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Question reference: S3W-38837

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) inpatient and day case episodes and (b) new and return outpatient attendances there have been in NHS Tayside in each year since 2007-08.

Information on (a) inpatient and day case episodes and (b) new and return outpatient attendances in NHS Tayside for financial years ending 31 March 2001 to 2010 is published on the Information Services Division (ISD) website at:

Inpatients and Day Cases: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4066.html

Outpatients: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4156.html.

The number of inpatient and day case episodes are provided in Table 1 and the number of new and return outpatient attendances are provided in Table 2 for NHS Tayside for financial year 2007-08 to 2009-10.

Table 1: Number of Inpatient and Day Cases for NHS Tayside from All Acute Specialties for the Financial Year 2007-08 to 2009-10

Patient Type	Financial Year
Patient Type	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10^P
All Patient Types	96,127	101,971	96,266
Day Cases	21,279	22,021	16,617
Elective Inpatients	17,709	18,978	18,666
Emergency Inpatients	44,707	46,415	46,083
Transfers	12,432	14,557	14,900

^P2009-10 data is provisional.

Table 2: Number of New and Return Outpatient Attendances for NHS Tayside for All Specialties (Excluding Accident and Emergency) for the Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10

Indicator	Financial Year
Indicator	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10^P
New Outpatient Attendances	119,500	131,300	132,747
Return Outpatient Attendances	309,382	319,182	310,644
Total Attendances	428,882	450,482	443,391

^P2009-10 data is provisional.

Question reference: S3W-38844

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an attendance at an accident and emergency unit in 2009-10.

Question reference: S3W-38846

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many bed days in NHS Tayside were associated with alcohol-related conditions in 2009-10.

Question reference: S3W-38840

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there have been at each NHS Tayside accident and emergency centre in each year since 2007-08.

The number of attendances (new and unplanned returns) from July 2007 to September 2010 for each accident and emergency department in NHS Tayside are provided in the following table. The number of monthly attendances at each accident and emergency department across Scotland is published quarterly and can be viewed at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4024.html.

Prior to 1 July 2007 information for accident and emergency attendances was collected centrally from the ISD monthly aggregate return ISD(S)1 but is only published at NHS Board level at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4156.html.

A new data collection system was introduced from 1 July 2007 which provides information on attendances on all accident and emergency departments. Accident and emergency departments are classified as either core or non-core sites. Core sites include all accident and emergency departments within large hospitals. Non-core sites include minor injury units, small hospitals with manual systems and health centres in rural areas that carry out accident and emergency type activity. The information provided in the table covers the periods: 1 July 2007 to 31 March 2008; the full year periods for 2008-09 and 2009-10; and for 1 April 2010 to 30 September 2010.

Total Number of Attendances at Accident and Emergency Departments in NHS Tayside for Financial Years 2007-08 to 2010-11

	Financial Year
Accident and Emergency Department	2007-08*	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11^P
Ninewells Hospital	35,500	48,646	48,045	25,079
Perth Royal Infirmary	18,737	24,854	24,927	13,602
Arbroath Infirmary	6,578	9,045	13,394	7,451
Blairgowrie Community Hospital	1,349	1,906	3,054	1,659
Brechin Infirmary	1,482	1,748	3,374	1,827
Cottage Hospital, Aberfeldy	-	6	202	52
Crieff Community Hospital	-	938	2,598	1,229
Links Health Centre, Montrose	3,431	3,914	7,343	3,876
Pitlochry Community Hospital	443	628	1,324	908
St Margaret''s Hospital	-	8	319	196
Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre	3,809	4,027	6,999	3,900

^PDates are complete to September 2010.

Source: Accident and emergency data mart, ISD Scotland.

Note: * Data are from July 2007.

Question reference: S3W-38841

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an acute occupied bed day in 2009-10.

Question reference: S3W-38843

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency incidents in the NHS Tayside area ambulances attended in 2009-10.

Question reference: S3W-38842

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an emergency ambulance call out in the East Central division of the Scottish Ambulance Service area in 2009-10.

The average cost of an emergency ambulance in 2009-10 in East Central division of the Scottish Ambulance Service was £263.24. This, and a range of other information relating to the cost of ambulance activity, is published annually in the ISD Scotland Cost Book. This information can be found at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/costs-overview.jsp?pContentID=3726&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.

Question reference: S3W-38320

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are waiting for an appointment with a podiatrist in the (a) Dundee and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership area

Question reference: S3W-38318

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are on waiting lists for treatment in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership areas for (i) adult physiotherapy, (ii) pulmonary rehabilitation, (iii) paediatrics continence service and (iv) women’s health

Question reference: S3W-38319

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists are employed by NHS Tayside expressed as (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent