Mental Health Minister Maureen Watt says the average waiting time was 22 weeks and she is disappointed NHS Forth Valley failed to meet the CAMHS target but stresses progress is being made.

Mr Lockhart says he welcomes the small improvements but stresses that further progress is required.

The Tory MSP says: "The fact our youngest and most vulnerable children must wait for four to five months is unacceptable."

Scottish Conservative MSP Dean Lockhart asks what the average wait in weeks was for child and adolescent mental health services in NHS Forth Valley for patients who started their treatment in the last quarter of 2015.  

Health Secretary Shona Robison said considerations about extending this service is at an early stage and there are several factors to take into account.

Scottish Conservative MSP Jamie Greene asks what timetable the government is working to in its pledge to examine extending the minor ailment service.

Tory MSP Donald Cameron asks about plans to increase recruitment in GPs to address the "crisis".

Ms Robison points to the £20m funding this year to help with that and also highlights the reduction in bureaucracy.

She says in the long term the new model of primary care and the new contract will increase recruitment.

SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson asks how the government can stop Canada and Australia poaching our doctors.

Ms Robison says the recruitment campaign for junior doctors has had a very positive response.

She says Scotland is seen as an attractive place for doctors to come and practice.

The health secretary says the government will deliver a national workforce plan to help boost GP numbers.

Ms Robison says the new GP contract is being negotiated at the moment and the discussions are going well.

SNP MSP Emma Harper ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to boost GP recruitment.  

GPs have lost out on £1.6bn of investment over the last 10 years, according to the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland.

In February it claimed there had been "cumulative cuts" to general practice's share of NHS Scotland spending over a decade.

The RCGP Scotland is lobbying for general practice to receive 11% of the Scottish NHS budget.

But ministers insisted GP funding had increased each year under the SNP administration.

Opposition parties also hit out at the "staggering level of underinvestment" in community health.

Ms Robison says the primary care fund has increased to provide £85m over three years.

The health secretary says the government is committed to working to reduce GP waiting times.

Mr Beattie says in his constituency GP surgeries are closed to new patients but house building is continuing.

Ms Robison says planning and infrastructure delivery should take this into account. 

SNP MSP Colin Beattie asks what measures the government is taking to help reduce waiting times at GP surgeries.

Ms Robison says planning and provision of health services is decided by health boards.

The health secretary says Dumfries and Galloway Health Board are reviewing the issue of travel for treatment. 

She says she expects health boards to deliver cancer treatments as locally as possible.

In November it was reported that thousands of patients from the south of Scotland were having to travel to another part of the country for medical treatment.

Figures revealed that more than 6,300 people in the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway were treated outwith the region in 2014.

Across Scotland more than 100,000 people travelled to another area to receive treatment in 2014, including to the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank.

Scottish Conservative MSP Finlay Carson asks when the government will review the referral pathway that results in cancer patients in Stranraer having to travel to Edinburgh via Dumfries rather than to cancer services in Glasgow.  

Public Health Minister Aileen Campbell says the government congratulates and supports the PAMIS campaign.

PAMIS provide support for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), their family and carers and interested professionals.

Image source, PAMIS

Changing Places , externalis a national campaign to provide with the aim of ensuring that 'standard accessible toilets' (disabled toilets) are made fully accessible. 

The campaign was initially started by PAMIS who have now joined forces with other groups to form the Changing Places Consortium, external. 

SNP MSP Richard Lyle asks what action the government is taking to support the PAMIS campaign, Changing Places Toilets.

Scottish Labour MSP Anas Sarwar asks about referrals to private hospitals.

Ms Robison says this only happens at the margins when there is no capacity.

The health secretary says the elective centres the goverment is investing in will vastly reduce private referrals.

Health Secretary Shona Robison says the decision to cancel operations is never taken lightly and in the event of a cancellation operations are rescheduled as quickly as possible.

Scottish Conservative MSP John Lamont asks what the government is doing to ensure that operations scheduled by NHS boards go ahead as planned.