- 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).
- 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 cyclist casualties have been treated by the NHS in each of the last five years in each NHS board area.
Answer
Cyclist casualties could be treatedin a number of health care settings e.g. GP practices; hospital accident and emergencydepartments or as hospital admissions.
It is not possible to identifycyclist casualties in GP practices or accident and emergency departments from centrallyheld data.
Details on the number of continuousstays in an acute general hospital where the diagnosis information indicates thatthe patient was a pedal cyclist, injured in a transport accident, is given in adocument Table 1: Hospital stays for injured pedal cyclists a copy of whichhas been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43168).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-790 by Maureen Watt on 19 June 2007, whether ministers offer guidance to schools on the distinction between recruitment to the armed forces headed up by the Army recruitment team and other careers information.
Answer
The Executive offers no suchguidance.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports commissioned by the previous administration into extending the Borders railway beyond Tweedbank it has been able to access.
Answer
The Scottish Executiveprior to May 2007 has not commissioned any reports into extending the Borders railwaybeyond Tweedbank.
- 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 John Swinney on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have issued Young Scot cards and how many are currently in circulation, expressed also as a percentage of each local authority’s secondary school population.
Answer
There are approximately337,000 Young Scot branded cards in circulation throughout all 32 of Scotland’s local authorities.
These are a mixtureof the original non smart cards (issued prior to April 2006) and the replacementNational Entitlement Card (smartcard) which has been available to all young peoplesince April 2006. The immediate priority has been to issue the cards to those youngpeople who are entitled to the Young Persons Concessionary Travel Scheme (whichhas been operational since January 2007).
Work is currentlyon-going with all local authorities (and in conjunction with Young Scot) to replaceall the original non smart cards.
There is currentlyno information available on what percentage of these cards are held by secondaryschool pupils in each local authority. However, when the new national card managementsolution is in place (October 2007) such management information will be available.
- 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 Adam Ingram on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available for the Young Scot scheme and how it is distributed.
Answer
Young Scot receives£750,000 per annum from the Scottish Executive. As the National Youth InformationAgency for Scotland they take forward a range of projects and initiatives to provideyoung people across Scotland with information and other services to help them makeinformed life choices and play an active part in their own communities.
- 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 16 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what capital funding has been given to (a) NHS National Services Scotland, (b) the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, (c) the Protein Fractionation Centre and (d) Alba Bioscience in each of the last four years.
Answer
National ServicesScotland (NSS) is given an annual capital allocationof c.£5 million to meet minor capital requirements across all its internal divisions.All further capital funding is by way of additional allocation from the HealthDepartment for specific projects. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service(SNBTS), a division of NSS, has not received any specific allocations from theHealth Department during the four year period in question.
The funding shownfor SNBTS, the Protein Fractionation Centre (PFC) and Alba Bioscience (Alba) hastherefore been made available from the minor capital fund allocated to NSS.
The information requested,including a split of the total capital funding between funding for specific projectsand the minor capital fund, is as follows:
| Year | Total Capital Funding to NSS (£ Million) | Capital Funding for Specific Projects1 (£ Million) | Minor Capital Fund (£ Million) | Capital Funding to SNBTS2 (£ Million) | Capital Funding to PFC (£ Million) | Capital Funding to Alba (£ Million) |
| 2003-04 | 18.4 | 13.9 | 4.5 | 1.45 | 0.32 | 0.09 |
| 2004-05 | 25.9 | 19.4 | 6.5 | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.04 |
| 2005-06 | 21.9 | 16.9 | 5 | 2.34 | 0.63 | 0.05 |
| 2006-07 | 34.6 | 29.3 | 5.3 | 2.04 | 0.14 | 0.12 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 13 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it will commission on the cumulative impact of small to medium wind farm developments.
Answer
The recentlypublished Scottish Planning Policy 6: Renewable Energy (SPP6) stipulatesthat prospective developers must adequately address the cumulative impact of theirproposal. It also requires that Planning Authorities take account of projects thathave already been built, as well as those consented but not yet built and thosethat are currently at the application stage. This, together with existing ScottishNatural Heritage guidance, should ensure that cumulative impacts are effectivelymitigated. At this stage, we have no plans to commission research.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff are currently on special leave with pay and serving with the Territorial Army or reserves, broken down by directorate.
Answer
There arecurrently no Scottish Executive staff on special leave for the purpose ofTerritorial Army or reservist duty with or without pay.
