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The organisations which received funding under the Sexual Abuse Service Development Fund are detailed on the Scottish Government website:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/VAUnit/CSAapplicants.

Awards were made in December 2007 for a two year period.

Individual police forces are responsible for health care and forensic services in police custody. The delivery of improved healthcare and forensic services through partnership working between the police force, health board and the university is being explored through a three year pilot in Tayside which will begin in January 2009, supported by the Scottish Government. The results of that pilot will inform future consideration of these issues.

On 11 July 2008, CEL (2008) 31 letter was issued to all NHS boards setting out the Changes to the Pregnancy and Newborn Screening Programmes including screening for haemoglobinopathies. This information is available via:

http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/details.asp?PublicationID=2656.

NHS Grampian, NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde used funding from the better blood transfusion programme in cell salvage projects in 2007-08. Information on the use of better blood transfusion lead clinician funds utilised directly by NHS boards is not held centrally.

The Scottish Government has been working closely with the portable oxygen supplier, BOC, to monitor progress towards resolving the current shortages in the availability of lightweight DD cylinders. BOC''s most recent report, for the period up to the end of October, indicates that good progress continues to be made. Stock levels continue to improve - the number of DD cylinders being delivered to Scotland has increased from a low of just under 2,700 in April to over 4,500 in October. BOC have informed the Scottish Government that they estimate that unrestricted supplies will be available early in the new year. We will continue to monitor the situation.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15298 on 21 August 2008. 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.

In order to fully assimilate staff to the Agenda for Change pay system they must first of all go through the job evaluation process to determine which pay band they should be on. Payroll departments must then place them on that pay band: then assess for, and pay, any arrears which may be due dating back to October 2004 when Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions became effective.

Those substantive staff not yet on the new system are largely individuals for whom more work has been required to establish the correct pay band. This is a relatively small number and all NHS boards are working to a timetable of having substantive staff assimilated by the end of the year. Bank staff are being left till the end of the process in most board areas and it is anticipated that they can be assimilated relatively quickly after substantive staff are complete.

The latest available figures on assimilation and payment of arrears are from the end of October 2008. The following table shows the number of substantive staff still to be assimilated, the number of bank staff still to be assimilated and the number of staff who have been assimilated but are still waiting for payment of arrears. The figures are broken down by health board.

Health Board	Substantive Staff Still to be Assimilated	Bank Staff Still to be Assimilated	All Assimilated Staff who are Still to be Paid Arrears
NHS Ayr and Arran	219	105	3
NHS Borders	1	1	22
NHS Dumfries	18	1	0
NHS Fife	0	180	21
NHS Forth Valley	182	148	147
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	381	6,196	2,689
NHS Grampian	93	3,457	2,791
NHS Highland	318	614	83
NHS Lanarkshire	18	112	2,036
NHS Lothian	472	213	46
NHS Tayside	68	1,022	213
NHS Orkney	0	0	0
NHS Shetland	9	381	1
NHS Western Isles	7	78	2
Scottish Ambulance Service	0	0	0
NHS National Services Scotland	32	0	176
NHS Education Scotland	1	0	1
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland	1	0	0
NHS Health Scotland	0	0	0
NHS 24	0	0	0
Golden Jubilee	35	88	42
State Hospital	136	2	1
Totals	1,991	12,598	8,274

 

Whist parents are encouraged to make the Personal Child Health Record available at all health care appointments, including those appointments with primary health care teams, that availability cannot be guaranteed because the Personal Child Health Record is held by parents.

The Health Technology Assessment Report was considered by the Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) on 11 September 2008. The SHTG have requested further work on the potential level of end user demand. If there is sufficient demand, National Procurement will consider including this technology in its programme for next year. The minutes of SHTG meetings are published on its webpage on the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland website.

The definition of an infection control outbreak is detailed in the Protocol for Surveillance Programme for Outbreaks of Healthcare Associated Infection guidelines which was published by Health Protection Scotland in 2005. This protocol is supported by the Watt Report Infection Control Outbreak/Episode Risk Matrix which sets out how outbreaks should be categorised.