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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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Question reference: S5W-24168

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 25 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of eating disorders have been recorded in each year since 2007, also broken down by NHS board.

Number of cases with eating disorder diagnoses1 by health board of treatment, 2007 - 2017.

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Ayrshire & Arran	35	35	29	50	44	31	52	37	25	49	23
Borders	11	8	7	16	15	22	21	16	13	35	23
Dumfries & Galloway	13	15	19	16	24	19	17	84	147	66	61
Fife	34	23	32	16	27	25	36	37	35	36	47
Forth Valley	9	14	13	16	21	20	23	19	5	13	27
Grampian	86	46	87	80	89	97	104	119	106	83	99
Greater Glasgow & Clyde	122	140	127	119	119	159	146	205	213	223	214
Highland	22	39	46	23	77	64	61	83	99	73	98
Island Boards 2	*	*	7	9	*	5	12	8	*	9	7
Lanarkshire	38	21	22	29	53	48	38	43	43	75	61
Lothian	126	131	124	131	104	149	171	187	194	162	177
Other 3	17	9	5	11	15	7	8	23	50	54	42
Tayside	36	27	37	46	42	52	48	39	50	58	44

Source: SMR01, SMR04

Notes

* - Denotes values which have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality.

1 - An eating disorder diagnosis is based on current classifications in Chapter V of the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders.

2 - Due to small numbers, the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Isles health boards have been grouped under Island Boards to protect patient confidentiality.

3 - Due to small numbers, the National Facility, Non-NHS Provider/Location, and State Hospital health boards have been grouped under Other to protect patient confidentiality.

Question reference: S5W-24021

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, following the publication of the Cancer Patient Experience Survey, what steps it is taking to increase the number of cancer patients who are given a care plan.

Question reference: S5W-24022

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, following the publication of the Cancer Patient Experience Survey, how it will ensure that all cancer patients who want it are offered financial or benefits support.

Question reference: S5W-24000

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it or Transport Scotland plans to publish guidance regarding the use of rear-facing child car seats similar to that published in Sweden.

Through Road Safety Scotland, which is part of Transport Scotland, we are already committed partners in the Good Egg In-car Safety campaign. Over the past 18 years, we have played a major role in campaigning on child car seats. We have provided valuable advice to parents and carers, offering child car-seat checks across Scotland. A guide and website are integral to the campaign and address the whole range of issues relating to child car seats, including encouragement for those who travel with young children to use extended rear-facing car seats.

Question reference: S5W-24189

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many “did not attend” appointments have been recorded in each NHS board in each year since 2007.

The table on the number of Did Not Attends (DNA's) for New Outpatient Appointments in each NHS Health Board of Treatment from 2007-2018 is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 60855)

Please note that DNA recording for NHS Lothian from May 2018 is incorrect resulting in lower than expected DNA figures for 2018.

The Modern Outpatient Programme is working within NHS Boards to test a ‘Smarter Booking’ system which will allow patients to re-engage with secondary care specialist services and to cancel appointments on-line. The system would also allow short notice and same day cancellations to be notified to individuals on the waiting list thus reducing the impact of wasted appointments.

Question reference: S5W-24171

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many operations have been undertaken in independent hospitals in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-24020

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-20442 and S5W-20444 by Jeane Freeman on 6 December 2018, what progress it has made in ensuring that all cancer patients receive a treatment summary at the end of their treatment.

Question reference: S5W-24098

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of operations that have taken place in the private healthcare sector in each year since 1999.

The figures in the following table represent the number of NHS funded operations that have been undertaken in independent hospitals in each year since 1999 and reported to ISD.

This Government is absolutely committed to a publicly-owned, and operated NHS. So the people of Scotland continue to have free timely access to health services.

Through the Waiting Times Improvement Plan, activity undertaken by the Independent Sector has been brought under a National contract. This will reduce costs, maximise effectiveness and enable value for money and performance to be clearly evidenced. The new approach will only be used as required while NHS capacity is expanded over the longer term.

Calendar Year	Number of Inpatient Operations	Number of Outpatient Operations 4
1999	397	-
2000	245	-
2001	638	-
2002	645	-
2003	1,066	3
2004	1,185	-
2005	1,922	38
2006	1,807	50
2007	2,288	419
2008	4,085	364
2009	6,075	395
2010	2,447	401
2011	1,581	221
2012	6,592	383
2013	7,832	1,608
2014	9,034	1,386
2015	8,864	1,366
2016	4,022	227
2017	3,734	491
2018	4,230	130

- denotes zero

1 Relates to NHS patients treated in non-NHS locations such as private hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, care homes etc. The data recording/completeness of Non-NHS Provider data varies from year to year. Therefore, please treat any data provided with caution. If a patient is treated privately (i.e. treatment paid for by patient or private insurer) and there is no NHS involvement, then this patient activity is not recorded in SMR and is not included in the figures above.

2 Note that figures for the years 1999 to 2002 exclude the Golden Jubilee National Hospital as data were not provided to ISD.

3 There was no activity reported to ISD for the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre at Stracathro Hospital after January 2010.

4 There is variation in the completeness of recording of outpatient procedures. Outpatient data only include patients that attended their outpatient appointment and were seen.

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR00 and SMR01, extracted July 2019

Question reference: S5W-24101

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action NHS Scotland is taking to reduce its carbon footprint.

NHSScotland has already made significant progress in reducing the emissions from its estate. At the end of 2018-19, greenhouse gas emissions were down by more than 61.6% on 1990 levels.

Measures in place to see these reductions include:

the eradication of the use of coal, and significant reduction in the use of heavy fuel oil;
upgrading energy centres to take advantage of latest energy efficiency technologies;
upgrading lighting across their estates to enable the use of high efficiency LED lighting;
the procurement of a national contract with WarpIt to enable Boards to reuse office equipment across their estate and within other public and third sector estates; and
the development of a plastics hierarchy to assist the movement towards a single-source recyclable plastic for use across all NHS applications.

Question reference: S5W-24191

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 July 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS staff residential properties each NHS board owns.