- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland to review its guidance on pharmacological interventions in Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network guidelines in order to provide national guidance on prescribing to treat the behavioural symptoms for people with dementia, as recommended in the Remember, I’m still me report by the Mental Welfare Commission and the Care Commission.
Answer
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network will be consulting on the need to review this guideline in the autumn as part of its routine process.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the circumstances underlying the use of disguised medicines given to patients with dementia in care homes.
Answer
The revised
Scottish Government Code of Practice on Part 5 of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, published on 11 March 2008, notes that the use of covert medication is permissible only in certain limited circumstances, for example to safeguard the health of an adult who is unable to consent to the treatment in question and where other alternatives have been explored and none are practicable. The revised code of practice can be accessed at:
http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2008_11.pdf.
The code of practice refers practitioners considering the use of covert medication to guidance documents prepared by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (MWC): Consent to Treatment (2006) and Covert Medication “ a Legal and Practice Guide (2006). Both documents are available on the Mental Welfare Commission''s website at:
http://www.mwcscot.org.uk/newpublications/good_practice_guidance.asp.
This issue will also be considered further during our development of a Dementia Strategy for Scotland.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24780 by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 June 2009, whether the Review of Nursing in the Community pilots will continue until the full evaluation of the project is reported in Autumn 2010.
Answer
Any decision about the Community Health Nurse Pilots will be dependent on the outcome of the interim evaluation which will be completed by the end of December 2009.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 16 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to use additional residential care beds to meet the demand for drug and alcohol treatment and recovery within prescribed timescales.
Answer
It is the responsibility of local partners to ensure that appropriate services are in place to enable people with drug and alcohol problems to recover. It is then for clinicians and practitioners to work with individual service users to identify the most relevant form of treatment that is right for them, based on their needs.
We are currently working with health boards and other partners to develop waiting times targets for alcohol and drug services. As part of this we will be discussing the extent to which current and possible future capacity of a range of services, including residential rehabilitation, is proportionate to the range of possible targets, and any resource implications.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 16 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent by the current administration on consultancy fees since May 2007 and how much was spent by the previous administration between 1999 and 2007, also broken down by year.
Answer
We are examining the available information and will write to the member as soon as possible. A copy will also be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 48588).
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how the evaluation of eHealth projects through to implementation is carried out.
Answer
The eHealth Programme Board requires that the business case for any project funded by Scottish Government eHealth Directorate includes details of how the project will be evaluated. Project evaluation should address: measurable quality improvements; benefits realisation, and, where appropriate, efficiency savings. Projects must report regularly to the eHealth Programme Management Office, including details of progress against planned milestones, risks and issues.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it determines which eHealth projects should be evaluated.
Answer
The eHealth Programme Board provides governance over projects funded by the Scottish Government eHealth Directorate. For a project to be approved by the board, a business case must be submitted. Every business case must include details of how that project will be evaluated.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to integrate existing IT and eHealth infrastructures and systems in relation to the communication and updating of patient records.
Answer
The Scottish Government has set up an Architecture and Design Division within the eHealth programme to promote the progressive integration of NHS Scotland systems. Procurement such as those for General Practice and Patient Management systems include the requirement to interface with existing systems to facilitate the appropriate transmission of information.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 15 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether consideration is being given to a pilot road equivalent tariff for the ferry service from Caithness to Orkney.
Answer
There are no plans to extend the current road equivalent tariff pilot.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place to transfer health care and treatment in prisons to the NHS.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:
The National Programme Board for Prisoners'' Healthcare will oversees and steers the preparatory work, and the eventual operational transfer of the responsibility of the primary healthcare services from the SPS to NHS boards.
Mr John Ross CBE has been appointed as Chair of the National Programme Board for Prisoners'' Healthcare.
The membership of the board is made up of NHS and SPS senior staff, NHS and SPS staff organisations, Scottish Government staff and representatives of service users.
Currently, individual prisoners requiring specialist care transfer to the NHS for health care and treatment, returning to prison care when clinically appropriate.
