- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many calls to the Scottish Ambulance Service have been responded to (a) within (i) under 10, (ii) 10 to 29, (iii) 30 to 59 and (iv) 60 to 120 and (b) after over 120 minutes in each calendar year since 2016, also broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has put in place enhanced information sharing between primary care and the Scottish Ambulance Service for patients treated but not transferred to secondary care by deploying Ensemble to all health boards.
Answer
We have implemented the ability to share the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) electronic patient record (ePR) with General Practice. All Health Boards (with the exception of NHS Shetland) now have this in place.
Ongoing monitoring of implementation and engagement with NHS Shetland is underway to identify actions required to progress. This work is now being incorporated into the Urgent and Unscheduled Care collaborative programme.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has established a national decision support service, building on the Right Decision Service.
Answer
The Right Decision Service is now in the process of being transitioned from an innovation development, run by our partners in the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, to a national service run by the NHS. This will see the establishment of this national decision support service by the end of summer 2023.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has conducted the second national Digital Maturity exercise with health and care organisations, and what the snapshot is of priority areas.
Answer
The second national Digital Maturity exercise commenced in March 2023 and concludes in June 2023. A national report summary will be published in the Autumn.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has developed new service design resources to support local skills and understanding of how to embed digital transformation, through completion of the Transforming Local System pathfinder programme and associated evaluation report.
Answer
Yes. The Transforming Local Systems programme concluded in May 2023. Work continues to ensure the key benefits of the programme can now be realised across health and care with Healthcare Improvement Scotland now taking ownership of the service design resources. While it is still being developed, the online resource is available now for organisations to learn from the programme’s experience - Designing person-centred services for housing, social care and health - Designing person-centred services for housing, social care and health v.6 (ihub.scot)
The final evaluation report for Transforming Local Systems is going through final governance sign off though we expect to publish at www.tec.scot before the end of June.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, what it has done to offer continued support for innovation through development of Healthy Ageing and Mental Health innovation clusters to support increased investment in Scotland and improved infrastructure for innovation and evaluation activity within mental health.
Answer
Please see answer to question SW-18813 on 20 June 2023 for how we support innovation through demand led challenges.
We established the Digital Mental Health Programme in 2020 to respond to the increased demand for mental health services by integrating and maximising use of digital, increasing existing service capacity and resilience within each health board.
We continue to work with Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) to host the digital mental health innovation cluster and identify opportunities for reinforcing a robust mental health infrastructure. Since its launch in March 2022 the cluster has recruited 950 members from across clinical, academic and industrial stakeholders and promotes innovation through the development of collaboration facilitated through a number of clusters events the latest focused on three key areas: prevention, greater access to services and support for mental health services staff.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether the ability for people to refer themselves to digital mental health therapies for common conditions including depression, anxiety and insomnia exists.
Answer
A range of digital mental health therapies are available to support people to self-refer. These include treatments for: Insomnia, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Stress, Resilience, Space from COVID, Supporting An Anxious Child, Supporting An Anxious Teen.
These treatments are open to anyone through self-referral across all areas of Scotland. In addition to this we have about 12 treatments open to self-referral for Health and Care staff, this including depression, a range of anxiety disorders. Table 1 provides more detail on what is currently available.
Table 1: Digital Therapies - Available treatments
Condition | Treatment Name | Platform | Access Route | Availability |
cCBT General |
Depression Mixed Anxiety | Beating the Blues | Beating the Blues | Referral | National |
Depression | Space from Depression | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Anxiety | Space from Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Depression & Anxiety | Space from Anxiety and Depression | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
cCBT Anxiety Disorders |
Social Anxiety | Space from Social Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Health Anxiety | Space from Health Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Panic DIGITAL | Space from Panic | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
OCD | Space from OCD | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Phobias | Space from Phobias | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Generalise Anxiety Disorder | Daylight | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
cCBT Long Term Conditions |
Chronic Pain – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Chronic Pain from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Lung Conditions – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Lung Conditions from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Diabetes – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Diabetes from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Chronic Heart Disease – Depression and Anxiety | Space in CHD from D&A | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Rheumatoid Arthritis – Depression | Space in RA from Depression | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Multiple Sclerosis - Depression and Anxiety | Space from MS | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
cCBT Specialist |
Young People – Anxiety | EBook Digital Mental Health for YP | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Young People – Low Mood | EBook Digital Mental Health for YP | Silver Cloud | Referral | Test of Change – 4 Boards |
Young People – Low Mood & Anxiety | EBook Digital Mental Health for YP | Silver Cloud | Referral | Test of Change – 4 Boards |
Young People – Parent/Carer Support | Supporting An Anxious Child | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Young People – Parent/Carer Support | Supporting An Anxious Teen | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Perinatal – Depression and Anxiety | Space for Perinatal Wellbeing | Silver Cloud | Referral | National |
Insomnia | Sleepio | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
Psycho Educational – Wellbeing |
Resilience | Space for Resilience | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Stress | Space from Stress | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Sleep Problems | Space for Sleep | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
COVID-19 – Anxiety | Space from COVID-19 | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Therapist Lead ieCBT |
Internet Enabled CBT | IESO | IESO | Referral Psychology | National with limited treatments |
Staff Wellbeing |
Resilience | Space for Resilience | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Depression | Space from Depression | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Anxiety | Space from Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Social Anxiety | Space from Social Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Health Anxiety | Space from Health Anxiety | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
OCD | Space from Panic | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Panic | Space from OCD | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Phobias | Space from Phobias | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Stress | Space from Stress | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Sleep Problems | Space for Sleep | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Money Worries | Space from money Worries | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
COVID-19 – Anxiety | Space from COVID-19 | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Mindfulness | Space for Mindfulness | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Chronic Pain – Depression and Anxiety | Space in Chronic Pain from D&A | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Chronic Heart Disease – Depression and Anxiety | Space in CHD from D&A | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Alcohol | Space from Alcohol | Silver Cloud | Self-referral | National |
Insomnia | Sleepio | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
Generalise Anxiety Disorder | Daylight | Big Health | Self-referral | National |
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, what it has done to develop its approach to the introduction of legally mandated standards for the safe and effective sharing of information across health and social care, under the powers proposed by the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
Work on the National Care Service Bill continues as it progresses through the parliamentary process. The Bill allows Ministers to set out, in secondary legislation, the details of a scheme to support information sharing so services can be provided effectively and efficiently by, and on behalf of, NCS and NHS. Second, the Bill will also allow Ministers to set out information standards so there is a consistent approach to how information is defined, stored and reported.
However, prior to conclusion of the bill, and in support of the introduction of data standards, COSLA and the Scottish Government are currently in the process of convening a Data Standards Board for health and social care. This will allow us to create clear governance regarding the preferred data standards for use across the sector.
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has created a library of digital skills resources.
Answer
Digital skills resources for healthcare staff can be accessed on the dedicated Digital health & Care Section of the Turas Learning Platform: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/2198 .
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has put in place enhanced diagnostic capability.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-18800 on 20 June 2023. 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