Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that urology patients have been moved from Gartnavel General Hospital to the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, causing increased capacity pressures.
To ask the Scottish Government how many under-18-year-old (a) inpatients in mental health facilities and (b) schoolchildren have received talking therapies in each year since 2010.
To ask the Scottish Government what provisions there are for people with learning disabilities to be treated in the community.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people (a) up to and (b) over 18 years of age have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals with a principal diagnosis of learning disability in each year since 2010, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) talking and (b) drug therapies have been prescribed by GPs for mental health patients in each year since 2012.
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports employers to encourage employees to seek specialist help for mental health issues.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to raise awareness of mental health issues in the workplace.
To ask the Scottish Government when the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Implementation Monitoring and Support Group has held meetings; what was discussed, and whether it will provide the minutes from those meetings.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-26059 by Jamie Hepburn on 18 June 2015, where the recorded minutes and agenda for meetings of the Stakeholder Group on Child Internet Safety can be found and whether the impact of social media on people at risk of eating disorders has been discussed with stakeholders.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to make basic infant mental health training more widely available to professionals in the children’s services workforce.