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This is a matter for NHS Boards who are responsible for providing appropriate clinical care based on an individual's needs. The information requested is not collected or held centrally.

NHS boards are required to make every effort to ensure the safety of patients' belongings while they are in hospital, and to have appropriate security arrangements in place.

The Scottish Government unequivocally condemns any form of racism hatred or prejudice, in sport and wider society. There is no excuse – it is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Scotland is a diverse, multi-cultural society and this diversity strengthens us as a nation. That is why we work with sport scotland and a range of organisations throughout the country to tackle all forms of hatred and prejudice in sport.

Any reports of racism must be investigated swiftly. Most recently after allegations of racism in cricket in Scotland, sport scotland, announced that it is taking immediate steps to appoint a team of independent experts to carry out a full a review of racism within Scottish cricket.

In addition, in June 2021, sport scotland, with the other Home Country Sports Councils responsible for funding sport and physical activity across the UK, published the outcomes of a joint review into Tackling Racism and Racial Inequality in Sport (TRARIIS). sport scotland has begun identifying TRARIIS work for each of its three Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strands (People, System and New Ideas) in order to embed this into the organisation’s business planning and use to inform future Equality Impact Assessments. A full update is available on the sport scotland website.

Ethnically diverse communities are a priority group for sport scotland’s 2021-25 Equality Outcomes published earlier this year.

We need to eradicate any forms of racism in sport and we will continue to work with partners to achieve this.

The Scottish Government remains committed to transparency on this important issue. Since the last update to Parliament on 15 September, I can confirm that:

• As was the case in September, no invasive cervical cancer has been detected in any individuals who were written to over the summer on this issue and who have subsequently attended either for screening or gynaecological exam.
• Work in reviewing exclusions has continued to be prioritise based on risk, and in early autumn, an audit of all records where an obstetric hysterectomy has been performed was carried out. All individuals identified as either having been or likely to have been wrongfully excluded have now been contacted and re-instated in the screening programme or invited for examination as required.
• Work is ongoing to review the remaining exclusions; the NHS is committed to completing this as quickly as possible, and I will update Parliament on progress in due course.
• Dr Karin Denton is a consultant pathologist with North Bristol NHS Trust and leads the laboratory service for Cervical Screening in the South West of England. She has been appointed to chair the Healthcare Improvement Scotland review of the systems and processes of exclusions in the cervical screening programme. It is anticipated that the review findings will be published in autumn 2022.

We engaged with a range of stakeholders to inform the development of the draft Framework for Pain Management Service Delivery including the people with lived experience who were members of the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain (NACCP).

The structure and membership of the Committee was reviewed in 2020 in order to increase representation of people with lived experience and other key groups with an interest in improving care and support for people with chronic pain. As set out in the updated Terms of Reference, the Committee is advisory in nature, and members were encouraged to seek consensus in providing advice. The Committee met in its new format in February and May 2021 with all members invited to attend these meetings. Members were also asked to provide feedback and responses a number of other relevant request between meetings.

All members of the Committee had the opportunity to freely share their views on the priorities for improving pain management support which were used to inform the development of the draft Framework. Lived experience members of the Committee were provided with additional support in their role in a number of ways including: meetings to gather the views of a wider cohort of people with chronic pain via the Chronic Pain Patient Reference Group; being offered the choice to participate in capacity building sessions; and being offered the opportunity to directly share a summary of the views of people with chronic pain both in advance with officials and during Committee meetings as part of dedicated agenda items. We have also carried out a Scotland-wide survey to better understand the priorities of people with chronic pain and increase the range of voices involved.

All members of the Committee had access to the same information and resources throughout the development of the Framework, and were provided with a draft version in advance of the launch of the public consultation.

As communicated to the Committee previously, we are currently reviewing existing stakeholder engagement processes and structures, including the NACCP, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and can meaningfully support the future delivery and implementation of the Framework once the current public consultation has been completed.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-05156 on 10 January 2022. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

This year the Scottish Government has made £12m available to support the wellbeing of the pharmacist workforce. That includes £8m from the NHS Recovery Plan to provide ongoing wellbeing support for the workforce – alongside an extra £4m to provide further support to address winter pressures.

The funding supports the 24/7 National Wellbeing Helpline, our National Wellbeing Hub, Coaching for Wellbeing and the Workforce Specialist Service, alongside tailored psychological interventions for staff, providing individualised wellbeing support focusing on people’s physical and emotional needs.

The Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland in a joint letter, issued 8 December, with the leaders from the pharmacy sector, including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Scotland), has written to all pharmacy teams outlining the range of wellbeing support available to pharmacy teams and encouraging them to access these resources for support when needed.

Since 2015 the Save a Life for Scotland (SALFS) partnership has equipped over 640,000 people in Scotland with the skills to perform CPR. The refreshed strategy seeks to increase this to 1 million people by 2026. This will be achieved through continued partnership working to raise awareness, and the delivery of CPR training across Scotland.

There are approximately 240 students each year who graduate from the two Schools of Pharmacy in Scotland. There has been an increase in the overall numbers of students studying pharmacy with more Scottish domiciled students undertaking the course. The two Schools of Pharmacy in Scotland are encouraging applicants from parts of Scotland where there are gaps in the pharmacy workforce and working with schools to promote pharmacy as a career.

Since 2018, the number of NHS pre-registration pharmacists places funded nationally has increased from 170 in 2018 up to 231 in 2020-21. In 2021-22, funding of £6,096,489 was provided to NHS Education in Scotland (NES) for the Pre-registration Pharmacy Scheme, for 231 places. By 2024-25 this will have increased by a further 89 places to bring the total to an additional 120 pharmacist trainees over 5 years staying in Scotland to complete their pre-registration training.

In order to meet future workforce demands, a five year integrated initial education programme for pharmacists in Scotland has been developed. The first students to graduate from the new programme will qualify in 2027 with co-terminus graduation and registration. This will better prepare newly qualified pharmacists for practice, strengthen the clinical workforce, particularly in primary care, and manage trainee numbers to meet workforce requirements.

The Scottish Government is committed to having a pharmacist independent prescriber in every community pharmacy. As of December 2020 there were a total of 1585 pharmacists qualified prescribers or currently undertaking an independent prescribing qualification. As demand for pharmacy technicians grow and a skill mix is increasingly required in different pharmacy settings, increasing the pipeline of pharmacy technicians has become a priority. We are currently working with key stakeholders to develop a national pharmacy technician apprenticeship scheme.

As part of the overall 2021-22 community pharmacy financial package, a total of £2.751m provides each community pharmacy contractor with a monthly contribution of £180 towards staff training beyond pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

The Chief Pharmaceutical Officer is putting together a workforce forum to look at the workforce challenges and bringing together stakeholders from pharmacy education and pharmacy service provision to set a strategic workforce plan for the profession.

The Scottish Government will also continue to work with our key partners to ensure that the balance is maintained across the whole pharmacy workforce in the hospital, community, and GP practice sectors.

The Scottish Government workforce integrated plans commits to increasing the pharmacy pre-registration training places by 120 over the next 4 years and we are currently increasing training places available for pharmacy technician training, which will bring more staff in to the profession.