- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the workforce planning projection for 2010-11 for the Scottish Ambulance Service, which was to be submitted to it by 30 April 2010.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33644 on 7 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many press, media or communications staff will be employed in each territorial and special NHS board in 2010-11 and at what cost.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33636 on 7 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what category of posts make up the 10,000 additional jobs in the NHS that the Scottish Government reports that there have been since May 2007.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33640 on 7 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it advised NHS boards that workforce planning projections would no longer be required before its Health Directorate issued a letter to the boards on 9 April 2010 requesting such projections.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33648 on 7 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have been held with NHS boards regarding funding for voluntary severance.
Answer
Discussions are regularly held with NHS boards, and in partnership with NHS boards and staff side organisations, on a wide range of staffing matters. This includes staff governance and terms and conditions issues, such as voluntary severance.
Boards have been advised that, when planning for service redesign or other organisational changes, they should only consider a voluntary severance scheme as a last resort and that these schemes require to be financed from within existing budgets.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs will be lost in each NHS board through voluntary severance in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 and how this will be funded.
Answer
We are aware of only two boards who are considering small scale voluntary severance schemes. They are NHS Grampian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether and, if so, for what reason the policy on requiring workforce planning projections from NHS boards was changed.
Answer
There has been no changes in policy and boards were not told that projections would no longer be required.
Boards were advised that the annual projections exercise, which looks at NHS boards future demand for staff for years one, two, three, five and 10 years and helps to inform the annual intake of student nurses and midwives, was under review to see what changes might be made to improve the output of these projections. In addition, while this wider review is being undertaken, boards were asked to provide projections for any expected staff group changes for 2010-11 and to send their draft Workforce Plans to Scottish Government prior to publication. Copies of the Scottish Government''s letter of 9 April 2010 asking for that have been placed in the Scottish Parliament''s Information Centre (Bib. number 50922).
Scottish ministers have been kept informed of this work.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether equality impact assessments have been undertaken by NHS boards in relation to their workforce planning projections and their implications for changes to services.
Answer
This is a matter for individual NHS boards who have a legal obligation under race, disability and gender equality legislation as set out in Scottish Government circular HDL (2005) 9 to equality impact assess the likely impact of policies, strategies and services including workforce planning.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the letter of 9 April 2010 from its Health Directorate inviting NHS boards to submit workforce planning projections by 30 April 2010.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33648 on 7 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing is aware of the content of the workforce planning projections for 2010-11 submitted to the Scottish Government by NHS boards by 30 April 2010.
Answer
Yes.
