- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether all NHS boards with birth numbers under 5,000 per year have a (a) stand-alone or (b) dispersed multidisciplinary community perinatal mental health team that has the skills and capacity to assess and care for, at a minimum, pregnant and postnatal women, up to 12 months, who have more complex or high-risk presentations.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer to question S5W-28877 on 18 May 2020. 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
In addition, we are investing £825,000 for additional specialist staffing at the two Mother and Baby Units in Scotland (St John’s Hospital in NHS Lothian and Leverndale Hospital in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde), enabling them to become centres of expertise which will help support development of specialist community teams.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the furthest distance is that any mother had to travel to a mother and baby unit in 2019.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
Please refer to the answer to question S5W-28879 on 18 May 2020 for a breakdown of admissions to each MBU per NHS Board. 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
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has introduced to the Mental Health Quality Indicators a measurement of how many women are seen for primary care psychological interventions in pregnancy, and in the first postnatal year, within six weeks of referral.
Answer
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update of table 4.2.1 in the report, Delivering Effective Services: Needs Assessment and Service Recommendations for Specialist and Universal Perinatal Mental Health Services, which was published on 6 March 2019, and which NHS boards currently have (a) disciplinary specialist community perinatal mental health teams, (b) protected multidisciplinary sessions and a core team, (c) one or more members of mental health staff identified as having a special interest in perinatal mental health and (d) no special interest provision for perinatal mental health.
Answer
As described in the answer to question S5W-28877 on 18 May 2020 during the first year of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme, as set out in the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board Delivery Plan 2019-20, we have focused on a set of initial actions to implement the Delivering Effective Services recommendations. As part of this work, we have invested in community services in the North of Scotland which will inform the development of a model that can be adapted and rolled out across Scotland in 2020-21 and beyond.
Work to roll out this model across Boards in the current financial year had to be paused due to Covid-19 pressures. However, we are now recommencing this work where possible and the Chair of the Board will shortly meet each health board to agree guidance and protocol for wider roll out of expanded specialist community perinatal teams as well as funding to support these developments.
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
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether all NHS boards with birth numbers of over 5,000 per year now have a multidisciplinary community perinatal mental health team that has the skills and capacity to assess and care for pregnant and postnatal women, up to 12 months, who require secondary care mental health services.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer to question S5W-28877 on 18 May 2020. 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
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to recommendation 5 in the report, Delivering Effective Services: Needs Assessment and Service Recommendations for Specialist and Universal Perinatal Mental Health Services, which was published on 6 March 2019, whether each NHS board now ensures there is provision for accommodating partners or other family members near to each mother and baby unit when mother and child have travelled a long distance.
Answer
A Family Fund is being created to help with travel, subsistence and accommodation costs for immediate family members of inpatients in MBUs.
The Family Fund will support families from out of area to maintain close contact with women and infants who have been admitted to an MBU.
As visiting to MBUs has been suspended for the time being due to Covid-19 restrictions, we have paused final development of this fund until such time as visiting is resumed.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that all NHS boards have equity of access to a regional mother and baby unit (MBU); whether any boards do not have service level agreements with an MBU, and, if so, for what reason.
Answer
The two Mother and Baby Units in Scotland are regionally managed. However, admission is available to women and infants from all health board areas in Scotland, based on clinical need. The Scottish Government expects that where admission to an inpatient unit is required, that women and infants will be admitted appropriately, in line with clinical judgement and the wishes of the patient.
Leverndale Mother and Baby Unit (managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) has contractual arrangements with: NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Highland, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Western Isles
St John’s Mother and Baby Unit (Managed by NHS Lothian) has contractual arrangements with: NHS Borders, NHS Fife, NHS Highland and NHS Tayside, NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland .
NHS Grampian and NHS Forth Valley do not hold contractual arrangements with either MBU but are able to access either resource on a case by case basis.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether NHS Highland is currently meeting the Scotland-wide ambition of providing the best services to women with, or at risk of, mental ill-health in pregnancy or the postnatal period, their infants, partners and families.
Answer
The Programme Board is working with NHS Highland to support its development of Perinatal Mental Health Services. This has included £82,367 in 2019-20 for Community Perinatal Mental Health provision across NHS Highland and Grampian. Forward planning includes further investment in Community Perinatal Mental Health provision along with expansion of Infant Mental Health Services into the Highland area.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many category (a) purple and (b) red ambulance callouts took more than 20 minutes to arrive at the incident in each (i) of the last three calendar years and (ii) month to date in 2020, and what proportion of the calls in these categories each represents, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The following table details the information requested:
Purple and Red Incidents Attended, 01-01-2017 – 30-04-2020 |
| | | | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
National | Purple | Incidents Attended | 8677 | 9591 | 13547 | 5123 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 206 | 230 | 376 | 172 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.8% | 3.4% |
National | Red | Incidents Attended | 55549 | 67535 | 80867 | 22628 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 2339 | 3381 | 4783 | 1526 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 4.2% | 5.0% | 5.9% | 6.7% |
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| | | | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
Ayrshire & Arran | Purple | Incidents Attended | 640 | 695 | 1,069 | 397 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 11 | 14 | 40 | 16 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 1.7% | 2.0% | 3.7% | 4.0% |
Ayrshire & Arran | Red | Incidents Attended | 3,945 | 4,718 | 5,681 | 1,577 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 179 | 248 | 403 | 111 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 4.5% | 5.3% | 7.1% | 7.0% |
Borders | Purple | Incidents Attended | 155 | 172 | 214 | 105 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 8 | 14 | 25 | 7 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 5.2% | 8.1% | 11.7% | 6.7% |
Borders | Red | Incidents Attended | 858 | 1,122 | 1,348 | 364 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 93 | 138 | 185 | 54 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 10.8% | 12.3% | 13.7% | 14.8% |
Dumfries & Galloway | Purple | Incidents Attended | 288 | 227 | 372 | 127 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 13 | 19 | 27 | 10 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 4.5% | 8.4% | 7.3% | 7.9% |
Dumfries & Galloway | Red | Incidents Attended | 1,309 | 1,581 | 1,827 | 488 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 134 | 207 | 226 | 60 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 10.2% | 13.1% | 12.4% | 12.3% |
Fife | Purple | Incidents Attended | 565 | 660 | 864 | 345 |
| | | >20 Minutes | <5 | 8 | 11 | 13 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | - | 1.2% | 1.3% | 3.8% |
Fife | Red | Incidents Attended | 3,319 | 3,898 | 4,617 | 1,365 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 84 | 135 | 222 | 96 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.5% | 3.5% | 4.8% | 7.0% |
Forth Valley | Purple | Incidents Attended | 416 | 501 | 770 | 259 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 6 | 11 | 26 | 13 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 1.4% | 2.2% | 3.4% | 5.0% |
Forth Valley | Red | Incidents Attended | 2,666 | 3,350 | 4,306 | 1,253 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 121 | 188 | 293 | 120 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 4.5% | 5.6% | 6.8% | 9.6% |
Grampian | Purple | Incidents Attended | 774 | 871 | 1,083 | 431 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 34 | 30 | 39 | 20 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 4.4% | 3.4% | 3.6% | 4.6% |
Grampian | Red | Incidents Attended | 4,341 | 5,084 | 5,580 | 1,643 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 312 | 375 | 432 | 131 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 7.2% | 7.4% | 7.7% | 8.0% |
Greater Glasgow & Clyde | Purple | Incidents Attended | 2,289 | 2,549 | 3,621 | 1,367 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 14 | 18 | 25 | 20 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.5% |
Greater Glasgow & Clyde | Red | Incidents Attended | 15,960 | 19,746 | 24,396 | 6,553 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 347 | 490 | 801 | 238 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.2% | 2.5% | 3.3% | 3.6% |
Highland | Purple | Incidents Attended | 492 | 514 | 723 | 249 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 40 | 47 | 67 | 27 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 8.1% | 9.1% | 9.3% | 10.8% |
Highland | Red | Incidents Attended | 2,679 | 3,258 | 3,623 | 1,037 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 348 | 463 | 552 | 148 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 13.0% | 14.2% | 15.2% | 14.3% |
Lanarkshire | Purple | Incidents Attended | 906 | 1,036 | 1,569 | 625 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 23 | 15 | 24 | 15 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.5% | 1.4% | 1.5% | 2.4% |
Lanarkshire | Red | Incidents Attended | 5,797 | 7,276 | 8,951 | 2,539 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 187 | 320 | 457 | 148 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 3.2% | 4.4% | 5.1% | 5.8% |
Lothian | Purple | Incidents Attended | 1,285 | 1,359 | 1,876 | 732 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 15 | 11 | 23 | 13 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1.2% | 1.8% |
Lothian | Red | Incidents Attended | 9,261 | 11,038 | 12,572 | 3,554 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 228 | 374 | 534 | 204 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.5% | 3.4% | 4.2% | 5.7% |
Orkney | Purple | Incidents Attended | 24 | 19 | 22 | 9 |
| | | >20 Minutes | <5 | <5 | <5 | |
| | | >20 Minutes % | - | - | - | |
Orkney | Red | Incidents Attended | 92 | 111 | 133 | 37 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 11 | 23 | 26 | 8 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 12.0% | 20.7% | 19.5% | 21.6% |
Shetland | Purple | Incidents Attended | 25 | 20 | 22 | <5 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 5 | <5 | 8 | |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 20.0% | - | 36.4% | |
Shetland | Red | Incidents Attended | 130 | 103 | 126 | 38 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 35 | 28 | 35 | 5 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 26.9% | 27.2% | 27.8% | 13.2% |
Tayside | Purple | Incidents Attended | 673 | 747 | 1,025 | 355 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 23 | 30 | 45 | 12 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 3.4% | 4.0% | 4.4% | 3.4% |
Tayside | Red | Incidents Attended | 3,808 | 4,443 | 5,312 | 1,488 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 209 | 302 | 472 | 145 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 5.5% | 6.8% | 8.9% | 9.7% |
Western Isles | Purple | Incidents Attended | 37 | 45 | 60 | 19 |
| | | >20 Minutes | <5 | 5 | 9 | <5 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | - | 11.1% | 15.0% | - |
Western Isles | Red | Incidents Attended | 190 | 206 | 199 | 58 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 18 | 26 | 25 | 13 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 9.5% | 12.6% | 12.6% | 22.4% |
Unknown | Purple | Incidents Attended | 108 | 176 | 257 | 99 |
| | | >20 Minutes | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | - | - | - | - |
Unknown | Red | Incidents Attended | 1,194 | 1,601 | 2,196 | 634 |
| | | >20 Minutes | 33 | 64 | 120 | 45 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.8% | 4.0% | 5.5% | 7.1% |
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many category (a) purple and (b) red ambulance call-outs took more than (i) 8, (ii) 10, (iii) 15 and (iv) 20 minutes to arrive at the incident in each (A) of the last three calendar years and (B) month to date in 2020, and what proportion of the calls in these categories each represents.
Answer
The following table details the information requested:
Purple and Red Incidents Attended, 01-01-2017 - 30-04-2020 |
| | | | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
National | Purple | Incidents Attended | 8677 | 9591 | 13547 | 5123 |
| | | >8 Minutes | 2544 | 2874 | 4463 | 2040 |
| | | >8 Minutes % | 29.3% | 30.0% | 32.9% | 39.8% |
| | | >10 Minutes | 1623 | 1826 | 2903 | 1337 |
| | | >10 Minutes % | 18.7% | 19.0% | 21.4% | 26.1% |
| | | >15 Minutes | 542 | 604 | 1028 | 452 |
| | | >15 Minutes % | 6.2% | 6.3% | 7.6% | 8.8% |
| | | >20 Minutes | 206 | 230 | 376 | 172 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.8% | 3.4% |
National | Red | Incidents Attended | 55549 | 67535 | 80867 | 22628 |
| | | >8 Minutes | 21214 | 28568 | 37101 | 11706 |
| | | >8 Minutes % | 38.2% | 42.3% | 45.9% | 51.7% |
| | | >10 Minutes | 13933 | 19238 | 25877 | 8220 |
| | | >10 Minutes % | 25.1% | 28.5% | 32.0% | 36.3% |
| | | >15 Minutes | 5293 | 7632 | 10610 | 3409 |
| | | >15 Minutes % | 9.5% | 11.3% | 13.1% | 15.1% |
| | | >20 Minutes | 2339 | 3381 | 4783 | 1526 |
| | | >20 Minutes % | 4.2% | 5.0% | 5.9% | 6.7% |
