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 whether it will break down the service provision tables at Appendix 5 of the Scottish Public Health Network report, Health Care Needs Assessment of Adult Chronic Pain Services in Scotland, by the number of (a) part- and (b) full-time staff employed by each NHS board at the (i) self-management, (ii) community and primary care service, (iii) secondary care-based specialist pain management service and (iv) highly specialist level.
To ask the Scottish Government whether each NHS board provided the Scottish Public Health Network with staffing figures for chronic pain services to inform its report, Health Care Needs Assessment of Adult Chronic Pain Services in Scotland, and, if so, in light of the comment in the report that staffing “was the biggest concern for most boards”, for what reason the figures were not included.
To ask the Scottish Government how many clinical staff for chronic pain services there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-02629 by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2018 (Official Report, c.10), what evidence it has to support the First Minister's comment that "that the vaccine that is being offered to 65- to 74-year-olds this winter still provides full flu protection".
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11652 by Shona Robison on 2 November 2017, whether it will provide an update on the number of new GPs recruited through the GP Recruitment and Retention Fund, also broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the findings of the recent workforce survey regarding chronic pain among health workers, which was carried out by the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain.
To ask the Scottish Government how many bids have been made for funding support from the extra funding that it announced for breastfeeding services in July 2018, also broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in the Lothian region in each year since 2007 have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of child abuse arising from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, or fabricating or inducing illness, and what information it has regarding how many children in each local authority area in the region were removed from their families or place of residence as a result of civil processes following the allegations.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13509 by Aileen Campbell on 11 January 2018, what funding it provided toward the research project in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19; how many researchers are participating, and what progress has been made.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its news release of 29 July 2018, £2 million more for breastfeeding support, how much each NHS board will receive, broken down by timescale.