- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have participated in the Life Begins at 40 pilot in 2010-11.
Answer
The pilot for Life Begins at 40 ran in the NHS Grampian area from May to September 2010.
Two hundred and thirteen of the 2,211 people invited, took part in the survey.
Life Begins at 40 had a national launch in February 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital allocation is for the health budget in 2011-12.
Answer
The net capital budget for health in 2011-12 is £488 million. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39569 on 11 February 2011 which provides details of initial resources, including capital, being made available to NHS boards and Special Health Boards in 2011-12.
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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what action NHS Tayside is taking in relation to the outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection.
Answer
An Incident Management Team has been established and is meeting regularly to review progress; standard and contact infection prevention and control precautions have been reinforced to all staff; and surveillance screening has been introduced for all patients in the affected clinical areas.
Health Protection Scotland have visited and are working with NHS Tayside and I am being kept fully informed of developments.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection there have been in each year since 2007.
Answer
Health Protection Scotland have advised the number of infections due to Enterococcus
species cannot be determined
by using data derived from the laboratory reports, as it is not possible to distinguish between infections and instances which might be due to either colonisation or faecal contamination.
In those instances where Enterococcus species have been isolated from blood samples (known as enterococcal bacteraemia), it can be deduced that this was probably a true infection. The number of reports of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal (VRE) bacteraemias due to the two commonest species of enterococci, (Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis) received each year in Scotland was as follows:
2007 “ no data available. Surveillance of VRE did not start until 2008.
2008 “ 35
2009 “ 72
2010 “ 46
2011 “ 5 (reports received to 09 March 2011).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection there have been in 2010-11, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40291 on 16 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
In addition, Health Protection Scotland (HPS) have advised that hospital level data on organisms is not collected centrally. For 2010-11 (up to 9 March 2011), the numbers of enterococcol bacteraemias reported for each NHS board are as follows:
Number of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Bacteraemias Reported to HPS
| NHS Board | |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 3 |
| Borders | 2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 |
| Fife | 7 |
| Forth Valley | 3 |
| NWTC | 0 |
| Grampian | 2 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 5 |
| Highland | 2 |
| Lanarkshire | 8 |
| Lothian | 18 |
| Tayside | 1 |
| Western Isles | 0 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be Barnett consequentials arising from the service pupil premium proposed by the UK Government and, if so, how much.
Answer
The pupil premium scheme is being funded by reallocating existing funding provided through the CSR settlement and as such any consequentials arising from the scheme were included in the Scottish settlement. If however, any additional funding was to be provided to the Department for Education for the scheme , Scotland would be entitled to its Barnett share.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what review it has undertaken on Recommendation 11 of The Mackie Report: Access to specialist neuromuscular care and social care in Scotland by the Cross Party Group on Muscular Dystrophy.
Answer
The enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease, Myozyme, has been appraised by the Scottish Medicines Consortium, but was not recommended for routine use within NHS Scotland.
In such circumstances, NHS boards have arrangements in place to consider treatment requests from individual patients. Such decisions are made on a case by case basis, exercising professional judgement on clinical need.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the service pupil premium proposed by the UK Government will apply in Scotland.
Answer
The pupil premium scheme proposed by the UK Government will not apply in Scotland.
The distribution formula used to allocate the Scottish Government''s funding to local authorities has been developed over a number of years and is based on the relative need of each local authority, including levels of deprivation. In addition, education funding is a devolved issue thus the UK Government proposed pupil premium will not apply in Scotland.
The method takes into account variations in the demands for services and the costs of providing them to a similar standard, and with a similar degree of efficiency.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what flexibility there is to enable ambulance staff to attend emergency calls during breaks.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40430 on 16 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-37843 and S3W-37844 by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 December 2010, what funding is being provided to the 14 NHS boards to (a) create new chronic pain clinics and (b) improve existing clinics and to what extent boards have been expected to finance improvements from existing budgets.
Answer
NHS boards are funded to provide services such as chronic pain clinics that are required by their resident populations.
In the longer term, the issue of the range and pattern of pain management services in Scotland will be determined by the further work that is needed to take forward the service model being developed by our lead clinician for chronic pain. Once the new lead clinician is in post, he or she will work with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland to undertake a scoping exercise with NHS boards. That will assess the level of services available in each area, and compare how these relate to the agreed service model.
We have in addition been advocating a managed clinical network (MCN) approach to the development of chronic pain services. We see the existing Network in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as setting an example for other boards to follow. We provided a small amount of pump priming for the MCN and would be prepared to adopt a similar approach with other NHS boards. It is one of the core principles of all MCN developments that they should explore their potential to generate better value for money.
