- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Health and Community Care was aware that no-fault compensation awards to infected haemophiliacs in the Republic of Ireland were made on compassionate grounds without legal liability on the part of the state and, if so, why he did not advise the Health Committee (Official Report, Health Committee, 9 September 2003; col 155-156) of this when questioned.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-6958 on 29 March 2004. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Health and Community Care was aware that compensation to those in the Republic of Ireland who developed hepatitis C through contaminated blood products was a no-fault compensation scheme when giving evidence to the Health Committee (Official Report, 9 September 2003; col 155-156) and, if so, why the committee was not advised of this at the time.
Answer
My reply of 20 March to yourletter of 12 March on this issue sets down the important facts concerning thesituation in the Republic of Ireland as I understand them.
I have placed copies of myletter in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 31878).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any funding for aids and adaptations is ring-fenced.
Answer
No. Resources for aids andadaptations are provided through local authority general allocations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-5962 and S2W-5963 by Mr Tom McCabe on 25 February and 9 March 2004, what it estimates the cost is of providing free personal care to 780 people under 65 with dementia.
Answer
I refer the member to theanswers given to S2W-5963 and S2W-6498 on 26 February and 9 March 2004.Allanswers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it monitors the funding of aids and adaptations by local authorities and, if not, how the provision of aids and adaptations is monitored.
Answer
Local authorities are notrequired to provide this level of detail to the Executive in their financialreturns. However, the Strategy Forum: Equipment and Adaptations commented onthis in their report Equipped for Inclusion. We are consideringresponses to the consultation on this report.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will intervene if the Scottish Cashmere Club is adversely affected by any future reduction in funding to Scottish Enterprise Borders.
Answer
Scottish Enterprise Bordershas supported the Scottish Cashmere Club since it was established in 1999.
The Scottish Executiveprovides Scottish Enterprise with funds for economic development. Theallocation of these funds is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise, andin this case Scottish Enterprise Borders.
Scottish Enterprise Borders'budget and operating plan for 2004-05 will go before its Board on 30 March 2004 forfinal approval and, as in previous years, will be prioritised to ensure itachieves the maximum impact on the Borders’ economy.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Health Technology Assessment Advice 5, what steps will be taken to introduce local audits of ultrasound scanning against national standards and foetal loss rates following invasive diagnostic procedures.
Answer
The content of the HealthTechnology Assessment Advice 5 report is currently being fully reviewed by the Scottish Executive taking into consideration the advice from the UK National ScreeningCommittee.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Health Technology Assessment Advice 5, what increases in the NHS budget will be made to allow for the estimated increase in costs to the antenatal scanning service following the implementation of the Health Technology Assessment recommendations.
Answer
NHS boards are given anannual general allocation to meet the health care needs of their residentpopulations. It is for boards to determine, within the funds available, how tomanage and deliver local health care services to meet these needs, bearing inmind national and local priorities.
Every NHS board received aminimum increase in their funding of 7.4% in 2003-04 and 6.75% in 2004-05.
The contents of the HealthTechnology Assessment Advice 5 report is currently being fully reviewed by the Scottish Executive taking into consideration the advice from the UK National ScreeningCommittee. Resources will be considered as part of this process.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Health Technology Assessment Advice 5, what steps will be taken to ensure that the National Services Division's national pregnancy screening programme specifications are extended to cover all aspects of ultrasound scanning, including gestational age assessment and second trimester anomaly scanning.
Answer
A review of the HealthTechnology Assessment Advice 5 report is currently underway by the Scottish Executive which will take into consideration the advice from the UK NationalScreening Committee. The National Services Division’s national pregnancyscreening programme specifications will be considered during this review.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Health Technology Assessment Advice 5, what steps will be taken to record data regarding prenatal identification of conditions and subsequent outcomes in order to evaluate the effectiveness of screening and scanning programmes and develop electronic storage of maternity, birth and child surveillance records.
Answer
The content of the HealthTechnology Assessment Advice 5 report is currently being fully reviewed by the Scottish Executive taking into consideration the advice from the UK National ScreeningCommittee.
The Scottish Executive Health Department has recently established a Child Health Information StrategyGroup to address the issues of prenatal and childhood health information anddevelopment of electronic maternity and child health records.
