- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the expansion of facilities, including community casualty facilities, at East Ayrshire Community Hospital will be completed.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-752 on 18 June 2007. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of free school meals to families receiving working families tax credit in (a) East Ayrshire and (b) South Ayrshire.
Answer
We are committed toextending free school meals eligibility. We are currently considering how best totake this forward and will announce detailed plans in due course.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the decision to retain accident and emergency (A&E) services at Ayr Hospital will have on patients attending A&E at Crosshouse Hospital with minor injuries.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-752 on 18 June 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the accident and emergency facility at Ayr Hospital will continue to provide a full service to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Answer
As I outlined in mystatement in the Chamber on 6 June 2007, I have instructedthe board of NHS Ayrshire and Arran to review their original plans and to producerevised proposals that will enable accident and emergency services to continue atboth sites in Ayrshire. I am clear that, as far as possible within the resourcesavailable to the board, I want them to retain their primary care and community developmentprogrammes.
I recognise that thereare many issues to address, for example relating to clinical workload and staffing.I want these challenges to be faced up to in a way that puts patients first andis innovative.
It is now a matterfor the board to determine how best to deliver these services and to produce proposals.Their proposals will then undergo a process of independent scrutiny, following whichI expect to take a decision by the turn of the year.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the work already undertaken to establish a community casualty facility at East Ayrshire Community Hospital following the letter dated 15 December 2006 from the Minister for Heath and Community Care to the chair of NHS Ayrshire and Arran which instructed the NHS board to establish this as the first community casualty facility in Ayrshire.
Answer
This is a matter forNHS Ayrshire and Arran.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional ambulance and paramedic services will be stationed in Girvan following the decision to retain accident and emergency services at Ayr Hospital.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-767 on 18 June 2007. Allanswers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it agrees that the services outlined by the Kerr Report as constituting a Level 3a unscheduled care facility, namely (a) general surgery 24/7 receiving services, (b) general medical 24/7 receiving services (including provision for admissions of older people), (c) orthopaedic surgery 24/7 receiving services, (d) anaesthetics services on a 24/7 basis, including general critical care services, (e) radiology services on a 24/7 basis, (f) paediatric receiving services, (g) obstetric receiving services and (h) gynaecology receiving services, are the minimum services required to constitute an effective and sustainable accident and emergency facility.
Answer
Further to my answerto question S3W-755 on 18 June 2007, I have been clear that we support the general principles set out forthe future of health care services in Scotland in the Kerr Report. I also made clearthat I believe these principles should be applied in a way that takes proper accountof local circumstances and the views of local communities.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether free school meals pilot schemes will be available in (a) East Ayrshire and (b) South Ayrshire.
Answer
We are currently consideringvarious options to trial the extension of free school meals and we will set outdetails of our plans in due course.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when work to expand facilities, including community casualty facilities, at East Ayrshire Community Hospital will commence.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-752 on 18 June 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website; the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional ambulance and paramedic services will be stationed in the Doon Valley following the decision to retain accident and emergency services at Ayr Hospital.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-767 on 18 June 2007. Allanswers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
