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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: S3W-39640

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for the review of continuing care beds in the west of Glasgow announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on 10 February 2011.

Question reference: S3W-39641

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to address the uncertainty regarding the future of continuing care beds at St Margaret’s of Scotland Hospice before the dissolution of the Parliament.

It is right that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde “ which is responsible for providing healthcare services that meet the needs of local people, whilst being consistent with national policies, frameworks and guidance “ robustly review the provision of NHS continuing care in the West of Glasgow, in light of the recent developments around the Blawarthill project.

This will involve carefully considering whether the continuing care beds currently provided by St Margaret''s of Scotland Hospice should be maintained. To this end, the Chair of the NHS board wrote to the chair of St Margaret''s on 21 February to propose a meeting in the near future.

Question reference: S3W-39510

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to suspend pay increments for NHS staff

Question reference: S3W-39787

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the next steps are for implementing the recommendations in the Cross Party Group on Muscular Dystrophy’s The Mackie Report following the meeting between the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Muscle Network on 8 February 2011.

Question reference: S3W-39741

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the local action plans relating to the Change Fund are due to be submitted.

Question reference: S3W-39501

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the social care spend has been in each year from 2007-08, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) NHS board

Question reference: S3W-39502

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the amount announced for the reshaping care Change Fund was reduced from the planned £140 million to £70 million

Question reference: S3W-39503

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled by the NHS in 2009-10 and have been cancelled in 2010-11, broken down by NHS board

The specific information requested is not available centrally.

Information, although limited, is available on the number of hospital stays where operation or procedures were not carried out following admission to hospital. The latest yearly published information on the number of cancelled operations or procedures is for 2009-10 and this data is provided in the following table.

Operations may be cancelled due a number of reasons such as a particularly high level of emergency admissions, staff sickness, the patient being unfit for treatment on admission or the patient having failed to follow pre-admission advice such as fasting before admission.

NHSScotland: Number of Hospital Stays where a Cancelled Operation or Procedure Not Being Carried out has been Recorded^1,2,3 in the Year Ending 31 March 2010

NHS Board of Treatment	Number
Ayrshire and Arran	1,444
Borders	147
Dumfries and Galloway	614
Fife	934
Forth Valley	145
Grampian	1,775
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	5,244
Highland	902
Lanarkshire	2,469
Lothian	1,606
Orkney	46
Shetland	76
Tayside	871
Western Isles	67

Notes:

1. Source ISD Scotland “ information derived from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals.

2. Up to six diagnoses (one principal and five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses positions have been used to identify cancelled operations. The following International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD -10) code has been used to identify cancelled operations/procedures “ Z53; person encountering health services for specific procedure not carried out.

3. Cases were an operation or procedure was cancelled prior to the patient being admitted to hospital are excluded.

Question reference: S3W-39743

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what process will be followed to agree the local action plans relating to the Change Fund.

We have asked partnerships to agree Change Plans through local community planning arrangements and submit them to us by 28 February 2011 to enable a national overview report to be considered by the Ministerial Strategic Group on 15 March 2011.

To enable allocations to be made within the current financial year, we will work closely with partnerships to put agreed plans in place by June 2011 at the latest.

Question reference: S3W-39742

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local action plans relating to the Change Fund have been submitted.