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The offer of vaccination for all girls in the catch up cohort for HPV vaccination will remain until August 2011. This is in line with advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, who recommended vaccination be offered to girls aged 13-17 at the start of the vaccination programme for a time limited period only.

The offer of vaccination for all girls in the catch up cohort for HPV vaccination will remain until August 2011. NHS boards locally will continue to seek to vaccinate girls within the catch-up campaign until this point. Additionally, the national marketing and awareness campaign which supports the HPV programme will continue to provide materials in the community to ensure older girls and those out of school have are made aware of the availability of the vaccination.

The HPV vaccine is entirely voluntary and girls are entirely free to refuse the offer of the vaccination if they so wish.

The 1997 Single Status Agreement is an agreement which applies to local government employees and not NHS Scotland employees. It is an agreement which brought together the pay and conditions of service of manual workers and administrative, professional and technical employees. The term single status pay is sometimes erroneously used more narrowly to refer to equal pay claims in local government.

In the NHS, equal pay claims are subject of various on-going legal proceedings. It is not, therefore, considered possible to make any estimate of financial liability at this stage as the lack of information available would mean that any such estimate is likely to be misleading. The progress of all equal pay issues in NHSScotland is being monitored closely.

The 1997 Single Status Agreement is an agreement which applies to local government employees and not NHS Scotland employees. It is an agreement which brought together the pay and conditions of service of manual workers and administrative, professional and technical employees. The term single status pay is sometimes erroneously used more narrowly to refer to equal pay claims in local government.

In the NHS, equal pay claims are subject of various ongoing legal proceedings. It is not, therefore, considered possible make any estimate of financial liability at this stage as the lack of information available would mean that any such estimate is likely to be misleading. The progress of all equal pay issues in NHSScotland is being monitored closely.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally. We have confirmed that HMIE and the Care Commission check accident logs and the procedures for dealing with them during their inspections.

Along with the other UK countries the Scottish Government has made a commitment to purchase enough Influenza A (H1N1) vaccine to protect 100% of the population. In common with the introduction of other new vaccine programmes a governance structure has been established to plan for the introduction and delivery of the Influenza A (H1N1) vaccine. This structure involves representatives from across the NHS and from partner delivery agencies, and work is currently underway to consider delivery models for the programme based on the most up to date information on expected vaccine delivery schedules.

This information is not available.

The updated clinical standards published by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland at the end of June include the following essential criteria:

60% of all patients admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of stroke are admitted to the stroke unit on the day of presentation at hospital, and remain in specialist stroke care until in-hospital rehabilitation is complete, and

90% of all patients admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of stroke are admitted to the stroke unit on the day of admission, or the day following presentation at hospital, and remain in specialist stroke care until in-hospital rehabilitation is complete.

NHS boards, through their stroke MCNs, are expected to meet these standards. The position is monitored annually through the Scottish Stroke Care Audit.

The information requested is not available. There is clear evidence, however, that timely thrombolysis in appropriate cases improves outcomes for patients.

We are increasing access to services throughout Scotland, in line with the NHS QIS Sexual Health Services Standards. For young people in particular, we have made a commitment to ensure that a young people''s sexual health drop-in service is available either within, or near, every school in Scotland.

We are also undertaking a social marketing campaign to increase awareness and uptake of long lasting methods of contraception.

£0.4 million has been allocated to NHS24 to date. We are working closely with NHS24 and NHSScotland generally to ensure that appropriate services are provided.