- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage increase has been in category (a) A and (b) B calls in each NHS board area in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
A detailed response to this question is available from the Scottish Parliament''s Information Centre (Bib. number 49112).
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in making greater use of the skills, training and experience of Scottish Ambulance Service staff in the NHS.
Answer
Ambulance staff at all levels are more highly trained and educated than ever before. Ambulance staff training is now aligned to the Paramedic Career Framework and this allows skills to be mapped across the various professional bodies within the NHS. More training is delivered in a multidisciplinary setting for example on the National Education for Scotland course, Caring for the Acutely Ill child. The skills and training of ambulance service staff plays an increasing role in the out-of-hours service; this includes greater use of Extended Role Paramedics in unscheduled care, working with colleagues using the professional to professional support line and closer working between ambulance staff and their colleagues in NHS 24.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average response time has been for category (a) A and (b) B calls in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested has been provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service and is set out in the following table.
| Year | Category A | Category B |
| 2004-05 | 8.6 minutes | 9.5 minutes |
| 2005-06 | 8.4 minutes | 9.5 minutes |
| 2006-07 | 8.9 minutes | 9.5 minutes |
| 2007-08 | 8.2 minutes | 9.4 minutes |
| 2008-09 | 7.2 minutes | 8.4 minutes |
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when hospital electronic prescribing will be in place in each NHS board.
Answer
The Scottish Government has commissioned a consortium of NHS boards to procure a Patient Management System which includes a hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration system as an option. This procurement is due to get to award of contract stage by beginning of 2010, at which point NHS boards will have the opportunity to consider the business case for implementing the selected electronic prescribing system. Until these steps are completed it is not possible to fully answer questions about timescales
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans are in place for electronic health records to be made available to patients.
Answer
The NHS eHealth Strategy, published in 2008, discusses the intention to make health records available to patients electronically. The position taken was that this may be of greatest benefit to patients with long term conditions and in support of self-care management. A pilot of this has now been commissioned, led by NHS Ayrshire and Arran. Lessons learned will be evaluated and will inform planning for next steps.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 11 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-25934 by Jim Mather on 17 August 2009, where the proposed grid infrastructure projects under the EU’s Economic Recovery Programme are located.
Answer
The European Energy Programme for Recovery invited bids for funding from a specific range of energy infrastructure projects, including a number of offshore wind projects, grid connections in the North Sea and development of carbon capture and storage technologies. As a result, bids from Scottish bodies have been submitted relating to the European offshore wind farm testing centre in Aberdeen, a Carbon Capture and Storage project and development of offshore interconnections off the north and west of Scotland. Details of successful bids will be published by the European Commission in due course.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 September 2009
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive how patient outcomes are measured in (a) primary care, (b) acute care and (c) care in the community.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions it has had with the Scottish Crofting Foundation.
Answer
I regularly meet with crofting stakeholders including the Scottish Crofting Foundation (SCF). I am please to announce that I will be meeting with the SCF next week to discuss their response to the draft Crofting Reform Bill. I am also attending the SCF''s Annual Gathering on 29 September where I will be delivering a keynote speech.
Scottish Government officials are in regular contact the with SCF. Officials presented the draft Crofting Reform Bill at the SCF''s Annual General Meeting on the 23 June in Dingwall. The SCF are also represented at the Crofting Cross party Group.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 8 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason funding applications to the Town Centre Regeneration Fund from the Highlands and Islands region were not more successful.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26427 on 8 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for 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, 12 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 8 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason communities in the Highlands and Islands region did not receive a larger share of the first round of funding from the Town Centre Regeneration Fund.
Answer
I can confirm that all applications were subject to the same four stage assessment process: an initial sift to check eligibility, scoring against key assessment criteria for the fund, consideration of the ranked order by an Independent Advisory Panel before final deliberation by myself and ministerial colleagues. Our decisions were guided by the extent to which projects demonstrated that they met the aims of the fund, whilst taking as much account of geographic spread as was possible.
The assessment process is detailed in full on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/regeneration/town-centres/tcrf/FeedbackFAQs.
