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Question reference: S3W-17337

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 12 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been newly registered in NHS Tayside in each of the last 12 months for which information is available.

Latest available information on newly registered patients in NHS Tayside in each of the last 12 months is presented in the following table.

Number of newly registered NHS dental patients in NHS Tayside in each month from November 2007 to October 2008:

Number of Newly Registered Patients not Previously Registered with a Dentist in Tayside

Month	in 12 Months Preceding^1,2	Since October 1990^2,3
November 2007	2,155	1,178
December 2007	1,547	852
January 2008	2,043	1,145
February 2008	2,305	1,281
March 2008	2,201	1,159
April 2008	2,241	1,261
May 2008	2,090	1,167
June 2008	1,981	1,048
July 2008	1,824	984
August 2008	2,262	1,301
September 2008	2,056	1,213
October 2008	1,189	792
Total	23,894	13,381

Notes:

1. These patients were not registered with a dentist in NHS Tayside in the preceding 12 months.

2. More recent figures will increase as a result of backdated registration claims which are yet to be received.

3. Registration records in MIDAS (Management Information & Dental Accounting System) date from October 1990.

Question reference: S3W-17335

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 12 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) adults and (b) children was registered with an NHS dentist in June 2008, broken down by community health partnership area, and what the comparable figures were in March 2008.

The information by Community Health Partnership for March 2007 to June 2008 is published at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=dent_reg_table2_june08.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.

The information does not represent the percentage of people in each Community Health Partnership who are registered. Registrations (numerator) are based on the postcode of the practice where the patient has registered with a general dental practitioner. The population (denominator) is based on where the patient resides, in this case the Community Health Partnership. In some cases, the number of registrations may exceed the actual number of people in the chosen population.

Question reference: S3W-17340

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 12 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of eligible women was screened for cervical cancer in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by age group.

Information Services Division (ISD) have provided the percentage of uptake for Cervical Screening by age group in Scotland¹, 1 April 1997 to 31 March 2008, these are:

Percentage Uptake^2,3 of Females Who Had a Record of a Previous Smear Taken Within Last 5.5 Years

Age group	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
20-24	66.3	64.7	63.3	64.2	64.1	63.5	62.6	60.7	58.8	56.6	53.2
25-29	85.9	85.3	84.9	84.5	84.1	83.5	83.0	81.8	80.7	79.0	73.3
30-34	89.8	89.5	89.4	89.2	88.9	88.2	87.8	86.9	85.9	84.9	78.4
35-39	91.3	91.0	91.1	90.9	90.8	90.4	89.9	89.0	88.4	88.5	82.0
40-44	92.2	91.9	92.0	91.6	91.6	91.2	90.2	89.9	89.6	88.7	84.1
45-49	93.1	92.9	92.7	92.3	92.2	91.7	91.2	90.3	89.7	88.8	85.0
50-54	91.0	91.0	91.3	91.0	91.1	90.9	90.6	89.8	89.3	88.4	84.5
55-59	85.5	85.6	86.7	87.1	87.6	87.8	87.7	87.3	86.8	86.1	82.9
60-64	70.2	71.3	72.0	72.4	74.0	75.6	76.7	77.2	76.9	76.9	81.1
Target age group 20-60	87.0	86.6	86.7	86.5	86.5	86.0	85.5	84.6	83.8	82.6	77.9

Percentage Uptake^2,3 of Females Who Had a Record of a Previous Smear Taken Within Last 3.5 Years

Age group	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
20-24	64.2	62.6	61.3	62.1	62.3	61.7	60.9	59.1	57.2	55.2	50.2
25-29	80.6	79.8	79.5	79.0	78.9	78.2	77.5	76.1	74.5	72.3	63.3
30-34	84.7	84.2	84.1	84.1	83.9	83.2	82.3	81.0	79.4	78.0	68.8
35-39	86.0	85.5	85.7	85.6	85.8	85.4	84.5	83.2	82.0	80.6	72.8
40-44	86.3	85.9	86.1	86.1	86.4	86.1	84.9	84.2	83.1	82.0	75.3
45-49	86.8	86.4	86.5	86.4	86.8	86.1	85.5	84.3	83.2	82.1	76.5
50-54	84.5	84.6	85.1	85.1	85.7	85.5	85.0	84.0	82.8	81.7	76.3
55-59	79.2	79.5	80.8	81.4	82.5	82.7	82.3	81.6	80.5	79.6	75.3
60-64	53.2	54.2	55.4	54.7	56.8	58.8	59.5	59.4	57.7	57.8	67.6
Target age group 20-60	81.7	81.2	81.4	81.4	81.7	81.2	80.6	79.3	78.0	76.5	69.7

Ref: IR2008-02530.

Source: ISD(D)4 Legacy applications for 1997-98 to 2006-07 data.

Source: ISD(D)4 SCCRS for 2007-08 data (Version 22092008 12:30).

Notes:

1. Excludes Lothian NHS Board from 1997-98 to 2006-07 (data calculated on a different basis - calendar year).

2. Based on adjusted Community Health Index (CHI) population denominator (excluding medically ineligible women) for years 1997-98 to 2006-07.

Based on SCCRS population denominator (excluding medically ineligible women) for 2007-08.

3. Numerator figures from 1997-98 to 2006-07 are derived from GP self-reporting claim forms submitted to Primary Care Finance in support of claims for target payments.

Numerator figures for 2007-08 are derived from smear tests recorded on SCCRS (Scottish Cervical Call Recall System).

Cervical screening year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

Further data on cervical screening is presented for Scotland, health board or laboratory at www.isdscotland.org/cervical_screening.

Question reference: S3W-17441

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on medicines in hospitals in NHS Tayside in each of the last two years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-17442

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of drugs prescribed in NHS Tayside was generic in each of the last two years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-17297

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the target set for NHS boards of a 30% reduction in the rate of Clostridium difficile in people over 65 by 2011 will be accompanied by additional allocations to NHS boards outwith the £54 million already to be allocated over the next three years to tackle healthcare-acquired infection.

Question reference: S3W-17296

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £54 million to be allocated over the next three years to tackle healthcare-acquired infection can be specifically identified for programmes within NHS Tayside.

Question reference: S3O-04700

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 6 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to develop alternatives to custody for women offenders to counter the unprecedented intake of women to HM Prison Cornton Vale.

This government is committed to radical action to end the cycle of offending and re-offending. Prison will always remain the right place for those who commit serious crimes and present a risk to our communities. But tough community penalties delivered swiftly and consistently are more effective in dealing with those whose offences are of a less serious nature.

We know that custody is often not the most appropriate option for women offenders. The Community Justice Authorities have identified women as a priority group and this is reflected in schemes such as diversion from prosecution and supervised bail. We are spending over £600,000 per year on piloting Drug Treatment and Testing Orders for all lower tariff offenders including women and have increased spending on supervised bail by over 40%. Additional funding of £190,000 per year has been made available to the South West Community Justice Authority for piloting an innovative approach making use of mentors/link workers for adult female offenders given a community sentence.

Question reference: S3W-16825

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 28 October 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was given to each local authority to participate in the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.

The following table sets out the amount of funding we provided to each of the local authorities participating in the free school meals trial for P1 to P3 pupils.

Local Authority	£
East Ayrshire	561,000
Fife	1,714,000
Glasgow City	1,309,000
Scottish Borders	593,000
West Dunbartonshire	455,000

Question reference: S3W-16827

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 28 October 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected number is of pupils who will be in P1 to P3 in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in August 2010.