Chamber and committees

The planning of services is a matter for the individual NHS board. While the Government provides the policies, frameworks and resources for high quality health care in Scotland, it is for each NHS board to decide how best to deliver those services to meet the needs of the population. This includes how best to utilise funding and staff, taking account of national and local priorities to meet local health needs.

The following consortia and individual organisations are on the national framework contract of approved contractors. Some organisations are approved for only one type of work e.g. only quantitative surveys, whilst others are approved for more than one type of work.

OPM (with GFK NOP and Edinburgh University)

Ipsos-Mori

MRUK Research Ltd

Patient Dynamics Ltd

Patient Perspective

Picker Institute Europe

Quality Health Ltd

Queen Margaret University (with Dundee University).

Each of the NHS boards participating in the national Inpatient Survey commission a contractor from the national framework contract locally. This process is conducted in accordance with board procurement processes and protocols. Therefore, information on the approved contractor and how much is spent by each board is not held centrally.

<>A review was undertaken by TAVI Short Life Working Group in 2010. Based on the recommendations of this subgroup of the National Planning Forum, a decision was taken in February 2011 not to establish a TAVI service in Scotland, pending further evidence becoming available. The report of the working group is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0039/00392167.pdf

The TAVI Short Life Working Group was supported by the Scottish Health Technology Group (SHTG). The SHTG was subsequently asked to maintain an overview of the evidence base for TAVI and to highlight to the National Planning Forum any significant new developments. To date the SHTG have published three reports on TAVI. In line with SHTG policy, the oldest reports have been withdrawn.

Advice Statement 001/10 (August 2010) - now superseded.

Evidence Note 33 and Advice Statement 001/11 (March 2011) - now superseded

http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/programmes/clinical__cost_effectiveness/shtg_-_evidence_notes/evidence_note_33.aspx.

Evidence Note 38 and Advice Statement 005/11 (September 2011)

http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/programmes/clinical__cost_effectiveness/shtg_-_evidence_notes/evidence_note_38.aspx.

http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/programmes/clinical__cost_effectiveness/shtg_-_advice_statements/advice_statement_005-11.aspx.

Yes. There are a small number of consultant clinicians who have had experience of TAVI.

This information is not held centrally.

NHS boards have discretion to reimburse reasonable travelling expenses incurred by patients who are referred to hospitals outwith their own area, because the treatment is not available within their area. Where medically beneficial, this may include reimbursement of an escort's reasonable travel expenses.

In cases where a patient is being transferred from one hospital to another as part of their treatment, the costs are met directly by the local health board.

Cost of TAVI procedures undertaken outwith Scotland by NHS Board, 2008-09 to 2011-12:

NHS Board Areas	2008-09 (£000)	2009-10 (£000)	2010-11 (£000)	2011-12 (£000)
Ayrshire and Arran	0	0	0	(*)
Borders	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	0	0
Fife	0	0	0	(*)
Forth Valley	0	0	0	(*)
Grampian	0	231	243	203
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	0	32	0	99
Highland	0	0	0	30
Lanarkshire	0	0	0	32
Lothian	0	0	0	0
Orkney	0	0	0	0
Shetland	0	0	0	0
Tayside	0	0	113	0
Western Isles	0	0	0	0

Note: (*) Invoice not yet received.