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 criteria it considers an NHS board should use when deciding which hospitals will offer outreach chemotherapy services.
To ask the Scottish Government how far it considers reasonable for a cancer patient to travel to receive chemotherapy services.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the delivery of chemotherapy services by hospitals with areas of significant deprivation in their catchment areas.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will use the experience of the delivery of more chemotherapy services to local communities by NHS Orkney as a template for services in other communities to reduce the travel time and burden for cancer patients.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent statistics suggesting that the number of sheltered and very sheltered homes has decreased by 2,000 since 1996 and the expected increase in the number of older people, whether it has or will set targets for local authorities to construct owner-occupied retirement housing.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure fair application of affordable housing policy for specialised housing for older people, as set out in paragraph 129 of Scottish Planning Policy.
To ask the Scottish Government what role the private sector has in helping to provide owner-occupied retirement housing.
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting local authorities in planning for owner-occupied housing for (a) older and (b) disabled people, as set out in paragraph 132 of Scottish Planning Policy.
To ask the Scottish Government how much the NHS has spent in each of the last four years on procuring drugs, broken down by pharmaceutical company.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the restoration of an outreach chemotherapy service by Stobhill Hospital.