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I had a meeting with the Consul General at the Chinese Consulate on 14 September 2016, during which they discussed the strengthening relationship between Scotland and China. Scottish Government Ministers and officials meet regularly with the Consul General and other Consulate officials in order to further develop Sino-Scottish relations. There are currently no future meetings planned.

The First Minister held a courtesy meeting with Vice President Song Jinwu, Vice President of the China Friendship Association - a branch of the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs - during a visit he made to Scotland on 21 September 2016. Since 20 November 2014, there have been 11 other courtesy meetings which Ministers have held with members of the Chinese administration, including 4 by the First Minister during her visit to China in July 2015. Details of these meetings are described in the answer to the question S4W-27306 on 4 September 2015. In addition, Scottish Government officials based in Scotland and in the Scottish Affairs Office in Beijing, China, have regular courtesy meetings with various Chinese Government organisations, including the Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office, the Shandong Foreign Affairs Office and the Ministry of Culture.

The Scottish Government condemns human rights abuses wherever they take place. We are committed to engaging with the Chinese Government on human rights – an issue critical to China’s long term prosperity and social stability – as part of our overall engagement. Respect for human rights and the rule of law is one of the four guiding principles that we set out upfront in the Scottish Government’s China Strategy and these underpin all of Scotland’s dealings with China. Where appropriate the Scottish Government will always raise the issue of human rights in meetings.

Before the First Minister’s visit to China in July 2015, she met with officials from Amnesty International and the Scottish Human Rights Commission – an approach which the Scottish Government has taken for previous Ministerial visits to China. In Beijing she delivered a keynote address on equal rights for women, which had been developed to build on the themes she had discussed with Amnesty and the Commission. In the address she outlined why gender equality – as well as being a fundamental issue of human rights - is also one of the great economic opportunities of the 21^st century. The First Minister recognised that like all societies – including Scotland – there is more that China can do. Amnesty International’s Programme Director in Scotland, Naomi McAuliffe, called the speech a “significant statement of support for equality and human rights in Beijing.”

We are committed to improving survival rates from Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and are working in partnership with a range of public and voluntary organisations to deliver the aims in Scotland's strategy for OHCA, published in March 2015. The Strategy aims to have 500,000 people in Scotland trained in the use of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and increase survival rates by 10% across the country by 2020. Learning CPR is important in increasing bystander CPR, which in turn is essential to improving survival rates.

'Save a Life for Scotland' (SALFS) is the public-facing campaign to increase the number of people CPR trained and comprises a partnership of public and voluntary organisations.

Many schools already deliver CPR training and it is for schools and local authorities to decide if and how they want to take this learning forward. A priority for SALFS is working with schools to support CPR education. SALFS aims to link up schools seeking help with those providing CPR training in their area. SALFS have also worked with Education Scotland to create a pack for schools outlining CPR resources available from partner organisations. This will be a central starting point for schools and youth groups seeking CPR training. These resources are available on the Education Scotland GLOW website and via the SALFS website (www.savealife.scot).

The Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Strategy for Scotland (the Strategy) was produced through collaboration between, the Scottish Ambulance Service; Scottish Fire and Rescue Service; Police Scotland; British Heart Foundation; Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland; Resuscitation Research Group; University of Edinburgh and Scottish Government.

The Strategy sets out the commitment to improve outcomes after OHCA, with the ambition that by 2020 Scotland will be an international leader in the management of OHCA. This is underpinned by the two main aims of the Strategy, which are to increase survival rates by 10% across the country and to equip an additional 500,000 people with CPR skills by 2020. Success will depend on the commitment and action of many individuals and organisations. Achieving the ambition will involve optimising the elements in the system of care or the “chain of survival” i.e. readiness to intervene in OHCA; early recognition and call for help; CPR; early defibrillation; pre-hospital resuscitation; post resuscitation care; and aftercare. The actions and improvements in the chain of survival are being delivered by a wide range of public and voluntary organisations working in collaboration and together with communities. These utilise and build on the existing work by public services, communities and individuals.

Funding for alcohol and drug treatment services is directed through NHS territorial boards, who determine the final allocation to ADPs from all the funds provided to them by the Scottish Government. Health Secretary Shona Robison set out to boards at the start of this year our expectation for boards to maintain support to ADPs in 2016-17 in order to provide the same level of services delivered in 2015-16.

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I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-05462 on 22 December 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.

People with diabetes access structured education through NHS Health Boards.

Our Diabetes Improvement Plan 2014 supports people with diabetes to self-manage their condition through the provision of timely information and advice. We continue to build on this work by funding a range of high quality person-centred structured education programmes delivered by appropriately trained healthcare professionals within 12 months for those diagnosed with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

We have recently introduced quarterly reporting that NHS Boards use for monitoring the timely delivery of structured education.

The Scottish Government works closely with the Scottish Diabetes Group (SDG), our national advisory group, to oversee and drive implementation of our Diabetes Improvement Plan (2014) to improve care and treatment for people living with diabetes in Scotland. The Plan includes Inpatient Diabetes as a priority. Supporting this priority, the development of “Diabetes - Think, Check, Act” has been led by Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

The Scottish Government and SDG have followed progress closely. Monitoring of the project across pilot sites in NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has demonstrated success with a reduction in the rate of hypoglycaemia and an increase in the rate of hypoglycaemia resolution. This has led to reductions in length of stay, improved patient experience and safer care.

Based on this success, completion of the project is ongoing, with development of a toolkit which includes a range of resources, including e-learning modules for healthcare professionals, to be used to spread the initiative across Scotland.

The Scottish Diabetes Group (SDG), our national advisory group and its subgroups have agreed national glycaemic levels and have been holding quality improvement meetings to promote and share good practice throughout our diabetes communities in order to achieve these.

Further to this, work is progressing to develop early intensification strategies and new national structured education packages for people newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

The Scottish Government has increased the number of insulin pumps to over 3,200 since 2010 supported by funding of £7.5m. This represents an almost fourfold increase against the baseline figure of 696 in December 2010.

The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP recently announced that the Scottish Government would invest £10m during the lifetime of this Parliament, to further increase the provision of insulin pump therapy and Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM).

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-05462 on 22 December 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.