- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many care home residents have been hospitalised with suspected COVID-19 in each week since 23 March 2020.
Answer
The COVID-19 data and trend charts for Scotland are published daily and provide a range of information, including the number of care homes notifying cases of COVID-19 and the number of suspected cases of COVID-19 in care homes. The data also includes the daily number of people in hospital with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 but does not include details on how many of these are care home residents.
The link to the daily data update is:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/trends-in-number-of-people-in-hospital-with-confirmed-or-suspected-covid-19/
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many care home residents have been tested for COVID-19 in each week since 23 March 2020.
Answer
The COVID-19 data and trend charts for Scotland are published daily and provide a range of information, including the number of care homes notifying cases of COVID-19 and the number of suspected cases of COVID-19 in care homes. These data are available from 11 April 2020 and are updated daily. There are also data on the number of people that have been tested for COVID-19 in Scotland, these are available from 2 March 2020 and provide a cumulative number. There is no breakdown of how many of these tests were for care home residents.
The link to the daily data update is:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/trends-in-number-of-people-in-hospital-with-confirmed-or-suspected-covid-19/
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many ventilators there will be per million people to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak at full capacity; how this compares with the number of such equipment (a) on 1 January 2020, (b) when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed and (c) on 13 April 2020, and what information it has regarding the figures for (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland.
Answer
NHS Scotland has more than trebled its adult ICU capacity from a base of 173 beds to a surge capacity of 585 and, further, Health Boards are preparing to quadruple the base ICU capacity, bringing the total number of adult beds to over 700.
To deliver that increase, we have ordered ventilators from a range of manufacturers. They have begun to arrive and we expect more deliveries in the coming weeks. To bridge any gaps between now and the delivery of new ventilators, Health Boards have worked to repurpose operating theatre anaesthetic machines for use as ventilators. That is not a long-term solution, but it is allowing us to rapidly increase our capacity of intensive care beds.
Questions around non-Scotland data and associated publication regimes are matters for each relevant Government.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many intensive care beds there will be per million people to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak at full capacity; how this compares with the number of such beds (a) on 1 January 2020, (b) when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed and (c) on 13 April 2020, and what information it has regarding the figures for (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-28361 on 19 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: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been discharged from hospital to a care home in (a) March and (b) April 2020 and, of that number, how many were tested for COVID-19.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-28665 on 18 May 2020.
Current guidance, issued by Publish Health Scotland on 29 April 2020, advises that new admissions to care homes should be tested and isolated for 14 days on entering the home. Furthermore, any patients who may be showing symptoms of Covid-19 should have two negative tests before being discharge to a care home.
All care home residents showing symptoms will also now be tested for Coronavirus, a move from previously only testing the first residents to show symptoms to establish the presence of the virus.
Public Health Scotland's guidance is available at https://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/web-resources-container/covid-19-guidance-for-stepdown-of-infection-control-precautions-and-discharging-covid-19-patients-from-hospital-to-residential-settings/ .
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: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 March 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has, beyond statutory sick pay, to provide financial support for people working in care and residential homes who need to self-isolate.
Answer
Jointly with COSLA, I have agreed there will be no delay for adult social care support workers receiving at least the new Real Living Wage rate of £9.30 an hour for all hours worked, including sleep-overs and hours worked by personal assistants. This is payable from 1 April and avoid delay from prolonged contract negotiations. This package will also provide funding to third sector and independent providers specifically to ensure staff receive sick pay if they are off work ill or because they are self-isolating. A joint letter with Cllr Currie was issued to all local authorities setting out details of this arrangement on 10 April.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what ethical guidelines it will put in place for the rationing of medical equipment during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Answer
There are no plans to ration medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every effort is being made to ensure that the capability and capacity needed are put in place.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) NHS staff, (b) social care staff, (c) NHS patients and (d) families of health and social care staff were tested for COVID-19 by (i) 30 March, (ii) 6 April and (iii) 13 April 2020.
Answer
This data is not available. Public Health Scotland started receiving data according to type of worker from 16 April 2020 and the data collection does not separate staff from their family members.
The COVID-19 data and trend charts for Scotland are published daily and provide a range of information on the number of people tested for COVID-19 across Scotland to date, with a breakdown for negative and positive results.
The link to the daily data update is:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/trends-in-number-of-people-in-hospital-with-confirmed-or-suspected-covid-19/
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many deaths there have been in care homes in each local authority area since 1 March 2020, also expressed per head of the population for each council.
Answer
Local authority area | Deaths in care homes (all causes) | Population at 30 June 2018 | Deaths in care homes per 1,000 population | |
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Aberdeen City | 115 | 227,560 | 0.51 | |
Aberdeenshire | 173 | 261,470 | 0.66 | |
Angus | 82 | 116,040 | 0.71 | |
Argyll + Bute | 50 | 86,260 | 0.58 | |
City of Edinburgh | 351 | 518,500 | 0.68 | |
Clackmannanshire | 36 | 51,400 | 0.70 | |
Dumfries + Galloway | 83 | 148,790 | 0.56 | |
Dundee City | 92 | 148,750 | 0.62 | |
East Ayrshire | 61 | 121,840 | 0.50 | |
East Dunbartonshire | 98 | 108,330 | 0.90 | |
East Lothian | 87 | 105,790 | 0.82 | |
East Renfrewshire | 64 | 95,170 | 0.67 | |
Falkirk | 115 | 160,340 | 0.72 | |
Fife | 185 | 371,910 | 0.50 | |
Glasgow City | 423 | 626,410 | 0.68 | |
Highland | 133 | 235,540 | 0.56 | |
Inverclyde | 96 | 78,150 | 1.23 | |
Midlothian | 67 | 91,340 | 0.73 | |
Moray | 31 | 95,520 | 0.32 | |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 20 | 26,830 | 0.75 | |
North Ayrshire | 92 | 135,280 | 0.68 | |
North Lanarkshire | 161 | 340,180 | 0.47 | |
Orkney Islands | 6 | 22,190 | 0.27 | |
Perth + Kinross | 88 | 151,290 | 0.58 | |
Renfrewshire | 172 | 177,790 | 0.97 | |
Scottish Borders | 41 | 115,270 | 0.36 | |
Shetland Islands | 23 | 22,990 | 1.00 | |
South Ayrshire | 87 | 112,550 | 0.77 | |
South Lanarkshire | 241 | 319,020 | 0.76 | |
Stirling | 53 | 94,330 | 0.56 | |
West Dunbartonshire | 74 | 89,130 | 0.83 | |
West Lothian | 74 | 182,140 | 0.41 | |
All Scotland | 3474 | 5,438,100 | 0.64 | |
Source: National Records of Scotland
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 April 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many older people discharged from hospital to care homes have died of (a) suspected and (b) confirmed COVID-19.
Answer
Information on hospital discharges is collected by Public Health Scotland. The specific information requested is not held centrally.