"As part of its Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027, the ‘SNP Government’ committed to provide funding to support the employment of 800 additional mental health workers, by 2012/2022, to improve access in key settings such as Accident and Emergency departments, GP practices, police station custody suites and prisons. As of 1 July 2019, an additional 268 WTE mental health workers had been appointed, well ahead of expectations after only one year of the three-year campaign."
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"Thanks, once more to a parliamentary question from Miles Briggs (SCAUP), we can reveal that the number of old age hospital beds has been reduced from 2 823 in 2008/09 to 1 774 in 2017/18. Typically, around 90% of these were used for dementia cases. According to the SNP Government: "The trends are in line with broader Scottish Government policies, including the three National Dementia Strategies and the integration of health and social care, to shift the balance of care, strengthen integrated community care and enable more people with dementia to live a good quality of life at home or in a homely environment for longer"."
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Thanks to a parliamentary question by Annie Wells (SCAUP) we can reveal that most NHS Scotland boards have their full complement of neurology consultants. NHS Board Neurology consultant vacancies (WTE) as at March 2019... Read on.
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"In April NHS Scotland  received £70million to improve waiting times in our hospitals and now an additional £32million has been added to that. The money is to be used for additional clinics and extra staff. The Scottish Government has set national waiting times standards for the maximum time that patients should have to wait for NHS services in Scotland."
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