Before 2007-08, information was not collected on the full length of time a person waited from their referral to starting drug treatment.

Prior to the introduction of a new Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Database in April 2011 by the Scottish Government, information was collected on two separate stages of a person’s wait for drug treatment through the Drug Treatment Waiting Times Information Framework.

The first stage collected information on how long people waited from the date they received their referral to the date when they were offered a date for an assessment; and the second stage collected information from the date their care plan was agreed to the date that they were offered an appointment for treatment.

The new Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Database (managed by the Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland) went live on 1 April 2011 and provides data on five types of specialist treatment interventions, including residential rehabilitation. It does not distinguish between residential drug rehabilitation provided by the NHS, voluntary sector or the private sector.

What we knew prior to April 2011 from the former Drug Treatment Waiting Times Information Framework is as follows:

Longest Wait Recorded for Someone Offered an Appointment for Residential Treatment from their Care Plan Being Agreed*

Note: It is unknown how long these people waited for an assessment date prior to being offered an appointment for treatment and whether they actually entered treatment

Source: Drug Treatment Waiting Times Information Framework, Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS National Services Scotland,

What we know now since the introduction of the new Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Database is as follows:

Longest Wait Recorded between Referral Received and Treatment Starting

Source: Drug Treatment Waiting Times Information Framework, Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland.

The most recent statistics on drug treatment waiting times in Scotland showed that at the end of March 2012, three people were still waiting over three weeks to enter residential drug treatment and that nobody had been waiting over 12 weeks (Source: Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times, published by ISD Scotland in June 2012, Table 8).

Information on drug treatment waiting times is published quarterly by ISD Scotland and is available online:

http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/wtpilot/reports.htm

This information is not held centrally.

In the UK, there is an alternative licensed product, OncoTICE, manufactured by MSD. Limited supplies of OncoTICE are now available directly from the manufacturer.

This information is not held centrally.

In the UK, there is an alternative licensed product, OncoTICE, manufactured by MSD. Limited supplies of OncoTICE are now available directly from the manufacturer.

Scottish Medical trainees are recruited to a variety of training programmes including Foundation and GP training, entry to which is organised on a UK basis, and to specialty training which is organised in Scotland through NHS Education for Scotland (NES).

Trainees express preferences for placement in specialties in four Deanery regions in Scotland, the west, north, east and south east. they are then allocated to health boards who employ them (with the exception of GP trainees, who are employed by NES). It is therefore the case that, although employed by health boards, trainee doctors are not taken on by them.

The numbers of doctors in training in Scotland since 2007 are as shown in ISD statistics - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/publications/2012-08-28/M_and_D_staffinpost_J2012.xls?95792133.

Prior to 2007 information on the number of drug rehabilitation places was not collected. We are now gathering information in the Scottish Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Database, introduced in April 2011. This reports on the number of people entering drug and alcohol treatment and support, broken down by NHS Board and Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP). From this, we know that during 2011-12, approximately 15,600 people entered drug treatment to support their recovery.

Nineteen thousand and forty-three drug treatments started between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012 and of these, 678 were residential detoxification and rehabilitation. This is not directly equivalent to the number of rehabilitation (or drug treatment and support) places available.

All treatments started in 2011-12 were as follows:

This national information is not routinely published on an individual NHS board basis.

This information is not held centrally.

A consultation document setting out the Scottish Government’s overall approach to implementation of EU Directive 2011/24 on the Application of Patients’ Rights in Cross-border Healthcare will issue in October. It will seek views on the detail of implementation and examine the effects the Directive may have on Scotland’s healthcare system.

The consultation will cover all key policy and delivery considerations, including: national contact points; patient entitlements, healthcare that may be subject to prior authorisation, and categories for refusal.

The number of specialist child and adolescent beds over the period 2007-11 is:

There are no beds allocated for children or adolescents in adult psychiatric wards.

However, there are times when it may not be possible for a young person to be admitted to a specialist child and adolescent bed – for example, a crisis admission out of hours where there are concerns for the young person’s safety, or where a specialist facility might be a considerable distance from family support that could help recovery.

If a young person has to be in an adult ward, we expect their care to be specially tailored to their needs with input from specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) staff, taking into account education, social work advocacy and recreation.

Further information on Child and Adolescent beds can be obtained from the ISD website http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Hospital-Care/Beds/.

Public bodies listed in the act have a duty to comply fully with responsibilities set out for them in the act. It is, first and foremost, the responsibility of these listed public bodies to demonstrate publicly how they have complied with the various sections of the act which apply to them. However, compliance with the act is monitored as appropriate, including through the ongoing performance management arrangements the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament have with the bodies they each sponsor or support.

The Scottish Government contracted TNS to carry out an evaluation of the field marketing activity in support of its wider 2012 smoking cessation campaign. This research was conducted amongst visitors to bespoke smoking cessation stands in 34 locations across Scotland. All interviews were conducted over the telephone with people aged over 16 who had agreed to be contacted for research purposes. In total, 282 interviews were completed from 26 January to 4 March 2012.