- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of Glasgow applied for and received a dental bursary in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table:
| University of Glasgow | Number of Students who Applied for a Dental Bursary | Number of Students who Received a Dental Bursary |
| 2006-07 Session | 233 | 233 |
| 2007-08 Session to Date | 259 | 258 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional time and resources staff in NHS Tayside will be given for training during the community health nurse pilot.
Answer
Community Nurses who take part in the Community Health Nurse pilot will be given the time and resources required to develop the skills needed for the new role.
This will be determined through detailed learning needs analysis, mapping existing professional/educational knowledge and qualifications to the appropriate new job description and Capability Framework (NES 2007). Where new knowledge or skills are required, no practitioner will be expected to deliver care without receiving training/education and professional support to ensure that they practice safely.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) district nurses, (b) health visitors, (c) school nurses and (d) family health nurses will participate in the community health nurse pilot in NHS Tayside.
Answer
Exact numbers will not be known until the completion of a detailed analysis of learning needs and mapping of existing professional/educational knowledge and qualifications. Following acquisition of any additional training or education, NHS Tayside will identify the first cohort of staff to test the new model within a phased approach to implementation.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional finance NHS Tayside has been given to administer the community health nurse pilot.
Answer
The Scottish Government has provided additional funding to NHS Tayside to develop the community health nurse pilot as follows:
2006-07: £115,000
2007-08: £172,000.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 22 February 2008 on the implementation of the NRAC recommendations and in particular that “no Board will receive less funding than it does at present and any changes will be phased in over a number of years”, whether the phrase “no Board will receive less funding” refers to increases equal to or greater than the rate of inflation.
Answer
No board will receive less than at present, taking account of inflation.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the year-end overspend or underspend has been for NHS Tayside in each of the last four financial years.
Answer
NHS Tayside has had a year-end underspend for the last four financial years which are specified in the following table:
| Year | £000 |
| 2003-04 | 4,298 |
| 2004-05 | 4,460 |
| 2005-06 | 1,141 |
| 2006-07 | 3,080 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9957 by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008, what the initial allocations of revenue to NHS Tayside were in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09 expressed at constant prices.
Answer
The initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2004-05 expressed in constant prices have been:
| Year | Baseline Allocation | Allocation at Constant Prices (2006-07) |
| £000 | £000 |
| 2004-05 | 429,648 | 451,311 |
| 2005-06 | 485,260 | 499,182 |
| 2006-07 | 516,958 | 516,958 |
| 2007-08 | 549,382 | 532,089 |
| 2008-09 | 566,400 | 533,889 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS general dental practitioners there were in the (a) Dundee and (b) Angus local authority areas in each of the last five years, also expressed as a rate per 100,000 of the population.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table.
Number of Dentists1 Providing NHS General Dental Services; in (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Local Authority Areas; at 31 March
| Local Authority Area | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Angus | | | | | |
| Number of dentists (Head Count) | 49 | 47 | 45 | 54 | 56 |
| Dentists per 100,000 population | 45.3 | 43.7 | 41.5 | 49.5 | 50.9 |
| Dundee City | | | | | |
| Number of dentists (Head Count) | 79 | 82 | 84 | 91 | 105 |
| Dentists per 100,000 population | 54.8 | 57.3 | 59.2 | 64.0 | 73.9 |
Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System). General Registers Office (GRO) mid-year populations estimates as at 30 June 2002-06.
Note: 1. The number of NHS non-salaried and salaried principals, assistants and vocational dental practitioners, based on the location of the dental practice.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in developing a system of accreditation for bowel screening colonoscopists and a programme of training to guarantee sufficient numbers of colonoscopists to enable the national roll-out of the bowel cancer screening programme.
Answer
NHS Education Scotland (NES) was commissioned in March 2006 to develop a national programme to support the education and training of health care professionals undertaking endoscopy. The estimates of numbers required were 150 clinicians and 25 non-medical endoscopists to help increase endoscopy capacity as part of the preparation for roll-out of the bowel screening programme. Since 2006 NES have trained 171 clinicians and 31 non-medical endoscopists. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) Clinical Standards for the Bowel Screening Programme were published in February 2007 for all aspects of the Programme, including colonoscopy. These can be accessed on the NHS QIS website.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 22 February 2008 on the implementation of the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) recommendations, which NHS boards presently (a) above the target allocation will receive smaller annual percentage increases and (b) below the target allocation will receive higher percentage increases, in the unified budget over the period until their NRAC target share is reached.
Answer
All heath boards have received a standard increase of 3.15% in 2008-09. In addition, the Scottish Government has provided additional resources to those boards who are below both their current formula and NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocations in 2008-09 in advance of NRAC''s implementation in 2009-10. These boards are NHS Lothian, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Grampian, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Orkney. The average increase is 3.3%.
For future years the exact amounts received by each health board will depend on the overall funding available and their changing relative position when the formula is calculated. Uplift levels, including parity uplifts, will be considered and announced each financial year in line with the parliamentary process and taking into account funding earmarked for Scottish health priorities within the overall Scottish Government financial settlement. This reflects the practice established under the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae. It means that each health board will receive a standard uplift each year to meet inflationary pressures whilst those boards whose actual funding remains below their target level, as indicated by the NRAC formula, would receive an additional parity uplift from within the remaining resources available.
