- 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 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37313 by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2010, whether it will suspend the National Performance Management Committee.
Answer
No. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40438 on 18 March 2011. The National Performance Management Committee has an important function to perform in ensuring that NHSScotland has a fit for purpose performance management system in place for its most senior managers.
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 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37314 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2010, for what reason the National Performance Management Committee has met on average 33% more times in the last three years than the largest NHS board.
Answer
The number and timing of meetings of the National Performance Management Committee are determined by the business of that Committee and its formal Terms of Reference “ a copy has been placed in SPICe under Bib number 52071. There is no connection between that and the frequency with which any NHS board or other committees or groups might met.
- 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 John Swinney on 18 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what it considers to be the options for flexible working practices that reduce costs.
Answer
The Scottish Public Sector Pay Policy for 2011-12 sets out the circumstances in which employers may wish to identify flexible working practices that reduce costs while maintaining headcount and services. These should be appropriate to workforce circumstances and need to be agreed between employers and staff representatives.
- 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-39516 by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 March 2011, in light of Lord MacLean not yet being advised that a delay in publishing the report would be acceptable, for what reason further witness evidence sessions of the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry have been postponed until after May 2011.
Answer
The Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry is an independent Inquiry. The procedure and the conduct of an Inquiry is determined by the Inquiry''s Chairman in accordance with his/her duties under the Inquiries Act 2005. For further information, please contact the Secretary of the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Team at
information@valeoflevenhospitalinquiry.org.
- 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it receives all data from NHS24 regarding (a) P1, (b) P2 and (c) P3 category calls.
Answer
The Scottish Government receives weekly, monthly and annual performance information from NHS24 in relation to performance against P1 and P2 calls to the service. As agreed in their 2010-11 Local Delivery Plan, target responses are as follows:
Commence 100% of calls prioritised as P1 within 60 minutes
Commence 90% of calls prioritised as P2 within 120 minutes.
Performance against these targets is reported publically within the monthly NHS24 Board papers, the most recent report can be found at:
http://www.nhs24.com/content/default.asp?page=s21_8&monthNo=2&yearNo=2011.
Performance against calls prioritised as P3 (commence call within 180 minutes) is monitored internally by NHS24 and is not reported to the Scottish Government.
- 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry is paying the BIG Partnership for public relations services.
Answer
The Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry is an independent Inquiry. The procedure and the conduct of an Inquiry is determined by the Inquiry''s Chairman in accordance with his/her duties under the Inquiries Act 2005. For further information please contact the Secretary of the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Team at
information@valeoflevenhospitalinquiry.org.
- 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason data categorised by NHS24 as P3 are not available.
Answer
All calls to NHS24 that are categorised as P3 have been through a rigorous process of assessment. As such, these calls are not considered to have an clinical urgency associated with them and will be most likely to require advice on self management.
Information about category P3 calls to NHS24 is not held centrally by the Scottish Government, however these calls are monitored internally by NHS24.
- 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the maximum waiting time for a category P3 call to NHS24 has been in 2010-11.
Answer
Information about category P3 calls to NHS24 is not held centrally by the Scottish Government, however these calls are monitored internally by NHS24.
- 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason NHS24 uses an external public relations company for the NHS Inform website.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40442 on 17 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Scottish 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 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason NHS24 does not use its inhouse media team for the NHS Inform website.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40442 on 17 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Scottish Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
