Chamber and committees

The Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities was published in September 2012 and reviewed in September 2017. As a result and in response to views expressed by participants, Ministers agreed that further revision of the Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities is necessary. This work is currently underway and involves engagement with key stakeholders and service users.

This issue is being considered by the Scottish Government in conjunction with NHS Boards.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-21701 on 4 March 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

The Scottish Government recognises the important role of primary care teams in delivering care to patients living with advanced, serious illness or at the end of lives, and their loved ones.

The Daffodil Standards for GPs provides a useful resource for practice teams who wish to improve on the care that they provide to people near the end of life. We will consider if there is more we can do to ensure all GP practices are aware of the standards and this resource.

Prescribing data is not associated with diagnostic data in the Prescribing Information System (PIS) dataset or in the Hospital Medicine Use Database (HMUD). It is reasonable to make the assumption that the prescription of these drugs indicates the patients are being treated for advanced Parkinson’s disease.

The number of people prescribed apomorphine and duodopa in Primary Care in the 12 months up to November 2018 is shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Number of people prescribed apomorphine and duodopa in the community in Scotland in the 12 months up to November 2018.

Since starting inspections in September 2009, a total of 295 safety
and cleanliness inspections have been undertaken in hospitals by
the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate. This is broken down as
follows:

This information is not held centrally. The member may wish to consider contacting individual Health Boards to obtain this information.

Since 1999 over 67,000 cancer patients have accessed clinical trials in Scotland, broken down by NHS Board as shown in the following tables:

Sickness Absence rates for all staff directly employed by NHSScotland are published annually for year ending 31 March. Figures for NHSScotland, and for individual health boards are available from 2002 and 2005 respectively.

This information can be found on the Workforce web page of NHS Scotland’s Information Services Division at https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2018-06-05/Sickness_Absence_M2018.xls .

Once the Respiratory Care Action Plan is finalised we will have a better understanding of the financial challenges and opportunities lying ahead and this will inform funding decisions.