- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 January 2014
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 30 January 2014
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about the number of families living below the minimum income standard.
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Taken in the Chamber on 30 January 2014
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 23 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the 2013 report, Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital, which examined the abuse of adults with learning difficulties at the hospital and what action it is taking to ensure that such adults in Scotland are not subject to similar abuse.
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The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that lessons are learned from Winterbourne View Hospital. The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 has been in place since 2008 in Scotland and protects adults who are at risk of being harmed. The Act requires councils and a range of public bodies to work together to support and protect adults who are unable to safeguard themselves. Since Winterbourne, the Adult Protection Policy Forum is focussing on five national priority projects in order to reduce the risk of harm.
The Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland undertook a joint review to learn lessons from Winterbourne to identify any risks and take mitigative action here in Scotland.
The keys to life learning disability policy, has a number of recommendations which will improve the quality and consistency of support for people with learning disabilities focussing on outcomes. In addition it calls on all public bodies involved in providing support to those with learning disabilities to carry out equality impact assessments to ensure that the rights of people with learning disabilities to dignity, equality and non-discrimination are respected and upheld.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 23 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has discussed with the Department for Health the recommendations of the 2013 report, Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital, which examined the abuse of adults with learning difficulties at the hospital.
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- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 23 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many adults with learning difficulties there are in residential care homes.
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This information is published by NHS Services Scotland, Information Service Division Scotland in the 2013 Care Homes Census publication. The information is held in table 8:
http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Health-and-Social-Community-Care/Care-Homes/Previous-Publications/index.asp
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS lung cancer nurse specialists there have been in each NHS board area in each year since 2010-11.
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Information on how many NHS lung cancer nurse specialists there have been in each NHS board area in each year since 2010-11 is shown in the following table.
It should be noted that a change in the definition of a clinical nurse specialist in 2011 means that the numbers are not strictly comparable across the years. Also, due to the multidisciplinary nature of the role, a nurse may work in more than one specific specialty although only one specialist area is recorded for each nurse. The figures shown may not include those nurses recorded against another specialty, but who also spend part of their time working in the lung cancer area.
The number of lung cancer clinical nurse specialists staff in post in NHS Scotland from Sep 2010 to Sep 2013 (Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) and headcount) by NHS board.
| | Sept 2010 | Sept 2011 | Sept 2012 | Sept 2013 |
| | WTE | HEAD COUNT | WTE | HEAD COUNT | WTE | HEAD COUNT | WTE | HEAD COUNT |
| NHS Scotland | 25.2 | 27 | 26.7 | 29 | 28.3 | 30 | 27.1 | 29 |
| National Waiting Times Centre | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 2.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 |
| NHS Borders | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | - | - |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| NHS Fife | 2.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 0.6 | 1 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.6 | 1 |
| NHS Grampian | 2.0 | 2 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 6.8 | 7 | 7.8 | 8 | 8.8 | 9 | 8.8 | 9 |
| NHS Highland | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 2.4 | 3 | 4.5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | 4.3 | 5 |
| NHS Lothian | 3.4 | 4 | 2.8 | 4 | 3.4 | 4 | 3.4 | 4 |
| NHS Orkney | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| NHS Shetland | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| NHS Tayside | 3.0 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 |
| NHS Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS), ISD Scotland
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what action plans NHS boards have for early diagnosis to improve outcomes for people with lung cancer.
Answer
The national Detect Lung Cancer Early campaign fronted by Sir Alex Fergusson was launched on 6 November 2013 and activity is still underway with a repeat phase of national social marketing running from 13 January 2014.
NHS boards have developed local detect cancer early implementation plans to tackle earlier diagnosis of all three tumour types in the programme including lung.
These plans are included in the local delivery plans for HEAT targets and will be reviewed regularly by the NHS board Detect Cancer Early project teams.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position in on the recommendations in the report, Understanding the value of lung cancer nurse specialists.
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The Scottish Government welcomes the report Understanding the value of lung cancer nurse specialists.
It is NHSScotland boards’ responsibility to plan and deliver services, including specialist nursing services, taking account of national priorities and local needs.
Scotland’s Chief Nursing Officer has asked nurse directors to consider the implications of recent reports on specialist nursing provision in order to share practice across boards and to help to identify areas where additional guidance or support from the Scottish Government may be useful.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what the mortality rate is for lung cancer patients and how it compares with the mortality rate for patients with other cancers.
Answer
The standardised mortality rates for lung cancer and other types of cancer are shown in the following table. This table shows the ten most common causes of deaths from cancer in 2012.
Table 1: Standardised mortality rates for the ten most common causes of death from cancer in Scotland 2012 (per 100,000 population):
| Cancer Type | Number of deaths1 | Mortality Rate per 100,000 population2 |
| Lung3 | 4,189 | 52.8 |
| Colorectal | 1,621 | 19.7 |
| Breast5 | 1,071 | 13.0 |
| Prostate5 | 881 | 23.6 |
| Oesophagus | 813 | 10.6 |
| Pancreas | 742 | 9.3 |
| Stomach | 494 | 6.1 |
| Bladder | 482 | 5.9 |
| Liver4 | 431 | 5.5 |
| Head and Neck | 422 | 5.9 |
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Based on date of registration of death.
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Standardised rates are based on the 1976 European Standard Population.
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Trachea, bronchus and lung cancer.
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Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts.
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The mortality rate for cancers that occur mainly or only in one sex (breast, prostate) are calculated using the population for only that sex.
Source: National Records of Scotland
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on the number of referrals of the recent advertising campaign with Sir Alex Ferguson under its Detect Cancer Early Programme.
Answer
The national Detect Lung Cancer Early campaign fronted by Sir Alex Fergusson was launched on 6 November 2013 and activity is still underway with a repeat phase of national social marketing running from 13 January 2014. The programme has been working with NHS boards to analyse the impact of the national and local campaigns on diagnostic demand and data on the lung campaign is currently being collated. £30 million has been made available to support the Detect Cancer Early programme and it is anticipated that NHS boards will use much of this funding to provide additional diagnostic capacity.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure equitable access to a lung cancer specialist nurse at the time of diagnosis and guarantee that patients' physical, social and emotional needs, and their treatment options are appropriately assessed and discussed from the outset.
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The Scottish Government is fully committed to providing the people of Scotland with the NHS services which meet their needs and maintain high standards of care.
The Scottish Government works closely with regional cancer networks and NHS boards to ensure there is the required workforce to meet current and anticipated increases in demand for oncology services.
However, it is for each NHS board to plan and deliver high quality, safe and sustainable services, taking account of national and local priorities. This includes how best to utilise funding and deploy staff.
