- 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 will be available in the next two months.
Answer
Scotland will be receiving 1.3 million doses of flu vaccine thisyear, 200,000 doses more than we did last year. The delivery of this vaccine forSeptember, October, November and December is as follows:
September 8%; approximately 104,000doses
October 52.8%; approximately686,400 doses
November 23.2%; approximately301,600 doses
December 15.6%; approximately202,800 doses.
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: Thursday, 05 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of physical or verbal attacks against NHS staff have been recorded in (a) total over the last 10 years and (b) each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally in the form requested. However, with the development of the Scottish Workforce Information Statistical System (SWISS) this kind of informationwill be available in the future.
The data available on violenceand aggression related incidents up to 31 March 2004can be seen on the Scottish Health Statistics website under workforce statistics,www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
- 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 how many incidents of physical or verbal attacks against NHS staff were recorded in each NHS board from January to September 2006.
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.
- 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 how many incidents of physical or verbal attacks against NHS staff were recorded in each NHS board from September 2005 to September 2006.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-28920 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.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to submit a response to Discussion Paper on the setting of maximum and minimum amounts for vitamins and minerals in foodstuffs, issued by the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General.
Answer
The Food Standards Agency(FSA) have co-ordinated a UK-wide response to the discussion paper, taking viewsfrom a wide range of interested parties. The FSA board hosted an open meeting on21 September to consider the Commission’s discussion paper. I wrote to CarolineFlint MP, Minister of State for Health, indicating I was content with this approachand the FSA recognised the need to build Scottish concerns into the final response.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-27870 by Mr Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006, how many pain clinics there are in each NHS board.
Answer
The information requested hasbeen obtained from NHS boards and is given in the following table. Numbersrefer to the number of sites on which a chronic pain service is delivered.
| NHS Board | Number Of Pain Clinics |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 2 |
| Borders | 1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 |
| Fife | 1 |
| Forth Valley | 2 |
| Grampian | 2 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 5 |
| Highland | *3 |
| Lanarkshire | 3 |
| Lothian | 2 |
| Orkney | 1 |
| Shetland | 1 |
| Tayside | 3 |
| Western Isles | 1 |
Note: *NHS Highland also hasservice level agreements with NHS Grampian and Tayside which allow it referpeople to a pain clinic operated by these boards.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it interprets the recommendation of the Kerr report that effective long-term condition management should be based on a generic approach geared to the management of the totality of a person’s needs, in the community and without hospitalisation wherever possible, and how this is implemented to provide adequate chronic pain self-management programmes.
Answer
Delivering for Health set out the Executive’s response to the KerrReport’s recommendations on the effective management of long term conditions. Thisincludes the development of the Community Health Partnership Toolkit, a mandatoryself-assessment tool which will enable each CHP to determine how responsiveservices are to the totality of the needs of those with a long term condition,which we would interpret as including chronic pain. The content of the Toolkitis currently out for consultation, and the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland hasbeen included in order to give generic comments from the perspective of thosewith long term conditions.
Self-management is also anessential element of the long term condition management model, and the Executive is providing funding to two organisations who are developing selfmanagement strategies for people with chronic pain. Developing self-managementinitiatives is also an important focus of the work of the Long Term ConditionsAlliance Scotland.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is progressing with implementing the recommendations of Chronic Pain Services in Scotland.
Answer
Responsibility forimplementing these recommendations rests primarily with NHS boards, based ontheir assessment of local needs. The Executive has encouraged them to implementthe recommendations, in the light of the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland BestPractice Statement on the management of chronic pain in adults published inMarch 2006.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many podiatric surgeons there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Centrally held information doesnot explicitly identify podiatric surgeons employed in NHSScotland.
Information on staff employedin NHSScotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is to be treated in each pain clinic.
Answer
Most pain clinics provideservices to patients in an out-patient setting. Information about out-patient waiting times is collected centrally atspecialty level only and does not differentiate between different types ofclinic within the specialty. Consequently, the information requested is not available centrally.
