- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to issue guidance regarding the minimum level of chiropody and podiatry services which should be available to patients from the NHS.
Answer
There are no such plans. It is for the NHS locally to determine the range and level of service provision in accordance with the needs of the population, and national and local priorities.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people consulted a chiropodist and/or a podiatrist in each of the last five years for which figures are available, expressed also as a percentage of the population.
Answer
The following table shows the total number of patients treated by chiropodists and podiatrists over the five-year period 1996 to 2000. Number of Treatments by Chiropodists and Podiatrists in the NHS
| Year | Number of Treatments |
| 1996 | 467,044 |
| 1997 | 472,820 |
| 1998 | 480,161 |
| 1999 | 494,133 |
| 2000 | 485,959 |
The figures need to be interpreted with some care. They are based on the number of courses of treatment provided to patients. Some patients will receive more than one course of treatment during the year, and therefore the number of people receiving chiropody or podiatry treatment will be less than the total number of treatments provided. It is not possible to identify the number of patients who receive more than one course of chiropody or podiatry treatment, and therefore we cannot estimate the number and percentage of people in the population who have seen a chiropodist or podiatrist.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the implications for the provision of chiropody and podiatry services in the NHS following the publication of the guidelines relating to the Scottish Diabetes Framework.
Answer
The Scottish Diabetes Group, the recently established national steering group for the implementation of the Scottish Diabetes Framework, will be taking forward work in relation to diabetic foot care. One of the action points of Scottish Diabetes Framework is to commission (by January 2003) a workforce study of diabetes services in hospitals and the community.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many chiropodists and podiatrists were employed in the NHS in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
Information on the number of chiropodists directly employed by NHSScotland is shown in the following table.
| Chiropodists1 directly employed by NHSScotland |
| Headcount and Whole Time Equivalent at 30 September |
| | Headcount | WTE |
| 1996 | 680 | 595.8 |
| 1997 | 699 | 606.9 |
| 1998 | 701 | 608.9 |
| 1999 | 735 | 633.0 |
| 2000 | 741 | 634.7 |
Source: National Manpower Statistics from payroll ISD Scotland.Note:1. Comprises qualified staff only and includes podiatrists.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it plans to provide regarding the appropriate level of chiropody and podiatry services which should be commissioned by each Primary Care NHS Trust.
Answer
There are no plans to publish guidance of this nature. It is for the NHS locally to determine the range and level of services to be provided.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost currently is of a foot operation when undertaken by (a) an orthopaedic surgeon and (b) a podiatric surgeon.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community nurses, midwives and health visitors have yet to receive a mobile phone, hands-free kit and emergency software under the initiative announced by the Scottish Office on 22 March 1999.
Answer
The funding for this initiative was allocated on 20 December 1999. As a result and based on local assessment of need, the number of mobile phones available to community nurses, midwives and health visitors at that time more than trebled from approximately 1200 to over 3800.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19038 by Susan Deacon on 23 November 2001, when it will make a decision on the new smear-taking method, liquid-based cytology.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23359.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19038 by Susan Deacon on 23 November 2001, when it plans to publish the report on the outcome of the Scottish Cervical Screening liquid-based cytology pilot.
Answer
I have considered the Scottish Cervical Screening Programme's final report on the Liquid Based Cytology (LBC) Pilot, and have accepted the Cervical Screening National Advisory Group's recommendations that LBC should be introduced into the Scottish Cervical Screening Programme. To assist with the initial set up and training costs, I have made available to the National Services Division, CSA up to £2.75 million.The Report on the LBC Pilot is available on the SHOW Website at: www.show.scot.nhs.uk in the publications section.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21205 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 February 2002, what the average number of available staffed beds was in (a) acute specialities and (b) acute surgical specialities per 1,000 population in each NHS board area in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2001.
Answer
The following table shows the number of beds per 1,000 population, in each NHS board area in the years 2000 and 2001. It is not meaningful to make comparisons between individual boards, because these figures do not take account of differences in the underlying healthcare needs of the population living in different NHS board areas, nor do they take account of the extent to which hospitals in one area may treat patients from neighbouring NHS board areas.NHSiS - Average available staffed beds
1; by health board of treatment, rate per 1,000 population
| Year Ending | 31 December 2000 | 31 December 2001p |
| Acute Rate2 | Acute Surgical Rate | Acute Rate2 | Acute Surgical Rate |
| Scotland | 3.2 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 1.2 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 3.1 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 1.0 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 3.0 | 1.1 | 3.0 | 1.1 |
| Borders | 2.5 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 0.8 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 2.5 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 1.1 |
| Fife | 2.3 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 0.8 |
| Forth Valley | 2.7 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 1.1 |
| Grampian | 3.0 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 1.3 |
| Greater Glasgow | 4.4 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 1.7 |
| Highland | 3.5 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 1.4 |
| Lanarkshire | 2.8 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 1.0 |
| Lothian | 3.2 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 1.1 |
| Orkney | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Shetland | 2.6 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 1.1 |
| Tayside | 3.5 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 1.3 |
| Western Isles | 5.0 | 1.6 | 4.8 | 1.5 |
P ProvisionalNotes:1. Includes NHS beds in joint-user and contractual hospitals2. Includes acute surgical, acute medical beds and geriatric medicine excluding long stay.
