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Question reference: S2W-09978

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time was for an (a) MRI and (b) CT scan in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-09979

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many items of specialised medical equipment are (a) not being used and (b) underused because of a lack of trained staff to operate them, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-09965

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people under 21 received a custodial sentence in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) broken down by sheriff court district.

The available information is given in the table.

Persons Aged Under 21 Given a Custodial Sentence in Scottish Courts, by Court, 1998-2002

	Year of Sentence
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002¹
High Court	149	155	159	134	110
Sheriff Courts:
Aberdeen	321	299	313	236	172
Airdrie	93	100	80	79	79
Alloa	56	29	35	37	30
Arbroath	93	54	39	78	46
Ayr	142	137	207	164	143
Banff	12	21	7	34	9
Campbeltown	7	3	-	7	-
Cupar	20	19	25	34	18
Dingwall	11	12	12	5	2
Dornoch	2	2	7	2	2
Dumbarton	128	142	122	125	51
Dumfries	65	49	53	87	92
Dundee	390	265	310	306	246
Dunfermline	105	75	95	121	59
Dunoon	12	4	4	-	6
Duns	7	1	5	6	7
Edinburgh	293	374	373	407	397
Elgin	18	33	44	58	71
Falkirk	84	92	97	81	128
Forfar	21	17	12	36	38
Fort William	6	4	22	10	10
Glasgow	560	671	644	508	549
Greenock	190	206	149	134	107
Haddington	36	20	25	21	23
Hamilton	145	124	147	146	150
Inverness	42	68	69	47	30
Jedburgh	34	18	32	41	26
Kilmarnock	305	367	296	332	212
Kirkcaldy	186	251	160	147	78
Kirkcudbright	13	12	19	20	15
Kirkwall	1	3	1	3	1
Lanark	31	31	34	27	21
Lerwick	18	12	9	10	-
Linlithgow	54	119	72	52	116
Lochmaddy	1	-	3	1	-
Not Known	-	-	4	-	-
Oban	7	7	7	11	13
Paisley	262	210	193	236	201
Peebles	7	21	5	-	1
Perth	39	33	47	81	67
Peterhead	60	36	38	15	27
Rothesay	3	-	2	2	13
Selkirk	22	6	6	26	37
Stirling	40	38	40	38	47
Stonehaven	11	5	7	7	3
Stornoway	17	11	5	4	6
Stranraer	67	49	53	83	37
Tain	5	4	16	20	40
Wick	14	6	2	9	1
Sub-total	4,056	4,060	3,947	3,934	3,427
District and stipendiary magistrates courts:
Aberdeen City	38	15	4	2	1
Aberdeenshire	5	3	4	-	3
Angus	8	1	3	4	2
Clackmannanshire	-	-	-	-	1
Dumfries and Galloway	2	2	-	-	-
Dundee City	41	20	38	15	27
East Ayrshire	10	8	2	6	3
East Dunbartonshire	-	1	-	-	1
East Renfrewshire	1	-	-	1	-
Edinburgh, City of	1	1	2	4	8
Eilian Siar	-	-	5	-	-
Fife	6	10	4	7	-
Glasgow City	161	212	139	102	75
Highland	2	9	15	1	2
Inverclyde	-	1	7	2	1
Moray	-	-	-	3	1
North Ayrshire	1	-	1	2	1
North Lanarkshire	1	3	3	5	2
Perth and Kinross	2	3	5	7	2
Renfrewshire	-	-	-	2	4
Scottish Borders	1	-	-	-	-
South Ayrshire	-	9	3	20	10
South Lanarkshire	-	1	3	-	3
Stirling	1	-	-	-	-
West Dunbartonshire	-	2	1	8	-
West Lothian	-	-	-	1	2
Sub-total	281	301	239	192	149
All courts	4,486	4,516	4,345	4,260	3,686

Note: 1. Figures may be underestimates due to time taken to record court disposals on SCRO system.

Question reference: S2W-09957

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of medical negligence claims against the NHS was in each of the last five years, in total and broken down by NHS board.

The cost of medical negligence claims paid by NHSScotland in the last five financial years is:

NHS Board	1999-2000
NHS Board	Awards (£)	Expenses (£)	Total Cost (£)
Argyll and Clyde	92,628	47,611	140,239
Ayrshire and Arran	40,000	5,721	45,721
Borders	69,500	7,751	77,251
Dumfries and Galloway	133,614	19,887	153,501
Fife	45,900	13,075	58,975
Forth Valley	27,865	5,964	33,829
Grampian	405,383	8,957	414,340
Greater Glasgow	498,733	166,494	665,227
Highland	269,745	25,198	294,943
Lanarkshire	99,698	20,610	120,308
Lothian	906,627	204,452	1,111,079
Shetland	2,664	893	3,557
Tayside	251,000	29,165	280,165
Western Isles	30,000	-	30,000
CSA	82,000	-	82,000
Total	2,955,357	555,778	3,511,135

NHS Board	2000-01
NHS Board	Awards (£)	Expenses (£)	Total Cost (£)
Argyll and Clyde	91,550	52,144	143,694
Ayrshire and Arran	158,263	74,944	233,207
Borders	12,500	2,651	15,151
Dumfries and Galloway	407,500	3,000	410,500
Fife	280,647	77,114	357,761
Forth Valley	434,007	52,259	486,266
Grampian	186,061	59,074	245,135
Greater Glasgow	981,944	173,941	1,155,885
Highland	40,600	45,328	85,928
Lanarkshire	746,336	75,765	822,101
Lothian	252,962	139,109	392,071
Shetland	2,550	827	3,377
Tayside	225,552	94,358	319,910
Western Isles	104,990	28,106	133,096
CSA	-	12,250	12,250
Total	3,925,462	890,870	4,816,332

NHS Board	2001-02
NHS Board	Awards	Expenses	Total Cost (£)
Argyll and Clyde	265,519	36,817	302,336
Ayrshire and Arran	828,865	118,149	947,014
Borders	5,000	1,675	6,675
Dumfries and Galloway	701,116	51,501	752,617
Fife	51,693	32,230	83,923
Forth Valley	292,525	35,264	327,789
Grampian	175,375	16,581	191,956
Greater Glasgow	2,894,856	201,307	3,096,163
Highland	220,276	40,414	260,690
Lanarkshire	51,480	109,479	160,959
Lothian	815,557	85,534	901,091
Orkney	5,500	638	6,138
Shetland	7,700	2,279	9,979
Tayside	138,353	74,854	213,207
Western Isles	5,500	7,730	13,230
CSA	3,000	1,082	4,082
Total	6,462,315	815,534	7,277,849

NHS Board	2002-03
NHS Board	Awards	Expenses	Total Cost (£)
Argyll and Clyde	2,558,831	76,727	2,635,558
Ayrshire and Arran	671,398	34,802	706,200
Borders	20,111	2,385	22,496
Dumfries and Galloway	362,018	75,778	437,796
Fife	125,346	21,227	146,573
Forth Valley	112,954	23,025	135,979
Grampian	77,250	34,834	112,084
Greater Glasgow	2,078,799	229,689	2,308,488
Highland	197,581	26,619	224,200
Lanarkshire	406,282	81,261	487,543
Lothian	1,933,644	147,637	2,081,281
Shetland	78,345	21,583	99,928
Tayside	98,150	32,620	130,770
Total	8,720,709	808,187	9,528,896

NHS Board	2003-04
NHS Board	Awards	Expenses	Total Cost (£)
Argyll and Clyde	270,041	167,395	437,436
Ayrshire and Arran	230,560	81,754	312,314
Borders	13,650	-	13,650
Dumfries and Galloway	219,096	106,999	326,095
Fife	492,449	182,985	675,434
Forth Valley	2,518,400	108,403	2,626,803
Grampian	199,313	45,473	244,786
Greater Glasgow	1,419,508	239,478	1,658,986
Highland	1,324,739	82,338	1,407,077
Lanarkshire	569,846	222,446	792,292
Lothian	879,506	300,602	1,180,108
Shetland	10,200	3,347	13,547
Tayside	105,163	22,849	128,012
Western Isles	-	7,830	7,830
CSA	55,000	3,084	58,084
Total	8,307,471	1,574,983	9,882,454

Question reference: S2W-09963

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are for nurses, broken down by NHS board and expressed also as a percentage of the whole-time equivalent complement of the workforce.

Information on vacancies in NHSScotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under workforce statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Information on vacancies for nursing staff is published in table 10 in SectionE (Nursing and Midwifery Staff) for each year since 2001. Figures are presentedas vacancy rates and whole-time equivalent number of vacancies. Whole-timeequivalent adjusts headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.Latest available figures are at 31 March 2004.

Question reference: S2W-09960

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospitals have closed their lists (a) permanently or (b) temporarily to new patients over the last year, broken down by NHS board and speciality.

Question reference: S2W-09967

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are guidelines regarding the number of emergency ambulances per head of the population and, if so, how often they are reviewed.

Question reference: S2W-09962

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are registered with a dentist, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested is provided in the following table.

Number of People Registered with an NHS General Dental Practitioner; 30 June 2004

Health Board Area	Children	Adults	Total
Argyll and Clyde	58,298	162,278	220,576
Ayrshire and Arran	54,476	147,077	201,553
Borders	13,579	37,617	51,196
Dumfries and Galloway	19,248	45,136	64,384
Fife	47,146	137,840	184,986
Forth Valley	41,707	105,993	147,700
Grampian	66,014	159,886	225,900
Greater Glasgow	128,782	356,699	485,481
Highland	27,813	47,705	75,518
Lanarkshire	75,828	204,568	280,396
Lothian	112,422	310,444	422,866
Orkney	1,298	3,700	4,998
Shetland	3,074	7,248	10,322
Tayside	59,324	171,470	230,794
Western Isles	1,638	9,058	10,696
Scotland	710,647	1,906,719	2,617,366

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Question reference: S2W-09959

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what change there has been in the number of accident and emergency cases in NHS board areas where NHS 24 is in operation.

Question reference: S2W-09977

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) intensive care unit, (b) cardiac care unit and (c) high dependency unit beds there were in each of the last five years.

The most recent information held on numbers of intensive care, cardiac care and high dependency unit beds, based on hospital returns to ISD (Scotland), is presented in the following table.

NHS Scotland - Average Available Staffed Beds in Intensive Care Units, Cardiac Care Units and High Dependency Units: Years Ending 31 March 2000-04

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004^P
Intensive Care Unit	162	164	165	171	172
Cardiac Care Unit	166	165	166	162	166
High Dependency Unit¹	-	-	-	-	243

^PProvisional.

Source: ISD Scotland [Form ISD(S)1].

Note: 1. Identifiable from code introduced 1st April 2003.