- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the expenditure on medical locums was in each territorial NHS board for (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally available in respect of substantive NHS medical staff undertaking locum work. Expenditure on agency locum doctors is shown in the following table:
| Health Board | Total 2008-09 | Total 2009-10 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | £2,048,004 | £2,719,299 |
| Argyll and Bute | £380,018 | £0 |
| Borders | £299,016 | £542,367 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £1,382,631 | £2,735,478 |
| Fife | £2,235,818 | £2,708,564 |
| Forth Valley | £1,390,000 | £1,499,487 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | £6,408,816 | £7,288,868 |
| Grampian | £2,934,454 | £3,276,282 |
| Highland | £3,018,694 | £3,408,344 |
| Lanarkshire | £3,069,234 | £3,069,551 |
| Lothian | £2,771,294 | £4,999,299 |
| Orkney | £1,070,737 | £729,686 |
| Shetland | £307,424 | £433,838 |
| Tayside | £1,055,830 | £2,054,320 |
| Western Isles | £645,209 | £614,046 |
Source: NHS National Services Scotland National Procurement data collected from NHSScotland Boards accounts payable information.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any NHS boards owe payment for services to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) and, if so, what action it will take to ensure that the money is transferred.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has a number of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with other NHS boards across Scotland. The SLAs are based on a three-year, rolling average activity level and cover all specialties within the board rather than separate agreements with Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The three-year rolling averages are reviewed with health boards on an annual basis and any activity or financial adjustments are made to the SLA at that stage As part of the year-end accounting process for 2009-10, all NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde balances were formally agreed with other NHS boards.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the pay rates are for internal medical locums.
Answer
As at 1 April 2010, the locum rates for doctors in training and specialty doctors are set out in Section 8 of NHS Circular PCS (DD) 2010/4. Rates for locum consultants are set slightly differently. If a locum has never held a substantive NHS consultant post they are paid at the first point of the consultant contract salary scale as set out in Appendix 3 of NHS Circular PCS (DD) 2010/5. However, if they have gained consultant level experience outside the NHS, this is normally taken into account when agreeing their starting salary. Electronic versions of the circulars are available at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the pay rates are for medical locums in the new national contract.
Answer
The pay rates for medical locums in the new national contract are based on NHS Circular PCS (DD) 2009/2 and 3. Electronic versions of the circulars are available at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk.
Pay Bands
| New Grade | Hourly Pay Range (Min) | Hourly Pay Range (Max) |
| FY1 | £15.84 | £20.36 |
| FY2 | £19.69 | £25.31 |
| ST1 | £23.16 | £29.78 |
| ST2 | £23.16 | £29.78 |
| ST3 | £25.51 | £32.80 |
| Speciality Doctor | £20.91 | £20.91 |
| Consultant | £35.82 | £48.29 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will accept the recommendations of the Audit Scotland report, Using locum doctors in hospitals, in full.
Answer
Yes.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the medical staffing expenditure was in each territorial NHS board for (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
Answer
A breakdown of the amount spent by territorial boards on medical and dental staff for 2008-09 and 2009-10 is shown in the following table:
| | Medical and Dental Pay Costs |
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| £000 | £000 |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 56,575 | 57,836 |
| NHS Borders | 19,710 | 20,154 |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 27,533 | 28,591 |
| NHS Fife | 55,656 | 52,540 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 43,882 | 45,253 |
| NHS Grampian | 122,283 | 123,591 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow | 328,052 | 329,922 |
| NHS Highland | 61,479 | 61,251 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 91,227 | 91,941 |
| NHS Lothian | 174,524 | 183,713 |
| NHS Orkney | 4,687 | 5,411 |
| NHS Shetland | 4,483 | 5,956 |
| NHS Tayside | 97,538 | 98,202 |
| NHS Western Isles | 5,098 | 5,034 |
| Unified Boards | 1,092,727 | 1,109,395 |
Source: Figures taken from the Scottish Financial Return 15 which is an analysis of the gross cost of salaries and wages (i.e. including employer''s share of national insurance and superannuation).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-34074 by Shona Robison on 15 June 2010, when the National Group on Infertility was first announced and how many times it has met.
Answer
The intention to set up the National Infertility Group was first announced during 2009. Scottish Government officials have been in discussion with NHS boards regarding the role of the group and membership. The group met for the first time on 28 April 2010, and further meetings are scheduled for July, September and November 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the interim report from the Infertility Network Scotland on IVF services.
Answer
Infertility Network Scotland''s interim report has been received and will be published shortly on the Maternity Services website
www.maternityservices.scot.nhs.uk.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that consistent criteria are applied to IVF treatment across Scotland.
Answer
The National Infertility Group will look at standardisation of access criteria across Scotland, and make recommendations to ministers.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the definition is of one cycle of IVF treatment.
Answer
As NHS boards across Scotland currently define one cycle of IVF treatment in several different ways, the National Infertility Group has been asked to consider and make recommendations to ministers.
