- 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 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will provide health services in the Scottish Prison Service and where the funding will come from
Answer
Health boards already provide specialist services to prisoners. Responsibility for providing primary healthcare to prisoner''s healthcare will transfer from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to the health boards. The planned date for the transfer is the end of October 2011.
Funding for the provision of primary healthcare services will be transferred from SPS to the health boards.
- 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 the cost of the minor ailments scheme has been in each year since its inception, also broken down by NHS board
Answer
Total remuneration and reimbursement costs relating to the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) are provided in the following table:
Total Cost for Minor Ailment Service, by Health Board and Financial Year (£)
| Dispensing NHS Board | 2006-071 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-112 |
| Scotland | 7,803,211 | 11,304,601 | 14,557,024 | 16,225,626 | 8,541,116 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1,105,838 | 1,161,182 | 1,326,473 | 1,418,767 | 739,608 |
| Borders | 152,276 | 242,843 | 315,539 | 364,819 | 190,977 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 177,340 | 292,021 | 399,526 | 447,702 | 231,920 |
| Fife | 448,516 | 748,425 | 955,404 | 1,052,149 | 549,701 |
| Forth Valley | 342,490 | 592,706 | 827,669 | 922,780 | 472,771 |
| Grampian | 564,372 | 906,767 | 1,266,435 | 1,405,013 | 730,917 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 2,154,662 | 2,977,423 | 3,818,020 | 4,334,572 | 2,301,435 |
| Highland | 332,560 | 550,882 | 753,525 | 879,870 | 459,598 |
| Lanarkshire | 728,682 | 1,260,609 | 1,618,629 | 1,810,831 | 975,549 |
| Lothian | 952,904 | 1,565,825 | 2,084,246 | 2,350,818 | 1,260,164 |
| Orkney | 11,352 | 19,035 | 28,993 | 43,119 | 24,040 |
| Shetland | 13,354 | 22,861 | 29,143 | 35,211 | 19,806 |
| Tayside | 806,883 | 946,741 | 1,109,467 | 1,133,115 | 571,401 |
| Western Isles | 11,984 | 17,281 | 23,957 | 26,861 | 13,229 |
Notes:
1. Minor Ailment Service launched nationwide in July 2006 following pilot schemes in NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Tayside.
2. Financial Year 2010-11 data is to September 2010 only.
3. Total costs comprise the paid Gross Ingredient Cost (GIC) and Capitation Payments including adjustments.
4. 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 Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards are negotiating compromise agreements with staff
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- 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 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry will be concluded
Answer
Lord MacLean, Chairman of the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry, has written to me requesting an extension to the Inquiry as he considers that it will not be possible for him to produce a comprehensive and robust report within the current timescales.
I have not yet agreed this further extension and discussions with Lord MacLean continue. As soon as a date for publishing the final report has been agreed, I will inform the Parliament.
- 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 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require NHS boards to use nationally agreed nursing workforce and workload planning tools and produce detailed clinical assessment plans before plans are agreed and implemented
Answer
We will continue to encourage NHS boards to use workforce and workload planning tools when undertaking workforce planning to produce detailed clinical assessment plans. The boards then use this information to decide the service provision required to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable services to meet the needs of the population.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the heating has broken down at the surgical block of the Southern General Hospital in each year since May 2007.
Answer
The heating within the surgical block of the Southern General Hospital has broken down once in each of the following years: 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. I have been assured that on each of these occasions, efforts were made to restore supply as quickly as possible, and contingency measures were in place for the interim period such as the provision of stand alone heaters and additional blankets.
It should also be remembered that this Government is investing £842 million in the New Southern General Hospital. This entirely publicly-funded project, which is Scotland''s biggest ever new hospital development, will see a 1,109-bed adult hospital integrated with a 256-bed children''s hospital, providing maternity, paediatric, acute and support services on a single site.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the awarding of the contract for IT work on the 2011 Census.
Answer
A full evaluation of the Census programme, including the awarding of the contract which includes IT support, will take place following the completion of the Census.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have fully implemented the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
It is the responsibility of each local authority to implement the Act. The Act states that each local authority is required to publish an annual report on its performance of its functions in relation to the Act. The first reports cover the period 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010 and are due to be published by 30 June 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a report to the Parliament on the progress made by local authorities in implementing the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
As set out in the Act, the Scottish Government will lay a report before the Parliament on the performance of local authorities in relation to the Act by 30 September 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is regarding information on the Scotland Against Criminalising Communities website alleging that CACI International Inc., the parent company of CACI Ltd, is a US-based defence contractor that was contracted to provide interrogation services for the US army at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Answer
Interrogation of prisoners is a legal activity, but the website alleges that a different subsidiary of CACI International, working for the US Government in Iraq, was involved in human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib. The company vehemently denies these allegations and strongly deplores any form of abuse of human rights. The allegations of involvement in torture of inmates at Abu Ghraib have never been proved. Nor has the US Government, which court-martialled some of its troops over abuses at Abu Ghraib, taken any action against CACI or its subsidiary.
