- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that the results of the five-yearly estate surveys carried out by NHS bodies are collated and analysed centrally to ensure that an accurate assessment is made of the entire NHS estate.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20499 on 23 February 2009. 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.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require NHS bodies to examine their estate workforce profiles and identify future capacity issues.
Answer
NHS boards currently undertake the planning of their service requirements to meet the health care needs of their population. This includes planning the future workforce to deliver these services. For the first time this year, boards have been asked to include in their local delivery plans a summary of any particular workforce issues they expect to face. If there are any issues within boards in relation to any part of the workforce, including estates we would expect to see this reflected in their local delivery plans.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that NHS bodies provide a breakdown of expenditure on planned and reactive maintenance.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20499 on 23 February 2009. 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.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many post project reviews have been carried out by each NHS board in accordance with the requirements of the Scottish Public Finance Manual in each of the last five years.
Answer
The number of post project reviews carried out by each NHS board in accordance with the requirements of the Scottish Public Finance Manual in each of the last five years is set out in the following table:
| NHS Board | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Fife | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grampian | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Forth Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Highland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lothian | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tayside | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Western Isles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| National Services Scotland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Scottish Ambulance Service | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| The State Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Jubilee National Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| NHS 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NHS Education for Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mental Welfare Commission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quality Improvement Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NHS Health Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when measures will be introduced requiring NHS bodies to specify build and design quality in capital projects.
Answer
The existing Design Quality Policy for NHSScotland already requires NHSScotland bodies to specify build and design quality in capital projects through the use of tools such as Achieving Excellence Design Evaluation Toolkit (AEDET) and BREEAM Healthcare as a basis for assessing sustainability in health projects.
The Scottish Government Health Directorates has a Framework Agreement in place with Architecture and Design Scotland for the provision of Design Review, enabling support for NHS Boards and the provision of advice and guidance on design related matters for NHS Boards.
Work is in hand to consider how design quality can be embedded within the Scottish Government Health Directorates business case approval processes through the further development of the Scottish Capital Investment Manual for NHSScotland and the involvement of appropriate design experts within the business case approvals process.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that NHS bodies meet good practice guidelines that suggest that maintenance costs should be 60% planned and 40% reactive.
Answer
The terms of the revised Asset Management policy will require the separation of planned and reactive maintenance. In addition NHS boards will be required to demonstrate how they are addressing backlog maintenance through replacement of facilities.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to ensure that NHS bodies undertake past project reviews, as required by the Scottish Public Finance Manual.
Answer
The Scottish Government Health Directorates have already introduced a system to monitor post project and post occupancy reviews. The timescales set out for such reviews in business cases will be monitored and reports followed up under the auspices of the Health Directorates'' Capital Investment Group.
For projects not requiring Scottish Government approval, NHSScotland bodies will be required to undertake post project evaluations and submit an annual report of the key lessons learned across such projects. These lessons will be collated by Scottish Government Health Directorates to provide a useful resource for the benefit of NHSScotland as a whole.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce routine collection of information relating to NHS property management policies.
Answer
Yes. This will be a requirement of the new NHSScotland Asset Management Policy which currently in development and scheduled for issue by end of May 2009.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action was taken in light of the 2004 Audit Scotland report, Better Equipped to Care? Follow-up report on managing medical equipment.
Answer
We continue to support NHSScotland to implement the recommendations of the report by separately identifying and allocating specific resources for medical equipment. Within the capital budget agreed for SR 2007, £90 million has been identified to support investment in medical equipment.
Scottish Government Health Directorates established a system to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the report by NHS boards. This involves a follow up exercise conducted on a six monthly basis with all NHS boards on their progress in implementing the recommendations in the report. NHS boards are also asked to report on the level of planned and actual investment in categories of medical equipment as part of the financial information supporting local delivery plans and capital expenditure monitoring.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what issues have been followed up with NHS bodies as a result of information provided on progress in implementing the recommendations in the 2004 Audit Scotland report, Better Equipped to Care? Follow-up report on managing medical equipment.
Answer
Scottish Government Health Directorates liaise regularly with NHS boards on all issues and recommendations in the Audit Scotland report. NHS boards are asked to report on the level of investment in medical equipment as part of the financial information which supports Local Delivery Plans and to submit bi-annual returns identifying progress made with implementing the recommendations made in the 2004 Audit Scotland Report.
