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The Scottish Government provide an air quality grant scheme to support local authorities in retrofitting their vehicles with emissions reduction equipment. The forthcoming National Low Emission Framework (NLEF) will signpost diesel particle filter (DPF) retro-fitting as an option for all pre-Euro 5/V vehicles in relation to low emission zone criteria. Compulsory fitting of particle filters on all public sector vehicles is not being considered by the Scottish Government.

The Cleft Care Network began reporting cleft service audit outcomes by NHS board from 2013-14. Prior to that, the Network reported on Scotland wide performance. The most recently available information on the quality and performance of cleft care services is set out in the Cleft Care Scotland Report 2013-14 which can be accessed at:

http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/child-services/communities-of-practice/cleft-care-scotland---mcn-for-cleft-lip-and-palate-in-scotland/ccs-reports.aspx

Data for 2014-15 will be available once validated by the Cleft Care Network.

Information on the number of teeth extracted is not collated. Information on the number of children undergoing tooth extraction is collated. The information has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICE), under Bib number 58127. The table shows the number of children (0-5 years) undergoing tooth extraction, for financial years 2000-01 to 2015-16, broken down by age and NHS board of treatment.Source: ISD Scotlan.

Information on the proportion of cases of non-consensual electroconvulsive therapy where depression was cured is not available centrally.

http://www.mwcscot.org.uk/publications/

The following table shows the data Health Protection Scotland (HPS) collated on food poisoning from 1999-2009.

Source: Health Protection Scotland,

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/publichealthact/annualdata2009.aspx

Food poisoning was not included in the list of notifiable diseases in the Public Health etc (Scotland) Act 2008, and HPS do not provide data in this format after 2009. This change was made because many symptoms could fall under the umbrella term of food poisoning without actual confirmation of being caused by food or water or having laboratory confirmation of the cause of the illness. However, HPS do collect information on laboratory confirmed pathogens which can be caused by consumption of contaminated food or water, or have other modes of transmission (e.g. environmental or person-to-person spread), and this information is provided on the HPS website, at:

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/giz/annualdatatables.aspx.

It should be noted that laboratory confirmed pathogens will only capture a small proportion of food poisoning cases each year as they require that a patient present for healthcare and that a sample is submitted.

The amounts paid out in respect of clinical negligence claims since 1999, broken down by NHS board, are as follows:

Source: NHS National Services Scotland

To protect patient anonymity, payments made by the special health boards have been grouped together for the purposes of this table.

Fluctuations in the sums paid from year to year can be affected by the number of high value settlements made in any one year. These tend to relate to birth cases where the sums paid can be substantial.

It should also be noted that the year in which a payment is made does not necessarily reflect the year in which the corresponding incident took place. This is due to the fact that many claims take several years to conclude.

Health visitors support families and act as a gateway to other services, including dentistry. The Universal Health Visiting Pathway for Scotland was published in October 2015: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/10/9697 which presents a core home visiting programme to be offered to all families by health visitors. The core home visiting programme requires health visitors to introduce the Childsmile programme, and emphasise the importance of baby’s registration.

In addition, Childsmile dental health support workers assist our most vulnerable families register and attend the dentist.

The Scottish Government has no plans to make it compulsory to register children with a dentist. We have put in place a series of arrangements, via Health visitors and Childsmile dental health support workers, to encourage the registration of children with an NHS dentist.

As at March 2016, 93.7% of children in Scotland are registered with an NHS dentist.