Tayside board areas.

In the calendar year 2015 2,396 prisoners in these Board areas were tested for Hepatitis C. In the same year 137 individuals were diagnosed with Hepatitis C in a prison in those areas. Data for 2016 is not yet available.

It is the role of the Scottish Government to provide policies, frameworks and resources to NHS boards so they can deliver services that meet the needs of their local populations. Within this context, it is a matter for NHS boards to plan, budget for and deliver the services required to meet the assessed needs of their resident populations.

NHS National Services Scotland, Information Services Department collect and publish sickness absence data at a national and board level once a year. Annual information from 2007 is available at the following link, this information is not broken down by job family: https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2016-06-07/Sickness_Absence_M2016.xls