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The revised perinatal mental health curricular framework, to be published by NHS Education For Scotland, will focus on the educational needs of practitioners who support families in the perinatal period - defined as pregnancy and the twelve months following the birth of a child. The revised framework will emphasise the importance of addressing the psychological needs of women, their partners, and infants, including supporting parent-infant relationships, during this period.

The Scottish Government expects psychological therapies to be provided across the whole breadth of mental health services whenever appropriate, including perinatal mental health services.

This information is not held centrally. We expect that mental health care and treatment will be delivered by all NHS Boards in a person-centred manner to meet each individual’s needs. That includes the appropriate provision of clinical psychologists to meet local circumstances.

NHS Education For Scotland aim to publish the revised framework in April 2017.

It is envisaged that the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain (NACCP) will maintain continuity and consistency of stakeholder involvement through cross membership from the National Chronic Pain Improvement Group (which came to its natural end, based on its role and remit, in March 2016) and the Ministerial Steering Group on Chronic Pain.

The incumbent National Chronic Pain Co-ordinator is employed by NHS Fife. The Scottish Government provides reimbursement to the Board for protected work time via a Service Level Agreement (SLA). To deliver this service, NHS Fife provides a member of staff at Band 8a for 0.4 Whole Time Equivalent.

For the operating costs of the national chronic pain groups, I would refer the member to the answers to questions S5W-01879 and S5W-01880 on 7 September 2016. 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 policies, frameworks and resources to NHS Boards to allow them to deliver services that meet the needs of their local populations. It is the responsibility of NHS Boards to ensure that they follow locally agreed and national clinical guidelines on the management of patients with psoriatic arthritis.

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), who are part of Health Improvement Scotland, have produced guidelines on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (guide 121). The guideline makes clear the importance of annual reviews to ensure that the condition is monitored, and to detect signs of progression. This management may be delivered as shared care between primary care and specialist rheumatology care, involving members of multi-disciplinary teams as needed.

The Scottish Government provides policies, frameworks and resources to NHS Boards to allow them to deliver services that meet the needs of their local populations. The Scottish Government expects healthcare professionals to follow locally agreed and national clinical guidelines in the management of suspected psoriatic arthritis.

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), who are part of Health Improvement Scotland, have produced guidelines on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (guide 121). The guideline provides clinicians with evidence based recommendations on the diagnosis and management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. It also provides a clear care pathway for clinicians to follow in terms of when to refer patients for specialist assessment and/or treatment.

The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry is independent of Scottish Government.

Lord Hardie and his team are determined to conduct a thorough and wide-ranging investigation into the reasons behind the Edinburgh Tram Project delays and cost escalations and to deliver a report and recommendations to ensure lessons are learned for future major infrastructure projects.

It will take as long as is necessary to get the answers the public wants in relation to the issues surrounding the Edinburgh Trams Project. However, to date, good progress has been made including identifying, retrieving and reviewing more than six million documents and the ongoing gathering of statements from witnesses of interest.

The report Prescribing Statistics - Medicines used in Mental Health and the accompanying data sets are published by ISD. ISD have indicated that they are planning on publishing the 2015-16 anti-depressant figures in mid-December.

The data will be published online at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Publications/ .