- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether complementary and alternative therapies could make a significant impact on the health of those from poorer backgrounds.
Answer
The possible benefits of complementary and alternative therapies would apply to people from all backgrounds.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive with how many current projects concerning complementary and alternative therapies it has an involvement.
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and health care needs in Scotland. The CSO is currently directly funding four research projects and one research training fellowship concerning complementary and alternative therapies. The CSO is always happy to receive further applications for research projects concerning complementary and alternative therapies, which would need to be of a sufficiently high standard and would be subject to the usual committee and peer review.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a role for complementary and alternative therapies in health care provision in helping to reduce pressure on GPs and hospital health care services and, if so, what it envisages that role to be.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30583 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total budgetary allocation for complementary and alternative therapies in health care provision is, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
There is no specific financial allocation for such therapies. It is for each NHS board or trust to make their own assessment of need and provide appropriate resources.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement it has in the development and funding of complementary and alternative therapies in health care provision.
Answer
The Executive believes that complementary or alternative therapies may offer relief to some people suffering from a wide variety of conditions. There is no legislative bar to prevent practitioners of such therapies from offering their services, subject only to some general restrictions such as those on prescribing and supplying medicines and giving injections. A GP or hospital clinician may refer a patient for alternative treatment, but would require to be satisfied of the value of the treatment and the competence of the practitioner and would remain responsible for the patient's medical care. It is also open to NHS boards or trusts to provide complementary or alternative therapies from the funding made available to them by the Executive, based on their assessments of local needs.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 7 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21646 by Mrs Mary Mulligan on 23 January 2002, whether it has received the advice of the Scottish Rehabilitation Technology Providers Forum Orthotic Sub-Group on whether support tights should be available on prescription from general practitioners.
Answer
The Scottish Rehabilitation Technology Providers Forum (SCOTRET) has provided advice indicating this should be explored.Information is now being gathered to allow consideration to be given to whether it would be appropriate to apply for support tights to be included in the Scottish Drug Tariff.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to take to increase awareness of, and encourage applications from suitably qualified people for, the post of Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency.
Answer
The UK position relating to EU Agencies, including staffing, is reserved and a matter for the UK Government. The Scottish Executive is in close contact with the UK Government on a variety of subjects including the European Maritime Safety Agency. It would be for the Department for Transport to consider proposing any candidate from the UK for the post of Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made with the Glasgow bid to be the preferred location for the new European Maritime Safety Agency and what support it has been able to provide.
Answer
The UK position in relation to the siting of EU Agencies is reserved and a matter for the UK Government.The Scottish Executive has been in regular contact with the UK Government about the location of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), and we have agreed to support location of EMSA in Glasgow. A brochure summarising the case for Glasgow, jointly produced by the Scottish Executive and the UK Government, has been circulated to the EU Institutions and Member States. The final decision on location is for all Member States and has not yet been made.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24669 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 April 2002, how the rule of ownership of boundary divisions on an ad medium filum basis can be ascribed to fences that stand on and mark the boundary where, after specifying the type of fence, the title deeds of the adjacent parties state that the dividing fence is the (a) common and (b) mutual property of the parties to be maintained at equally shared cost by them.
Answer
It is not appropriate for ministers to seek to interpret the law, as this is a matter for the courts. I am meeting the member on 2 October to discuss issues relating to boundary walls.
- Asked by: Irene Oldfather, MSP for Cunninghame South, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 2 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to address unemployment in Irvine and the North Ayrshire area following recent redundancy announcements.
Answer
In recognition of the difficulties facing the wider Ayrshire economy, I met with Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire, and the Chairman of the Ayrshire Economic Forum (AEF) on 1 August. I wrote to the AEF's Chairman on 8 August, underlining the importance of the AEF's Strategic Action Plan for securing sustainable economic development and employment opportunities across Ayrshire as a whole.The AEF is currently working up the detail of this action plan and my officials are working closely with local agencies to ensure this plan addresses the current challenges facing the Ayrshire economy.I also refer the member to the answers given to the questions S1W-27083 on 19 August 2002 and S1W-28194 today.
