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Question reference: S3W-26248

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered NHS dentists there have been in each year since 2006, broken down by community health partnership

The number of NHS dentists (head count) who have provided NHS general dental services, broken down by community health partnership for years ending 31 March 2006 onwards is shown in the following table.

Community Health Partnership	2006	2007	2008	2009
Scotland	2,301	2,474	2,576	2,739
Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership	98	105	133	137
Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership	77	87	76	90
Angus Community Health Partnership	59	57	59	69
Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership	53	50	56	56
Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership	22	21	20	20
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership	46	62	70	71
Dundee Community Health Partnership	93	102	95	111
Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership	60	59	63	73
East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	42	44	51	63
East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	71	69	65	70
East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	56	57	64	65
East Lothian Community Health Partnership	45	47	55	56
East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership	52	54	52	52
Edinburgh Community Health Partnership	258	274	289	310
Falkirk Community Health Partnership	56	70	82	98
Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership	39	40	44	49
Inverclyde Community Health Partnership	35	40	46	43
Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership	73	81	79	85
Mid Highland Community Health Partnership	44	50	25	40
Midlothian Community Health Partnership	26	31	29	30
Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership	26	29	28	37
North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	58	54	55	65
North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	36	33	42	41
North Highland Community Health Partnership	18	26	15	14
North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	129	134	143	159
Orkney Community Health Partnership	11	16	13	17
Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership	85	87	90	105
Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership	97	99	96	109
Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership	48	52	52	55
Shetland Community Health Partnership	15	20	18	25
South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	55	66	74	65
South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	72	76	89	90
South East Highland Community Health Partnership	64	74	89	98
South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	138	136	155	159
South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	51	54	61	60
Stirling Community Health Partnership	49	37	39	48
West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	37	40	41	44
West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	128	140	150	156
West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership	69	72	91	98
Western Isles Community Health Partnership	12	13	15	18

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

1. This data relates to the number of dentists in post, not the whole-time equivalent figure, as information on the working hours of each dentist is not collected.

2. This data includes the number of NHS non-salaried and salaried principals, assistants and vocational dental practitioners, based on the location of the dental practice.

3. The sum of the number of NHS general dental practitioners in each community health partnership exceeds the number practising in Scotland: an NHS general dental practitioner may enter into more than one arrangement with an NHS board if he/she has more than one practice, or enter into an arrangement with more than one NHS board if he/she practises in more than one NHS board area.

4. Clinical and management information on salaried general dental services is now partly being recorded on a new computer system (R4) that transmits data to Practitioner Services Division as if from a central location. Although treatment continues to be provided from a large number of locations, these arrangements for recording information will in some instances suggest that the number of dentists providing salaried NHS general dental services treatment has significantly increased or reduced. The effect of dentists beginning to transmit their data from a central location will be most acutely observed across smaller areas, such as community health partnership.

Question reference: S3W-26249

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage was of three to five-year olds registered with an NHS dentist in each community health partnership in (a) December 2007, (b) March 2008, (c) June 2008, (d) September 2008, (e) December 2008 and (f) March 2009.

Question reference: S3W-26250

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the change was in the number of three to five-year olds registered with an NHS dentist in each community health partnership between December 2007 and March 2009.

The following table shows the percentage change in the number of three to five-year-olds registered with an NHS dentist, by Community Health Partnership between December 2007 and March 2009.

Community Health Partnership	Number of 3-5 Registrations at December 2007	Number of 3-5 Registrations at March 2009	% Change from December 2007 to March 2009
Scotland	117,258	134,601	14.8%
East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	2,294	2,656	15.8%
North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	3,107	3,626	16.7%
South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	3,094	3,576	15.6%
Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership	2,128	2,423	13.9%
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership	3,128	3,475	11.1%
Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership	2,688	3,153	17.3%
Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership	2,006	2,347	17.0%
Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership	2,692	3,059	13.6%
Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership	1,097	1,288	17.4%
Falkirk Community Health Partnership	3,682	4,362	18.5%
Stirling Community Health Partnership	2,079	2,175	4.6%
Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership	4,043	5,090	25.9%
Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership	4,587	4,798	4.6%
Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership	1,236	1,240	0.3%
East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	2,635	2,833	7.5%
East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	3,010	3,861	28.3%
East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership	2,533	2,717	3.3%
Inverclyde Community Health Partnership	2,052	2,393	16.6%
North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	1,863	2,277	22.2%
Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership	3,999	4,548	13.7%
South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	2,958	3,554	20.1%
South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	2,665	3,197	20.0%
West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	2,133	2,542	19.2%
West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	4,054	4,705	16.1%
Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership	1,611	1,912	18.7%
Mid Highland Community Health Partnership	1,098	856	-22.0%
North Highland Community Health Partnership	353	222	-37.1%
South East Highland Community Health Partnership	2,969	4,086	37.6%
North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	8,105	9,185	13.3%
South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	7,386	8,301	12.4%
East Lothian Community Health Partnership	2,322	2,459	5.7%
Midlothian Community Health Partnership	1,758	1,988	13.1%
West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership	4,880	5,582	14.4%
Orkney Community Health Partnership	279	342	22.6%
Shetland Community Health Partnership	510	657	28.8%
Angus Community Health Partnership	2,337	2,550	9.1%
Dundee Community Health Partnership	3,839	4,243	10.5%
Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership	3,039	3,206	5.5%
Western Isles Community Health Partnership	399	412	3.3%
Edinburgh Community Health Partnership	10,610	12,448	17.3%

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

1. The Community Health Partnership is based on the postcode of the dental practice.

2. 2007 Mid-year population estimates are used to calculate the percentage registered and are sourced from the General Register''s Office.

Question reference: S3W-26274

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 August 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many biomedical science students have applied for and received a bursary of £2,000 to encourage them to work in the NHS after graduation in each academic year since 2007-08, broken down by university.

In response to the question above, the table below details the number of bursaries for each institution. All students who applied for the bursary were awarded it.

Institution	Number of Biomedical Bursaries Awarded in the 2007-08 Session	Number of Biomedical Bursaries Awarded in the 2008-09 Session
Glasgow Caledonian University	23	62
The Robert Gordon University	23	49
University of Abertay Dundee	10	17
University of the West of Scotland	3	8
Total	59	136

Source: The data was supplied from the SAAS NHS Bursary Database.

Question reference: S3W-25766

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 17 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions there have been in Dundee under the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007.

Of the 17 charges in which a decision to prosecute in court has been taken by the procurator fiscal at Dundee since 2007, 10 have resulted in a conviction, five are ongoing and two have resulted in a decision to take no further action.

Notes:

1. The information for this question has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service''s Case Management Database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies. If a procurator fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency the database will record details only of the amended charge.

2. The database is charge-based. The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the number of individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.

3. The information is correct as at 6 August 2009.

Question reference: S3W-25837

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the decision by NHS Tayside to continue with the community health nurse pilot will result in additional funding being provided.

Question reference: S3W-25838

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-23034 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009, whether the contract to evaluate the community health nurse pilots has been awarded and what the estimated cost of the evaluation is.

Question reference: S3W-25575

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 July 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists working in the General Dental Service were previously recipients of a bursary from the NHS Dental Bursary Scheme initiated by the previous administration in September 2006.

Question reference: S3W-25576

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 July 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at (a) the University of Dundee and (b) the University of Glasgow who received a dental bursary in their final year of study are now in vocational training in Scotland, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested is shown in the following table:

NHS Board	Dundee Dental School	Glasgow Dental School
Ayrshire and Arran	0	12
Borders	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0
Fife	5	0
Forth Valley	3	3
Grampian	7	3
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	4	18
Highland	4	5
Lanarkshire	2	13
Lothian	7	7
Orkney	1	0
Shetland	1	0
Tayside	15	0
Western Isles	0	1
Total	49	62

Question reference: S3W-25574

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 July 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent dentists have been employed in the General Dental Service in each of the last three years, also broken down by NHS board.