- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the in-patient mental health capacity was of the planned secure units at Stobhill and Dykebar hospitals.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have confirmed that there were 44 medium secure and 30 low secure beds planned for the original Stobhill Local Forensic Psychiatric Unit (for Glasgow residents). At the same time, 30 beds on the Leverndale site were due to close following their migration into the new development of the Stobhill forensic unit. A mixture of 30 medium/low secure beds were originally planned for the Dykebar unit (for West of Scotland residents with the exception of Glasgow).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive where the in-patient mental health capacity that was to be provided by the secure unit at Dykebar Hospital has been accommodated.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have confirmed that by retaining the low secure beds on the Leverndale site, the 30 planned beds for Dykebar were provided as part of a reconfigured 74-bed medium secure bed unit at Stobhill. The net effect is to leave the overall capacity for medium and low secure beds unchanged at 104 beds.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the planned in-patient mental health capacity at Gartnavel Royal Hospital has been affected by the loss of capacity at the planned secure unit at Dykebar Hospital and, if so, how this has altered bed numbers.
Answer
No forensic capacity was ever provided or planned for Gartnavel Hospital so these changes have no impact on the Gartnavel Hospital.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the new cleaning staff announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing at the SNP conference on 17 April 2009 will be allocated to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde received funding for 84 whole-time equivalent domestic staff.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the new cleaning staff announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing at the SNP conference on 17 April 2009 will be allocated to the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
Funding has been provided to all NHS Boards. Decisions about the number of cleaners to be allocated to individual hospitals is a matter for NHS boards.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new recruits have been employed by Strathclyde Police since July 2008, broken down by division.
Answer
Police officer establishments are a matter for police authorities and chief constables.
The Scottish Government does not hold details of officer recruitment at divisional level.
Her Majesty''s Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland collate force level annual figures on recruitment from Scottish Forces and these are available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/public-safety/Police/local/15403/Statistical.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the strength was of Strathclyde police force in May 2008, broken down by division.
Answer
Police officer establishments are a matter for police authorities and chief constables.
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23821 on 19 May 2009. 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: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the officer allocation was for each division in Strathclyde Police before the allocation model was recalculated in July 2008.
Answer
Police officer establishments are a matter for police authorities and chief constables.
The Scottish Government does not hold details of officer allocations at divisional level. Figures on the number of police officers per force are collected on a whole-time equivalent basis each quarter. The figures to 31 December 2008 were published on 3 March 2009 and are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47838). On 31 December 2008 there were 7,955 police officers in Strathclyde Police.
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- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the strength is of Strathclyde police force, broken down by division.
Answer
Police officer establishments are a matter for police authorities and chief constables.
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23821 on 19 May 2009. 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: Friday, 24 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the incidents of Clostridium difficile since the outbreak at the Vale of Leven Hospital was identified in May 2008, broken down by hospital and showing the number of people infected and subsequent fatalities.
Answer
An incident of Clostridium difficile is defined by NHS boards as (a) two or more linked cases of the same strain of Clostridium difficile in the same clinical area (i.e. ward) or (b) where case numbers breach what is referred to as the statistical upper control limit for a specific clinical area. NHS board infection control teams ensure that all newly identified cases of Clostridium difficile are appropriately managed in relation to the prevention and control of infection.
The detail of all incidents of Clostridium difficile since May 2008, as provided by NHS boards using the definitions above, are presented in the following table. The dates of those incidents listed have not been included to preserve the anonymity of the patients concerned.
| Board | Total Number of Incidents Per Board Area | Hospital | Numbers of Positive Cases Per Hospital | Deaths Where Clostridium Difficile Shown As |
| Primary Cause | Contributory Cause |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 14 | Ayr | 3 | - | 1 |
| 6 | - | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | - |
| 4 | - | - |
| 3 | - | - |
| 6 | - | - |
| 3 | - | - |
| Ayrshire Central | 3 | - | - |
| Biggart | 4 | 1 | - |
| Crosshouse | 3 | - | - |
| 6 | - | - |
| 5 | - | - |
| Davidson | 4 | - | - |
| East Ayrshire Community | 3 | - | - |
| Borders | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | Lochmaben | 3 | - | 1 |
| Fife | 1 | Queen Margaret | 6 | - | 1 |
| Forth Valley | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 4 | Royal Alexandria | 8 | - | 2 |
| | Victoria Infirmary | 5 | - | 3 |
| | Gartnavel | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| | Gartnavel | 5 | - | - |
| Golden Jubilee | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grampian | 1 | Dr Gray''s Hospital | 17* | 1 | 1 |
| Highland | 1 | Caithness | 7 | - | 2 |
| Lanarkshire | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lothian | - | - | - | - | - |
| Orkney | 1 | Balfour | 6 | - | 2 |
| Shetland | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tayside | 3 | Arbroath Infirmary | 3 | - | - |
| | Ninewells | 11 | - | - |
| | Perth Royal Infirmary | 6 | - | - |
| Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 26 | | 140 | 4 | 15 |
Note: *This is a current outbreak and the number of cases may change from the figure provided.
