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.
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13200 by Michael Matheson on 5 March 2013, what guidance it issues to NHS boards regarding the emergency contraceptive (a) ulipristal acetate and (b) levonorgestrel and whether it plans to review this.
To ask the Scottish Government on how many occasions Health Facilities Scotland has reviewed the cleanliness of medical tools or instruments in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12 and what further action was taken, broken down by (i) NHS board area and (ii) facility.
To ask the Scottish Government how many reviews there have been following a high hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) being recorded in each of the last four years; what HMSRs triggered these; which hospitals were involved; when the reviews were (a) ordered and (b) carried out, and what further action was taken.
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that patients urgently referred through the bowel cancer screening programme start treatment within 62 days.
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the unscheduled care action plan funding (a) is additional funding and (b) has already been budgeted.
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional frontline staff will be employed in each year as a result of the unscheduled care action plan; how many will be (a) consultants, (b) doctors and (c) nurses, and in which NHS boards they will be employed.
To ask the Scottish Government how many new minor injuries units will be created and what hospitals it has identified as locations for co-located services under the unscheduled care action plan.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how the £50 million announced for the unscheduled care action plan will be spent in each year of the plan.
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board will receive in each year under the unscheduled care action plan.
To ask the Scottish Government how many vacant town centre properties have been brought into residential use through the Town Centre Regeneration Fund.