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Since publishing the strategy in February there have been over 20 engagement meetings with a wide range of clinicians and other stakeholders including NHS boards and integration joint boards, professional bodies and other stakeholder groups.

Information will be published later this year on comparative performance across Scotland on the national LDP Standard on post-diagnostic support for dementia. This will show how many people newly diagnosed between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2015 received a minimum of a year’s worth of post diagnostic support.

Part of the mandatory national data set will also show how long people have waited after their formal dementia diagnosis to begin receiving their post-diagnostic service. This information will be available at NHS board, not integration joint board, level.

The Scottish Government designed a national target to give effect to a guarantee that everyone newly diagnosed with dementia between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016 will have received at least a year’s worth of post-diagnostic support, coordinated by a named link worker. This includes the development of a comprehensive and personalised care and support plan.

Information on post-diagnostic support for people with dementia will be published later this year, showing comparative performance across Scotland on the national LDP Standard on post-diagnostic support.

This will show how many people newly diagnosed between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2015 received a minimum of a year’s worth of post diagnostic support. The information will be available at NHS board, not integration joint board, level.

Since April, IJBs are formally responsible for commissioning dementia services, including post-diagnostic services, in their area. Responsibility for the delivery of those services remains with the statutory body tasked with leading the service in each area and this is determined locally.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-29600 on 21 March 2016. 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.

Information on the number of NHS patients treated as an inpatient or day case in the independent sector in the last 18 months up to December 2015 is published quarterly and available on the Information Services Division website.

The Scottish Government is taking a distinctive and extensive approach to increasing the capacity and capability of nursing and other disciplines to respond to dementia, and as such there are no plans to introduce or pilot the use of admiral nurses in Scotland through the NHS. Since 2011, the Scottish Government has co-funded, in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland, the provision of an Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Nurse Consultant in all territorial boards to help provide strategic leadership on change and improvement in NHS dementia care. This is primarily in acute care but we are looking to extend this role in other settings.

In addition, we have over 600 dementia champions (with recruitment ongoing for a further cohort of around 100) working across Scotland to support healthcare staff who work with people with dementia as well as three Allied Health Professional (AHP) dementia consultants hosted in territorial boards: NHS Lothian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Lanarkshire and a National Alzheimer Scotland AHP dementia consultant.

Furthermore, everyone newly diagnosed with dementia in Scotland is entitled to be automatically allocated a trained and named link worker to work with the person with dementia and their family for a minimum of a year. This service offer, underpinned by the national target, is still unique to Scotland.

However, dementia UK is currently working with BUPA to roll forward a partnership to boost the number of admiral nurses across the whole of the UK by 10%. This will include the introduction of the first two admiral nurses in Scotland.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-00460 on 16 June 2016. 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

NHS capital projects in development (with a capital value over £5 million) are listed below along with the expected cost and estimated completion date. The various projects have been grouped into public capital, non-profit distribution (NPD) and revenue financed hub investments. In addition to these capital projects, NHS boards will undertake further capital investments which are within their delegated limits and do not need Scottish Government approval.

Public Capital:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran – Building for Better Care (£28 million), completion expected 2017

NHS Grampian – Baird Family Hospital and Anchor Centre (£120 million), Timescales TBC

NHS Highland - Raigmore Critical Care and Theatres (£29 million), completion expected 2019

NHS Lanarkshire - Monklands Hospital Theatres and ICU (£20 million), completion expected 2018

NHS Western Isles - St Brendans Hospital (circa £9 million), Timescales TBC

Scottish Ambulance Service - Fleet Replacement for period 2016/2021 (circa £80 million), ongoing

NHS Scotland – Elective centres (circa £200 million), timescales TBC

NPD

NHS Ayrshire and Arran - Acute Mental Health & North Ayrshire Community Hospital (£55 million), completion expected 2016

NHS Dumfries and Galloway - Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary (£274 million), completion expected 2018

NHS Lothian - Royal Hospital for Sick Children / Department of Clinical Neurosciences (£230 million), completion expected 2017

NHS Orkney - New Balfour Hospital (£67 million), completion expected 2018

National Services Scotland - Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service National Centre (£38 million), completion expected 2017

Revenue-financed Hub projects

NHS Forth Valley – Stirling Care Village (circa £35 million), completion TBC.

NHS Grampian - Inverurie Health and Care Hub (£14 million), completion expected 2018

NHS Grampian - Foresterhill Campus - Foresterhill Health Centre (£8 million), completion expected 2018

NHS Grampian - Primary Healthcare Priorities in Grampian (£19 million), completion TBC

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Maryhill and Eastwood Health Centres (£25 million), completion expected 2016

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Gorbals and Woodside Health Centres (circa £33 million), completion expected 2017

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Inverclyde Continuing Care for Adults and Older People (£8.5 million), completion expected 2017

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Clydebank and Greenock Health Centres (circa £38 million), completion expected 2019

NHS Highland - Community Hospitals for Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross and Badenoch and Strathspey (circa £30 million), timescales TBC

NHS Lothian – Partnership Centres – Blackburn, NW Edinburgh, Firhill (circa £25 million), completion expected 2018

NHS Lothian – East Lothian Community Hospital (circa £65 million), completion expected 2020

NHS Lothian - Royal Edinburgh Campus Redevelopment (Phase 1 £49 million, further phases circa £120 million), Phase 1 expected completion 2016, further phases TBC

NHS Tayside - NHS Scotland Pharmaceuticals Specials Service (£26 million), timescales TBC

NHS Tayside - Dundee Community Care (circa £20 million), timescales TBC

The Scottish Government recognise that the health and sport committee considered NHS targets, as part of their work around the scrutiny of NHS board budgets, during the last parliamentary session.

In developing a review of NHS targets, the Scottish Government is currently considering the membership of the NHS review of targets expert group. The review will consider whether the targets for the NHS in Scotland support improved outcomes for patients; are consistent with and support our strategic priorities; and are an efficient use of resources.

The expert group will report to ministers and the Scottish Government will publish the report this financial year 2016-17. We will engage with the health and sport committee and political parties as part of the review.