- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what communications it has had with Simon Stevens, President of United Healthcare and former adviser to the Prime Minister, regarding the tendering of primary medical services and what the (a) content and (b) outcome was of any such communications.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has hadno communications with Simon Stevens regarding the tendering of primary medicalservices.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what communications it has had with NHS Lanarkshire regarding the tendering of primary medical services and what the (a) content and (b) outcome was of any such communications.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has regularcontact with NHS Lanarkshire, as it does with all NHS boards, on a wide range ofissues.
NHS boards are statutorily responsiblefor providing or securing primary medical services for their local populations.How that is achieved is a matter for each NHS board taking into account the needsof the local population and local circumstances.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on which countries use the MMR vaccine, in light of statements by the UK Department of Health that the vaccine is used in over 90 countries.
Answer
The information is availableat
http://www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk/worldmap/usingmmr.php.This information was obtainedfrom the World Health Organization (WHO) country profile website, which is availableat:
http://www.who.int/vaccines/globalsummary/immunization/countryprofileselect.cfm.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities and schools have implemented, or intend to implement, the Call to Love approach to education on sex and relationships
Answer
Called to Love is the workingtitle for the joint work being undertaken by Healthy Respect and the Scottish CatholicEducation Service. The pilot project aims to produce a package of teaching materialsand training opportunities to support Relationships and Moral Education in CatholicSecondary Schools, although the materials will be available to all schools. Theintention is to finalise the content of the materials in the school session2007-08.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities and schools have implemented, or intend to implement, the abstinence-only approach to education on sex and relationships
Answer
It is a matter for local authoritiesand schools to decide what they teach, with guidance from the Scottish Executive. All schools are expected to teach sex and relationshipseducation (SRE). The National Sexual Health Strategy defines the best SRE programmes as those whichaim to delay sexual activity in combination with communication skills developmentand information about sexual health services.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours of service to the NHS by anaesthetists will be rostered in each of the next 10 years.
Answer
Information on the projectedrostered hours of service by anaesthetists is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will guarantee that Modernising Medical Careers will not lead to centralisation and closure of hospitals or departments in the NHS.
Answer
The key principle ofModernising Medical Careers (MMC) is to ensure that service delivery ismaintained. In accordance with Delivering for Health, MMC will provide suitablyskilled doctors for the services that the NHS Scotland needs. It is a UK-widelong-term programme, aimed at improving the training of doctors, to improvepatient care and better meet service needs in the future. It does this byintroducing a more focussed, competence based training, which is not timebased.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent anaesthetists are projected to provide a service to the NHS as part of a rota in each of the next 10 years.
Answer
Information on the projectednumber of whole-time equivalent anaesthetists who will provide a service as partof a rota is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish any previously unpublished workforce planning documentation relating to Modernising Medical Careers.
Answer
Documentation relating to workforceplanning and Modernising Medical Careers are, to date, working papers and will notbe published. The outcome, including medical specialty training numbers for August2007, will be published as part of the National Workforce Plan in December 2006.
General documentation relatingto Modernising Medical Careers implementation in Scotland is published on the ModernisingMedical Careers Scotland website at www.mmc.scot.nhs.uk.
- Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many rostered hours of service to the NHS by anaesthetists are currently delivered in Scotland.
Answer
Information on the rostered hoursof service by anaesthetists is not held centrally.
