- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital allocations have been to NHS Tayside in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09, expressed also at constant prices.
Answer
The following table shows the formula capital allocations NHS Tayside received in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09, expressed also at constant prices:
| Year | Formula allocation (£ Million) | Constant Prices (£ Million) |
| 2004-05 | 15.445 | 15.445 |
| 2005-06 | 16.906 | 16.556 |
| 2006-07 | 20.277 | 19.304 |
| 2007-08 | 24.348 | 22.450 |
| 2008-09 | 24.650 | 22.120 |
Constant Prices are shown at 2004-05 values.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on dental bursaries in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.
Answer
In 2006-07 the total cost of the dental bursary was £1,788,000. To date, in 2007-08, the total cost of the dental bursary is £1,888,000.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at (a) the University of Dundee and (b) the University of Glasgow are currently in receipt of dental bursaries for up to (i) one, (ii) two, (iii) three and (iv) four years.
Answer
This information is not available as a student is required to apply for the bursary in each of the four years that the bursary is available.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentistry students at the University of Dundee applied for and received a dental bursary in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.
Answer
In 2006-07, 214 students at the University of Dundee applied for and received a dental bursary. In 2007-08 (to date), 219 students at the University of Dundee applied for and received a dental bursary.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 7 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the SNP’s priority of free access to council swimming pools, as referred to on its website, is also a priority of the Scottish Government.
Answer
Yes, I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-6557 on 3 December 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been awarded in capital allocations under the Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme to projects within the NHS Tayside area in each year since 1999.
Answer
A total of £9.618 million has been awarded for projects within the NHS Tayside area since 1999, in four tranches as set out in the table:
| Tranche | Amount (£) |
| 1999-2004 | 1,618,000 |
| 2004-06 | 1,818,000 |
| 2006-08 | 4,920,000 |
| 2008-09 | 1,262,000 |
| Total | 9,618,000 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the revenue allocations to NHS Tayside were in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 and what their corresponding values would be if the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocations were used.
Answer
Details are as follows:
| Year | Actual Initial Allocation (£000) | NRAC Target Initial Allocation (£000) |
| 2007-08 | 549,382 | 537,865 |
| 2008-09 | 566,431 | 555,483 |
These allocations are NHS Tayside's initial allocations for 2007-08 and 2008-09 which are calculated on the basis of the Arbuthnott formula. Further in year allocations are made for specific purposes.
To avoid turbulence, no board will receive less funding than it does at present and changes flowing from the NRAC recommendations will be phased in over a number of years, as has been the practice under both the SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what NHS Tayside’s percentage share is of the total general allocation to territorial NHS boards and what that percentage would be if the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) calibration was used.
Answer
In 2008-09, NHS Tayside's percentage share is 7.98%. The board's NRAC target share is 7.83%
To avoid turbulence, no board will receive less funding than it does at present and changes flowing from the NRAC recommendations will be phased in over a number of years, as has been the practice under both the SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-8587 and S3W-8588 by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008, in which financial year it will publish details of the scheme to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds who are registered with a dentist to 80% by 2010-11, promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).
Answer
The Better Health, Better Care Action Plan (December 2007) outlined our target for NHS Boards to ensure that 80% of all children are registered with a NHS dentist by 2010-11.
This will be achieved in a number of ways:
As part of the local delivery plan each NHS board has been asked to put in place plans to take forward plans to meet this target.
A number of measures have been introduced over the last few years to recruit and retain dentists in the NHS, including recruitment and retention allowances, remote areas and deprived areas allowances, reimbursement of practice rental costs and the general dental practice allowance.
Funding has also been provided under the 2006-07 and 2007-08 Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme to provide new or substantially improved premises to support the delivery of NHS dentistry in areas currently with gaps in service provision. A number of these projects are due to be completed in this financial year.
In November 2006 a dental bursary was introduced in Scotland for dental students at Glasgow and Dundee Dental Schools. The bursary scheme has proved extremely popular. There are over 460 students currently in receipt of the dental bursary which ties the students in to the NHS Scotland for a period of up to five years following graduation.
The number of dental students graduating from the dental schools has increased and the new Aberdeen dental school will also increase the number of dentists available for working in Scotland.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been deregistered in NHS Tayside since April 2007 up to the latest date for which information is available.
Answer
The latest available information is shown in the table.
NHS General Dental Service Patients whose Registration Status Shows Withdrawn1,2 for NHS Tayside; by Month
| | 2007-08P |
| April | 75 |
| May | 93 |
| June | 151 |
| July | 34 |
| August | 112 |
| September | 32 |
| October | 23 |
| November | 23 |
| December | 25 |
| January | 33 |
| February | n/a |
| March | n/a |
Source: MIDAS (Management Information & Dental Accounting System).
PProvisional.
Notes:
n/a Not available.
1. Based on patients whose registration status indicated withdrawn between the dates considered. This occurs when there is a request for the registration record to be withdrawn (made usually by the dentist, and subsequently approved by the NHS board). The numbers also include withdrawals carried out where more than one active registration exists for the same patient as part of data cleansing. Some patients whose registration has been withdrawn may register with another NHS dentist elsewhere. There may also be retrospective additions to these data.
2. If a patient has been withdrawn from more than one dental practice, they will be counted each time this happens. It is also possible for a patient to be counted in more than one month if they have moved to a dentist in a different month and have been withdrawn from a practice in a month where they have received NHS general dental services.
