- 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: Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Ambulance Service is increasing clinical services to patients.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service is committed to developing clinical services to patients. This starts from when the caller is connected to the Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre (EMDC) through the on-going enhancement of clinical triage and advice, through to the treatment at scene and onward conveyance to the most clinically appropriate secondary care centre. Specific examples of development include the development of integrated clinical pathways for primary clinical conditions such as Acute Coronary Syndromes (chest pain and heart attack) and stroke.
The use of see and treat protocols continues to develop, allowing some patients to be given treatment and information relevant to their condition and then remain at home when it is clinically safe and appropriate for them to do so. For such patients being taken to hospital is not in their best interests. The service has also produced a variety of patient leaflets for patients and carers following see and treat, where it is has been safe to treat patients at home but where additional information is of use. These cover topics such as lower than normal blood glucose levels, nosebleeds, minor wounds, seizures, asthma, fainting and panic attacks.
In some parts for the country, the service have successfully developed the role of the Community Paramedic; their role is to deliver high quality treatment and care to patients, associated duty of care to other members of the public including the provision of health advice (see and treat) and transportation to appropriate medical facilities, generally in emergency situations, using a range of paramedic skills. In addition to this they may also diagnose, discharge or refer suitable minor injury and/or acute illness patients whilst working on behalf of the ambulance service, GP out-of-hour''s service or within a minor injury clinic setting.
- 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 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 action is being taken to ensure delivery of the Scottish Ambulance Service patient transport service, given the loss of time and commitment from volunteer drivers.
Answer
NHS boards are responsible for ensuring the provision of safe, sustainable and high quality health care that meets the needs of their patients. They must do so in line with strategic national priorities, ensuring they achieve the annual performance targets that are set out within their Local Delivery Plan and agreed with the Scottish Government. Decisions about the deployment of their resources are operational matters for the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Following the issue of the Refreshed Strategy for Volunteering within NHSScotland in February 2008 we expect that NHS boards (including the Scottish Ambulance Service) should be doing all they can to attract volunteers to ensure that services of benefit to patients can be maintained. We have given a commitment to keep the mileage rates payable to volunteers under review.
- 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 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.
- 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.
