This information is not held as private health sector treatment, which is not funded by the NHS, is not recorded on a national database.

The Scottish Government does not hold information on how many GPs offer private GP services.

The information requested on how many school nurses there have been in each local authority area since 2007 is not centrally held.

Information on school nurses by NHS Board has been published on the ISD website available here:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2019-06-04/Non-Medical_Trend_M2019.xls

Note: Pre-2015 data is not comparable with recent ISD data therefore it has been omitted from the trend table.

The number of dedicated community nurses by NHS Board from 2007 to the most recent published data as at 31 March 2019 is on the ISD website, available here:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2019-06-04/Non-Medical_Trend_M2019.xls

The link above shows the number of nurses who have a location of service delivery recorded as (i) hospital, (ii) community, (iii) combined hospital / community, (iv) other or (v) prison. This information can be found by selecting the Nursing & Midwifery tab where the drop down can be used to select community.

Further notes:

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data are collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the 'FAQs' section of the Workforce Statistics website at http://www.isdscotland.org/workforce/ .

In Scotland, uptake rates of one dose of MMR by five years have remained above the World Health Organisation's 95% target since 2009. In addition to the MMR vaccine offered to infants, the MMR status of secondary school pupils is checked during routine teenage vaccinations and the MMR vaccine is offered if appropriate. We are not complacent and continue to make every effort to promote and encourage uptake of the MMR vaccination.

The MMR vaccine is given as part of the NHS Scotland routine childhood vaccination programme. One dose is usually given to a child when they are 12 to 13 months old, and a second dose is given from age 3 years 4 months.

The Scottish Immunisation & Recall System (SIRS) ensures that children under the age of six years receive the appropriate immunisation according to the childhood immunisation schedule, including MMR vaccination. ‘Immunisation against Infectious Disease' also known as the "Green Book" sets out the clinical guidelines in relation to vaccination programmes including the scheduling of vaccines.

This information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. The member may wish to consider contacting individual health boards to obtain this information.

This information is not held centrally.

However, Information Services Division Scotland publish quarterly statistics on treatment waiting times and types of treatment undertaken which shows how many residential detoxification and rehabilitation treatments were started in that period. This information is available here - https://www.isdscotland.org/index.asp .

It should be noted, however, that it isn’t possible to say that the number of treatments started equals the number of individuals undertaking them as the same individual may drop-out and re-start a treatment.

I commend the National Short Life Working Group for its report on Hepatitis C Virus Case Finding and Access to Care which was published in November 2018. Scotland has long been known as a world leader in tackling hepatitis C, and this report is an example of the expertise and collaborative working that have built that reputation.

The report gives evidence-based recommendations on how to find and provide treatment to people infected with the hepatitis C virus, and I know that NHS Boards and Third Sector Organisations have been working to implement those recommendations.