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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-08193

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide thalidomide survivors with a permanent financial contribution of at least the same annual rate as in the pilot health grant scheme for the rest of their lives.

Question reference: S4W-07740

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is evidence that the peer support system for individual patient treatment requests has led to clinicians providing each other with increased support.

Question reference: S4W-07738

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the peer support scheme has had on the number of individual patient treatment requests.

Question reference: S4W-07741

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have established individual patient treatment request registers.

The guidance to further strengthen the safe and effective use of new medicines across the NHS in Scotland published under cover of SGHD/CMO(2012)1 on 13 February 2012 asked NHS boards to confirm that their policies on formularies and management of individual patient treatment request registers (IPTRs) had been updated to reflect the additional guidance which included the need to maintain accurate and up to date information on IPTRs and the outcomes, including the outcome of any appeals.

All NHS boards have provided this confirmation as appropriate.

Question reference: S4W-07850

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07374 by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 June 2012, whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy has questioned the quarterly statistics reports published by ISD on waiting times (a) ever and (b) on the increase in the number of patients who are socially unavailable.

As part of the normal quarterly reporting of the ISD waiting times statistics by my officials, I have sought further explanations on various aspects of ISD waiting times statistics, particularly around NHS boards’ individual performance against the waiting time standards and other issues.

Following the Price Waterhouse Cooper’s report on NHS Lothian management of waiting times, I now routinely receive more detailed information on social unavailability by individual NHS boards.

Question reference: S4W-07852

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has estimated the likely impact on NHS services of the planned industrial action by the British Medical Association on 21 June 2012.

The industrial action was targeted at routine GP and hospital appointments, including planned surgery and outpatient clinics. NHS Boards worked closely with the BMA local representatives to assess the impact of the industrial action. Management information collected on the day of industrial action shows approximately 3200 outpatient appointments and 450 inpatient and day cases were cancelled, and 60% of GP practices were affected to some degree. Doctors were available to ensure that urgent and emergency care was not affected, this includes cancer treatment and other ongoing treatment.

Question reference: S4W-07988

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will call a summit with private health providers to ensure a consistency of approach for women with PIP breast implants.

Question reference: S4W-07851

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what contingency plans are in place in relation to the planned industrial action by the British Medical Association on 21 June 2012.

All NHS boards have robust business continuity plans in place to deal with disruptions such as those caused by industrial action and to ensure that core services are maintained. NHS boards worked closely with the BMA local representatives to assess the impact of the industrial action.

NHS boards worked locally with doctors to agree the level of services that would be provided on the day and to avoid unnecessary disruption to patients. Urgent and emergency care was not affected. Health boards confirmed that all patients whose appointments had been cancelled and rescheduled were informed by letter or telephone. GP practices were responsible for informing their patients of the level of services they would provide on 21 June. Doctors were available to ensure that urgent and emergency care was not affected, this includes cancer treatment and other on-going treatment.

Question reference: S4W-07987

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive when (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy and (b) Health Facilities Scotland received a medical alert about problems with PIP breast implants; what action was then taken to notify women, and when.

Medical device alerts, including those about PIP silicone breast implants, are sent by MHRA directly to Health Facilities Scotland who distribute them to their network of equipment co-ordinators in NHS boards. Those co-ordinators are responsible for cascading alerts to the appropriate areas within their NHS board and the alert specifies what action or actions are to be taken.

Medical device alerts about PIP silicone breast implants were issued by MHRA on 31 March 2010 (MDA/2010/025), 4 October 2010 (MDA/2010/078) and 15 March 2012 (MDA/2010/011).

The first alert, issued in 2010, indicated that further advice about the clinical management of patients implanted with PIP silicone breast implants would be made available, and that advice was provided in the latter two alerts.

Question reference: S4W-08001

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has advised the Scottish Environment Protection Agency when the map of artificial structures and natural features as per the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 must be finalised and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.