Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 13 January 2016
13 Jan 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
NHS Lanarkshire (Medical Staffing)
Health, Wellbeing and Sport
Last year NHS Lanarkshire graded the medical staffing position in a number of departments as “high risk”. It reported concerns about on-going recruitment difficulties, about overreliance on locums and about the future of the board’s approved training status. Can the cabinet secretary advise me which services continue to be high risk? Can she give me an absolute guarantee that the Scottish Government will secure the future of approved training status for the health board, which is of utmost importance to the viability of local services, to medical recruitment and to the career development of junior doctors?
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4. Margaret McCulloch (Central Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
To ask the Scottish Government what medical staffing challenges it has identified in NHS Lanarkshire. (S4O-05237)
The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport (Shona Robison)
SNP
We work closely with all NHS boards to enable them to provide safe, effective and high-quality care for Scotland’s people at all times. That remains our abso...
Margaret McCulloch
Lab
Last year NHS Lanarkshire graded the medical staffing position in a number of departments as “high risk”. It reported concerns about on-going recruitment dif...
Shona Robison
SNP
We are, of course, aware that certain services in NHS Lanarkshire are currently under enhanced monitoring by the General Medical Council. That monitoring pri...