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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-03870

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the guidance it has provided to NHS boards regarding (a) the operation of and (b) access to the New Medicines Fund.

The Scottish Government issued a letter to NHS boards in 2015-16 which provided New Medicines Fund guidance. The letter included details of the 2015-16 funding arrangements and purpose of the fund - to ensure that availability of funding is not a barrier to NHS Board implementation of policy intentions on increased patient access to licensed orphan, ultra-orphan and end of life medicines and that no NHS Board is better or worse off financially on the basis of clinical decisions on prescribing these medicines.

Question reference: S5W-03871

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has (a) requested and (b) received from the New Medicines Fund in each year since 2013-14.

The New Medicines Fund has been in operation since 2014-15. Funding is allocated by the Scottish Government – NHS Boards do not request funding. Amounts allocated to individual NHS Boards are detailed in the following table:

	2014-15	2015-16
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	£1.330 m	£6.222 m
NHS Borders	£1.019 m	£1.856 m
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	£0.656 m	£3.323 m
NHS Fife	£1.638 m	£4.860 m
NHS Forth Valley	£0.466 m	£4.439 m
NHS Grampian	£1.583 m	£8.971 m
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	£5.424 m	£20.369 m
NHS Highland	£0.532 m	£4.949 m
NHS Lanarkshire	£2.120 m	£10.688 m
NHS Lothian	£3.021 m	£11.835 m
NHS Orkney	£0	£0.283 m
NHS Shetland	£0	£0.280 m
NHS Tayside	£2.122 m	£6.500 m
NHS Western Isles	£0.089 m	£0.426 m
NHS National Services Scotland	£1.500 m	£0 m
TOTAL	£21.500 m	£85.000 m

Question reference: S5W-04145

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 31 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03241 by Shona Robison on 26 October 2016, whether it will provide a breakdown of how the primary care fund budget for 2016-17 will be allocated.

The Scottish Government's outline allocation of the 2016-17 Primary Care Fund is provided in the following table.

Primary Care Fund	Budget 2016-17
General practice support and Clusters	11.4
Out of Hours Review	10.0
Primary Care Transformation	9.5
Pharmacy in General Practice	6.6
Digital Fund	4.0
GP Recruitment and Retention	1.6
Leadership in Integration & School of Primary Care	1.0
Other	0.9
Total Primary Care Fund Budget	45.0

Question reference: S5W-04148

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 31 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03243 by Shona Robison on 26 October 2016, what percentage of NHS funding will be spent on general practice in each of the next five years.

Question reference: S5W-04146

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 31 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to its news release of 15 October 2016, Increased investment in primary care, whether it will provide a breakdown of how much money will be allocated each year and what this will be spent on.

Question reference: S5W-04150

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 31 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to its news release of 15 October 2016, Increased investment in primary care, what areas of treatment it defines as primary care.

The Scottish Government is committed to increasing spending on primary care services to 11% of the frontline NHS budget by 2021-22. The increased investment in primary care will support the development of a multi-disciplinary approach to primary care, with increased staffing as well as investment in GP services and health centres. It reflects the Scottish Government’s commitment to shift the balance of care away from hospitals and towards primary and community settings.

Primary Care is wider than GPs and covers the wider primary care team. Examples of wider primary care services include home visits by district nurses or community link workers.

Question reference: S5W-04149

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 31 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to its news release of 15 October 2016, Increased investment in primary care, whether it will provide a breakdown of how it will increase spending on primary care services each year until this reaches 11% of the frontline NHS budget.

Question reference: S5W-04052

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings and recommendations in the United Kingdom Lung Cancer Coalition’s report, 25 by 25: a ten-year strategy to improve lung cancer survival rates.

The Scottish Government shares the United Kingdom Lung Cancer Coalitions (UKLCC) ambition to raise five year survival rates for lung cancer to 25% by 2025.

Our ‘Beating Cancer: Ambition and Action’ strategy and the accompanying
£100 million investment over 5 years, serves as a blueprint for the future of cancer services in Scotland, improving the prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare of people affected by all cancers.

Question reference: S5W-03579

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 4 November 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many men aged 65 and over have (a) been invited to attend and (b) participated in an aortic aneurysm screening.

Men in their 65^th year are invited to attend Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening. Implementation of the screening programme was phased across Scotland from June 2012. Table 1 presents invite and uptake rates for men eligible for screening from implementation up to 31 March 2014 and includes screening activity for these men to 30 November 2015.

Table 1: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening in Scotland: Invite and uptake rates for men who reached 65 years of age by 31 March 2014

(Source: Scottish AAA Call Recall System at 1 December 2015)

Number of men eligible for initial screening

Offered screening

Attended screening (uptake)

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

72,237

100.0

61,942

85.8

Men eligible for screening up to 31 March 2014 consisted of men who were aged 65 on the NHS Board implementation date, and men who turned 65 years following the NHS Board implementation date and before 1 April 2014.

This information and further details, including figures presented by NHS Board, are published at: http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Public-Health/AAA-Screening/

Question reference: S5W-03243

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 October 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of NHS funding is spent on general practice.

Information on General Practice (Primary Medical Services) expenditure in 2014-15 is shown in the following table:

Total Operating Expenditure¹ (£000)

General Practice Expenditure²

(£000)

General Practice Expenditure²

(%)

£10,800,916

£852,570

7.89%

The Scottish Health Service Costs (Costs Book) publication analyses around 94% of NHS Scotland net operating costs and reflects health care expenditure within the 14 geographic health board areas and two of the eight special boards, the State Hospital and Golden Jubilee National Hospital.
General Practice Expenditure includes: Global Sum payment, Minimum Practice Income Guarantee, Quality, Enhanced Services, Seniority, Doctors Retainer Scheme Payments, GP Out of Hours Services, Premises, IM&T & Scottish Quality Prescribing Initiative.

Source: 2014-15 Costs Book, report R100: http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Finance/Publications/2015-11-24/Costs_R100_2015.xlsx