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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-29603

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it offers its staff the opportunity to donate blood at private or organised group sessions and whether such staff continue to be paid while taking time to donate blood.

Question reference: S3W-29598

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation to next report.

Question reference: S3W-29596

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how often the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation has met in the last year.

Question reference: S3W-29597

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what reports the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation has made to ministers in the last year.

Question reference: S3W-29291

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patient discharges were delayed in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.

Information on patients awaiting discharge in each census from October 2006 to October 2009 is shown in the following table. This shows those waiting six weeks and over. Six weeks (43 days or more), is the common period for discharge planning agreement timescales across Scotland and was the focus of the original target to reduce these to zero. This was achieved for the first time in April 2008.

Number of NHS Delayed Discharges Six Weeks and over by NHS Board from the October 2006 Census to the October 2009 Census

	2006	2007				2008				2009
	October	January	April	July	October	January	April	July	October	January	April	July	October
Scotland	679	606	233	423	425	316	-	44	91	79	-	55	94
Ayrshire and Arran	78	62	19	35	40	17	-	-	12	12	-	10	-
Borders	9	9	8	7	5	9	-	-	4	1	-	1	1
Dumfries and Galloway	3	2	-	2	1	1	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
Fife	37	34	17	61	87	52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Forth Valley	53	48	29	21	15	17	-	6	9	-	-	-	1
Grampian	88	95	34	43	48	63	-	1	-	-	-	1	3
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	130	119	68	92	76	63	-	11	21	23	-	27	44
Highland	59	40	19	25	13	18	-	2	6	10	-	5	22
Lanarkshire	34	16	6	35	29	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
Lothian	119	118	16	45	55	31	-	12	27	26	-	8	12
Orkney	4	3	3	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
Shetland	-	2	2	6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tayside	61	50	9	42	49	17	-	12	8	6	-	-	2
Western Isles	4	8	3	4	5	4	-	-	-	1	-	1	1

Source: ISD Scotland, Delayed Discharges Census.

Question reference: S3W-28941

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what benchmarks teachers will be encouraged to use to give parents feedback on their children’s progress and performance prior to the end of P4.

Teachers will apply the standards and expectations set out in the curriculum guidance and the strategic vision for assessment which my predecessor published on 24 September 2009 at all stages, including prior to the end of P4.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/assessmentandachievement/index.asp.

More detailed guidance for practitioners on the assessment framework will be published in due course.

Question reference: S3W-28940

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers an assessment of pupils’ progress and ability prior to the end of P4 unnecessary.

Question reference: S3W-29293

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 2 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patient discharges in each of the last three years were delayed for a period of more than six weeks due to complications with community care arrangements, broken down by NHS board.

Information on patients awaiting discharge due to community care reasons (including assessment and arrangements) and who have been delayed for over six weeks in each census from October 2006 to October 2009 is shown in the following table.

Number of NHS delayed discharges delayed for over six weeks for community care related reasons by NHS board from the October 2006 census to the October 2009 census.

	2006	2007				2008				2009
	Oct	Jan	Apr	Jul	Oct	Jan	Apr	Jul	Oct	Jan	Apr	Jul	Oct
Scotland	537	495	185	338	335	282	-	38	74	63	-	41	80
Ayrshire and Arran	49	43	14	28	33	14	-	-	12	11	-	10	-
Borders	5	8	8	7	4	9	-	-	4	1	-	1	1
Dumfries and Galloway	3	2	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Fife	25	21	12	30	51	45	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Forth Valley	50	43	26	19	11	15	-	5	9	-	-	-	1
Grampian	80	89	32	41	46	60	-	1	-	-	-	1	3
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	90	79	51	70	53	54	-	9	15	14	-	19	39
Highland	42	36	9	20	9	18	-	1	4	7	-	3	18
Lanarkshire	31	12	4	31	24	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Lothian	98	104	12	35	52	27	-	12	22	23	-	6	8
Orkney	2	3	3	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shetland	-	2	2	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tayside	59	45	9	41	45	16	-	10	8	6	-	-	2
Western Isles	3	8	3	4	5	4	-	-	-	1	-	1	1

Source: ISD Scotland, Delayed Discharges Census.

Question reference: S3W-29294

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 1 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to reduce patient discharge delays due to unavailability of funding for care home places.

We expect local authorities and the NHS to work together and within their combined resources to ensure patients are not unnecessarily delayed in hospitals when treatment is complete.

The Scottish Government''s aim is to enable people to stay in their own homes, or in a homely setting, with maximum independence, for as long as possible.

We are undertaking a major review of care of older people, including care home provision and the financial implications. We are engaging with Parliament, the professions, providers and society to agree a way forward that is sufficiently radical to meet the changing needs of Scotland''s population.

Question reference: S3W-29295

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 1 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to reduce patient discharge delays due to unavailability of funding for community care support.