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Optometrists will not be undertaking prescribing as part of their general ophthalmic service arrangements. Prescribing could be undertaken under a shared care/co-management scheme but the decision on whether to put in place such a scheme rests with each NHS board.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27756 on 1 October 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

This information is not held centrally. NHS boards as individual employers have an obligation under the Working Time Regulations 1998 to ensure that all junior doctors are compliant with the 48 hour average working week that came into force on 1 August 2009. Compliant rotas may also contain numbers of locums and trained doctors alongside junior doctors therefore making a figure for junior doctors alone not necessarily helpful to disaggregate.

Information on junior doctors as at 1 August 2009 is not centrally available. NHS Scotland staff in post information is collected annually through a census as at 30 September. The relevant figures for 2008 are shown in the following table:

Doctors in Training1	30 September 2008
Head Count	5,987
Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE)	5,833.9

Source: Information services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Note: 1. Doctors in training include the following: specialist registrars, staff on specialty training and fixed-term specialty training grades, foundation programme grades, house officers, senior house officers, dental officers and senior dental officers and GP trainees.

Information as at 30 September 2009 will be published on 15 December 2009

In Scotland, there is currently one adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and two in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

As respiratory ECMO for adults is a rare and highly specialised procedure, it is available for Scottish patients through the UK ECMO centre at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, which comprises a dedicated unit of highly trained and experienced staff with the range of skills required to deliver treatment. Given the recent increase in demand for ECMO as a result of the pandemic, UK health ministers have agreed to double ECMO facilities at Glenfield hospital to 10 beds, following recommendations from the UK Critical Care Clinical Group.

Additional short-term capacity has also been commissioned at the Royal Brompton and Papworth Hospitals in England which can provide another four beds.

Scottish adult patients can also receive treatment at the designated European ECMO centre in Stockholm where there are two beds.

In Scotland, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is the only site with both adult ECMO machines and a clinical team trained by Leicester to provide respiratory ECMO. ECMO can be provided in Aberdeen if additional capacity is required, but only with the agreement and ongoing support and advice of Leicester clinicians.

The one respiratory ECMO machine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is used primarily for cardiac use. There is not a trained specialist team for adult respiratory ECMO in Edinburgh.

In addition to these adult machines, there are also five paediatric/neonatal ECMO machines at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.

Information on junior doctors as at 5 August 2009 is not centrally available. However, for the number of junior posts or full-time equivalents as at 30 September 2008, I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-28102 on 3 November 2009. All the answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Information as at 30 September 2009 will be published on 15 December 2009.

Information on junior doctor vacancies is not held centrally.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

	Female	Male
Albanian		4
Algerian		2
American	1	1
Australian		1
Bangladeshi		7
Belgian		1
Bolivian	1
Bosnian Serb		1
Brazilian		1
Canadian		2
Chinese	10	78
Colombian		1
Dutch		2
French		1
German		4
Greek		1
Indian		6
Iranian		1
Iraqi		4
Italian		3
Jamaican		2
Mexican		1
New Zealander		1
Other African	3	38
Other Asian		5
Other Commonwealth	1	12
Other European	2	23
Other South American	1	4
Pakistani	1	8
Palestinian		1
Polish		30
Portuguese		2
Russian	1	4
Southern African	1	5
Southern Irish		4
Spanish		3
Turkish		3
Undetermined	1	30
Vietnamese		6

 

The table gives a breakdown of all foreign nationals currently held in Scottish prisons broken down by nationality and gender.

One hundred and eighty-nine residential pre-construction condition surveys were undertaken prior to the commencement of construction.

One person has made a request for a follow-up residential pre-construction condition survey.

This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor1008-01.htm