- 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 30 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason there was a delay of over one year in establishing a national contract for agency locums to standardise pay rates and reduce costs.
Answer
NHSScotland had expected to use the new UK-wide NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) framework on the expiry of the 2009 Scottish agreement. Following a rise in NHS PASA''s framework charge rates the cost impact in Scotland would have been higher than elsewhere in the UK. Accordingly, following consultation with NHS boards in 2008, NHS National Services Scotland''s National Procurement division were tasked with putting in place a more affordable agreement for NHSScotland. This was a complex process, involving extensive consultation with stakeholders and negotiations with suppliers. The new agreement came into operation on 1 June 2010, and is the most competitively priced contract of its kind in the 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 Keith Brown on 29 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to continue to allocate funding to colleges through More Choices, More Chances.
Answer
This year we are providing almost £600 million in resource funding for colleges, a record level of support and evidence of this administration''s continued commitment to our further education sector.
In his strategic letter of guidance to the Scottish Funding Council earlier this year, The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning made clear his wish to see colleges give priority to give to 16 to 24-year-olds, including those who need more choices and chances. Our ambitions for all young people are reflected in our key learning strategies, including Skills for Scotland, 16+ Learning Choices, and Curriculum for Excellence.
Addressing the needs of the More Choices, More Chances group is therefore a mainstream activity for all colleges and we expect an element of the substantial resource we make available to be deployed to that end. We have no plans to make available additional funding.
- 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 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the increase in the cost of the use of medical locums in 2008-09 by NHS boards was approximately double the amount spent in 1996-97 in real terms, as reported in the Audit Scotland report, Using locum doctors in hospitals.
Answer
As stated in the Audit Scotland report, while the cost of agency medical locums has increased since 1997, the overall spend on medical locums has remained static in recent years. Contributing factors identified in the Audit Scotland report include increased demand for agency locum doctors. In addition, prices charged by agencies have increased.
- 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: 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.
- 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: 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: 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 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 |
