- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33651 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010, when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing became aware of the content of the workforce planning projections for 2010-11 submitted to the Scottish Government by NHS boards.
Answer
I am kept advised of developing NHS board workforce projections on an ongoing basis.
- 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: Friday, 11 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is measuring the cost of physical inactivity across Scotland and in what format it (a) publishes and (b) will in future publish this information.
Answer
Physical activity levels are measured and published annually via the Scottish Health Survey. We do not routinely measure the cost of physical inactivity.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much physical inactivity costs the NHS in Scotland in relation to (a) lower gastrointestinal cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) diabetes, (d) coronary heart disease and (e) cerebrovascular disease.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34444 on 21 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the NHS in Scotland will follow the lead of the NHS in England by measuring and publishing the cost of physical inactivity at the local level, for example by NHS board, local authority or community planning partnership area.
Answer
Physical activity levels are measured and published annually via the Scottish Health Survey. We have no plans to routinely measure the cost of physical inactivity.
