- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland about implementing national guidance on the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
Answer
We have asked NHS Quality ImprovementScotland to carry out a stock-take of all the initiatives in place in Scotland aimedat managing venous thromboembolism (VTE), DVT being one of the common presentationsof VTE.
The main message which guidanceon diagnosis needs to emphasise is that all the investigations available at presentcan only indicate a low probability of DVT. They cannot exclude the presence ofa DVT.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available in the 2006-07 budget for the Prevention 2010 project.
Answer
There is £6.5 million availablefor the Prevention 2010 project in 2006-07. The programme,now branded as Keep well, was launched publicly on 24 October.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funding available in the 2006-07 budget for the Prevention 2010 project has been allocated.
Answer
£5.8 million has been allocatedto date.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 1 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils were seen by the school dental service in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) NHS board, (b) local authority and (c) parliamentary constituency.
Answer
The School Dental Service nolonger exists.
A limited range of functionsof the former School Dental Service was transferred to the Community Dental Servicein the 1970s and increasingly in recent years, the Salaried General Dental Servicehas taken on the dental care of patients previously treated by both the School andCommunity Dental Service.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total and (b) per capita cost was of the school dental service in each of the last five years, also broken down by (i) NHS board, (ii) local authority and (iii) parliamentary constituency.
Answer
The school dental service nolonger exists. Some functions of the former school dental service were transferredto the Community Dental Service in the 1970s, and increasingly in recent years theSalaried General Dental Service has taken on the dental care of patients previouslytreated by both the School and Community Dental Services.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how Scotland will be affected by the delay in the supply of flu vaccination.
Answer
The delay is not expectedto prevent priority groups from receiving their flu vaccination.Overall there will be sufficient vaccine to ensure that all thoseeligible are vaccinated.
Due to problems growing one of the flu vaccine’s virus strains, delivery of the flu vaccine for this seasonhas been slightly delayed by approximately one month across Europe. The initialdelay in production means that deliveries of vaccine will be spreadover a longer period. Flu vaccine will now be delivered throughoutOctober (over half in October), November and December.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will prioritise the allocation of flu vaccinations to the most vulnerable groups.
Answer
The UK Health Departments soughtthe advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) whorecommended prioritisation as shown in the following table. This information wascascaded to General Practitioners in the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) letter of29 June 2006 available at
http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/cmo/CMO(2006)08.pdf.Vaccine should be used for allthose in Priority Group 1 first, and then the following groups in order as vaccinebecomes available.
| Rationale | Priority Group | Description |
| Individual risk | 1 | All those aged 65 year and over |
| 1 | All those aged over 6 months in the JCVI recommended clinical risk groups only |
| 2 | Those living in long-stay residential care home or other long-stay care facilities where rapid spread is likely to follow introduction of infection and cause high morbidity and mortality (this does not include prisons, young offenders institutions, or university halls of residence) |
| Public health risk | 3 | Carers |
| 4 | Healthcare Workers |
| 5 | Poultry Workers (This group will be immunised through a separate programme outside of the seasonal flu programme) |
| 6 | Demand from any other groups |
Due to problems growing one of the flu vaccine’s virus strains, delivery of the flu vaccine for this seasonhas been slightly delayed by approximately one month across Europe. The initialdelay in production means that deliveries of vaccine will be spreadover a longer period. Flu vaccine will now be delivered throughout October(over half in October), November and December.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it is offering GPs regarding the shortage of flu vaccines.
Answer
There is not a shortageof flu vaccine; only a possible delay.
The Scottish Executive alertedGeneral Practitioners (GPs) to a possible delay, as a result of vaccine productionproblems encountered by manufacturers, in June 2006. Thereafter updates have regularlybeen sent to health professionals by the Scottish Executive, Health Protection Scotlandand professional bodies.
In order to plan clinics effectivelyand ensure maximum uptake, we have asked General Practitioners to liaiseclosely with their Community Pharmacist colleagues. GP clinics will thereforebe arranged around confirmed vaccine deliveries. Patients will beprioritised in terms of clinical need, as advised by the Joint Committeeon Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
Due to problems growing one of the flu vaccine’s virus strains, delivery of the flu vaccine for this seasonhas been slightly delayed by approximately one month across Europe. The initialdelay in production means that deliveries of vaccine will be spreadover a longer period. Flu vaccine will now be delivered throughout October(over half in October), November and December.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many flu vaccinations were delivered to GP surgeries in (a) October, (b) November and (c) December in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information is as follows:
| | September | October | November | December |
| 2006-07* | 8% 104,000 doses | 52.8% 686,400 doses | 23.2% 301,600 doses | 15.6% 202,800 doses |
| 2005-06** | 15.5% 170,500 doses | 62.6% 688,600 doses | 18.6% 204,600 doses | 2.2% 24,200 doses |
| 2004-05 | Information not centrally held |
| 2003-04 | Information not centrally held |
| 2002-03 | Information not centrally held |
Notes:
*2006-07 figures are provisionaland based on the manufactures best estimates. 1.3 million doses ordered for Scotland.
**2005-06 1.1 Million doses orderedfor Scotland.
Due to problems growing one of the flu vaccine’s virus strains, delivery of the flu vaccine for this seasonhas been slightly delayed by approximately one month across Europe. The initialdelay in production means that deliveries of vaccine will be spreadover a longer period. Flu vaccine will now be delivered throughout October(over half in October), November and December.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent figures are for recorded incidents of physical or verbal attacks against NHS staff in each NHS board.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S2W-28920 answered on 24 October 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliaments website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
