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, further to the answer to question S4O-02492 by Alex Neil on 10 October 2013 (Official Report, c. 23561), whether its media office subsequently briefed reporters that there were more consultants in addition to the number given in the answer and, if so, (a) for what reason, (b) what the additional number in the briefing was and (c) whether the figure provided in the briefing for consultant doctors incorporated nurse recruitment numbers.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its progress in relation to Commitment 6 in the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland: 2012-2015.
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support it has made available in each of the last five years to voluntary organisations that provide talking therapies.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent steps it has taken to improve the mental health outcomes of looked-after children.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent improvements NHS boards have made to the monitoring of information about who is accessing services.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its work with NHS Tayside to develop an approach to improve the response to distress.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent steps it has taken to improve the mental health of vulnerable children.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent progress it has made on lowering psychiatric readmission rates.
To ask the Scottish Government what the 28-day hospital readmission rate following discharge from a mental health speciality has been in each of the last four years, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Detect Cancer Early Programme has made.