- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to measure satisfaction rates of NHS users.
Answer
Work is routinely undertaken in NHS boards across Scotland to survey patients' experience of local care and to implement learning from the NHS Complaints Procedure and other local feedback arrangements.
However, Better Together, our new national Patient Experience Programme will tap into patient experience in a more systematic way. It will:
work with patients and carers to determine what they want from the NHS
use surveys and research to collect information on patient views and experiences
build on evidence already collected through for example, our Patient Focus and Public Involvement work and from the NHS Complaints Procedure.
Better Together is central to achieving our vision of an NHS with patients truly at its centre and delivering real improvements in both the quality of local health care and patients' experience of that care.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints have been registered against the NHS each year since 1997, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Statistical information on complaints made under the NHS Complaints Procedure, broken down by NHS board and by financial year, is published annually and can be found at
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4362.html.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland regarding improved recording of repeat testing of individuals for chlamydia in order to improve the accuracy of statistics.
Answer
Respect and Responsibility, Scotland's national Sexual Health Strategy, allocates actions to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and to NHS National Services Scotland's Information Services Division to set sexual health standards and to improve data collection of sexually transmitted infections.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what barriers exist to increasing chlamydia screening among men to at least the levels of screening among women and what action could be taken to overcome such barriers.
Answer
Generally, men do not access health services as often as women. The reasons for this may be embarrassment, a lack of awareness of the services which are available or not recognising when they may be at risk.
It is our aim to increase chlamydia testing in men. This can be achieved through a variety of interventions such as better partner notification, young people friendly services including drop-in services and testing initiatives targeted at men, provided in venues they regularly attend.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many diagnoses of chlamydia were reported to Health Protection Scotland in the third quarter of 2007-08.
Answer
Health Protection Scotland received 4,381 laboratory reports of genital chlamydia for the 3rd quarter of 2007-08, i.e. for the period October to December 2007.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the success of the Ayrshire and Arran pilot of chlamydia screening through pharmacies.
Answer
There has as yet been no formal assessment of the chlamydia testing feasibility study in Ayrshire and Arran. This is due to the small number of community pharmacies and patients which took part.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran are now planning to increase the number of community pharmacies offering this service and to promote the service with local authority and other health care professionals.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to introduce a national screening programme for chlamydia.
Answer
No. Chlamydia testing in Scotland takes place on an opportunistic basis by GPs and other health care professionals, which is in line with the SIGN guidelines.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to NHS boards regarding improved recording of repeat testing of individuals for chlamydia in order to improve the accuracy of statistics.
Answer
Health Protection Scotland, on behalf of the Scottish Government and in association with chlamydia testing laboratories, is exploring ways to develop existing monitoring systems so that a greater understanding of repeat testing among individuals can be achieved.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to collect data by NHS board for chlamydia screening in 2008 and how regularly such data is expected to be collected in future years.
Answer
Data on chlamydia testing in NHS board areas is collected by Health Protection Scotland to answer the first population key clinical indicators. These were developed as part of the implementation of the sexual health strategy, Respect and Responsibility, the baseline report on the 2005 data was published in February 2006 and the 2006 data has just been published (February 2007). This has become an annual exercise and is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it believes that the chlamydia screening targets set out in NHS Quality Improvement Scotland’s draft standards are sufficient to meet the aims of its sexual health and relationships strategy on preventing sexually transmitted infections.
Answer
The targets for chlamydia testing set out in the draft NHS Quality Improvement Standards have been informed by sexual health key clinical indicators and represent best practice in Scotland.
The standards represent the minimum level of chlamydia testing which each NHS board will be expected to achieve. We hope NHS boards will exceed these minimum levels as services develop.
