- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions patients were placed in mixed-sex wards in hospitals in Ayrshire and Arran in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
The requested information is not available.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on establishing a new inpatient mental health facility in Ayrshire.
Answer
NHS Ayrshire and Arran have confirmed that at its board meeting on 7 April 2010 proposals were approved to progress the Outline Business Case for the New North Ayrshire Community Hospital in Irvine, which will include a new adult inpatient mental health unit.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when the planned new inpatient mental health facility in Ayrshire will be completed.
Answer
The outline business case for the new North Ayrshire Community Hospital, which incorporates the plans for a new adult inpatient mental health unit, are due to be submitted by NHS Ayrshire and Arran to the Scottish Government''s Capital Investment Group for consideration by September 2010.
If the outline business case is approved work will continue on the production of the full business case, which is scheduled to be submitted in the summer of 2011. The board has currently scheduled the construction of the new Community Hospital to commence in April 2013, giving an anticipated completion date of summer 2016.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to monitor the incidence of Clostridium difficile in non-NHS hospitals.
Answer
From 1 January 2010, the Public Health Act etc. (Scotland) 2008 has required all Directors of Diagnostic Laboratories to notify each identification of Clostridium difficile to Health Protection Scotland (HPS) and their local NHS board.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 27 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to ensure that art therapists will have adequate opportunities to contribute to reviews of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guidelines.
Answer
All SIGN guidelines are independently reviewed by specialist referees prior to publication and there are a number of opportunities for interested parties to get involved during the development phase.
Decisions taken by SIGN in the development of their guidelines are entirely a matter for them and it would be inappropriate for the Scottish Government to intervene.
However, the Scottish Government has made a commitment to work with the allied health professional (AHP) research community to explore how best to develop further research opportunities in AHP mental health practice to contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and ˜The healthcare quality strategy for NHSScotland.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 27 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of the British Association of Art Therapists and what matters were discussed.
Answer
The Scottish Government met with representatives from the British Association of Art Therapists and other arts therapies professional bodies earlier this month to discuss their direct input to the Realising Potential. An action plan for the Allied Health Professionals in Mental Health.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) full and (b) part-time art therapy posts there are in each NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally. However, information showing NHS staff employed by specialty and NHS board, including arts therapy, is published annually, by National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland, as part of the workforce census at 30 September each year. The latest available figures are for 30 September 2009 and are available at
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5332.html.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 27 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken in light of concerns expressed by the British Association of Art Therapists on the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline 114 on Non-Pharmacological Management of Depression in Adults.
Answer
The British Association of Art Therapists has not raised any concerns about SIGN 114 with the Scottish Government.
Decisions taken by SIGN in the development of their guidelines are entirely a matter for them and it would be inappropriate for the Scottish Government to intervene.
For those who are dissatisfied with the process taken to develop this guideline, they may wish to contact the NHS QIS Chief Executive directly at the following address:
Ms Frances Elliot
Chief Executive
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Elliot House
8 “ 10 Hillside Terrace
Edinburgh
EH17 5EA.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many art therapists are employed in NHS settings, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Published data shows an increase in arts therapy staff from 45 headcount on 30 September 2007 to 51 headcount on 30 September 2009, an increase of six head count and 13.3%.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 27 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that art therapists are represented on the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33685 on 27 May 2010. All answers 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
