The Scottish Government does not have a view on whether cost is an obstacle to encouraging people to arrange a will. The fee charged is a matter for the legal profession or other organisations offering a will making service.

It should be noted that a number of trade unions offer free or heavily discounted will writing services to their members and some home or car insurance legal cover includes a will service.

Will Aid is a UK wide scheme which runs every November in which participating solicitors provide basic wills in exchange for a donation to charity - https://www.willaid.org.uk/. It is a matter for legal professionals whether or not they participate in the scheme.

Will Relief Scotland operates every September - https://www.willreliefscotland.co.uk/. Participating solicitors in Scotland waive their fee for writing a basic will. Instead, they invite the client to make a donation to the Will Relief Scotland charities. Again it is a matter for legal professionals whether or not they participate in the scheme.

In addition, a number of charities operate free will drafting services in the hope of receiving a bequest.

This information is not held centrally. Each service should be contacted for their own data.

A sudden bereavement will have a wide range of practical, social and emotional consequences, short and long term, for those affected, including families. Information of assistance to people in such circumstances has been brought together on the NHS Inform website and can be found at https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/death-and-bereavement/practical-advice-after-a-death

It also signposts people to additional sources of support.

An aim of the Scottish Government's Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Strategy is to put in place effective arrangements to ensure that Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) are mapped, maintained and accessible to the public.

The promotion and registration of public access defibrillators is supported by the Scottish Ambulance Service’s (SAS) community resilience team which provides training to local communities wishing to place a public access defibrillator. The Service does not provide any financial support to communities that express an interest in placing a public access defibrillator, however the SAS can signpost funding opportunities such as charitable grants.

The Scottish Government appreciates the contribution communities, voluntary organisations and businesses make by purchasing defibrillators. In the main, the purchase of Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) is through fundraising in the community, from charitable sources or business resources. The Scottish Government does not routinely provide such funding.

The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) is progressing work to register community based defibrillators onto their call handling system. The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) has 1,553 public access defibrillators registered and live on the command and control system used by call handlers and dispatchers in the SAS's three ambulance control centres. This should not be considered to represent the total number of defibrillators in the country. The figures represent only a snapshot as of 16 November 2017. This number changes daily due to owners/custodians of public access defibrillators registering devices on the Service’s dedicated website.

The Service’s corporate affairs and engagement department and community resilience department have been working together to promote the registration website. Both departments work closely with ambulance control centres to maintain the register. There is currently no legal obligation for defibrillator owners/custodians to register their devices with the Service.

We would strongly encourage any member of the public, community group or business to register their Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) with the SAS. Further details can be found at the SAS's dedicated 'Registering your Public Access Defibrillator' page; http://www.scottishambulance.com/YourCommunity/pad.aspx.

The Scottish Government is taking a number of actions that will contribute towards a more sustainable medical workforce. One of these, Scotland’s first Graduate Entry Medicine programme (ScotGEM) will commence in autumn 2018 and includes a ‘return of service’ bursary of £4,000 per year. The optional grant, worth £16,000 over the 4 year course, will be payable to students in exchange for a year of service in the NHS in Scotland for each £4,000 claimed.

ScotGEM will have a focus on careers in primary care and remote and rural working, offering students the opportunity to experience how rewarding working in these settings is.

The information is not held by Scottish Government. However, I have asked the Chief Executive of sportscotland, as the relevant National Lottery Fund distributor, to write directly to you and provide a full response.

Information held by ISD does not class consultants as generalists and specialists. The number of consultants in post by specialty can be found on the workforce statistics web site at:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2017-09-05/Medical_Trend_J2017.xls

An evaluation report on the six month Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) co-responding pilot in the North East of Scotland by Police Scotland has been submitted for consideration by their Force Executive. To take this forward, the Police Scotland Senior Leadership Board will consider the next steps.

The pilot Scottish Scenic Routes projects have delivered eight permanent installations and one mobile installation.

These have been built in the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, the Cairngorms National Park and on land managed by Scottish Canals near Laggan.

The final installation as part of this pilot phase was opened earlier this year in the Cairngorms National Park. This forms part of a ‘Snow Roads Scenic Route’ comprising three newly designed viewpoints which the Cairngorms National Park Authority and its partners have developed to enhance visitors’ experience of the Scottish landscape and to provide an opportunity to involve young architects. The Snow Roads project recently won two awards in the Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2017, in the ‘Place’ and ‘Peoples’ Choice’ Award categories.

No decision has been taken on the future of the Scottish Scenic Routes initiative.