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A full account of the lessons learned between the parties concerned will be provided by NHS Ayrshire and Arran in papers going to the Board’s Audit Committee in early November 2011.

The Care Inspectorate now has responsibility, as of 1 April 2011, for inspecting, regulating and supporting improvement of care and social work and child protection services across Scotland. The Care Inspectorate has powers under section 62 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 to serve an improvement notice on a care service, specifying the improvements required to bring a care service up to the standards required and the timescale for meeting these standards.

The Care Commission, as the Care Inspectorate’s predecessor, had similar powers to issue improvement notices under section 10 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.

The total number of improvement notices issued by the Care Commission and/or the Care Inspectorate between 1 April 2007 to 31 July 2011 is 365, broken down on an annual basis as shown in the following table:

Improvement Notices Issued

Scottish Government is not aware of any capital projects, other than that at the East Ayrshire Community Hospital PFI, where BAM Construct UK’s has a contractual funding relationship with the Ahli United Bank.

The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 has been fully commenced.

As the existing arrangements are ad hoc, voluntary and over and above the NHS board’s core provision, this cannot be considered a major service change.

The information requested has been provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service and has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 53208).

In 2010 the total costs of providing medical and nursing cover and medical bags was £77,171.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has been discussing these changes with partner agencies and key interested parties including Glasgow City Council, since March.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have three responsibilities in relation to public events: they advise as part of the event licensing process to ensure proposals for on site medical and first aid cover is adequate; they provide back up through their hospital and primary care services; and if there is a major incident then they are responsible for ensuring there is a comprehensive NHS response. The responsibility to provide and pay for event medical and first aid cover lies with the organisers, not with the NHS and the public purse.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has never had a major event service but have previously taken responsibility on behalf of event organisers to arrange medical and nursing cover. The NHS board has now concluded that this approach has confused responsibility and has shifted costs from event organisers to the NHS.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will continue to scrutinise event organisers’ medical plans so that the highest standards of medical and first aid care are provided to the public.

The Social Responsibility was widely consulted upon prior to the passing of the Alcohol etc. (Scotland) Act 2010.

No action has been taken to implement the social responsibility levy. The Scottish Government has been clear that the levy will not be taken forward until the wider economic circumstances are right.