- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29588 by John Swinney on 16 December 2009, what proportion and value of funding to support the Scottish budget was non-recurring in 2008-09 and is non-recurring in 2009-10.
Answer
End year flexibility accounted for £313 million and £400 million of the Scottish funding for 2008-09 and 2009-10 respectively. Asset sales accounted for £25 million in 2008-09, the 2009-10 figure is not yet available. One-off Barnett consequentials accounted for a further £19 million in 2009-10. In total these sources of funding account for less than 2% of the Scottish Government''s total Departmental Expenditure Limit funding.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 3 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which schools in each NHS board area have a school-based dental service.
Answer
Childsmile Nursery and Childsmile School aim to work with 20% of educational establishments targeted in order of those with the highest proportion of children living in the most deprived local quintile, as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. This is achieved by selecting schools with the highest number of pupils with a postcode in the most deprived SIMD quintile.
The information requested is given in table The Schools in Health Board Areas that have a School-based Dental Service, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 50127).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 3 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of deprived areas have school-based dental services.
Answer
The aim of the Childsmile programme is to provide a Childsmile school service in the most disadvantaged Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) quintile in each NHS board. This is achieved by selecting the schools with the highest number of pupils with a postcode in the most deprived SIMD quintile. The aim is to cover approximately 20% of the children in a board area.
The Childsmile School programme commenced in the East of Scotland, plus Ayrshire and Arran and recently expanded to include boards in the North of Scotland. Further expansion will take place in Grampian and Highland in the next financial year. Boards in the West of Scotland are now commencing the school programme with further expansion in the next financial year.
The following table shows for each board area in which Childsmile School has commenced, the total number of primary schools and the number and percentage of schools participating in Childsmile School.
| NHS Board | Total Primary Schools | Childsmile School | % |
| Grampian | 262 | 7 | 3 |
| Tayside | 184 | 44 | 24 |
| Forth Valley | 113 | 15 | 13 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 145 | 31 | 21 |
| Borders | 66 | 13 | 20 |
| Lothian | 239 | 51 | 21 |
| Shetland | 33 | 23 | 70 |
| Fife | 147 | 34 | 23 |
| Highland | 273 | 20 | 7 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28777 by Shona Robison on 19 November 2009, when the expert group examining infertility services will report.
Answer
The first meeting of the National Infertility Group is expected to take place during March 2010. I will expect six monthly reports from the Group, with the first report due at the end of September 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24275 by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 May 2009, how many individual cases of Clostridium difficile there have been since the outbreak at the Vale of Leven Hospital was first identified in May 2008, broken down by hospital and showing the number of fatalities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-30927 on 1 February 2010. 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.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29776 by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 December 2009, for what reason it can provide a substantive response to question S3W-24275 but not to S3W-29776.
Answer
Scottish Government statisticians have reviewed the approach which was previously taken to responding to such questions, in light of national statistics protocols.
For S3W-29776, NHS boards were approached for the data as no formal published hospital level statistics for the periods concerned were published or available. This was a time consuming and costly exercise, which involved substantial effort on the part of boards in collating the data, and moreover, the information collected was unvalidated.
In reviewing the approach to responding to such requests, Scottish Government statisticians have advised that parliamentary question responses should only be based on information which has been validated or formally published. Official Clostridium difficile statistics, prepared by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) following validation, including laboratory testing, are published by HPS on a quarterly basis.
The response to S3W-29776 refers to the web link where unvalidated hospital level infection data, published by NHS boards, can be found. For ease of reference this is:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/19529/statistics/Local.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28777 by Shona Robison on 19 November 2009, whether it will publish the responses from NHS boards to the Infertility Network Scotland survey on infertility services.
Answer
Infertility Network Scotland has received responses from all NHS boards, and a table summary is being finalised and verified. I will arrange for the summary document to be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 49114) in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28777 by Shona Robison on 19 November 2009, when the expert group examining infertility services was set up and what its membership is.
Answer
The NHS boards chief executives'' group is in the process of nominating a Chair for the National Infertility Group. Final membership of the group will be agreed with the chair.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28811 by Shona Robison on 19 November 2009, whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has now introduced school-based dental services.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are committed to starting a school based preventive dental service from April 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the Carstairs deprivation category is.
Answer
The Carstairs Index is an area based measure of deprivation, which was developed by Vera Carstairs and Russell Morris, at Edinburgh University using data from the 1981 Census.
The original Carstairs index was subdivided into seven categories with category 1 = most affluent and category 7 = the most deprived.
The Carstairs index is generally not used by the NHS or by the Scottish Government to measure deprivation and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is used instead.
Further information is available here:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD.
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3211.html.
