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This information is not held by the Scottish Government. The best source of this information will be the individual local authorities as the employers of these staff.

Contact details for the Scottish local authorities can be found at: http://www.cosla.gov.uk/councils

I refer the member to the answers to questions S5W-07878 and S5W-07879 on 15 March 2017 and 21 March 2017 respectively. 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 Scottish Government provides funding to NHS Health Scotland to work with employers to provide appropriate training opportunities to support workplace mental health and wellbeing: this offers opportunities for employers to support and implement policies on mental health in the workplace.

The Scottish Government also provides £1m per year in addition to Comic Relief’s £0.5m for See Me, Scotland National Programme has a comprehensive programme on workplace discrimination that includes the award winning workplace campaign – “the Power of Okay"

The Equality Act 2010 is reserved to the UK Government.

The Scottish Government, through the national agency for sport, sportscotland, work with the sporting governing bodies to encourage their clubs, including football and rugby, to open their facilities for community based sporting groups.

We are also working with the Robertson Trust who have recently undertaken research on sport for change which is an approach being used by an increasing number of organisations in Scotland to deliver a wide range of positive benefits for individuals and their communities. This research should help inform how we can support and grow the valuable contribution these organisations make including enabling access to facilities.

There has been no change to the practice of NHS boards providing information regarding the number of people who are treated separately from those attending pain clinics. The number of patients seen, as published by ISD quarterly, are the number of patients who have attended for their 1st appointment at a pain clinic.

With reference to my previous response to question S5W-06880, the Inverleith Medical Practice team are to provide a full service to patients up to 30 June 2017. Following this patients are to be shared with surrounding Practices following analysis of the spread and allocation based on proximity of the patients' home to the nearest GP Practice. Letters have now been issued to all patients advising them on which local Practice they have been allocated and reassuring them that their electronic medical records will be transferred to that Practice ensuring continuity of care for patients.

As we approach the closure of the Inverleith Medical practice the retention of the practice staff team within the NHS was one of the key considerations of NHS Lothian. All of the staff have found alternative positions several with other GP practices, and all within the NHS, something which we actively promoted. A single member of staff has decided to take a break from work over the summer and will then be back in touch.

It is understood that NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have already written to all patients and parents known to cleft surgery services, to update them on the transition to a single site cleft surgery service.

National Services Division have also said they aim to share the high level transition plan with all stakeholders once it is ready. This commitment was given to all stakeholders, including patients and families in the communication previously issued by NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

NSD aim to share the transition plan with all stakeholders soon.

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Data for the number symptomatic referrals is not held centrally.

This information is not held centrally.

The Scottish Government was aware of the issues impacting on performance at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) on Thursday 20 April, which was due to a surge in demand following the Easter holidays. In terms of planning for peak periods and holiday weekends we would expect all parts of the hospital, in collaboration with social, primary and secondary care partners, to take action to ensure sufficient capacity is available in order to provide an optimal service for patients.

The Scottish Government is committed to improving performance on a sustainable basis and unnecessary long waits in A&E are not acceptable. NHS Lothian Health Board offered its assurance that the RIE quickly recovered its A&E performance following higher than average attendances at the RIE. Performance against the four hour target at the RIE in the week ending 23 April was 93.9%.

NHS Lothian is working closely with the National Unscheduled Care Team to implement and enhance working practices to support meeting its A&E waiting times target, minimising delays for patients. The National Unscheduled Care Team was on site at the RIE at the end of April to discuss this continuous improvement approach under the Six Essential Actions programme. We have been supporting the RIE to roll out ‘Daily Dynamic Discharge’ across its wards, which is aimed at improving the timeliness and quality of patient care from arrival to discharge from the hospital.

In terms of expanding the capacity of A&E services we would expect NHS Lothian to keep capacity of A&E services at the RIE under review.