- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how the review of continuing care beds in the west of Glasgow announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on 10 February 2011 will be conducted.
Answer
I expect all health boards to conduct robust NHS service reviews which are sensitive to local needs and priorities whilst being consistent with national policies, guidelines and frameworks.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the announcement of £400 million for a new mental health strategy by the UK Government will have a Barnett consequential and, if so, (a) what this will be and (b) how it will allocate it.
Answer
This announcement does not generate any new Barnett consequentials. Scotland has already received the full consequentials on the Department of Health''s spending review settlement in England, and we have already confirmed that all of these resources will be invested in the health sector and frontline services.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring arrangements are in place for the Choose Life programme.
Answer
Revised proposals for monitoring Choose Life were made in the Report of the National Suicide Prevention Working Group,
Refreshing the National Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland, published 29 October 2010. Details are available at the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/10/26112102/13.
The monitoring proposals have been adopted and the group has already had its first meeting.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding from the Choose Life programme has been spent by NHS Health Scotland in each year since May 2007.
Answer
Choose Life has been a programme of work at NHS Health Scotland since April 2008. Prior to this it formed part of the Scottish Government''s former National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing. Broad areas of spend by NHS Health Scotland on the Choose Life Programme since April 2008 are as follows:
| Key Activity Area | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| Stakeholder engagement | £21,000 | £13,000 | £17,555 |
| Awareness raising | £142,500 | £210,000 | £90,000 |
| Provision of education and training about suicidal behaviour | £315,000 | £395,000 | £216,000 |
| Capacity building and support to local areas | £11,000 | £60,000 | £60,200 |
| Provision of communication resources | £3,800 | £29,350 | £26,610 |
| Sub totals | £493,300 | £707,350 | £410,365 |
| Staff Costs, including on costs | £426,700 | £265,290 | £337,319 |
| Totals | £920,000 | £972,640 | £747,684 |
The reason why there is variation in spend between the three years is due to a number of factors. These are:
Choose Life is embedded within NHS Health Scotland - additional resources, corporate, staff and other input have contributed to the Choose Life programme through NHS Health Scotland''s Core Budget;
Choose Life events, cheaper daily delegate rates and publications online rather than paper printing, have been delivered at lower costs than was originally estimated.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the review of continuing care beds in the west of Glasgow announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on 10 February 2011.
Answer
The general purpose of the review will be to determine the ongoing need for NHS continuing care provision in the west of Glasgow, and to carefully consider the service options for providing this care, including maintaining the service currently provided by St Margaret''s of Scotland Hospice.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to suspend pay increments for NHS staff
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the next steps are for implementing the recommendations in the Cross Party Group on Muscular Dystrophy’s The Mackie Report following the meeting between the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Muscle Network on 8 February 2011.
Answer
We intend to issue a statement in the very near future on implementing the recommendations in the Scottish Muscle Network''s review of neuromuscular services and in the Mackie Report.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the social care spend has been in each year from 2007-08, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) NHS board
Answer
Copies of social work net expenditure 2007-08 “ 2009-10 are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52531).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled by the NHS in 2009-10 and have been cancelled in 2010-11, broken down by NHS board
Answer
The specific information requested is not available centrally.
Information, although limited, is available on the number of hospital stays where operation or procedures were not carried out following admission to hospital. The latest yearly published information on the number of cancelled operations or procedures is for 2009-10 and this data is provided in the following table.
Operations may be cancelled due a number of reasons such as a particularly high level of emergency admissions, staff sickness, the patient being unfit for treatment on admission or the patient having failed to follow pre-admission advice such as fasting before admission.
NHSScotland: Number of Hospital Stays where a Cancelled Operation or Procedure Not Being Carried out has been Recorded1,2,3 in the Year Ending 31 March 2010
| NHS Board of Treatment | Number |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1,444 |
| Borders | 147 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 614 |
| Fife | 934 |
| Forth Valley | 145 |
| Grampian | 1,775 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 5,244 |
| Highland | 902 |
| Lanarkshire | 2,469 |
| Lothian | 1,606 |
| Orkney | 46 |
| Shetland | 76 |
| Tayside | 871 |
| Western Isles | 67 |
Notes:
1. Source ISD Scotland “ information derived from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals.
2. Up to six diagnoses (one principal and five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses positions have been used to identify cancelled operations. The following International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD -10) code has been used to identify cancelled operations/procedures “ Z53; person encountering health services for specific procedure not carried out.
3. Cases were an operation or procedure was cancelled prior to the patient being admitted to hospital are excluded.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the amount announced for the reshaping care Change Fund was reduced from the planned £140 million to £70 million
Answer
In early discussions, amounts ranged from £20 million to £140 million over the spending review period. The agreed position is £70 million for 2011-12, and subject to parliamentary approval over the spending review period, for this to be sustained for the following three years, giving at least £280 million, which is double the £140 million first mooted over the spending review period.
