Aug. 29 2024

Found: Briefing packs provided to the Cabinet Secretary of Health and Social Care on his appointment: FOI release

Mentions:
1: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) service waiting list. - Speech Link
2: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) Child and adolescent mental health services statistics capture children who meet the CAMHS criteria. - Speech Link
3: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) Let me help the minister: there are 24,096 children on NDAS waiting lists. - Speech Link

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Asked by: Greene, Jamie (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - West Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to improve mental health waiting times for young people, in light of reported figures showing that at least one patient in NHS Ayrshire and Arran waited 91 weeks before their first child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) appointment.

Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport

The latest statistics show that 75.6% of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) patients started treatment within 18 weeks of their referral. At Board level, 13 out of 14 CAMHS services have effectively eliminated their long waiting lists where 3% or fewer of all waits are over a year.

We regularly engage with Boards at official level, continually monitoring CAMHS waiting times performance and backlogs and directing tailored support to those Boards with the longest waits, including NHS Ayrshire and Arran. We provide access to professional advice, ensuring they have robust improvement plans in place and monitor their implementation.

We have commissioned all Boards to submit performance trajectories up to March 2024, including a timeline for clearing long waits. These will be updated annually and used to inform further targeted improvement work to ensure all Boards consistently meet the CAMHS waiting times standard.

Mentions:
1: Gallacher, Meghan (Con - Central Scotland) Child and adolescent mental health services waiting times are through the roof, and the SNP has remodelled - Speech Link
2: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) I remember that, when the framework was published, waiting lists were sitting at about four years. - Speech Link
3: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) That means that they are put on extremely long waiting lists, sometimes for years, and they receive no - Speech Link

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Asked by: Mochan, Carol (Scottish Labour - South Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS boards currently use the system, TrakCare; in which clinical services they use the system, and how many staff are employed to maintain the system.

Answered by Gray, Neil - Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

TrakCare is used as the main patient management system by 13 Health Boards:

• NHS Ayrshire and Arran;
• NHS Borders;
• NHS Fife;
• NHS Forth Valley;
• NHS Great Glasgow and Clyde;
• NHS Grampian;
• Golden Jubilee National Hospital;
• NHS Highland;
• NHS Lanarkshire;
• NHS Lothian;
• NHS Orkney;
• NHS Shetland; and
• NHS Tayside.

All 13 Health Boards use TrakCare for waiting lists, Outpatients and inpatients, clinical coding, national Scottish Morbidity Records and new ways returns. Various Boards also use TrakCare for Emergency Departments, maternity services, mental health, community services, radiology, and theatres.

In addition, the system supports order request functionality for the service departments to manage the provision of laboratory, X-ray and diagnostic services; and Allied Health Professionals, observations, and clinical data recoding in clinical forms to varying degrees.

The Scottish Government does not collate or hold information on how many staff the Health Boards employ to maintain TrakCare.