- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated for smoking cessation services in the current financial year, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The allocation or smoking cessationservices in 2007-08 were as follows:
| | £000 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 542 |
| Borders | 170 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 231 |
| Fife | 462 |
| Forth Valley | 373 |
| Grampian | 597 |
| Greater Glasgow | 2,569 |
| Highland | 455 |
| Lanarkshire | 1,147 |
| Lothian | 1,311 |
| Orkney | 53 |
| Shetland | 59 |
| Tayside | 949 |
| Western Isles | 82 |
| Total | 9,000 |
In addition £2 million has beenallocated in 2007-08 to the keep well projects in Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire,Lothian and Tayside health boards bringing the total available for smoking cessationsupport to £11 million in 2007-08.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding will be put in place for smoking cessation services when the legal age for purchase of cigarettes is raised from 16 to 18 and whether this funding will be ring-fenced for underage smokers.
Answer
NHS Smoking Cessation Serviceshave received additional funding of £2 million this year bringing total fundingto a record £11 million. Young people are already a priority group for cessationservices and I expect boards to use part of the additional funding to provide supportto young people wishing to quit. There are no plans to ring-fence funding specificallyfor underage smokers.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the announcement by HM Treasury of £340 million support for disabled children in England from 2008 to 2011, whether disabled children in Scotland will benefit from an equivalent sum allocated under the Barnett formula.
Answer
Consequential fundingis agreed biannually and is dependent on confirmation from HM Treasury that anyadditional funding announced by departments is new money and has not been reallocatedfrom existing resources. Where consequential funding is received, it is held centrally.Funding is then allocated by the Scottish Government in light of all competing pressuresand the Government’s priorities.
At the present timethere has been no indication of the status of this announcement on support for disabledchildren.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding allocated for smoking cessation services is ring-fenced for underage smokers.
Answer
Funding for smoking cessationservices is not currently ring fenced for specific priority groups such as youngpeople. It is for NHS boards to assess needs locally and respond to the demand forcessation services for priority groups accordingly.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional funding will be made available to local authorities for enforcement purposes when the legal age for purchase of cigarettes is raised from 16 to 18 and, if so, how much will be made available.
Answer
The need to make additional specificresources available to local authorities to enforce tobacco sales will be consideredunder the current spending review.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average suicide rate was per capita in the top 10 council wards with the lowest levels of deprivation, as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested isnot available. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation has not been producedat ward level.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to consult the families of disabled children and other representative groups on the use of any funding for disabled children allocated under the Barnett formula.
Answer
All funding eligiblefor allocation to Scottish budgets by way of budget consequentials is held centrally.It is then allocated by the Scottish Government in light of all competing pressuresand the Government’s priorities.
The Scottish Governmentis fully committed to consulting families with disabled children, as well as representativeorganisations, before taking decisions on issues which affect them.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients had their operations cancelled (a) twice, (b) three times, (c) four times and (d) more than four times in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The specific information requestedis not available centrally.
Limited information is availablecentrally on the number of in-patient/day case episodes where operations/procedureswere not carried out following admission.
A table of information, and appropriatenotes on interpretation, are given in a document Table 1: Cancelled operationsby Health Board of treatment a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43167).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide comparative details of emergency admission rates to Borders General Hospital for the five-year period prior to the introduction of NHS 24 and in the years since its introduction.
Answer
NHS 24 was introduced to NHSBorders in April 2004.
The requested information ispresented in the following table.
Emergency Admissions to BordersGeneral Hospital and Crude Admission Rates by Year of Discharge, Years Ending 31March 2000-06
| Year | Emergency Admissions2 | Population for NHS Borders3 | Crude Emergency Admission Rates per 100,000 population4 |
| 2000 | 9,116 | 105,810 | 8,615 |
| 2001 | 9,394 | 106,250 | 8,841 |
| 2002 | 10,267 | 106,950 | 9,600 |
| 2003 | 10,124 | 107,400 | 9,426 |
| 2004 | 10,190 | 108,280 | 9,411 |
| 2005 | 11,045 | 109,270 | 10,108 |
| 2006 | 11,412 | 109,730 | 10,400 |
Source:SMR01 linked database, GRO population estimates.
Notes:
1.NHS 24 was introduced to NHS Borders residents in April 2004. Figures in italicsare for the years following introduction.
2.This is a count of all emergency episodes at Borders General Hospital; excludingtransfers.
3.Population is taken from GRO mid-year estimates of NHS Border Residents
4. Crude emergency admissionrates should be interpreted with caution. Episodes occurring at Borders General Hospital willinclude a small proportion of patients resident outside of NHS Borders health boardarea.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many women (a) were diagnosed with and (b) died from breast cancer in each of the last five years, broken down by (i) NHS board and (ii) parliamentary constituency.
Answer
Data on newly diagnosed cancersin Scotland are recorded on the Scottish Cancer Registry. The mostrecent year of data currently available is 2004.
Data on deaths in Scotland arerecorded by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The most recent yearof data currently available is 2005.
More comprehensive data on breastcancer can be found on the Scottish Health Statistics website at:
www.isdscotland.org/cancer.The following tables (which havebeen placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre) present the informationrequested.
Table a (i) Incidence (number of registrations) of female breastcancer (ICD-10 C50) by NHS Board Area of Residence, 2000-04. (Bib. number 43171).
Table a (ii) Incidence (numberof registrations) of female breast cancer (ICD-10 C50) by Scottish ParliamentaryConstituency, 2000-04. (Bib. number 43172).
Table b (i) Mortality (number of death registrations) from femalebreast cancer (ICD‑10 C50) by NHS Board Area of Residence, 2001-05. (Bib. number 43173).
Table b (ii) Mortality (numberof death registrations) from female breast cancer (ICD‑10 C50) by Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, 2001-05. (Bib.number 43174).
