Chamber and committees

We do not hold rota information for junior doctors in training. However, the following table provides details of NHS Argyll and Clyde’s assessment of the number of junior doctors in training who are compliant with the requirements of the Working Time Regulations (WTR), as at 1 August 2004. I hope you find this information useful.

Analysis by Speciality – Argyll and Clyde

Specialty	Number of Doctors in Training1
WTR Compliant at 16-06-044	Expected to be WTR Compliant at 01-/08-042,4	Total
Accident and Emergency	24	24	24
Anaesthetics	10	20	20
General Medicine	48	50	55
Geriatrics	0	5	5
Paediatrics	13	13	13
Obstetrics and Gynaecology	21	21	21
General Psychiatry	9	26	26
ENT Surgery	4	4	4
General Surgery	25	42	46
Ophthalmology	2	2	2
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery	0	8	14
Unknown3	5	5	5
Totals	161	220	235
Percentages	68.5%	93.6%	100.0%

Notes:

1. These figures do not include GP Registrars.

2. Figures are board predictions for the number of doctors in training expected to be WTR compliant at 1 August 2004.

3. An unknown rota occurs where the return has provided insufficient information to distinguish which of the above specialities apply.

4. Compliance with the European Working Time Regulations includes working no longer than 58 hours per week, taking a minimum 11 hours rest in a 24 hour period, and receiving four weeks' paid annual leave.

The information requested is not held centrally.

There were 18,928 attendances at the Vale of Leven Hospital Accident and Emergency Department in the year ending 31 December 2003.

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The estate revenue costs for Dumbarton Joint Hospital and Helensburgh Victoria Infirmary are £647,000 and £436,000 respectively. These are the latest published figures and relate to financial year 2002-03.

Estate revenue costs are taken to be property costs, and include costs such as property maintenance, cleaning, utilities, rent and rates, rental/repair of furniture and capital charges.

This is a matter for the National Park Authority in the first instance. However, we are aware that the authority is reviewing the adequacy of the current byelaws with a view to a public consultation exercise next year.

The proportion of NHS board members who are NHS employees and who are referred to as executive directors is approximately 41%.

Everything possible is being done to ensure a wide-spread response to the consultation. People can pick up copies of the consultation questionnaire, which take only a few minutes to complete, from doctor’s surgeries, libraries, local authority premises and other public outlets, including pubs. A free-phone number to receive copies of the consultation response form is being widely publicised in the press.Similarly, people can make their views known on the internet at www.smokingconsultation.com. Inaddition there are a number of regional seminars organised in conjunction withScottish Civic Forum, and focus group work with targeted groups to allow peopleto air their views. Young Scot is also undertaking a number of activities toinvolve young people in the consultation.

All NHS boards in Scotland receive an annual uplift in their unified budget allocations which are designed to cover both local and national inflationary pressures, as well as service developments. The unified budget for each board is based on the allocation formula which aims to give each board its fair share of the resources available nationally. It is for each NHS board to manage within their resources, allocating their uplift as determined locally.

There are a range of cost pressures which arise from national policies, primarily relating to pay, e.g. basic pay increase, Agenda for Change, the Consultant’s Contract and the new General Medical Services Contract. The Executive’s estimate of the increased cost of these policies is more than covered from the record uplift in allocations for 2003-04 and 2004-05, supplemented by additional allocations from the Executive.

NHS Argyll and Clyde have identified that the annual uplift to the unified budget allocation for 2004-05 does not cover all national and local cost pressures as identified by the board. As a result, the board are planning to take a number of measures to reduce expenditure and identify savings over the course of the year.