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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-10343

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure the consistent treatment of patients with the 12-week waiting time guarantee set out in the Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011.

The operation of the treatment time guarantee is contained in the Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011, in the Treatment Time Guarantee Regulations and Directions as well as the guidance issued by the Scottish Government in August 2012. Links to the Regulations and Directions are:

www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2012_17.pdf.

The guidance on the treatment time guarantee can be found at:

http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2012_32.pdf.

The Scottish Government expects NHS boards to ensure they comply with the law for each individual patient.

Question reference: S4W-10340

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what minimum requirements were set out in guidance it issued to NHS boards on developing an access policy as required by the Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011.

Question reference: S4W-10331

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether body armour is routinely issued to (a) frontline, (b) special operations and (c) other ambulance staff and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Body armour is not routinely issued to ambulance personnel.

However, the Scottish Government has worked with the Scottish Ambulance Service to enhance the equipment for their specialist operations teams to deal with a specific major incident.

The Special Operations Response Teams (SORT) are specially trained and equipped, including body armour, to deliver life-saving clinical interventions to patients, including members of the other emergency services, who may be injured during certain types of major incident such as firearms attacks.

In any other circumstance where a staff member makes a request for body armour, a risk assessment is carried out in line with Scottish Ambulance Service policy.

Question reference: S4W-10334

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government when a risk assessment on the use of body armour by ambulance staff was last conducted.

Question reference: S4W-10336

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether body armour will be issued to ambulance staff who have been previously assaulted on duty.

The Scottish Ambulance Service has no plans to introduce body armour for ambulance personnel. The only exception is the body armour available to the Scottish Ambulance Service’s Special Operations Response Team to respond to specific major incidents.

In any other circumstance where a staff member makes a request for body armour, a risk assessment is carried out in line with Scottish Ambulance Service policy.

Question reference: S4W-10335

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many assaults there have been on ambulance staff in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S4W-10332

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what the criteria are for issuing body armour to ambulance staff.

Question reference: S4W-10187

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether the March 2013 Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline on head injury will refer to post-traumatic hypopituitarism (PTHP).

Question reference: S4W-09939

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 October 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether any changes to pension arrangements will be the subject of a legislative consent motion or made by regulation and when it would introduce any such motion or order to the Parliament.

Question reference: S4F-00935

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 October 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2012

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the Audit Scotland report, NHS financial performance 2011/12, which suggests real-terms budget reductions and growing financial pressures on the NHS.