- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 30 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have stopped offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside since April 2007.
Answer
Three dental practicesstopped providing NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside in the relevant period.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 30 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting times were for first outpatient appointments at Dundee Dental Hospital in the last 12-month period for which figures are available, broken down by (a) quarter and (b) speciality.
Answer
The latest availableinformation is shown in the table below. Later data are not currently held centrallybecause of changes to NHS Tayside’s patient administration records.
NHSScotlandMedian Waiting Times in Days for a First Out-Patient Appointment followingReferral by a General Medical or Dental Practitioner to Dundee Dental Hospital. Years Ending 30 September 2004 to 30 June 2005
| Speciality | Median Wait in Days for the Year Ending |
| September 2004 | December 2004 | March 2005 | June 2005 |
| Oral Medicine | 71 | 80 | 101 | 101 |
| Oral Surgery | 97 | 98 | 98 | 98 |
| Orthodontics | 52 | 69 | 81 | 83 |
| Paediatric Dentistry | 36 | 36 | 40 | 40 |
| Restorative Dentistry | 83 | 81 | 86 | 88 |
Source: SMR00, ISDScotland.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students domiciled in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas have been in receipt of bursaries in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.
Answer
The following table givesthe number of full-time university students domiciled in Aberdeenshire, Angusand Dundee City local authority areas who were in receipt of bursarysupport from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) in academic year2006-07. The total number of Scottish domiciled full-time university studentsin receipt of bursaries is also shown.
| Local Authority Area | Number of Full-Time Students Receiving Bursary Support |
| Aberdeenshire | 1,770 |
| Angus | 1,020 |
| Dundee City | 1,370 |
| Scotland | 42,995 |
Source: Student AwardsAgency for Scotland (SAAS), Scottish Government.
In the above table a bursaryrefers to non-repayable student support received under any of the highereducation award schemes administered by SAAS. These award schemes include: youngstudent’s bursary, travel expenses, disabled student’s allowance, standard maintenanceallowances, lone parent’s grant, Scottish Executive Health Department Bursary, loneparent’s child care grant and other smaller schemes. Students who come underthe nursing and midwifery bursary scheme are not included in the table.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental nurses will be involved in implementing the Childsmile School programme in NHS Tayside.
Answer
Nine dental nurses will be involvedin implementing Childsmile School in NHS Tayside.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be and what resources will be made available from 2008-09 to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds in NHS Grampian who are registered with a dentist from 75% in June 2007 to 80% by 2010-11, as promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).
Answer
The costs are yet to be determinedbut will be made available through the general dental services budget.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be and what resources will be made available from 2008-09 to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds in NHS Tayside who are registered with a dentist from 75% in June 2007 to 80% by 2010-11, as promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).
Answer
The costs are yet to be determinedbut will be made available through the general dental services budget.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers in the NHS Tayside area were recorded at their six-to-eight-week review as breastfeeding in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
The requested information ispublished on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Child Health at
www.isdscotland.org/child_breastfeeding.The latest available statistics are for children born in 2006.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Childsmile School programme will be introduced into primary schools in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus.
Answer
It is anticipated thatChildsmile School will be introduced into primary schools in Dundee in February2008 and Angus in March 2008.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 23 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students attended Dundee Dental School in each undergraduate year in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.
Answer
The number of undergraduate studentsstudying pre-clinical and clinical dentistry at the University of Dundee (Dundee Dental School) during the academic year 2006-07 (the latest year forwhich the figures are available) are shown in the following table.
Number of Undergraduate DentistryStudents at Dundee University - 2006-07
| Year of Study programme | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total |
| Number of students | 75 | 90 | 70 | 55 | 55 | 345 |
Sources: Higher EducationStatistics Agency (HESA)
Notes:
In this table 0, 1, 2 arerounded to 0. All other numbers are rounded up or down to the nearest 5.
Numbers may not sum tototals exactly due to rounding.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed in the life sciences sector in (a) Dundee and (b) Scotland in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
Specific information on the numberof people employed in the life sciences sector is not centrally available.
However information on staffemployed in NHSScotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics at www.isdscotland.org/workforce. Section F gives details of therapeutic, health carescience, technical, pharmacy and ambulance staff. Life sciences staff are includedin figures for Healthcare Science but are not explicitly identifiable.
Tables F1 and F2 show the whole-timeequivalent (WTE) and head count of health care science staff by specialty and NHSboard and region. Specific information on the number of health care science staffemployed in Dundee is not centrally available. WTE adjusts headcount totake account of part time staff. Latest available data is at 30 September 2006.
