- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have achieved the breastfeeding target in each of the past five years.
Answer
The Scottish Government has set a HEAT Target of increasing the population of new-born children exclusively breastfed at six to eight weeks from 26.6% in 2006-07 to 33.3% in 2010-11. Information on how health boards are performing against the HEAT Target is available from the Scotland Performs website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/scotPerforms/partnerstories/NHSScotlandperformance/breastfeeding
Statistics on breastfeeding by NHS board, council area and community health partnership are available on the ISD Scotland website: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1764.html.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how patients can judge the performance of healthcare providers.
Answer
Patients can judge the performance of NHS boards through a variety of means. The NHSScotland section of the Scotland Performs website (
www.scotland.gov.uk/About/scotPerforms/partnerstories/NHSScotlandperformance) provides NHS board-level data against the HEAT targets. In addition, ISD (
www.isdscotland.org) provide performance information on a wide range of topics, and Health Protection Scotland (
www.hps.scot.nhs.uk) provide performance information on healthcare associated infection (HAI).
The public are also able to attend NHS board annual reviews, at which ministers hold the health board to account for the performance of the board. The boards'' self assessments of performance used in annual reviews are available from their websites.
Another source of performance information is directly from the NHS boards: board papers, are published on the boards'' websites and include their monthly HAI reports.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when people will have full access to their health records.
Answer
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives individuals, the right to apply to see information that NHS organisations hold about them, including health records and obtain a copy should they wish. There are a small number of circumstances where information within the health record may be kept from the individual.
All NHS organisations have procedures in place to enable patients to exercise this right.
It remains our longer term aim to consider how best we might support the delivery of technology which would enable patients to have greater access to their own information. The pace and scale of patient related eHealth investment will be considered in the context of the successor to the eHealth strategy 2008-2011.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Pringle on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many of its employees earn more than an MSP’s salary.
Answer
Forty-one SPCB employees earn more than the basic MSP salary of £57,521. This equates to less than 8% of the total number of staff employed by the SPCB.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s pursuit to integrate local public services into a single public authority model and whether it considers that this model could be applied in other areas.
Answer
The Scottish Government welcomes and encourages innovation, collaboration and shared services ventures to deliver more efficient and effective public services. We are aware of the work being undertaken by the Highlands and Islands Council to explore a range of delivery models including the single public authority model. We are committed to working with our public sector partners to identify a range of models for improving service delivery and to work through the challenges and opportunities they will bring to ensure the wider public sector benefits from collective expertise and lessons learned.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 7 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body for what reason MSPs and their staff are unable to obtain places in the Parliament car park on occasions when several parking places appear to be vacant.
Answer
Requests for car park spaces are only declined if all available spaces have been booked. Spaces which appear to be vacant have been pre-booked and should be occupied in due course. The exceptions to this occur when a car park user fails to inform the FM helpdesk that they cannot use a pre-booked space or if they leave during the day and do not intend to return. Every effort is made to identify such spaces and re-allocate them using a waiting list compiled by the FM helpdesk operators. Periodic reminders are issued through the corporate bulletin to urge users to alert the Helpdesk of any cancellations.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2010
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many of its employees earn more than the First Minister’s combined salary.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what training is provided to home care providers to identify malnutrition, particularly in vulnerable groups such as older people, and on the benefits of oral nutritional supplements in the treatment of malnutrition.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33778 on 1 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what training and support is given to home care providers in assessing the nutritional needs of patients.
Answer
The care needs assessment provided by local authorities should identify the nutritional requirements of those cared for at home. The National Care Standards require care at home providers to develop a personal care plan with each person who is using the service which sets out how their care needs will be met. Where the service includes the preparation of food the plan will include details of any special dietary requirements. It is for the Care Commission, as the national regulator, to ensure through its inspections that care at home services are complying with this aspect of the National Care Standards.
Local authorities or private providers of home care services are responsible for training and support of staff.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all NHS boards offer the full screening programme to pregnant women as outlined in the letter from the Director of Public Health and Wellbeing, CEL 31 (2008), dated July 2008.
Answer
All NHS boards are offering a second trimester fetal anomaly scan as detailed in the CEL 31. It is anticipated that additional changes to the pregnancy screening programme set out in CEL 31 will be achieved in all NHS boards ahead of the 31 March 2011 deadline.
