- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many procedures for bariatric surgery were carried out in each of the last six years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The number of bariatric surgery procedures, carried out in the last six year, by NHS board of residence, is shown in the following table.
Table: Number of bariatric surgery procedures undertaken in NHSScotland by NHS board of residence; financial years 2003-04 to 2008-09:
| | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 5 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 39 |
| Borders | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Fife | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 5 |
| Forth Valley | 4 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 32 | 16 |
| Grampian | 9 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 21 | 25 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 31 | 55 | 80 | 120 | 140 | 85 |
| Highland | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 13 |
| Lanarkshire | 6 | 15 | 20 | 24 | 45 | 27 |
| Lothian | 10 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 23 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Shetland Islands | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Tayside | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Western Isles | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| All Scotland | 76 | 105 | 151 | 219 | 290 | 239 |
Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason, and on what basis, it has altered obesity-in-children targets for NHS boards.
Answer
The HEAT target (H3) was classed as developmental in its first year 2008-09. The intention was always to review the target in 2009-10 based on experience to date. Based on that experience we finalised agreed targets with NHS boards that are challenging but realistic.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children who are living with relatives have been (a) formally assessed and placed and (b) placed but not formally assessed by a local authority, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The Children Looked After Statistics 2008-09 contains statistics on children who have been formally assessed as needing to looked after by local authorities. Table 3.3 sets out the numbers of children placed with friends and relatives in each local authority as at 31 March 2009.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/02/22133946/55
Details of how many children are living with friends and relatives outwith the statutory system are not held centrally.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to prohibit moving looked-after children to bed and breakfast accommodation or homeless shelters at the age of 16.
Answer
All local authorities are expected to be good corporate parents to the young people in their care and when leaving care. As part of the leaving care process, all young people must be provided with a Pathway Plan which identifies their housing and other needs and the actions required to meet these. It is a matter for local authorities as corporate parents to make decisions in the best interests of their looked after young people and care leavers and they must do so in consultation with them, considering the full range of housing options available.
In addition, the Scottish Government has established the Cross Sector Supported Accommodation Working Group which will provide recommendations to Government on the provision of supported accommodation for those at risk of homelessness including care leavers across Scotland by February 2011.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a duty on local authorities to provide advice, guidance and assistance to looked-after children up to the age of 19.
Answer
Section 29 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 sets out the main local authority responsibilities to young people who leave care after school age.
Under Section 29 (1) of the act there is a duty to advise, guide and assist those under 19 unless the local authority is satisfied that the young person''s welfare does not require it.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether in altering NHS board targets for obesity in children it has also reduced the funding provided and, if not, what the new costings are per target-child recruited.
Answer
The funding awarded to NHS boards for childhood obesity has not been reduced. The money was not allocated on a cost per child basis.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of paragraphs 53 and 54 of the Health and Sport Committee's 3rd Report 2010 (Session 3), Clinical portal and telehealth development in NHS Scotland, how many open source systems are now in place; what open systems are likely to be purchased in 2010-11, and what guidance on open source systems procurement has been given to NHS boards.
Answer
The number and type of software applications in boards whether on commercial or open source licences is not collected centrally.
Work is underway on the future options for desktop computers that will include testing of open source and will provide guidance and sourcing options for boards. This is part of wider review activity aimed at developing sustainable approaches to IT enabled improvements in patient care.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-33583 and S3W-33584 by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 and 24 May 2010 respectively, whether the Scottish Care Information electronic referral system, includes a mandatory field, including an absence of consent option, to record ethnicity of patients.
Answer
The Scottish Care Information electronic referral system does not include a mandatory field, including an absence of consent option, to record ethnicity of patients.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking in response to paragraph 41 of the Health and Sport Committee's 3rd Report 2010 (Session 3), Clinical portal and telehealth development in NHS Scotland, to (a) deliver the technology by means of which patients can audit and track the access to their medical information rather than only request information on how their health record is used and (b) ensure that patients are at the centre of the decision-making process on the use of their information.
Answer
The Scottish Government''s first priority is to support Health Professionals to make effective use of information within a variety of specialist computer systems across NHSScotland.
It remains our long-term aim to consider how best we might support the delivery of technology which would enable patients to have greater access to and control of their own information. The pace and scale of patient related eHealth investment will be considered in the context of the successor to the eHealth strategy 2008-2011.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is taking steps to review the lifetime ban on blood donations by men who have had sex with men in light of the recommendations in the report by Weinberg and Gilmore in the Canadian Medical Association Journal and the reduction in such restrictions in Argentina, Australia and Japan.
Answer
The Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs for Transplantation (SaBTO) advises the UK Health Departments on issues relating to the safety of blood, cells, tissues and organs for transfusion/transplantation. In July 2009, as part of its undertaking to continually consider exclusion and deferral criteria for blood donation, SaBTO commissioned a review of current policies. This will look at scientific advances as well as up-to-date evidence and data to ensure that donor selection criteria, including deferral criteria, are in place for justifiable reasons. UK Health Departments welcome this review. However, the ultimate aim, must be to maintain the highest levels of blood safety for patients at all times.
SaBTO is due to complete this review later in 2010, at which time the, Scottish Government, along with the other UK Health Departments, will consider its report and the need for any changes to current practice.
More information on the review and SaBTO''s work can be found on its website at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/ab/SaBTO/index.htm.
