- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many care home places there are, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) whether they are in the (i) private or (ii) public sector.
Answer
The number of registered care home places there are, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) whether they are in the (i) private or (ii) public sector is set out in the following table:
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REGISTERED CARE HOME PLACES
Source: Scottish Care Home Census, snapshot at 31 March 2015 (table 4)
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Local authority / NHS Sector
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Private Sector
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Voluntary Sector
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NHS Ayrshire and Arran
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94
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3,111
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277
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NHS Borders
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159
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524
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121
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NHS Dumfries and Galloway
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3
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973
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267
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NHS Fife
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368
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2,571
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115
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NHS Forth Valley
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293
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1,583
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269
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NHS Grampian
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344
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3,371
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815
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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1,048
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6,623
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1,734
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NHS Highland
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316
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2,021
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357
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NHS Lanarkshire
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399
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3,950
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430
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NHS Lothian
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934
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3,526
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905
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NHS Orkney
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114
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0
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4
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NHS Shetland
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142
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0
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16
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NHS Tayside
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328
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3,273
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431
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NHS Western Isles
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138
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40
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39
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Scotland
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4,680
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31,566
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5,780
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- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 18 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many paediatricians work in NHS Scotland, broken down by board.
Answer
As at March 2016, there were 918.9 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) staff working in Paediatrics Specialties in NHS Scotland – a 30.4 per cent increase under this government. This includes a 78.9 per cent increase in paediatric consultants.
Information on the number of WTE medical staff (all grades) working within paediatrics specialties, broken down by NHS Scotland board as at March 2016, is published by Information Services Division Scotland and included in the following table:
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Scotland
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918.9
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NHS Ayrshire and Arran
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38.3
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NHS Borders
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13.5
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NHS Dumfries and Galloway
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19.6
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NHS Fife
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44.1
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NHS Forth Valley
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38.4
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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314.6
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NHS Grampian
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86.9
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NHS Highland
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25.3
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NHS Lanarkshire
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60.4
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NHS Lothian
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198.9
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NHS Orkney
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-
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NHS Shetland
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0.3
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NHS Tayside
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76.9
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NHS Western Isles
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1.0
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NHS Education for Scotland
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0.6
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Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System.
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NOTE:
Paediatrics specialties included are: paediatrics, paediatric cardiology, paediatric surgery and paediatric dentistry.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that 50 people have died by suicide in hospital in the last four years.
Answer
Every suicide is a tragedy that has a far reaching impact on family, friends and the community long after a person has died.
The Scottish Government expects NHS boards to provide care to the highest standards of quality and safety whatever the setting, with the person at the centre of all decisions.
Suicides are thoroughly investigated in Scotland. The Scottish Government works closely with its partners, including Healthcare Improvement Scotland, to support the NHS in learning from any deaths by suicide and so inform continuing improvements in patient safety.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce the number of suicides in hospitals.
Answer
Every suicide is a tragedy that has a far reaching impact on family, friends and the community long after a person has died. One of the key themes in the Scottish Government’s Suicide Prevention Strategy (2013 to 2016) is to improve the NHS response to suicide. A range of actions is underway to support this, including work by Healthcare Improvement Scotland to support the NHS in learning from any deaths by suicide and so inform continuing improvements in patient safety, and work on improved use of data and training in accident and emergency departments.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 14 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to allocate its share of the revenue raised from the UK Government’s proposed soft drinks industry levy to initiatives dedicated to tackling childhood obesity and, if so, how it will do so.
Answer
The Scottish Government awaits details on how the proposed levy will operate in practice. The Barnett formula does not adjust to changes in reserved taxation such as the soft drinks industry levy but instead allocates to Scotland a population share of net changes in expenditure on comparable spending programmes in England (or England and Wales). Following the announcements at the UK Spending Review and the UK Budget in March 2016, the Scottish Government’s discretionary budget will fall in real terms by 3.2% over the course of the current spending review period. The Scottish Government will publish spending plans for 2017-18 in due course.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to help fund and promote pet therapy in the NHS.
Answer
The Scottish Government fully supports the safe use of pet therapy in appropriate circumstances. It is for individual NHS boards to decide what therapies they make available based on the needs of their resident populations. We expect NHS boards to ensure that people receive the appropriate care that meets the totality of their needs and that this care is person-centred, safe and effective.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time was to receive a hearing aid in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Audiology Services is included in the Scottish Government’s target that no patient should wait more than 18 weeks from a GP referral to start of treatment since the end of 2011.
Information on the average waiting time to receive a hearing aid is not collected centrally. However we have provided information on the median wait for the fitting of a hearing in each quarter from March 2010 (first published data) to March 2016 (latest available published data) by NHS board in the following table.
Median waiting time (weeks) for the fitting of hearing aids by board
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NHS Board
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Mar
2010
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Mar
2011
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Mar
2012
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Mar
2013
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Mar
2014
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Mar
2015
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Mar
2016
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Ayrshire and Arran
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-
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0
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6
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6
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4
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6
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8
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Borders
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6
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5
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5
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5
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5
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7
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10
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Dumfries and Galloway
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11
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0
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5
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6
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6
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6
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7
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Fife
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-
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0
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-
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0
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-
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0
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0
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Forth Valley
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-
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0
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5
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2
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6
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5
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4
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Grampian
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5
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5
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4
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4
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3
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3
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2
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Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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6
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7
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7
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7
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7
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7
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9
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Highland
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-
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4
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3
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4
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3
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6
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5
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Lanarkshire
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4
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3
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2
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4
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3
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4
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4
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Lothian
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0
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16
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7
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7
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8
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7
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7
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Orkney
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2
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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0
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Shetland
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4
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7
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6
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4
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3
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2
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3
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Tayside
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-
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5
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4
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5
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5
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4
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6
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Western Isles
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-
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21
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5
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4
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2
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6
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6
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Source: Information Services Division Scotland
a - denotes no patients were seen that month.
b 0 denotes that the 50% of patients were seen in less than seven days.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time was to see a hearing specialist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The specific information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding to that set out in its 2014 Budget it projects that the NHS will receive in each year of the current parliamentary session.
Answer
The Scottish Government will increase the NHS revenue budget by £500 million more than inflation by the end of this parliament. Details of the annual increases will follow in due course.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have received access to continuous glucose monitoring in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Provision of continuous glucose monitoring is a matter for NHS boards in consultation with individual patients taking into consideration national clinical guidelines.
