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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.

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Question reference: S4W-05181

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W–38402 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 January 2011, how many patients have been sent to pain management centres outside of Scotland since 15 September 2010; from which NHS board areas, and to which centres.

The following table sets out the number of people, by NHS Board, who were referred to pain management centres outside of Scotland between 15 September 2010 and 9 January 2012. In all cases people were referred to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Trust, in Bath.

Referrals to pain management centres outside Scotland

NHS Board	15 September 2010 to 9 January 2012
Ayrshire and Arran	3
Fife	2
Grampian	5
Greater Glasgow & Clyde	4
Shetland	1
Tayside	11
Total	26

Question reference: S4W-05218

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the registration of private health clinics is a matter reserved to the UK Parliament and, if not, what the criteria are for this.

Question reference: S4W-05188

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

The information requested is set out in the following table:

Dates of Chronic Pain Steering Group meetings:

2009	2010	2011
29-10-09	02-11-10	01-12-11
01-09-09	24-06-10	22-08-11
18-06-09	02-03-10	19-05-11
12-05-09		24-02-11

Further information on the Steering Group, including meeting papers, can be found on the Chronic Pain page of the NHS Knowledge Network website at:

http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/pain/steering-group.aspx

Question reference: S4W-05207

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether attendance at an emergency call by a Rapid Response Unit counts as part of the target emergency response time.

Yes, the arrival on scene of a paramedic response unit (sometimes referred to as a rapid response unit) counts as part of the emergency response time. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33014 on 23 April 2010.

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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-05209

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a target for the number of paramedics in Scottish Ambulance Service ambulance crews; how this is monitored, and whether the target has been met in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S4W-05210

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of paramedics is on relief Scottish Ambulance Service rosters (a) in Scotland and (b) the Vale of Leven ambulance station.

Question reference: S4W-05191

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide all territorial NHS boards with pump priming to extend the creation of managed clinical networks for chronic pain.

It is for NHS boards to develop and deliver healthcare services to meet the needs of their local population.

However, we continue to advocate a managed clinical network (MCN) approach to the development of chronic pain services and see the existing Network in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as setting an example for other boards to follow.

The Chronic Pain Steering Group has been working to establish a quality improvement infrastructure to support chronic pain service improvements in NHS boards, including work to establish a chronic pain service improvement group or MCN in each NHS board.

We would therefore be pleased to receive applications for two year funding from any board wishing to develop an MCN approach to chronic pain services, including setting up local service improvement groups.

Question reference: S4W-05203

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Ambulance Service ambulances are based at (a) Clydebank and (b) Vale of Leven ambulance station.

The Scottish Ambulance Service has provided the following table setting out rostered resources based at Clydebank Ambulance Station.

Resource	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
Day shift A&E Ambulance	4	5	6	5	5	3	3
Back Shift A&E Ambulance	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Night Shift A&E Ambulance	2	2	3	2	2	2	2
Day Shift PRU	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Night Shift PRU	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Total	10	10	12	10	10	8	8

Notes:

*PRU = Paramedic Response Unit

*The day, night and back shifts will cover a variety of shift patterns.

The Scottish Ambulance Service have confirmed that the accident and emergency ambulances operating from Clydebank Ambulance Station are rostered to be double-crewed by a paramedic and a technician, and that the PRU is rostered to be crewed by a paramedic.

In relation to rostered resources based at Vale of Leven Ambulance Station, I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-02448 on 21 September 2011. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-05208

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a paramedic in every Scottish Ambulance Service ambulance crew.

Question reference: S4W-05202

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether referral to treatment waiting time targets apply to chronic pain services and, if so, whether any penalties have been incurred.

Patients referred to chronic pain clinics are covered by the 18 weeks referral to treatment target. The 18 weeks target which came into effect on 31 December 2011 is that 90% of patients should be seen and treated within 18 weeks from referral.

Latest published figures for September 2011 showed that 89.8% of patients were seen and treated within 18 weeks from initial referral. Performance against the target for 31 December 2011 is due to be published on 28 February 2012.