- 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 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to promote good bone health.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to promoting good bone health and a range of actions are being taken forward.
As part of our anticipatory care approach to long term conditions management, we recognise the benefits of taking steps to ensure strong bones throughout life and our wider work in supporting young people to make positive choices about their health and wellbeing by means of our programmes relating to smoking, alcohol, healthy eating and physical activity is supporting this approach. Since November 2008, an osteoporosis directed enhanced service has been offered to all Scottish GP practices to ensure eligible women who have had a fragility fracture are investigated for possible osteoporosis.
Work has also been undertaken by the Scottish Government, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, NHS boards and by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network to ensure that avoidable fractures, including fragility fractures, are minimised.
We have also been working in partnership with the Care Commission to take forward work on falls and fracture prevention in older people, including those living in care homes. A falls and fracture self-assessment resource pack is expected to be launched in Spring/Summer 2011.
- 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 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many written complaints each NHS board has received in each of the last three years, broken down by category of complaint, and what percentage of these has resulted in corrective action.
Answer
Data collected on complaints about the NHS in Scotland is published annually by the Information Services Division and is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4424.html.
- 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 Michael Russell on 23 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many student nurses have enrolled in each of the last five academic years.
Answer
Published trend information showing nursing and midwifery student intake is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Student_intakes_and_students_in_training%202010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
- 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 23 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the NHS strategy is for the recruitment of accident and emergency consultants.
Answer
NHS boards, as employers, are responsible for recruitment. Boards must adhere to the NHSScotland Staff Governance Standard and the Partnership Information Network (PIN) Policies. The PIN policies provide up-to-date guidance on a range of issues, including recruitment, and have been prepared on a partnership basis between NHSScotland management, trade unions, professional organisations and the Scottish Government. It is the responsibility of boards to determine the service requirements to meet the healthcare needs of their population and plan the workforce to deliver the service.
- 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 23 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has requested each community health partnership to prepare a report of capital expenditure required in its area and rank the priorities.
Answer
The capital expenditure of community health partnerships is a matter for their parent NHS health boards.
- 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 23 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether information on the capital budget requirements for each community health partnership is held centrally.
Answer
Capital requirements for community health partnerships form part of the overall capital planning arrangements for NHS boards. This information is only held centrally where it makes up part of the NHS board''s local delivery plan submission.
- 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 23 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual running cost is of the communications office in (a) its directorate general for health and (b) each NHS board and how many employees there are in each.
Answer
The running cost for the communications office located in the Health and Social Care Directorates is £146,463.
Information on the running costs and the number of employees in each communications office in NHS boards is not held 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 22 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will confirm that the amount budgeted for distinction awards in the 2010-11 draft budget is £30 million in cash and £29.6 million in real terms and that this represents a 7.1% and 5.6% increase respectively on the amount budgeted in 2009-10.
Answer
I confirm that the draft budget for distinction awards for 2010-11 was £30 million. However, in March 2010, I accepted the recommendation of the Doctors'' and Dentists'' Review Body that there should be no uplift in the value of the existing awards in 2010-11 and also announced that there would be no new awards for that year. This meant that only recyclable awards i.e. those becoming available through retirals, resignations, deaths and award holders leaving NHS Scotland for any other reason could be re-distributed. The budget for 2010-11 did not therefore increase, remaining at the 2009-10 level of £28 million and the number of awards was frozen at the 2009-10 level. The Scottish Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards has recently provided the funding reconciliation for 2010-11 which shows an actual spend of just over £27 million for 2010-11, indicating a £1 million saving in 2010-11. This additional saving is caused by award holders leaving the scheme due to retiral etc throughout the year and therefore not receiving a full year''s payment.
- 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 John Swinney on 17 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will confirm that the capital investment in the draft budget for 2011-12 shows a cash-terms decrease of £105 million and a real-terms decrease of £113.5 million compared with the draft budget for 2010-11 and that this will covered by means of the accumulated underspend.
Answer
The Scottish Government''s draft budget for 2011-12 discloses a capital budget of £2,606.6 million. When compared to the 2010-11 capital budget of £3,292.9 million this represents a cash decrease of £686.3 million or £736 million in real terms. The 2011-12 capital budget is funded by a capital DEL allocation of £2,506.6 million supplemented by a carry forward of £100 million from 2010-11.
- 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 John Swinney on 17 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the capital expenditure line in the draft budget for 2011-12 takes account of the repayment of the £50 million in capital expenditure brought forward to 2010-11.
Answer
The draft budget for the 2011-12 financial year reflects the first year of a new spending review period and, as such, the level of capital available is primarily dictated by the allocations made to the Scottish Government. For 2011-12 the capital budget of £2,606.6 million is made up of a capital allocation of £2,506.6 million plus £100 million of resources carried forward from 2010-11.
