Question reference: S5W-29572
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 2 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 June 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that there is national coordination in place to set up COVID-19-free sites for cancer surgery, and what cancers these sites will be able to treat.
Answer
We are working hard to ensure vital and urgent care remains, including the use of the Golden Jubilee and the use of private hospital capacity to treat these NHS patients. By utilising the private sector capacity we are able to provide a COVID free environment for urgent cancer procedures.
On 31 May we published our framework for re-mobilising our health services, “Re-mobilise, Recover, Re-design.” The framework sets out how Health Boards will follow national and local clinical advice to safely and gradually prioritise the resumption of some paused services.
To complement this we published on 4 June the Framework for Recovery of Cancer Surgery. This includes consideration of establishing dedicated “green” specific areas to carry out cancer treatments.