Portfolio Questions

Health and Sport Claudia Beamish S5O-00579 1. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to research suggesting that there is a possible link between Alzheimer’s disease and air pollution. Ash Denham S5O-00580 2. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce health inequalities during pregnancy and in the postnatal period. Gail Ross S5O-00581 3. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to recruit physicians and surgeons for rural general hospitals. David Torrance S5O-00582 4. To ask the Scottish Government what the funding uplift will be for NHS Fife in 2017-18. Christina McKelvie S5O-00583 5. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage young people’s participation in badminton. Emma Harper S5O-00584 6. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it takes to ensure that the health advice it produces is accessible to people with hearing loss and deafness. John Mason S5O-00585 7. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on GP practices in the most deprived areas receiving more resources per patient than those in less deprived areas. Richard Lyle S5O-00586 8. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage more participation in sporting activities Jenny Marra S5O-00587 9. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the £90 million required to bring the electrical wiring at Ninewells Hospital up to safe and modern standards. Mary Fee S5O-00588 10. To ask the Scottish Government when the health secretary will next meet NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Johann Lamont S5O-00589 11. To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that there is support for the range of needs of survivors of child sexual abuse. Fulton MacGregor S5O-00590 12. To ask the Scottish Government how many dental treatments using mercury amalgam fillings there have been in the last three years. Jackson Carlaw S5O-00591 13. To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet the board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Monica Lennon S5O- 00592 14. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the maintenance of the 2016-17 funding reduction to alcohol and drug partnerships in its Draft Budget 2017-18. Douglas Ross S5O-00593 15. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the comment by the RCN in a report from November 2016 that “core areas of service - such as nurse-led primary care, long term conditions management and care for older people in prison or those with learning disabilities - are falling short in many areas". Elaine Smith S5O-00594 16. To ask the Scottish Government how many people with thyroid problems are not responding well to treatment with levothyroxine and what its position is on clinical decisions by endocrinologists to prescribe liothyronine to these patients. James Dornan S5O-00595 17. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met the SFA and SPFL and what was discussed. Daniel Johnson S5O-00596 18. To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to resolve any legal difficulties regarding NHS boards taking ownership of GP practices. Stuart McMillan S5O-00597 19. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde regarding the board's maternity unit review. Edward Mountain S5O-00598 20. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will build a new hospital in Aviemore if the St Vincent's and Ian Charles hospitals are closed.