- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how local authorities will be able to process all the COVID-19 tests each week that will be required to routinely test all care home workers and residents.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-29356 on 10 July 2020. 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 .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) NHS boards and (b) local authorities are currently able to carry out routine testing, and what support it is providing to enable them to do so.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question number S5W-29356 on 10 July 2020. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-29734 by Clare Hughey on 18 June 2020, what assessment has been made of the ability of Regional Adolescent Inpatient Units to support adolescents with moderate learning disabilities, in light of reported concerns that there is a lack of access to support for this group.
Answer
Young people with mild to moderate learning disabilities and mental health problems are able to access the three regional adolescent Inpatient Units (IPU).This group was considered when the regional network of adolescent IPUs was expanded to 48 beds for Scotland.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-29736 by Clare Hughey on 18 June 2020, what the timeline is for the introduction of the Managed Clinical Network.
Answer
Scottish Government officials are currently working to identify, a project lead and Lead Clinician to establish a Steering Group and develop the specification and standards for a National Leading Disability CAMHS Clinical Network. Subject to progress and the recommendations of the Steering Group, an application to the NHS National Specialist Services Committee for National MCN designation will follow.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many GP surgeries have closed in each year since 1999.
Answer
This is a matter for individual Health Boards and the information requested is not held centrally .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-29734 by Clare Haughey on 18 June 2020, what measures NHS National Services Scotland has as a contingency if there is no bed availability in CAMHS units in England.
Answer
If a young person requires admission to a learning disability CAMHS inpatient unit, NHS National Services Scotland commission cross border admissions to a suitable facility within NHS England. If an admission is not made, the NHS board providing care would provide alternative care. This could include providing an intensive community care option, or by admission to a non-specialist unit with additional input from specialist clinicians, such as to a regional adolescent IPU with input from clinicians with Learning Disability CAMHS expertise.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of ministers stating that the Scottish Government does not know what the COVID-19 R number is in care homes, what steps are being taken to monitor the R number in care homes.
Answer
We do not calculate a separate R value for care homes.
Scottish Government is informed of the findings of independent academic researchers such as those of the SPI M sub group who are developing methods for estimating transmission in care homes. This is not focused on using R but instead on developing care home appropriate measures of covid infections within care homes. These care home appropriate methods when completed will provide an understanding of transmission in care homes in Scotland. The Scottish Government is carefully considering a range of Covid statistics on care homes. This includes data produced daily by Scottish Government on the number of number of care homes notifying cases of COVID-19, and the number of suspected cases of COVID-19 in care homes.
Scottish Government officials have also been working with representatives of the Care Inspectorate, Scottish Social Services Council, Scottish Care and care home providers to produce a number of resources which will support care homes to identify factors that may impact on the health, safety and wellbeing of residents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest details on the resources being made available can be found at:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-clinical-and-practice-guidance
-for-adult-care-homes/ .
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 8 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what support it will provide to dental practices to help them recover from the suspension of treatment payments during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-30075 on 8 July 2020. 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 '.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 8 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when the chronic pain clinics that have been closed under the COVID-19 lockdown will start re-opening and, in light of the services these offer, whether it will prioritise their reopening as an urgent matter.
Answer
We are now in phase two of the route map out of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Health Boards are remobilising services in line with the ‘Remobilise, Recover and Re-design Framework’ that we published on 31 May. We have outlined this should start with the expansion of non-cancer urgent inpatient and outpatient services and we expect this to include the gradual re-introduction of some chronic disease management from 6 July that could include pain services.
How different specialties categorise and prioritise the urgency of cases will be informed by guidance from professional bodies and local circumstances such as the availability of relevant facilities and other specialists to assist with complex procedures.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether local authorities should offer refunds or permit extensions to people who have paid in advance for business and trade parking permits but who have not been able to operate due to the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, and what discussions it has had with councils regarding this.
Answer
These types of schemes are managed by local authorities and it will be the decision of each local authority whether to extend or refund.