Asked by: Sweeney, Paul (Scottish Labour - Glasgow)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on how the in-year profiling of spend, outlined in the letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance to the Finance and Public Administration Committee on 21 November 2023, will impact levels of delayed discharge across the NHS, particularly in mental health specialties.
Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport
The vast majority of spending on mental health is delivered through NHS board budgets – and this is not directly affected by the Budget reprioritisation. Between the Scottish Government and NHS boards we expect spending on Mental Health to be well in excess of £1.3 billion in financial year 2023-24.
Historically Scotland has a relatively high number of mental health beds per 100,000 of the population and lower levels of bed occupancy (compared to the rest of the UK). However, we are aware of recent pressures on the availability of psychiatric beds, exacerbated by the continuing impact of seasonal illness and COVID-19 on staff capacity in both inpatient and community settings.
Officials have developed a support and engagement plan across mental health services. This will include routine engagement with NHS Boards, alongside access to professional advice and tailored support for those NHS Boards with the highest levels of delayed discharge.
We remain fully committed to delivering the Coming Home recommendations, and to support public bodies to reduce inappropriate hospital stays and out-of-area placements experienced by people with learning disabilities and complex care needs.
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: NHL0081 - NHS leadership, performance and patient safety Patient Safety Commissioner Written Evidence
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Correspondence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: Director General Finance on Public Accounts Committee hearing relating to DHSC contracting for PPE 27.03.24
Correspondence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Correspondence from Andy Brittain, Director General Finance, Department of Health and Social Care, re
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This Order designates specified central government bodies in relation to named government departments for the purpose of those departments’ supply estimates and resource accounts.
Found: Treasury have consulted, where they think it appropriate, the Scottish Ministers, the Department for Finance
Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget is for the Smile for Life programme, and if she will publish a breakdown of costs.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
To improve prevention for our youngest children, we will roll out support education targeting one to three year olds in the new Smile for Life programme. We will work closely with local areas to ensure our national advice and educational materials are tailored appropriately for nurseries and other early years settings.
The Dentistry Recovery Plan is fully funded with £200 million, and will deliver new initiatives to address the challenges facing National Health Service dentistry, including an additional 2.5 million appointments.
Overall NHS spending totals will be set at budget in the usual way. We are committed to protecting funding for dentistry purposes and will ringfence dental funding in 2024/25. We will issue guidance to integrated care boards shortly, through NHS England’s 2024/25 revenue finance and contracting guidance.
Asked by: Nick Smith (Labour - Blaenau Gwent)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NAO report Investigation into supply chain finance in the NHS, HC 734, published on 29 October 2021, what the costs have been to NHS Trusts which used the Earnd of switching to alternative salary advancement initiatives.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
As detailed in the National Audit Office (NAO) report, of the seven National Health Service trusts reported on by the NAO as having used the EARND scheme, two were reported as having lost money totalling £21,429. NHS England was not aware of any other NHS trusts losing money through the EARND scheme.
The identities of the seven NHS trusts were anonymised in the NAO report and therefore it is not possible to provide information on the costs to these trusts of using alternative salary advance schemes since the date of the report.
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1: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) Earlier this year, the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office, Rebecca - Speech Link
2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) From tourism to finance and technology to food and drink exports, we will work to create growth and jobs - Speech Link
3: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) One in seven Scots are on an NHS waiting list. - Speech Link
4: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) would have seen the NHS £1 billion a year better off today. - Speech Link
5: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) We have to try to activate additional sources of finance. - Speech Link
Jul. 22 2011
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