Ministers did not see resilience partnership plans following exercise Silver Swan. Regional Resilience Partnerships plans are not routinely shared with Scottish Government Ministers.

The Scottish Government is taking steps to develop a robust understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health and to respond to these.

The Mental Health Research Advisory Group has been established to monitor and interpret research developments. This will help us to put in place evidence-based responses across the population including for young people.

The Chief Scientist Office is funding rapid Scottish led research on COVID-19, including studies looking at Children Young People’s mental health, with a specific focus on vulnerable children. We will also continue to monitor surveys and research such as the Young Scot Lockdown Lowdown.

We have invested £105,000 to support Young Scot to create Aye Feel, an enhanced digital mental wellbeing resource for young people. The new content is hosted on Young Scot’s own digital platform – as well as on social media. Aye Feel provides a place where young people can find information and advice within Young Scot’s well-established set of services which young people already use.

The Scottish Government has made available an additional £3 million marketing spend in Scottish newspapers across the rest of the year. This will be targeted where it is most needed, including local newspapers, to support them during the COVID-19 crisis.

We recognise the importance of local newspapers and other local media outlets, and will consider how best to support their long-term future as part of the recovery process.

The Scottish Government is not considering the establishment of a "national general practice service".

Since the inception of the NHS, general practice has developed as an independent contractor model. After consideration and wide discussion the Scottish Government and BMA agreed in 2018 that general practice would continue as an independent contractor model.

I refer the member to the answer given to S5W-28179 on 8 June 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 .

The type of tests being used in Scotland (real time PCR assays) ar e widely used for the detection of respiratory viruses, as well as a range of other viral pathogens, owing to their speed and versatility.

Scottish laboratories are working in collaboration with the Scottish Microbiology & Virology Network (SMVN), National Laboratories Programme (NLP) and Health Protection Scotland, as well as linking in with Public Health England, to ensure that all tests are quality checked and validated for use.

Based on work by NHS Lothian on symptomatic cases the accuracy of tests for clinical diagnosis is 98%. This was presented in a Royal College of Pathologists webinar - available online .

There have been 441 retired medics who have expressed an interest in returning to support the NHS as a doctor during the COVID-19 outbreak through the Accelerated Recruitment Portal.

This information is based on self-declarations and may be subject to revision as formal pre-employment checks are carried out.

This figure does not include retired medics who may have expressed their interest directly with an NHS Board, as these figures are not held centrally. This also does not include retired medics who expressed an interest in non patient clinical roles.

There has been no change to the guidance on the use of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary (DNACPR) forms during the Covid 19 outbreak. As such, the Scottish Government has not sought legal advice on the existing DNACPR guidance during the Covid 19 outbreak.

In 2016, the DNACPR policy was reviewed to reflect feedback and changes in the national good practice guidance which remains current (Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - guidance from the British Medical Association, Royal College of Nursing and the Resuscitation Council ( UK) - 2016). This policy also takes into account relevant legal changes resulting from case law and therefore specialist legal advice was provided as part of the formation of the policy.

Clinical advice on admitting people with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 to hospital is included in a range of clinical guidance that has been published on the Scottish Government website - https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-clinical-advice/ .

This information is not held centrally. The member can obtain this information by contacting the Information Services Division.