- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the life expectancy at birth has been in the last period for which information is available, broken down by (a) gender and (b) Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation decile.
Answer
Estimates of life expectancy at birth, broken down by gender and Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), are published by the General Register Office for Scotland. The most recent period for which estimates are available is 2004-06.
Life expectancy in Scotland, broken down by gender:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/life-expectancy/life-expectancy-at-scotland-level.html (see table 1).
Life expectancy in Scotland, broken down by SIMD:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/life-expectancy/life-expectancy-in-special-areas-2004-2006/life-expectancy-in-special-areas-2004-2006-tables.html (see table 7).
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of three to five-year-olds were registered with an NHS dentist in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by community health partnership.
Answer
The information requested is not available prior to March 2007 for all community health partnership areas. The tables present information as at March, June, September and December 2007. They do not represent the percentages 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.
Percentage of Three to Five-Year-Olds Registered with an NHS Dentist; by Community Health Partnership
| Community Health Partnership | March 2007 % | June 2007 % | September 2007 % | December 2007 % |
| East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership | 59.4 | 58.9 | 60.3 | 61.9 |
| North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership | 66.0 | 67.6 | 70.4 | 72.4 |
| South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership | 91.9 | 91.9 | 96.0 | 99.2 |
| Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership | 58.8 | 58.0 | 58.6 | 61.2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership | 66.3 | 69.3 | 73.2 | 76.5 |
| Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership | 55.8 | 55.2 | 56.8 | 56.2 |
| Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership | 52.6 | 52.8 | 54.2 | 55.9 |
| Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership | 82.6 | 83.6 | 86.8 | 91.4 |
| Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership | 64.0 | 63.3 | 64.7 | 69.3 |
| Falkirk Community Health Partnership | 66.3 | 68.3 | 71.4 | 74.7 |
| Stirling Community Health Partnership | 69.0 | 70.5 | 73.5 | 73.7 |
| Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership | 65.6 | 67.1 | 69.3 | 70.2 |
| Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership | 57.1 | 56.1 | 58.6 | 59.3 |
| Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership | 49.6 | 48.8 | 49.8 | 49.4 |
| East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership | 74.6 | 74.8 | 78.3 | 79.9 |
| East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership | 76.2 | 77.2 | 80.8 | 84.1 |
| East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership | 78.3 | 78.7 | 80.9 | 82.2 |
| Inverclyde Community Health Partnership | 74.5 | 77.7 | 80.8 | 85.4 |
| North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership | 53.3 | 54.5 | 56.8 | 61.0 |
| Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership | 67.9 | 69.3 | 72.5 | 74.2 |
| South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership | 84.9 | 86.7 | 90.5 | 93.8 |
| South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership | 65.4 | 66.0 | 69.3 | 71.3 |
| West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership | 70.3 | 71.9 | 75.4 | 77.5 |
| West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership1 | 101.7 | 103.1 | 109.1 | 112.3 |
| Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership | 61.5 | 62.3 | 64.7 | 65.9 |
| Mid Highland Community Health Partnership | 44.6 | 42.8 | 40.3 | 39.8 |
| North Highland Community Health Partnership | 36.7 | 32.6 | 32.1 | 32.0 |
| South East Highland Community Health Partnership1 | 80.1 | 87.6 | 101.0 | 106.9 |
| North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership | 67.3 | 68.4 | 70.4 | 72.2 |
| South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership | 70.0 | 70.3 | 73.7 | 75.6 |
| East Lothian Community Health Partnership | 75.3 | 75.3 | 76.8 | 76.4 |
| Midlothian Community Health Partnership | 65.6 | 64.3 | 66.6 | 66.5 |
| West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership | 73.8 | 74.2 | 78.3 | 81.1 |
| Orkney Community Health Partnership | 38.6 | 44.4 | 52.0 | 53.3 |
| Shetland Community Health Partnership | 60.3 | 58.5 | 65.0 | 69.4 |
| Angus Community Health Partnership | 70.5 | 69.0 | 68.6 | 67.4 |
| Dundee Community Health Partnership | 84.0 | 85.8 | 92.1 | 93.5 |
| Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership | 68.4 | 69.6 | 71.7 | 71.1 |
| Western Isles Community Health Partnership | 39.1 | 45.7 | 48.6 | 52.6 |
| Edinburgh Community Health Partnership | 79.3 | 80.6 | 83.9 | 86.3 |
Source: ISD Scotland.
Note: Registrations (numerator) are based on the postcode of the practice where the patient has registered with a general dental practitioner as opposed to the postcode of the patient. 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.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 17 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13563 by Stewart Maxwell on 4 June 2008, what figures were used for the cost of building council houses of various sizes in determining that £25 million would be spent on an incentive package to build new council houses over the next three years.
Answer
The provision of £25 million by the Scottish Government does not presuppose the construction of homes of a particular size or type. The Scottish Government has provided these funds as an encouragement to local authorities in the use of their own resources to fund new homes, and is currently discussing with COSLA the principles that will apply to the disbursement of these funds.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the workforce in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside has participated in SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many employers with over 250 employees were registered in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside with SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available and, of these, how many received (i) bronze, (ii) silver and (iii) gold awards.
Answer
The following table gives the number of organisations in Dundee and Tayside with more than 250 employees registered with the Scotland’s Health at Work (SHAW) Award scheme. There are no details held centrally of numbers in this category achieving an Award.
Number of Organisations Registered with SHAW
| Year | Dundee | Tayside |
| 2004-05 | 3 | 43 |
| 2005-06 | 7 | 49 |
| 2006-07 | 8 | 52 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many small and medium enterprises were registered in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside with SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available and, of these, how many received (i) bronze, (ii) silver and (iii) gold awards.
Answer
The following table gives the number of organisations with less than 250 employees registered with the Scotland’s Health At Work (SHAW) Award scheme. There are no details held centrally of numbers in this category achieving an award.
| Year | Dundee | Tayside |
| 2004-05 | 21 | 108 |
| 2005-06 | 41 | 138 |
| 2006-07 | 48 | 157 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 17 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many organisations were registered in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside with SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available and, of these, how many received (i) bronze, (ii) silver and (iii) gold awards.
Answer
The following table records the number of organisations registered for SHAW for the period 2004-07.
| Year | Dundee | Tayside |
| 2004-05 | 24 | 151 |
| 2005-06 | 48 | 187 |
| 2006-07 | 56 | 209 |
The following table records the awards presented in Tayside for the period 2004-07.
| Year | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
| 2004-05 | 30 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005-06 | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| 2006-07 | 21 | 16 | 3 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it expects long-term conditions action teams in community health partnerships to engage with condition-specific (a) specialist teams or (b) nurse specialists where a managed clinical or care network has not been established.
Answer
That would be a matter for each community health partnership to decide in the light of local circumstances. We expect people with long-term conditions to be provided with services which integrate general and specialist care as locally as possible.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executivewhether all members of the long-term conditions action teams in community health partnerships will be expected to work across all long-term conditions or whether they will be permitted to sub-specialise.
Answer
That is a matter for each community health partnership (CHP) to decide in the light of local needs and arrangements and the wishes of those providing services. The guiding principle must be that services in each CHP should be designed to meet as effectively as possible the care needs of those living with long-term conditions.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether condition-specific nurse specialists currently employed within community health partnerships will become members of long-term conditions action teams.
Answer
That would be for each community health partnership to decide. People with long-term conditions should be supported by a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team capable of addressing their needs through services provided locally wherever possible.
