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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-22776

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 5 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government when the equivalent in Scotland of the monitoring of general practices by the Care Quality Commission will begin; how practices will be selected; who will be responsible for the monitoring, and what the reporting mechanism will be.

There are no current plans to follow NHS England by appointing a GP inspector.

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) rewards contractors for the provision of quality care and helps to standardise improvements on the delivery of primary medical services and the contractor must co-operate fully with any reasonable inspection or review (including the health board’s QOF annual review) that the health board or another relevant statutory authority wishes to undertake in respect of the achievement points to which it says it is entitled.

Question reference: S4W-22781

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 5 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the GP practices that are supported by NHS boards either by directly employing GPs or paying for locums or where branch surgeries have (a) closed or (b) reduced opening hours or services in the last seven years were dispensing practices where a requirement to dispense was terminated.

This is a matter for individual health boards. The information requested is not held centrally.

How a practice responds to the withdrawal of its dispensing income is a decision for the practice partners. Configuring practice services and resources to deliver the general medical services required by its contract, and for which the practice continues to be funded, is for practice partners to manage.

Question reference: S4W-22874

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been registered with community dental health services in each NHS board area in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S4W-22875

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason there are over 50,000 registrations to Personal Dental Services in the NHS Highland region.

Question reference: S4W-22880

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding Personal Dental Services has claimed on GP17 forms in each NHS board area in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S4W-22877

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Personal Dental Services receives continuing care and capitation for registered patients.

Question reference: S4W-22878

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what the cost is per patient for (a) Personal Dental Services and (b) General Dental Services for equivalent treatments, broken down by NHS board in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S4W-22881

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much Personal Dental Services (PDS) has collected in patient charges in each NHS board area in each of the last three years; what the policy is on how this money is spent, and whether this causes a reduction in the PDS budget.

Question reference: S4W-22876

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Personal Dental Services, a referral service, registers patients.

Question reference: S4W-22782

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether a patient who is moved from an accident and emergency department to (a) a clinical decision unit, (b) a clinical assessment unit, (c) an acute assessment unit and (d) a unit that is not designated as part of a traditional ward for admitting patients remains designated as a patient of the accident and emergency department or as an admission to the new unit, and what guidance it provides on this.

Guidance on how patients who are moved from an accident and emergency department to another facility is available on the Information Services Division data dictionary:

http://www.ndc.scot.nhs.uk/Dictionary-A-Z/Definitions/index.asp?Search=A&ID=53&Title=Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)&Title2=Acute Medical Unit (AMU)

All patients are subject to the four hour wait standard when they are in the accident and emergency department until they are either discharged, transferred to another hospital or the patient is formally admitted to a bed outwith A&E.