- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which ICD-9 codes are included within its targets to reduce deaths from (a) cancer by 20% and (b) heart disease by 50% by 2010.
Answer
The ICD-9 codes included within the Scottish Executive Health Department's target to reduce deaths from cancer by 20% between 1995 and 2010 are codes 140 - 208. The ICD-10 codes included within this target are codes C00 - C97.
The ICD-9 codes included within the Scottish Executive Health Department's target to reduce deaths from coronary heart disease by 50% between 1995 and 2010 are codes 410 - 414. The ICD-10 codes included within this target are codes I20 - I25.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 1 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail those research grants awarded by the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland (NRIS) in 2000 where the person conducting the research was a member of the NRIS.
Answer
The Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland has not awarded grants to any of its members.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 23 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what each level one expenditure line in the Scottish budget represented as a percentage of Scotland's GDP in each year for which figures are available.
Answer
I refer you to the table which provides level one expenditure as a percentage of GDP and projected GDP.
Portfolio | % |
| | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Audit Scotland | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Central Gov't Support for Local Authority Expenditure | 8.26 | 7.92 | 8.87 | 8.27 | 7.90 | 7.91 | 7.83 | 8.09 | 8.22 | 8.26 |
| Children and Central Government Education | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.26 | 0.29 | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.45 | 0.49 |
| Communities | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Crown Office | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| Enterprise and Lifelong Learning | 2.87 | 2.74 | 2.72 | 2.66 | 2.55 | 2.49 | 2.55 | 2.73 | 2.61 | 2.57 |
| Environment | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.54 | 0.70 | 0.63 | 0.64 | 0.65 |
| EU Structural Funds | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.22 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.16 |
| Executive Secretariat | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Food Standards Agency | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Forestry | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Health | 7.13 | 6.89 | 6.91 | 6.94 | 6.94 | 7.00 | 7.14 | 7.57 | 7.77 | 7.90 |
| Justice | 0.73 | 0.70 | 0.72 | 0.71 | 0.76 | 0.84 | 0.78 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.82 |
| New Deal | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rural Affairs | 0.76 | 0.81 | 0.91 | 0.75 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.75 | 0.71 |
| SE Administration | 0.26 | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.26 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
| SE Associated Departments | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
| Scottish Parliament | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.09 |
| Social Justice | 0.99 | 1.05 | 0.92 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.73 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.91 | 0.97 |
| Scottish Public Pensions Agency | 0.32 | 0.42 | 0.35 | 0.42 | 0.49 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.35 | 0.33 | 0.37 |
| Sport & Culture | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.18 |
| Transport | 0.50 | 0.47 | 0.46 | 0.47 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 1.01 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.28 |
| Unallocated Capital Modernisation Fund | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Reserve | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.14 |
Figures from 1998-99 onwards reflect the introduction of Resource Accounting and Budgeting. From 1999-2000 the Water Authorities form part of the Environment Group budget.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting time is from GP referral to surgery for all forms of cancer and what the equivalent figures were for each of the last ten years, broken down by health board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-12417 on 30 March 2001.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will recommend that professional training for physiotherapists includes a module on hypermobility syndromes.
Answer
Pre-registration undergraduate training for physiotherapists already prepares students with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage the effects of hypermobility syndrome.The content of pre-registration courses for physiotherapists is a matter for the professional and regulatory bodies, i.e. the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the statement by an Executive spokesperson that the number of qualified frontline NHS staff has risen since 1996, as reported on the BBC News website on 27 April 2001, what criteria are used to define staff as frontline; whether any nurses or midwives are not regarded as frontline staff and, if so, what term or terms are used to describe such staff.
Answer
Frontline is not a term which is defined.The 27 April statement was based on figures for all qualified nurses and midwives.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it would cost the NHSiS to introduce the use of retractable needles where appropriate.
Answer
The NHS Scotland uses around 10 million needles a year at a cost of £1.2 million. The individual cost of needles can vary widely from 2p for a replacement needle to over £50 for specialised needles. On average a normal needle costs about 12p and retractable needles 27 to 30p. I recently launched the Needlestick Injuries: Sharpen Your Awareness report at the UNISON Scotland Conference and announced that the Scottish Executive would issue guidelines to NHS Scotland on the implementation of the report and would provide £270,000 to support the report's recommendations for the introduction of safer needles based on risk assessment.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the working group on needlestick injuries to report.
Answer
I launched the working group's report
Needlestick Injuries: Sharpen Your Awareness at the UNISON Scotland Conference on 6 April. The report is currently in the process of being printed and should be available shortly. The report will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre and on the
www.scotland and
www.SHOW websites.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by health board area of current waiting times for hip replacement operations.
Answer
Information on the median waiting times for a total hip replacement, by health board area of residence, for the year ending 31 December 2000, is provided in the table.NHSScotland is performing more total hip replacement operations than ever before. Provisional figures show that in the year to 30 September 2000, 4,929 total hip replacement operations were undertaken, an increase of 287(6.2%) on the figure for the year ending 31 March 1997.
NHSScotland: Median Waiting Times for Patients Admitted from the Inpatient/Day Case Waiting List for Total Hip Replacement1 Operations, by Health Board Area of Residence: Year Ending 31 December 2000p
| Health Board | Median Wait (Days) |
| Argyll and Clyde | 140 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 142 |
| Borders | 159 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 208 |
| Fife | 189 |
| Forth Valley | 235 |
| Grampian | 93 |
| Greater Glasgow | 230 |
| Highland | 133 |
| Lanarkshire | 102 |
| Lothian | 208 |
| Orkney | 56 |
| Shetland | 107 |
| Tayside | 118 |
| Western Isles | 43 |
| Scotland | 147 |
p Provisional.Source: ISD, Scotland.Notes:1. Patients are defined using operation code taken from the Office of Population and Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and procedures 4th Revision (OPCS4). Hip Replacement (Total) has been defined using principal procedure code W37-W 39.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 22 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by health board area of current waiting times for knee replacement operations.
Answer
Answer expected on 22 March 2001
