- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-35200 by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 August 2010, what side effects were recorded in the 77 reports considered serious by the reporter.
Answer
As of 2 September 2010, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has received a total of 75 reports of suspected adverse reactions (ADRs) associated with the use of HPV vaccine (including Cervarix and brand unspecified reports) from Scotland, covering 106 adverse reactions, which were considered serious by the reporter. These events are listed in the following table below as provided by MHRA. The total number of cases considered serious has decreased from 77 to 75, since two cases were identified as duplicate reports; these have therefore been discounted from the data.
The number and nature of suspected ADRs received so far is very much in line with what the MHRA expected to receive at this time and no serious new risks have been identified. Following administration of at least 4 million doses across the UK since September 2008, the balance of risks and benefits of Cervarix remains positive.
It is important to note that such reports do not necessarily mean that the events described were caused by the vaccine. Reporters are encouraged to report suspected ADRs i.e. the reporter does not have to be sure that the vaccine caused the reaction “ a mere suspicion will suffice. Therefore, reports submitted to MHRA may be adverse reactions to the vaccine, they may be related to the process of vaccination rather than to the vaccine itself (e.g. nervousness or anxiety about needles or vaccination); or they may be purely coincidental events that would have occurred anyway in the absence of vaccination (e.g. events due to underlying medical conditions). These events are therefore not a summary of known or proven adverse reactions to the vaccines and must not be interpreted and used as such.
A list of the recognised side effects is provided in the product information for healthcare professionals (Summary of Product Characteristics) and patients (Patient Information Leaflet) which is available to view at www.medicines.org.uk.
| Reaction (SOC) | Reaction (PT) | Number of Reports | Number of Fatal Reports |
| Congenital, Familial and Genetic Disorders | Cerebral Palsy | 1 | 0 |
| Eye Disorders | Photophobia | 3 | 0 |
| Gastrointestinal Disorders | Nausea | 3 | 0 |
| General Disorders and Administration Site Conditions | Chest Discomfort | 6 | 0 |
| | Chills | 1 | 0 |
| | Condition Aggravated | 1 | 0 |
| | Feeling Hot | 3 | 0 |
| | Feeling Of Body Temperature Change | 1 | 0 |
| | Malaise | 3 | 0 |
| | Pyrexia | 4 | 0 |
| Immune System Disorders | Anaphylactic Shock | 1 | 0 |
| | Type I Hypersensitivity | 1 | 0 |
| Infections And Infestations | Herpes Zoster | 1 | 0 |
| Investigations | Cell Marker Increased | 1 | 0 |
| Metabolism And Nutrition Disorders | Decreased Appetite | 3 | 0 |
| Musculoskeletal And Connective Tissue Disorders | Arthralgia | 1 | 0 |
| | Arthritis | 1 | 0 |
| | Muscular Weakness | 1 | 0 |
| | Neck Pain | 3 | 0 |
| | Pain In Extremity | 4 | 0 |
| Nervous System Disorders | Convulsion | 2 | 0 |
| | Dysgeusia | 2 | 0 |
| | Dyskinesia | 1 | 0 |
| | Grand Mal Convulsion | 2 | 0 |
| | Headache | 6 | 0 |
| | Hypertonia | 1 | 0 |
| | Hypoaesthesia | 2 | 0 |
| | Lethargy | 3 | 0 |
| | Loss Of Consciousness | 3 | 0 |
| | Migraine | 1 | 0 |
| | Paraesthesia | 1 | 0 |
| | Sensory Loss | 2 | 0 |
| | Syncope | 3 | 0 |
| | Tremor | 1 | 0 |
| Psychiatric Disorders | Anxiety | 3 | 0 |
| | Confusional State | 1 | 0 |
| | Fear | 3 | 0 |
| Respiratory, Thoracic And Mediastinal Disorders | Asthma | 4 | 0 |
| | Dyspnoea | 5 | 0 |
| | Throat Tightness | 3 | 0 |
| | Wheezing | 3 | 0 |
| Skin And Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders | Pruritus | 3 | 0 |
| | Rash | 3 | 0 |
| | Skin Exfoliation | 1 | 0 |
| | Urticaria | 1 | 0 |
| Vascular Disorders | Flushing | 1 | 0 |
| | Peripheral Coldness | 1 | 0 |
| | Shock | 1 | 0 |
| | Total Number of Reactions | 106 | |
| | Total Number of Reports | 75 | |
| | Total Number of Fatal Reports | 0 | |
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Scotland provides advice and treatment free to failed asylum seekers.
Answer
Asylum seekers in Scotland, who are registered with the UK Border Agency, are eligible to access NHS care and services until they leave the country, on the same basis as a person who is ordinarily resident in Scotland. This is regardless of the status of their application for asylum as a refugee and includes failed asylum seekers.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Infertility Network Scotland’s interim report on fertility funding, whether the remit of the National Infertility Group will be expanded to include the identification and development of tools to support the implementation of its recommendations.
Answer
The National Infertility Group considered the interim report from Infertility Network Scotland at its meeting on 13 July 2010. The group will provide an initial progress report to ministers within the agreed timescale.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted an (a) internal or (b) independent review of the (i) process and (ii) outcome of data collection on health issues.
Answer
The Scottish Government and National Services Scotland are currently working together to develop an Information and Intelligence Strategy for Health and Care. This strategy will cover the next five years and will:
ensure that information develops in line with agreed priorities and is fit-for-purpose;
ensure that resources are focused on national and local level priorities and are used effectively;
provide a strategic context against which decisions are made about allocation and prioritisation of resources to support the development of information intelligence;
provide predictability around when new pieces of information or data will be available (both nationally or locally), while maintaining flexibility to changing priorities;
inform the eHealth strategy for IT system developments.
A strategic oversight group is being set up and will be jointly chaired by Graeme Dickson, Director of Primary and Community Care, Scottish Government and John Burns, Chief Executive of NHS Dumfries and Galloway. Other key stakeholders will also be invited to join the strategic oversight group and the first meeting will be in November 2010.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to ensuring that cancer registration data is either compulsory or has an opt-out system in order to improve the validity of survival statistics.
Answer
NHS Information Services Division, which hosts the Scottish Cancer Registry, holds responsibility for the collection of cancer statistics across Scotland.
Establishing a legislative basis for the collection of health statistics (including cancer registration) was considered by the Confidentiality and Security Advisory Group for Scotland (CSAGS, 2002) and during development of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act (2008). In both cases, it was rejected. Following on from the final report of CSAGS, NHS Information Services Division developed a leaflet for patients and the public describing cancer registration and informing patients of their right to opt out. So far, very few patients have exercised this right.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many ministerial engagements there have been in the Ochil constituency since 2008, broken down by (a) ministerial portfolio, (b) date and (c) location.
Answer
The information requested is not routinely recorded and is therefore not held in the format requested. Systems were put in place on 8 March 2010 to collect this information more easily and we have provided the following tables.
Alex Salmond MSP
First Minister
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 23 March 2010 | Ochil | Kinross |
| 17 June 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 9 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 10 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Fiona Hyslop MSP
Minister for Culture and External Affairs
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 10 July 2010 | Ochil | Kinross |
John Swinney MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 24 March 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 7 June 2010 | Ochil | Bridge of Allan |
Stewart Stevenson MSP
Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 8 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Nicola Sturgeon MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 28 June 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 26 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Shona Robison MSP
Minister for Public Health and Sport
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 16 June 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 18 August 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 4 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Alex Neil MSP
Minister for Housing and Communities
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 14 June 2010 | Ochil | Alloa |
| 16 June 2010 | Ochil | Alloa |
| | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Michael Russell MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 19 May 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 14 Jun 2010 | Ochil | Dollar |
| 13 July 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
| 13 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Keith Brown MSP
Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 18 March 2010 | Ochil | Alloa |
| 23 March 2010 | Ochil | Kinross |
| 26 April 2010 | Ochil | Alloa |
| 14 June 2010 | Ochil | Dollar |
| 24 August 2010 | Ochil | Alloa |
Adam Ingram MSP
Minister for Children and Early Years
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 29 June 2010 | Ochil | Kinross High School |
Kenny MacAskill MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Justice
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 1 October 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
Fergus Ewing MSP
Minister for Community Safety
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 11 September 2010 | Ochil | University of Stirling |
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many ministerial engagements there have been in the Perth constituency since 2008, broken down by (a) ministerial portfolio, (b) date and (c) location.
Answer
The information requested is not routinely recorded and is therefore not held in the format requested. Systems were put in place on 8 March 2010 to collect this information more easily and we have provided the following tables.
Fiona Hyslop MSP
Minister for Culture and External Affairs
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 22 June 2010 | Perth | Perth |
John Swinney MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 8 March 2010 | Perth | Loaninghead |
| 12 July 2010 | Perth | Perth |
| 14 July 2010 | Perth | Perth |
Stewart Stevenson MSP
Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 21 June 2010 | Perth | Crieff |
| 23 July 2010 | Perth | Comrie |
Jim Mather MSP
Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 7 July 2010 | Perth | Crieff |
Shona Robison MSP
Minister for Public Health and Sport
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 12 June 2010 | Perth | Perth |
| 15 July 2010 | Perth | Forgandenny |
| 26 August 2010 | Perth | Perth |
| 31 August 2010 | Perth | Perth |
Alex Neil MSP
Minister for Housing and Communities
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 19 July 2010 | Perth | Perth |
Adam Ingram MSP
Minister for Children and Early Years
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 14 May 2010 | Perth | Crieff Hydro |
Richard Lochhead MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 27 April 2010 | Perth | Perth |
Roseanna Cunningham MSP
Minister for Environment
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 5 July 2010 | Perth | Perth |
| 20 September 2010 | Perth | Crieff |
| 27 September 2010 | Perth | Perth |
Kenny MacAskill MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Justice
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 31 March 2010 | Perth | Perth |
| 25 June 2010 | Perth | Perth |
Fergus Ewing MSP
Minister for Community Safety
| Date | Constituency | Location |
| 21 June 2010 | Perth | Crieff |
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the registered users’ version of the 2010 update of the British Guideline on the Management of Asthma has been delayed and, if so, for what reason and what action it will take to ensure that it is completed in time for the launch of the guideline in January 2011.
Answer
Since 2003, the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the British Thoracic Society jointly update annually, sections of the British Guideline on the Management of Asthma.
For the first time, a patient version of the British Guideline on the Management of Asthma will be published in 2011. The intention is to launch this in conjunction with or slightly after publication of the clinical guideline, which is scheduled for the end of January 2011. There are no indications that it will be delayed.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive on what evidence the continuation of the chronic kidney disease element of the Quality and Outcomes Framework is based and when this element will be reviewed.
Answer
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) manages the process to develop the clinical and health improvement indicators for the Quality and Outcomes Framework, including prioritising areas for new indicator development and recommending whether existing indicators should continue. This is an evidence based process handled by NICE''s independent advisory committee, and Quality Improvement Scotland is involved in representing Scottish health issues. NICE guidance on chronic kidney disease was published in September 2008 and further details of the process are available on the NICE website at www.nice.org.uk/cg73. It is for the NICE Advisory Committee to decide on when to review the indicators.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on social marketing campaigns in each year since 2007, broken down by campaign.
Answer
I refer the member to the Scottish Government website where social marketing spend for campaigns from 2007 to 2009-10 has already been published. Please see the attached link:
www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Directorates/Services-Groups/17963/advertising-marketing/spend.
