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 what action it has taken to implement the recommendation of Equally Well: Report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Health Inequalities that "The Government should create and fund new evidence-based anticipatory care programmes for other groups at high risk of health problems".
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes of (a) older and (b) disabled people have been adapted in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost to the NHS is of an unplanned acute admission to hospital.
To ask the Scottish Government how many delayed discharges there have been in each NHS board area in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on reducing the number of delayed discharges from hospital.
To ask the Scottish Government how many acute NHS hospital beds have been allocated for (a) geriatric and (b) paediatric services in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it uses for planning purposes of the average cost of supporting an (a) older and (b) disabled person to continue living at home rather than go into care.
To ask the Scottish Government what cost estimate it uses in health service planning for (a) NHS treatment, (b) admission to hospital and (c) hospital bed occupancy.
To ask the Scottish Government how many unplanned emergency admissions there have been to NHS hospitals in each of the last 10 years and how many were by (a) older people, (b) disabled people and (c) children.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on redesigning services providing care to (a) older people, (b) disabled people and (c) children using change fund funding.