- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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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.
Answer
We intend to issue a statement in the very near future on implementing the recommendations in the Scottish Muscle Network''s review of neuromuscular services and in the Mackie Report.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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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
Answer
Copies of social work net expenditure 2007-08 “ 2009-10 are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52531).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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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
Answer
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 Recorded1,2,3 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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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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
Answer
In early discussions, amounts ranged from £20 million to £140 million over the spending review period. The agreed position is £70 million for 2011-12, and subject to parliamentary approval over the spending review period, for this to be sustained for the following three years, giving at least £280 million, which is double the £140 million first mooted over the spending review period.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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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.
Answer
Change Plans have now been received from all 32 partnerships.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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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.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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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.
Answer
All 32 health, housing and social care partnerships in Scotland were asked to submit change plans to the Scottish Government by 28 February 2011. As of 7 March 2011, all 32 change plans have been received.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the Audit Scotland report that notes a £400 million reduction in social care spending from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing wrote to you on 10 February 2011 pointing out that rather than a £400 million reduction in social care spending over this period there was in fact a £400 million increase.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have accessed the minor ailments scheme in each year since its inception, also broken down by NHS board
Answer
The number of people who access the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) is not available centrally, however, the number of registrations can be found in the following table.
Total Number of Minor Ailment Service Patients Registered by Health Board in March 2007 to 2010
| Dispensing NHS Board | March 20071 | March 2008 | March 2009 | March 2010 |
| Scotland | 726,058 | 586,336 | 657,418 | 722,209 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 88,806 | 58,246 | 62,818 | 69,742 |
| Borders | 17,315 | 11,564 | 15,672 | 16,221 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 16,649 | 14,110 | 20,443 | 21,462 |
| Fife | 52,393 | 42,065 | 45,101 | 49,754 |
| Forth Valley | 32,678 | 33,403 | 36,910 | 38,427 |
| Grampian | 47,501 | 39,771 | 46,745 | 48,854 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 187,602 | 161,717 | 182,759 | 205,569 |
| Highland | 30,363 | 24,796 | 27,038 | 34,661 |
| Lanarkshire | 82,440 | 78,048 | 78,340 | 87,577 |
| Lothian | 99,950 | 73,386 | 95,681 | 102,311 |
| Orkney | 868 | 892 | 1,863 | 2,014 |
| Shetland | 964 | 932 | 827 | 1,348 |
| Tayside | 67,709 | 46,964 | 42,831 | 43,812 |
| Western Isles | 820 | 442 | 390 | 457 |
Notes:
1. Minor Ailment Service launched nationwide in July 2006 following pilot schemes in NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Tayside.
2. Due to registration figures increasing and decreasing across months it is not possible to give an annual figure. Data given is for the month of March for 2007-10.
3. A patient being registered with a community pharmacy does not mean that they will use the service or measure how often.
Further information on the Minor Ailment Service can be found at the following address: www.isdscotland.org/isd/5033.html.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether territorial health boards will be responsible for the funding of the minor ailments scheme
Answer
No changes to the current arrangements are proposed. Remuneration to community pharmacies for providing the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) will continue to be funded by the Community Pharmacy Global Sum. Reimbursement for products dispensed under MAS will continue to be met by territorial health boards'' drugs budgets.
