Chamber and committees

The Scottish Government’s Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland (2011) set out the minimum standard of care to which people with dementia, including early onset dementia, are entitled to. On-going national implementation of the Promoting Excellence dementia workforce skills and knowledge framework (2011) is supporting local services deliver those standards.

Under 65s have different post-diagnostic support needs in areas such as maintaining their community connections and accessing peer support. Our national post-diagnostic target, underpinned by a commitment that everyone diagnosed from 1 April 2013 will receive a minimum of a year’s worth of dedicated support, coordinated by a trained link worker and regardless of age, is based on Alzheimer Scotland’s 5 Pillar person centred support model and will help meet those needs.

Last year, Health Scotland published Younger people with dementia: living well with your diagnosis. Developed in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland, it provides a range of insights and information from younger people with dementia and their family carers in their own words about what helps to live well with the diagnosis.

Local authorities have a duty under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to assess the needs of people and decide whether they should arrange any services and, if so, which services. Local authorities are expected to ensure that the resources available are used in the most effective way to meet individual care needs. Under Section 87(1A) of the 1968 Act, a local authority may charge for the adult non-residential, non-personal care it provides.

This information is not held centrally.

Projected figures are approximations based on prevalence modelling only. Using the Eurocode prevalence model, there are approximately 3,000 people with dementia under 65 in Scotland, out of an approximate total of 86,000 cases of dementia.

The national dementia post-diagnostic HEAT target states that by 2015-16 all people diagnosed from April 2013, (including all people under 65 with the illness), will have a minimum of a year’s worth of dedicated post-diagnostic support, coordinated by a named link worker. The data collected centrally in connection with this target includes the age of the recipient of the service. This data will be available once it is of sufficient quality.

We know that of the 86,000 people currently living with dementia in Scotland, around 3,000 are under 65.

Last year, Health Scotland published Younger people with dementia: living well with your diagnosis. Developed in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland, it provides a range of insights and information from younger people with dementia and their family carers in their own words about what helps to live well with the diagnosis.

There are specific challenges for this group. Rarer forms of dementia are more common in under 65s and can be more difficult to diagnose.

Under 65s have different post-diagnostic support needs, in areas such as maintaining their community connections and accessing peer support.

Our national post-diagnostic target, underpinned by a commitment that everyone diagnosed from 1 April 2013 will receive a minimum of a year’s worth of dedicated support, coordinated by a trained link worker and regardless of age, is based on Alzheimer Scotland’s 5 Pillar person centred support model and will help meet those needs.

This information is not held centrally.

This information is not held centrally.

We know that of the 86,000 people currently living with dementia in Scotland, around 3,000 are under 65.

Last year, Health Scotland published Younger people with dementia: living well with your diagnosis. Developed in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland, it provides a range of insights and information from younger people with dementia and their family carers in their own words about what helps to live well with the diagnosis.

There are specific challenges for this group. Rarer forms of dementia are more common in under 65s and can be more difficult to diagnose.

Under 65s have different post-diagnostic support needs, in areas such as maintaining their community connections and accessing peer support.

Our national post-diagnostic target, underpinned by a commitment that everyone diagnosed from 1 April 2013 will receive a minimum of a year’s worth of dedicated support, coordinated by a trained link worker and regardless of age, is based on Alzheimer Scotland’s 5 Pillar person centred support model and will help meet those needs.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-20424 on 24 April 2014. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

NHS pay is set with reference to the recommendations of the NHS Pay Review Body (for Agenda for Change staff) and the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body (for doctors and dentists). The Scottish Government values the advice of these UK bodies and would anticipate continuing to make use of either these or equivalent bodies going forward, although no specific discussions have taken place with the UK Government on this issue.

With regard to direct pay bargaining, Scotland already has highly developed NHS partnership arrangements. Any direct negotiation on pay is already taken forward through these structures and this will continue to be the case in the future.

Information on how many NHS addiction services have service level agreements in place with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) is not held centrally. It is for ADPs to commission services to meet the needs of the local population and to ensure services are monitored.

2014-15 funding allocations for alcohol and drug partnership (ADPs) have not yet been issued. However, indicative allocations for 2014-15 were shared with ADPs in their 2013-14 funding allocation letters issued in May 2013, and this information is provided in the following table.

Information about the percentage of the overall budget for ADPs that has been allocated for each ADP area for 2014-15 is not held centrally.

Under the national delivery framework for ADPs, NHS boards as well as being members of local partnerships have an additional role in receiving and accounting for Scottish Government funding for alcohol and drug prevention, treatment and support services on behalf of their local partners. These allocations represent the minimum amount that an ADP(s) will spend on these issues. All partners are free to supplement funds from their main budgets in order to meet the needs of the local population.

In NHS board areas where there is more than one ADP, the NHS board should agree with the partnerships how the funding should be distributed between ADPs within the board area: