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Deposited Papers

Nov. 28 2011

Source Page: Trauma and orthopaedic surgery. 38 p.
Document: DEP2011-1913.pdf (PDF)

Found: Trauma and orthopaedic surgery. 38 p.


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
GP Surgery Closures (Highlands and Islands) - Thu 21 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) Indeed, the Hopeman premises have now been sold and the lease for the surgery at Burghead has been handed - Speech Link
2: Grant, Rhoda (Lab - Highlands and Islands) needs an emergency appointment, it is absolutely unsuitable, and it does not cover the whole of the surgery - Speech Link
3: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) is a failure, and every GP surgery that has no succession plan is doomed. - Speech Link
4: Ewing, Fergus (SNP - Inverness and Nairn) I nearly visited the Burghead surgery many years ago when I was dive-bombed by a seagull, which managed - Speech Link


Bill
Cosmetic Surgery (Standards) Bill [HL] 2017-19

Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)
Summary

A Bill to make provision to include medical practitioners specialising in cosmetic surgery in the Specialist Register for medical practitioners


Deposited Papers

Nov. 24 2008

Source Page: Guidance and competencies for the provision of services using GPs with special interests: dermatology and skin surgery. 36 p.
Document: DEP2008-2827.pdf (PDF)

Found: and competencies for the provision of services using GPs with special interests: dermatology and skin surgery


Open Petition since 7th December 2023

Provide funding to reduce NHS waiting times for surgery for children - 69 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 79 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)

I think that the Government should provide ringfenced funding to the NHS to reduce waiting times for children who are waiting for surgery.

Found: Provide funding to reduce NHS waiting times for surgery for children


Written Question
Obesity: Surgery
Monday 19th February 2024

Asked by: Simon Lightwood (Labour (Co-op) - Wakefield)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase access to NHS-provided weight loss surgery in the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning National Health Service specialist and bariatric weight management services. Rates of bariatric surgery fell across West Yorkshire during the pandemic as hospitals focused on surgeries that were more clinically urgent. More patients are, however, starting to receive treatment again. To speed up access to surgery, the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts, which includes the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, are working to ensure that people who have been waiting the longest times are offered the opportunity to have their surgery at an alternative hospital, if they wish.

Additionally, local areas and care providers in West Yorkshire are working together to review obesity and bariatric surgery commissioning policies and processes to ensure that they are providing care in the best and most efficient way possible, to make the most of resources and to offer treatment to more people who need it.


Written Question
Obesity: Surgery
Monday 15th January 2024

Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 5026 on Obesity: Surgery, how many people are on a waiting list for gastric band surgery; and how many were on a waiting list in January 2021.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Data covering waiting lists for gastric band surgery in January 2021 is not available. The number of patients waiting for gastric band surgery as of 31 December 2023 was 13.


Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate

Dec. 07 2023

Source Page: Information regarding incidents of people returning to Scotland having had surgery in another country (outside the UK) then developing complications or dying: FOI release
Document: FOI - 202200330385 - SBAR Document - REDACTED (PDF)

Found: Information regarding incidents of people returning to Scotland having had surgery in another country


Written Question
Obesity: Surgery
Monday 15th January 2024

Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been waiting for (a) gastric band, (b) gastric bypass, (c) sleeve gastrectomy and (d) duodenal switch surgery for over (i) 52 and (ii) 65 weeks.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

As of 31 December 2023, for gastric bypass surgery, the total number waiting over 52 weeks was 87, with 20 of these waiting over 65 weeks. For sleeve gastrectomy, the total number waiting over 52 weeks was 120, with 40 of these waiting over 65 weeks.

NHS England is unable to provide the exact number of patients waiting over 52 and 65 weeks for gastric bands and duodenal switch surgery due to disclosure control of small numbers.


Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate

Dec. 07 2023

Source Page: Information regarding incidents of people returning to Scotland having had surgery in another country (outside the UK) then developing complications or dying: FOI release
Document: FOI - 202200330385 - Annex A - Redacted emails and documents (PDF)

Found: Information regarding incidents of people returning to Scotland having had surgery in another country