- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had on osteoporosis with the European Commission.
Answer
The Executive has had no such discussions.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much NHS Scotland has spent on treating osteoporotic fractures in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many leaflets providing preventive advice and advice on treatment of osteoporosis are produced annually for patients and the public.
Answer
Full information is not available. In the year of April 2004/March 2005 NHS Health Scotland supplied 10,820 copies of their leaflet on osteoporosis prevention and treatment, and from April 2005 to the present they have supplied 3,998. However, the Executive does not hold information on the substantial numbers of information leaflets produced by the voluntary and commercial sectors.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to organise a conference on osteoporosis, bringing together all stakeholders to discuss future developments on the issue.
Answer
The Executive has no such plans. We do not manage services for osteoporosis or any other chronic condition directly. NHS boards are expected to provide services for people with osteoporosis, taking into account good practice clinical guidelines.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what predictions have been made of the number of osteoporotic fractures in Scotland in the next 50 years and what information it has on such predictions across Europe.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether staff in hospitals are prompted to investigate the likelihood of osteoporosis in patients who present themselves with fractures.
Answer
The diagnosis of osteoporosis is a matter for clinical judgement. However, the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, which is a part of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, has issued good practice clinical guidelines on the Prevention and Management of Hip Fracture in Older People and on the Management of Osteoporosis to help doctors.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hip fractures there were in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002 and (e) 2003.
Answer
The number of patients admitted to hospitals in Scotland with a principal diagnosis of hip fracture in these years is shown in the following table. Comprehensive information on hip fractures is available through the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit pages on Scotland’s Health on the Web at
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/shfa/.
| Year | Hip Fractures |
| 1999 | 7,069 |
| 2000 | 6,878 |
| 2001 | 6,920 |
| 2002 | 7,052 |
| 2003 | 7,047 |
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether osteoporosis has been included in the Quality and Outcomes Framework of the General Medical Services contract.
Answer
Osteoporosis has not previously been included in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
There is currently a review of the QOF which is being carried out as part of the UK wide review of the General Medical Services contract. The outcome of this review is not yet known and it is therefore not possible to confirm at this time what will be included in the revised Quality and Outcomes Framework.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Quality Improvement Scotland has published guidance on delivering an integrated falls and osteoporosis service.
Answer
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) has not published specific guidance on delivering an integrated falls and osteoporosis service. The issues were referred to in the National Overview
Older People in Acute Care, published in February 2004 (Bib. number 31248). NHS QIS also issued in Scotland the NICE technology appraisal, on
Drugs for the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women, in January 2005.
In addition, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is working on two other relevant appraisals which NHS QIS will assess and provide advice on to NHSScotland when they are published. These are:
The primary prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women and,
The use of strontium ranelate for the treatment of osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women.
- Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Dunfermline East, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are being put in place to ensure availability of NHS dental services in the Dunfermline East constituency.
Answer
NHS Fife are implementing a range of measures at improving access to NHS dental services in all areas of Fife. Examples of this are the appointment of salaried dentists and the completion of a three surgery dental centre, due to open in Dunfermline soon when NHS Fife receive a completion certificate for the building. Another centre is expected to open in Kirkcaldy in September and NHS Fife are currently appraising the options within the Lochgelly area.
