Chamber and committees

Booster information was made available in the international travel section of the NHS Scotland Covid Status App on 9 December, and on paper/pdf certificates from 13 December.

From January 2019 to June 2021, 150 samples were collected from these areas. Of these samples, 141 underwent potable testing, and only one sample, collected from 4B in November 2019 breached the high-risk threshold for organism counts at 37°.

NHS GG&C have made a number of changes to practices and procedures following water sampling assessments. The taps and showers used in 4A and 4B are now fitted with 0.2 micron water filters, routine sampling and testing is carried out from non-filtered water services, and more widespread sample testing is carried out.

A total of 22,635 dental staff are registered on the Vaccine Management Tool (VMT). This includes both dentists and dental nurses.

These staff would register voluntarily, as independent contractors, on the relevant staff bank of their health board, and book shifts via that system, which does not constitute secondment.

Ministers are not notified of every patient death by suspected hospital acquired infection, due to the possibility of patient identifiable information.

However, Ministers are routinely notified of incidents of hospital infection outbreaks (involving two or more patients) with management information regarding the organism of infection, number of patients involved in the outbreak, investigations and any suspected deaths associated with the outbreak. 

The information requested relating to how many patients a) contracted and (b) died from fungal infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is not centrally held by the Scottish Government, due to the possibility of patient identifiable information.

The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government, due to the possibility of patient identifiable information.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde report that maintenance work requests for wards 4a and 4b were mainly in relation to paint and floor damage. Reactive works requests are general requests direct from the Ward and can include issues such as broken equipment, heating, cooling lights, broken beds, electrics etc.

Planned maintenance activities are also carried out which include checks of Ventilation, Emergency lighting, Fire Alarm, Thermal Mixing Taps, Showers and Fire Doors etc.

Through Zero Waste Scotland, Scottish Government has provided the amounts shown in the table below, since 2011, directly to support local authorities’ recycling and re-use services. These grants included support for communications.

The total number of bed days recorded for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an emergency admission during their continuous inpatient stay (CIS) by NHS Board and financial year (2018/19–2020/21) is provided in the following table.

Table 1: Total bed days for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an emergency admission during their continuous inpatient stay (CIS) by NHS board of Treatment and Financial Year, 2018/19 - 2020/21.

Source: Public Health Scotland, SMR01
Extracted: December 2021