- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS podiatry patients have been treated in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) age group.
Answer
Information on thework of Allied Health Professionals (AHP) is not collected in sufficient detailto answer this specific question on podiatry services. However, NHSScotland InformationServices Division has recently undertaken a census of AHP workload, the resultsof which are published at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/data-development-dev-info.jsp?pContentID=1359&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.The results of thecensus include figures for podiatrists and chiropodists combined.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS podiatry patients have been treated in (a) the community and (b) hospital in each of the last five years, broken down by age group.
Answer
Information on thework of Allied Health Professionals (AHP) is not collected in sufficient detailto answer this specific question on podiatry services. However, NHSScotland InformationServices Division has recently undertaken a census of AHP workload, the resultsof which are published at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/data-development-dev-info.jsp?pContentID=1359&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.The results of thecensus include figures for podiatrists and chiropodists combined.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to increase patients’ access to NHS podiatry and chiropody services.
Answer
Each NHS board isresponsible for the planning and provision of NHS podiatry services in its area,based on an assessment of local need and in accordance with local and national priorities.Access to NHS podiatry services is a matter of clinical decision in the light of the health needs of individual patients.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what capacity there is in the pre-school sector for pre-school places.
Answer
Overall capacity inthe pre-school sector is not monitored on a national basis. Uptake of pre-schooleducation places is reported annually through the Pre-school and Childcare Statistics.The current high-level of uptake suggests that there are no overall problems withcapacity in the sector. The lateststatistics are available at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/09/13155926/0and in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 40411).Planning of pre-schoolservices at a local level is a matter for local authorities, who have a duty toprovide every three and four-year-old with a pre-school education place. In orderto do this effectively they must plan the provision of pre-school education to ensurethat places are available in the areas where they are needed.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the audiology waiting time figures for each NHS board will be published.
Answer
Work is taking placewith Information Services Division of National Services Scotland to gather and validatethe necessary data. Audiology waiting time information will be published in thenear future once this is completed.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 10 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many more pre-school places will be needed to meet its pledges on extended pre-school provision.
Answer
The manifesto commitmentto deliver additional pre-school education relates to the level of entitlement ratherthan the number of places. The first step of an increase for all nursery provisionto 475 hours is not based on the creation of any new places. Options for implementingthe commitment in full are being developed and impact on capacity in the sectorwill be carefully considered.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to respond to the recommendation in Community Care Providers Scotland’s report, Social Care and Support Services in the Voluntary Sector: Funding Survey 2007, that central government should review spending levels on social care and support in relation to (a) demand for services and (b) the effect of the introduction of a number of initiatives in recent years.
Answer
Ministers are in dialoguewith a range of stakeholders to gather evidence and views on how we can use thestrategic spending review to set plans that will enable us to fulfil our purposeand achieve our strategic objectives. Social care and support will be part of thatconsideration.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority receives from it to provide pre-school services.
Answer
The Scottish governmentprovides local authorities with block grant for their core revenue servicesthrough the core local government finance settlement. A needs-based methodology(otherwise known as grant aided expenditure (GAE)) is used to determine the allocationof that block grant. As GAE is a component used in distributing the total blockgrant that the Scottish Government provides to local government, it is not abudget or a spending target. It is for each local authority to decide how bestto allocate the resulting overall block grant across all their services, basedon local needs and priorities.
The GAEallocations for each local authority for pre‑school services in 2007‑08is shown in the following table.
| Local Authority Area | Nursery Teaching Staff (£ Million) | Pre-School Education (£ Million) |
| Aberdeen City | 0.931 | 6.822 |
| Aberdeenshire | 1.281 | 9.959 |
| Angus | 0.563 | 3.775 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0.416 | 3.069 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0.256 | 1.634 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0.666 | 5.319 |
| Dundee City | 0.664 | 4.698 |
| East Ayrshire | 0.617 | 4.031 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 0.536 | 3.291 |
| East Lothian | 0.504 | 3.197 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0.506 | 3.175 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 2.045 | 13.686 |
| Eilean Siar | 0.121 | 1.051 |
| Falkirk | 0.788 | 4.980 |
| Fife | 1.897 | 11.896 |
| Glasgow City | 2.913 | 19.259 |
| Highland | 1.080 | 8.649 |
| Inverclyde | 0.402 | 2.773 |
| Midlothian | 0.457 | 3.016 |
| Moray | 0.441 | 3.249 |
| North Ayrshire | 0.727 | 4.556 |
| North Lanarkshire | 1.893 | 11.575 |
| Orkney | 0.087 | 0.764 |
| Perth and Kinross | 0.719 | 5.307 |
| Renfrewshire | 0.924 | 5.795 |
| Scottish Borders | 0.597 | 4.606 |
| Shetland | 0.119 | 1.157 |
| South Ayrshire | 0.521 | 3.271 |
| South Lanarkshire | 1.595 | 10.002 |
| Stirling | 0.461 | 3.326 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 0.472 | 3.018 |
| West Lothian | 1.015 | 6.303 |
| Scotland | 26.215 | 177.195 |
In addition thereare other relevant GAE allocations which go wider than pre-school services. Theseinclude Sure Start (£59.912 million), special education (£272.688 million) and childcarestrategy (£44.556 million).
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether audiology waiting times will be brought into line with those of other NHS consultant-led services and targeted to 18 weeks from GP referral to fitting of hearing aid.
Answer
Since audiology servicesare not consultant-led, or defined as a speciality, and are a sub-specialty ofear, nose and throat, they do not fall under the current 18 week target of the ScottishGovernment. However, the Scottish Government is committed to improving servicesfor the benefit of patients, ispleased that a number of NHSScotland boards have met, and in some cases exceeded,the 26 week target from referral to fitting set by the Audiology Modernisation ProjectBoard and will continue to measureboards’ progress towards modernisation of the service allowing us to identify regionalvariations in service delivery and standards.
Where waiting timesremain unacceptably high, the Scottish Government continues to work directly withthe boards involved to help improve the situation as a matter of urgency.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost per head of pre-school provision is in each local authority in respect of (a) education and (b) childcare services.
Answer
The information requestedis not held centrally. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-3570 on6 September 2007 for information on local authority pre-primaryeducation expenditure. It is not possible to split these data between educationand child care services.All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website thesearch facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
