- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in NHS Education for Scotland have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000.
Answer
The information on staff numbers collected by Scotland''s Information and Statistics Directorate does not allow the identification of salaries for specific positions.
The Scottish government does publish remuneration information for chief executives which is available on the Scottish government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies.
Also, NHS organisations are required to publish pay data for staff earning over £50,000 in their annual accounts which for NHS Education for Scotland can be found at:
http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/media/911972/signed_annual_accounts%202009_10.pdf
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in the Scottish Ambulance Service have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000.
Answer
The information on staff numbers collected by Scotland''s Information and Statistics Directorate does not allow the identification of salaries for specific positions.
The Scottish government does publish remuneration information for chief executives which is available on the Scottish government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies.
Also, NHS organisations are required to publish pay data for staff earning over £50,000 in their annual accounts which for the Scottish Ambulance Service can be found at:
http://www.scottishambulance.com/UserFiles/file/Publications/Annual-accounts-2009-2010.pdf.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what positions held by staff in the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service have an annual salary (a) of between £50,000 and £100,000, (b) of between £100,000 and £150,000 and (c) in excess of £150,000.
Answer
The information on staff numbers collected by Scotland''s Information and Statistics Directorate does not allow the identification of salaries for specific positions.
The Scottish government does publish remuneration information for Chief Executives which is available on the Scottish government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies.
Also, NHS organisations are required to publish pay data for staff earning over £50,000 in their annual accounts. The Scottish Blood Transfusion Service is part of NHS National Services Scotland and its annual accounts can be found at
http://www.nhsnss.org/uploads/publications/0809%20Annual%20Accounts%20Pack.pdf.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, following the introduction of Agenda for Change, how many auxiliary nurses have outstanding grievances.
Answer
All grievances are dealt with at local level by NHS boards under NHS Scotland''s
Dealing With Employee Concerns Partnership Information Network policy which can be found at:
www.staffgovernance.scot.nhs.uk/partnership/partnership-information-network.
Data on outstanding grievances is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will confirm that in its draft budget for 2011-12 the spending on health will be £190 million less than planned in the budget for 2010-11.
Answer
The budget for Health will increase by £190.5 million compared to 2010-11. The 2010-11 position has been restated to reflect transfers in respect of the removal of the cost of capital (following revised HM Treasury guidance), transfer of funding in respect of Adult Support and Protection Act to local government and other corporate transfers.
Figures in the 2010-11 Draft Budget and the 2011-12 Draft Budget are not directly comparable due to the reasons stated above and therefore a more valid comparison is to use the prior year figure included in the current budget.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, given the increase in the workforce line for health and sport in the draft budget for 2011-12 to £28.5 million in cash terms, what regulatory bodies will receive lower payments.
Answer
There are no plans at the moment to reduce the amount paid to regulatory bodies as a result of the increase in the workforce budget.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the national indicator connected with reducing coronary heart disease in under-75s in deprived areas contained in the HEAT targets for 2008-09 is absent from the current list.
Answer
In 2008, the Scottish Government introduced the National Performance Framework. This new context paved the way for the review of HEAT targets, and allowed HEAT targets and local delivery plans to be better positioned to support the achievement of the Government''s purpose and national outcomes by optimizing the contribution of health-related activities. This development resulted in the refinement of a number of HEAT targets. For example, in 2008-09, HEAT contained a target to reduce mortality from coronary heart disease among the under 75s in deprived areas. This is in fact a long-term outcome achievable through the contributions and actions of a range of public services, private companies and individual behaviours. For 2009-10, the HEAT target was changed to a specific one that NHSScotland could be held to account for, that is to achieve an agreed number of inequalities targeted cardiovascular health checks during 2009-10. This HEAT target supports the range of actions carried out by other community planning partners in pursuit on the longer term outcome. In addition, NHS boards are active partners in community planning partnerships, and deliver a range of services to support delivery of single outcome agreements, over and above the HEAT targets.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it has reduced, in the draft budget for 2011-12, the increase planned for eHealth for 2010-11.
Answer
Allocations for 2011-12 for General Medical Services are still to be decided and are subject to UK pay negotiations with the professional groups concerned. We do not disclose figures in advance as it could prejudice these contract negotiations.
In 2011-12 we will increase funding for General Dental Services by £40 million to £396.6 million.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, when comparing the education and training spending plans across the workforce and nursing lines in the draft budget for 2011-12 and 2010-11 for health and sport, the nursing line will see the larger decrease in cash terms.
Answer
Figures in the 2010-11 Draft Budget and the 2011-12 Draft Budget are not directly comparable.
The 2010-11 position has been restated to reflect transfers in respect of the removal of the cost of capital (following revised HM Treasury guidance), transfer of funding in respect of Adult Support and Protection Act to local government and other corporate transfers, therefore a more valid comparison is to use the prior year figure included in the current budget.
| 2011-12 Draft Budget | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | Increase |
| | £ million | £ million | |
| Workforce | 25.9 | 28.5 | +10.0% |
| Nursing | 150.1 | 150.4 | +0.2% |
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has assessed the impact of the proposed reduction in the health screening budget for 2011-12 by almost £6 million to £8.4 million in real terms compared with 2010-11.
Answer
The 2011-12 Draft Budget states that the proposed budget in 2011-12 for health screening is £8 million which compares to the prior year figure of £8.5 million (which is unchanged from the 2010-11 Draft Budget figure).
This budget reflects the projected resource needed to allow the Government to fulfil its commitment to continue planned amendments to existing screening programmes and to begin roll out of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening.
