- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will end the single crewing of ambulances in response to 999 calls.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15377 on 11 August 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been diagnosed with alcohol-related brain damage in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The number of patients discharged with a diagnosis of alcohol-related brain damage from 2002-03 to 2006-07 by NHS board is set out in the following tables. Table 1 provides information for acute hospitals and table 2 psychiatric hospitals
Table 1. Number of Patients Discharged from Acute Hospitals in Scotland with a Diagnosis of Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: 2002-03 to 2006-07P
| | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07P |
| Scotland | 489 | 463 | 515 | 536 | 540 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 15 | 39 | 23 | 22 | 28 |
| Borders | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 7 | z | 9 | 8 | 13 |
| Fife | 18 | 16 | 28 | 25 | 36 |
| Forth Valley | 31 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 11 |
| Grampian | 33 | 45 | 41 | 39 | 37 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 217 | 179 | 215 | 207 | 202 |
| Highland | 26 | 27 | 31 | 32 | 31 |
| Lanarkshire | 28 | 35 | 46 | 61 | 46 |
| Lothian | 64 | 54 | 60 | 74 | 79 |
| Orkney | z | z | z | z | z |
| Shetland | z | z | z | z | 5 |
| Tayside | 38 | 27 | 31 | 34 | 42 |
| Western Isles | z | z | z | z | z |
Table 2. Number of Patients Discharged from Psychiatric Hospitals in Scotland with a Diagnosis of Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: 2001-02 to 2005-06P
| | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06P |
| Scotland | 192 | 212 | 188 | 170 | 180 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 16 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 20 |
| Borders | z | z | z | z | z |
| Dumfries and Galloway | z | z | 8 | z | 6 |
| Fife | 10 | 14 | x | 7 | 7 |
| Forth Valley | 5 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 13 |
| Grampian | 17 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 8 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 65 | 70 | 38 | 41 | 68 |
| Highland | 13 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 12 |
| Lanarkshire | 19 | 17 | 26 | 26 | 14 |
| Lothian | 27 | 37 | 40 | 35 | 21 |
| Orkney | - | - | - | - | - |
| Shetland | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tayside | 16 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Western Isles | - | - | - | z | z |
PProvisional.
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z Number not shown where number of patients in a single year is < 5.
x Number not shown to prevent calculation of masked data.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newborn infants were transferred to an NHS facility other than the one planned for the birth in order to receive neonatal care in each month of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Whilst data on this subject has not routinely been collected in the past, the perinatal collaborative transport study, which was published by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, on 27 July 2008, sought to collect this type of data over a six month period to February 2007.
Through the Maternity Services Action Group, we will now consider options on the best way to collate national data on this subject.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland’s Perinatal Collaborative Transport Study, why some maternity units reported that no cots were available when occupancy rates were less than 70%.
Answer
The Scottish Government is concerned that units are closed to admissions when they are not already full. We urgently need to fully understand the reasons behind this, and will consider ways in which robust data can be collected, with a view to making improvements to this service.
The Maternity Services Action Group will meet on 24 September 2008 to discuss the perinatal collaborative transport study, and will be asked to recommend a course of action to specifically address concerns highlighted in the report.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive which intensive care nursing units for infants adhere to the British Association of Perinatal Medicine’s guideline of one-to-one nursing.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. It is a matter for each NHS board to plan and organise maternity care provision to meet local need, ensuring that that the most appropriate professional is the care provider at any given time.
The Scottish Government recommends that NHS boards adopt the neonatal levels of care model set out in table 21 of the A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland, when considering the provision of immediate and neonatal care.
NHS Scotland is currently developing and testing a national neonatal workforce and workload tool to identify nursing needs for this vulnerable group of babies.
The tool has had its first test, is currently being refined and will then be tested and modified prior to implementation.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pregnant women were transported to an NHS facility other than the one planned for the birth in each month of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Whilst data on this subject has not routinely been collected in the past, the perinatal collaborative transport study, which was published by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, on 27 July 2008, sought to collect this type of data over a six month period to February 2007.
Through the Maternity Services Action Group, we will now consider options on the best way to collate national data on this subject.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current level of 335 available staffed neo-natal cots in Scotland is sufficient to meet the current level of demand.
Answer
The findings of the initial testing of the neo-natal workload and workforce planning tool across Scotland indicated that there were adequate cots within NHSScotland, however they were not necessarily the right mix or in the right place.
The neo-natal sub group of the Maternity Services Action Group is currently carrying out a comprehensive review of neonatal services in Scotland. Findings of the review will be used to inform future maternity policy. The Scottish Government will consider the findings of this report upon completion.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies exist for nurses in maternity units, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information on nurse vacancies in maternity units is not centrally held. Data is available for midwifery staff vacancies by NHS board. This includes registered and non-registered staff. Latest data is at 30 September 2007.
Total Midwifery Vacancies by NHS Board as at 30 September 2007
| | Hospital | Community |
| NHS Borders | 0.6 | 0 |
| NHS Fife | 1.6 | 0 |
| NHS Lothian | 3.4 | 2.1 |
| NHS Highland | 1.0 | 0 |
| NHS Grampian | 16.2 | 3.3 |
| NHS Orkney | 0 | 0 |
| NHS Tayside | 4.0 | 0 |
| NHS Western Isles | 0 | 0 |
| NHS Shetland | 0 | 0 |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 0 | 3.0 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 32.0 | 0 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 4.8 | 0 |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 0.6 | 0 |
| Total | 64.2 | 8.4 |
Source: Information Services Division Scotland (ISD).
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the recommended staffing needs are to accompany women during transfer to hospital maternity units, irrespective of labour status.
Answer
NHS boards are expected to have in place local guidelines for the safe transfer of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period, which should be in line with national policy, as set out in
A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland.
Principle 21 of the framework recommends that maternity services should agree arrangements for both in-utero transfer and the transfer of a recently delivered mother and/or her newborn baby to a linked secondary or tertiary unit.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will establish a safe and reliable 24-hour national service for the co-ordination and undertaking of in-utero transfers, as recommended in NHS Quality Improvement Scotland’s Perinatal Collaborative Transport Study.
Answer
The Scottish Government will now ask the Maternity Services Action Group to consider the study in full, and a range of options to address issues raised in the study.
