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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.

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.

Information on median and longestwaits for urgent breast cancer referrals for the years and in the format requested,is available from in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under:

Table a: Number of urgently referred breast cancer patients withthe median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosis by year and hospital/institutionof diagnosis (2004)

Source: Information ServicesDivision, NHS National Services Scotland, Bib.  number 43179.

Table b: Number of urgently referredbreast cancer patients with the median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosisby year and hospital/institution of diagnosis (2005), Bib. number: 43180.

Table c: Number of urgently referredbreast cancer patients with the median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosisby year and hospital/institution of diagnosis (2006), Bib. number: 43181.

The information requested isnot available for each year since 2004.

The Scottish Health Survey gives average Body MassIndex (BMI) for children and adults. The most recent data available is for the year2003. NHS board level results are only available for adult BMI data.

NHS Board Level: Mean BMI byGender and NHS Board (ADULTS Aged 16+ Years)

	Mean BMI			Sample Base (Unweighted)
	Males	Females	All Adults	All Adults
Argyll and Clyde	27.4	27.2	27.3	379
Ayrshire and Arran	27.4	27.2	27.3	484
Borders	27.2	26.9	27.1	285
Dumfries and Galloway	27.7	27.6	27.6	464
Fife	26.9	27.3	27.1	452
Forth Valley	26.4	27.3	26.8	330
Grampian	26.7	27.2	26.9	615
Greater Glasgow	26.8	26.6	26.7	1027
Highland	27.2	27.6	27.4	610
Lanarkshire	27.5	27.4	27.5	593
Lothian	27.2	26.8	27.0	860
Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles	[27.8]	[27.6]	27.7	195
Tayside	26.4	27.8	27.2	406
Scotland	27.0	27.2	27.1	6700

Source: Scottish Health Survey2003.

Notes:

1. Orkney, Shetland and the WesternIsles have been combined due to the small sample sizes within each of these threeNHS boards.

2. Estimates based on an effectivesample size below 100 have been presented in square brackets to draw users’ attentionto the small sample size.

3. A separate set of tables presentsthe standard errors, design factors and 95% confidence intervals for a selectionof these health board estimates in order to help users assess the precision of theestimates:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50264.

Scotland level: Mean BMI by age and sex (children aged 2-15 years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50271.

(See table 5.4 on page 123.)

Scotland level: Mean BMI by age and sex (adults aged 16+ years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50261.

(See table 5.5 on page 175.)

Note: The relationship betweenBMI and definition of overweight and obesity is straightforward for adults, butmore complex for children. See background notes for further information.

(a) Information on waiting timesfrom diagnosis to treatment is only collected centrally for patients with breastcancer. The data presented in the following table therefore refer to breast cancerpatients only.

Number of Breast Cancer Patients with the Median Waitbetween Diagnosis and First Treatment by Period of Diagnosis

Period of Diagnosis	Number of Patients with Recorded Treatment Date	Median wait Between Diagnosis and First Treatment
1 January to 31 March 2004	866	18
1 April to 30 June 2004	868	20
1 July to 30 September 2004	808	20
1 October to 31 December 2004	938	21
1 January to 31 March 2005	871	20
1 April to 30 June 2005	959	20
1 July to 30 September 2005	899	20
1 October to 31 December 2005	934	21
1 January to 31 March 2006	966	20
1 April to 30 June 2006	925	20
1 July to 30 September 2006	937	21
1 October to 31 December 2006	954	20

Source: Information ServicesDivision, NHS National Services Scotland.

Exclusion categories are: diedprior to receiving treatment, refused treatment, patient induced non-clinical delay,co-morbidities, clinical reasons and initially referred to another non-cancer speciality.

(b) Information on the waitingtimes of cancer patients between referral and first treatment are collected centrally.These are collated to report performance against the target that “the maximum waitfrom urgent referral to treatment for all cancers will be two months”. Quarterlyperformance information against that target, broken down by NHS board and cancertype is available from the Scottish Executive website at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/health/cancer/waiting-times.

It should be noted that cancerwaiting times data are subject to continuous development and quality improvement.

These improvements need to betaken in to account when making comparisons on quarter on quarter performance.

The information requested isavailable from several sources, but not necessarily for all of the specific agegroups or years requested.

The Scottish Health Survey gives estimates of theprevalence of obesity and overweight in children and adults. The most recent data available is for the year 2003.

Prevalence of obesity and overweightby age and sex (children aged 2 to 15 years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50271(See table 5.5 on page 123.)

Prevalence of obesity and overweightby age and sex (adults aged 16+ years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50261(See table 5.5 on page 175.)In addition, all NHS boards in Scotland provide a Child HealthSurveillance Programme where children are offered routine reviews at various stagesof their life. The majority of Boards record these reviews using the electronicchild health systems, CHSP-Pre-School and CHSP-School. The latest available informationfrom these systems on levels of obesity and overweight derived from height and weightmeasurements collected at routine health reviews is published for NHS boards participatingin CHSP-School and CHSP-Pre-School at http://www.isdscotland.org/child_obesity.(Click on “obesity statistics” to access a list of available tables and charts.)

 

Information on isolation facilities in NHS boards in Scotland was collated by Health Protection Scotland during February 2004 as part of a one off exercise to support Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) preparedness planning. Since that time no further national census or audit has been undertaken.

The information obtained during the February 2004 audit is shown in the following table.

Availability of Isolation Facilities Within Acute Hospitals in NHSScotland (2004)

Total Number of Isolation Rooms

NHS Board/Area
Argyll and Clyde	237
Ayrshire and Arran	204
Borders	65
Dumfries and Galloway	142
Fife	187
Forth Valley	150
Grampian	282
Greater Glasgow	586
Highland	137
Lanarkshire	323
Lothian	508
Orkney	13
Shetland	22
Tayside	245
Western Isles	66
Special Board (Golden Jubilee National Hospital)	175
Total	3,342

Note: Figures for Argyll and Clyde are shown in the table as the audit took place prior to the dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde.

 

The following is the original answer (published on 19 July 2007); see below:

 

The specific information requested is not available centrally.

The Executive offers no suchguidance.

The number of continuous stayswith a diagnosis of hypothermia over the last five years is presented by NHS boardin table 1 and by age in table 2.

Table 1. Numberof Continuous Stays^1,2 Discharged with a Diagnosis of Hypothermia³by NHS Board of Residence; for Financial Years 2001-02 to 2005-06

NHS Board	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Argyll and Clyde	27	16	16	25	24
Ayrshire and Arran	26	26	16	27	24
Borders	2	-	1	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	10	2	8	6	5
Fife	10	12	7	18	15
Forth Valley	4	15	8	12	8
Grampian	23	24	21	24	22
Greater Glasgow	27	31	27	26	23
Highland	21	23	28	16	24
Lanarkshire	4	7	12	11	10
Lothian	8	25	17	17	19
Orkney	7	6	3	1	3
Shetland	4	2	5	1	4
Tayside	22	31	12	16	12
Western Isles	6	1	1	3	2
Scotland	201	221	182	206	198

Notes:

These figures are derived fromlinked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01)in Scotland.

A continuous stay is an unbrokenperiod of time that a patient spends in hospital. A patient may change consultant,significant facility, specialty, hospital and/or provider unit during a continuousstay.

Up to six diagnoses (one primary,five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses were used to selectfor hypothermia. The following code was used from the International Classificationof Diseases 10th revision (ICD10): T68.-.

- denotes a zero value.

Table 2: Number ofContinuous Stays^1,2 Discharged with a Diagnosis of Hypothermia³by Age Group; for residents of Scotland; for Financial Years 2001-02 to 2005-06

Age Group	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
0-14	8	12	8	6	5
15-24	21	18	15	15	18
25-44	31	27	28	31	43
45-64	44	61	48	49	35
65-74	33	32	20	33	25
75-84	22	37	37	44	39
85+	42	34	26	28	33
All Ages	201	221	182	206	198

Source: ISD Scotland(SMR01), Ref: IR2007-01629.

Notes:

These figures are derived fromlinked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01)in Scotland.

A continuous stay is an unbrokenperiod of time that a patient spends in hospital. A patient may change consultant,significant facility, specialty, hospital and/or provider unit during a continuousstay.

Up to six diagnoses (one primary,five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses were used to selectfor hypothermia. The following code was used from the International Classificationof Diseases 10th revision (ICD10): T68.-.

Details on local authority recyclingrates up to 2005-06 are available on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency(SEPA) website at:www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/data_digest.htm.Data on municipal waste recycledup to June 2006 is also available from the SEPA website at www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/returns.htm.