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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S4W-15289

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many applicants for foundation medical training placements there have been in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Information is not available in the format requested. Applications to Foundation training programmes are co-ordinated on a UK-wide basis through the UK Foundation Programme Office. Applicants are required to rank all 21 UK Foundation Schools in order of preference and, following an assessment and scoring process, applicants are matched to a Foundation School taking into consideration their preference. At this point, the Scotland Foundation School is then allocated the right number of applicants for the number of programmes available in any year. There then follows a further process that enables applicants to rank their preferences for a cluster of Foundation programmes which, ultimately, leads to applicants being matched to their individual programmes.

The following table indicates the number of Foundation programme places available in Scotland from 2007. All programme places were filled.

	Number of Foundation Programmes available in Scotland
2007	804
2008	804
2009	804
2010	804
2011	804
2012	804

Question reference: S4W-15288

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many on-call rest rooms there have been in hospitals in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S4W-15290

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the drop-out rate for foundation medical training placements has been in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Information is not available in the format requested. Information that is available has only been centrally recorded until 2009, and is not recorded by health board as the trainees rotate between health boards as part of their individual programme placements. Currently, there are 804 programme placements in Foundation Years 1 and 2 in Scotland.

Foundation trainees may not complete their programme placements for a variety of reasons, for example illness, maternity leave, resignation, dismissal, remedial training required etc. The numbers of those who did not complete their Foundation programmes since 2009 are shown in the following table.

	Number who did not complete Foundation Year One	Number who did not complete Foundation Year Two
2009	15 (6)	27 (13)
2010	16 (7)	16 (3)
2011	19 (6)	21 (3)
2012	17 (1)	13 (0)

Of the number failing to complete a given year of training, some will return to training i.e. after maternity leave or ill health, and subsequently complete their training. The figure in parentheses is the number who resigned or were dismissed.

Question reference: S4W-15287

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information has been given to GPs regarding the impact of faulty transvaginal mesh implants.

Question reference: S4W-15284

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the hours worked by junior doctors per week are compliant with the European working time directive.

Question reference: S4W-15285

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government which hospitals continue to implant transvaginal mesh implants.

Question reference: S4W-15282

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what criteria are used to decide whether a junior doctor's working hours are compliant with the European working time directive.

In the UK the European Working Time Directive has been implemented as the working time regulations (WTR).

All junior doctor rotas in Scotland are designed in a system which measures compliance with all aspects of the working time regulations. This system (doctors rostering system) measures hours and working patterns against the required limits, and ensures that hours fully comply. All rotas are sent to the Scottish Government’s medical workforce adviser for approval, who also ensures that rotas comply fully with the WTR. The Scottish Government funds this system for NHS boards.

NHS boards will also use New Deal monitoring returns to assess on-going compliance with the WTR. Although WTR hours are measured over 26 weeks, the two week New Deal monitoring snapshot allows NHS boards to determine day to day hours over this representative period. They will use this data, along with other datasets such as the template rota, daily roster and activity records to assess the compliance of junior doctors.

Prior to the 2009 implementation date of the 48 hour working week for Junior Doctors, CEL 14 2009 Working Time Regulations was issued which provides NHS boards with advice on how compliance should be measured.

Question reference: S4W-15281

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many surgeons in Scotland are qualified to remove faulty transvaginal mesh implants.

Question reference: S4W-15286

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many medical negligence claims against NHS boards in each year since 2007 related to the tiredness of a junior doctor.

Question reference: S4W-15278

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how it tracks how many transvaginal meshes have been purchased by NHS boards and the number of meshes (a) implanted and (b) removed.

Information on the number of transvaginal meshes purchased by NHS Boards is not held centrally and is for those NHS Boards to manage.

In addition, I refer the member to the answer to: question S4W-14315 on 30 April 2013; and questions S4W-14626 and S4W-14627 on 17 May 2013. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.