S6W-20175

Asked by: McNeill, Pauline (Scottish Labour - Glasgow)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons there are no high secure healthcare beds for women in Scotland.

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

There has been no female high secure provision in Scotland since 2009. The decision to stop providing treatment was because the majority of women at the time did not in fact require high security and the development of medium secure services provided an opportunity to address that.

In the small number of cases where a female does require high security, an arrangement was put in place whereby a woman who requires treatment in a high secure facility can be referred to Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire, and transferred via the statutory cross-border transfer process.

Mentions:
1: None undertook a two-day site visit to the national female high-secure service at the Rampton hospital in - Speech Link
2: None , it is likely that a facility such as Rampton would be required for certain female patients. - Speech Link
3: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) That issue was highlighted the last time a state hospital representative was here. - Speech Link