- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many inpatient beds are available at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
The average available staffed beds in all specialties for the Vale of Leven Hospital in year ending 31 March 2008 was 197.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems it expects to install in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Answer
The Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum is currently considering the long term future of the programme and is expected to report back in early autumn. Once the forum has provided its recommendations the necessary decisions on the future of the programme will be taken.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the central heating programme baseline budget is for 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Answer
The fuel poverty budget for 2008-09 and 2009-10 was set at £45.9 million as part of the Strategic Spending Review (2007) announced on 14 November 2007.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executivewhen NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will have completed the integration of the former Greater Glasgow area with the former Clyde area.
Answer
Since the formation of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in April 2006, the board has looked closely at how to best integrate services across the whole board area. Full integration was completed in July 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive why there has been no consideration of a new acute facility serving the north Clyde population, listed as option two on page 21 of Report of the independent external clinical review of anaesthetic services at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
The planning and provision of acute services for the population north of the Clyde is a matter for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The board has committed to quickly bring forward proposals for a full range of services at the Vale of Leven Hospital which will take account of Report of the independent external clinical review of anaesthetic services at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15494 by Kenny MacAskill on 25 August 2008, whether ministers routinely seek the approval of the Parliament when determining the remit and chairing of a public inquiry.
Answer
There is no requirement under the Inquiries Act 2005 for a minister to seek the approval of the Parliament when determining the remit and chairing of a public inquiry.
Under section 6 of the act, however, a minister who proposes to cause an inquiry to be held, or who has already done so, must as soon as is reasonably practicable make an oral or written statement to that effect to the relevant Parliament
The statement must state:
(a) who is to be, or has been, appointed as chairman of the inquiry;
(b) whether the Minister has appointed, or proposes to appoint, any other members to the inquiry panel, and if so how many;
(c) what are to be, or are, the inquiry''s terms of reference.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15494 by Kenny MacAskill on 25 August 2008, what public inquiries have been initiated by the Scottish Ministers since the Inquiries Act 2005 was passed.
Answer
Since the Inquiries Act 2005 was passed, an inquiry was set up in March 2008 to look into the fingerprints in the Shirley McKie case, under the chairmanship of Lord Justice Campbell. Another inquiry was announced in April this year which will consider cases where patients have contracted hepatitis C, under the chairmanship of Lady Cosgrove.
Scottish Ministers have also jointly set up an inquiry in conjunction with the Department of Work and Pensions to investigate the explosion at the ICL Stockline factory under the chairmanship of the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Gill.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the independent review team on Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital issued adverts to the local press inviting families affected to make written submissions.
Answer
The independent review team issued an advert for a call for evidence to the local press on 8 July 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the draft report of the independent review team on Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital was first discussed by any official or special adviser.
Answer
My officials were briefed by the Independent Review Team (IRT) and Health Protection Scotland (HPS) on 31 July 2008. They received Draft Reports from the IRT and HPS on 1 August 2008. The formal report was received on 4 August 2008 and published on 7 August 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will explain the timescale for submission of the report by the independent review team on Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
On 18 June 2008, I announced in the Parliament an independent review of procedures in place at the Vale of Leven Hospital over the period December 2007 to 1 June 2008, in response to information that 55 patients had developed Clostridium difficile Associated Disease (CDAD), 18 of whom had died.
The Independent Review Team (IRT) met and was briefed on 26 June 2008 with a remit to report by 31 July 2008. The IRT requested and reviewed all relevant documentation regarding cases of CDAD at the Vale of Leven Hospital over the six month time-frame and the circumstances contributing to these cases. The IRT visited the Vale of Leven Hospital on five occasions and interviewed a wide range of staff from the hospital and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. An open invitation was made through the local press for patients and their families to submit written and oral evidence to the review and meetings were held with representatives from 10 families.
Full details of the process followed by the IRT are set out in the report, Independent Review of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease at the Vale of Leven Hospital from December 2007 to June 2008, which was published on 7 August 2008.
