- 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 many staff are employed by each Special Health Board, broken down by pay scale.
Answer
Information on numbers broken down by pay scales is not available centrally for all employed staff groups. Numbers according to pay band are available in relation to Agenda for Change staff and these can be found on the Information Services Division website at
www.isdscotland.org/isd/796.html.
- 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 many calls have been categorised by NHS24 as (a) P1, (b) P2 and (c) P3 in 2010-11.
Answer
For the period April 2010 to February 2011 (inclusive):
3% (35,540) of total calls dealt with by NHS24 were categorised as P1.
7.8% (90,878) of total calls dealt with by NHS24 were categorised as P2.
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 how much NHS24 is paying the BIG Partnership for public relations services for the NHS Inform website.
Answer
NHS24 has not employed the BIG Partnership specifically for public relations services for the NHS inform website. However, they have been used by NHS24 to support national campaigns and the development of social media channels.
NHS24''s own communications team is entirely responsible for managing and delivering all communications functions for NHS inform. This includes the marketing, stakeholder engagement and public relations work relating to the service.
- 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 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 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 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: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how long waiting lists are for adult chronic pain services in the (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Highlands and Islands area.
Answer
Most pain clinics provide services to patients in an outpatient setting. Information about outpatient waiting times is collected centrally at speciality level only and does not differentiate between different types of clinics within the specialty. Consequently the information requested is not available centrally.
