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The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested however the Mental Welfare Commission is an independent organisation, which reports to Scottish Ministers and was set up to find out whether individual care and treatment is in line with the law and good practice. As part of this role they produce statistics and analysis on the use of mental health and incapacity legislation. They have a statutory responsibility to monitor the use of the Mental Health Act, and their website contains statistical reports its use in 2014-2015.You can access their site using the following link: http://www.mwcscot.org.uk/publications/

I am currently considering all of the information put before me regarding the recommendation on cleft surgery and will announce my decision soon.

The funding provided is shown in the following table. Funding is provided at 30% of the total cost and is only available for retrofitting equipment that has been independently tested and conforms to specified air pollutant emissions standards. Although funding remains available for this purpose, local authorities have prioritised other actions for improving local air quality in recent years, thus there have been no recent requests for funding.

Data on how many intensive home treatment teams have attended call-outs to patients requiring emergency mental health support in each year since 1999 is not provided to the Scottish Government as a matter of course.

The responsibility for compliance with legislation is a specific responsibility of individual NHS boards. Our commitment is to help boards understand these requirements and to encourage the practical steps they must take to comply with the law.

Individuals can be treated for self-harm in a number of different settings, including hospital inpatient care or A&E attendances. Self-harm may also be managed in primary care or community settings; however, we do not currently have data on these attendances. Since 2007, the national source of A&E information has been Information Services Division’s A&E DataMart. Within the A&E DataMart, the facility exists to record attendances at accident and emergency departments due to self-harm. However, the fields which can be used to identify self-harm are all optional for completion by NHS boards and the level of recording is not sufficient for accurate national reporting of attendances due to self-harm.

Information on patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is available from the Scottish ECT Accreditation Network (SEAN) database.

The SEAN annual report for 2015: http://www.sean.org.uk/docs/SEAN-Report-2015-web.pdf includes Figure 3.1 which shows, for 2014, the number and percentage of episodes by primary diagnosis. This includes patients who lacked capacity to consent to treatment as well as those with capacity to consent.

Scottish building regulations require new non-domestic buildings, not just public sector-funded building projects, to be fitted with hearing enhancement systems, including induction loops. Amongst other things, the guidance supporting the regulations advises that they should be provided in auditoriums, meeting rooms over 60 square metres and at public service counters. Depending on the nature of conversion and alteration work being undertaken, these arrangements also apply to new work carried out in an existing non-domestic building.

The following tables show the number of patients who have received cataract operations in (a) an NHS and (b) a private hospital in each calendar year since 1999 broken down by NHS board of residence. NHS boards have taken steps to improve the completeness of data recording on activity carried out in the independent sector since 2011. Therefore interpreting trends in the independent sector from these statistics should be treated with caution.

Number of patients undergoing cataract operations in an NHS hospital each year, 1999 - 2015, broken down by health board of residence.

Source: SMR00 & SMR01, Information Services Division.

Source: SMR00 & SMR01, Information Services Division.

Number of patients undergoing cataract operations in a private hospital each year, 1999 - 2015, broken down by health board of residence.

Source: SMR00 & SMR01, Information Services Division.

Source: SMR00 & SMR01, Information Services Division.

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*Indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure and to help maintain patient confidentiality.

The use of nursing agency staff in Scotland is very low and represents 0.4 per cent of the total Nursing and Midwifery workforce in 2015-16, representing 276.7 whole time equivalent (WTE) out of a total capacity of 66,143.9 WTE nursing establishment. 99.6% of all care is delivered by staff on NHS contracts. The collection of agency costs began for year ending 31 March 2001. Information prior to this is not available.