- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter first contacted the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, her private office or her press office about the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter first contacted me at my MSP e-mail account at 10:49am on 6 June.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people make up the infection control team for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and what their positions are.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that there are 36.2 whole-time equivalent infection control nurses (for both acute and primary services), 5.4 whole-time equivalent infection control doctors, one general manager and one assistant general manager across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The board also employs a consultant nurse in infection control, an infection control manager and a hand hygiene co-ordinator.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing sent her quote on clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital to the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter.
Answer
My response to the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter was sent by e-mail at 15:46pm on 6 June.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the consultant microbiologist left the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
I am advised that the Consultant Microbiologist left the Vale of Leven in early 2002. I would also refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14335 on 14 July 2008.
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- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any changes of staffing in the infection control team at the Vale of Leven Hospital have been made since the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the hospital, and, if so, when these were made.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14365 on 14 July 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing and (b) NHS Scotland took to deal with the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital following the public announcement on 22 May 2008 of a review by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Answer
I refer the member to the statement I made to the Parliament on 18 June 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has in place for the times when the one infection control nurse at the Vale of Leven Hospital is (a) off-duty, (b) absent from work due to illness or (c) on annual leave.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that periods of absence are covered by other infection control colleagues within the service.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the vacancy for a consultant microbiologist at the Vale of Leven Hospital was filled.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that there is no vacancy for a Consultant Microbiologist post at the Vale of Leven. Since the former Argyll and Clyde Health Board’s laboratory clinical reorganisation in 2004, this position has been covered by the Consultant Microbiologists at the Royal Alexandria Hospital and the Inverclyde Royal Hospital.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had been reviewing the staffing of the infection control team at the Vale of Leven Hospital prior to the news of the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital being released to the local media.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that there has been an on-going review of infection control structures and a new structure came into place in May this year.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive why no specialised infection control team was immediately set up at the Vale of Leven Hospital as soon as NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde learned that there had been deaths at the hospital caused by clostridium difficile.
Answer
It would not be appropriate for me to comment until the independent review announced by me on 18 June 2008 has examined all the circumstances surrounding the clostridium difficile cases at the Vale of Leven. The review team’s report is due to be published by the end of July 2008.
