- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that people performing teeth-whitening treatment have appropriate professional training.
Answer
The General Dental Council isthe regulatory body for the practice of dentistry which includes tooth whitening.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that people with mental health problems are able to exercise their statutory right to access independent advocacy services.
Answer
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003 places a duty on health boards and local authorities to securethe provision of appropriate independent advocacy services for all people with mentalhealth problems and to take appropriate steps to ensure that such people have theopportunity to make use of those services.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have received nutrition by artificial means without their consent in the last 12 months, as authorised under section 240 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Figures supplied by the MentalWelfare Commission for Scotland indicate that over the 12 month period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007 a totalof 28 individuals have been treated under section 240 of the act. Due to the smallnumber of individuals it is not possible to provide a breakdown by individual NHSboard, however, the majority of these individuals were treated at specialist unitsin Glasgow and Edinburgh.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-8255 by Shona Robison on 21 January 2008, how many patients have been screened using estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate for the detection of chronic kidney disease in each of the last three years.
Answer
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) was included in the Quality and Outcomes Framework in April 2006, so data are available only for the year to March 2007.
The QOF indicators for CKD call upon GPs to set up a practice register of people aged 18 or over with stages three to five of the disease, based on a test of their estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR). The number of patients on the CKD registers of participating GMS practices in the year April 2006 to March 2007 was 88,807.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-7801 by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 January 2008, what the timescale is for implementing the National Screening Committee’s recommendation to screen groups who are at high risk of type 2 diabetes.
Answer
While awaiting furtherrecommendations from the National Screening Committee on screening mechanisms, cliniciansare already implementing clinical guidelines and contractual requirements regardingthe screening of high-risk groups for diabetes.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to improve the availability of services to people with a dual diagnosis of mental health problems and substance and alcohol misuse.
Answer
Our 2007 report
Mindthe Gaps - Making a Difference (Bib. number 44565) makes five specific recommendationsfor service change and improvement in the way all agency partners combine to anticipateand respond to the needs of those affected.
We are working withthe partner agencies on approaches to illness prevention, treatment, rehabilitation,recovery and to ensuring that each approach complements the other.
Progress will be monitored.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what services are available to people with a dual diagnosis of mental health problems and substance and alcohol misuse in each NHS board area.
Answer
The information requestedis not held centrally. Information on servicesprovided through Alcohol and Drug Action Teams is provided in their published Corporate Action Plans. While this information is not wholly comprehensive the plansprovide a significant indication of the range of activity which includes for example a focus on prevention, support and protection.Fuller detail is available from
http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htmThe recently publishedguidance Mind the Gaps - Making a Difference (Bib. number 44565) will furthersupport the development of closer links between all services agencies and teamsin helping prevent need, provide care and supported recovery.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action will be taken in response to the 29% increase in HIV diagnosis in 2007.
Answer
Respect and Responsibility, our sexual health and relationships strategy,aims through a number of actions, to reduce the rising number of sexually transmittedinfections in Scotland, including HIV.
Recent discussions have taken place with Scottish Governmentofficials, Health Protection Scotland and HIV Scotland to consider how we can increaseour efforts and those of health boards across Scotland to reduce the rates of HIV transmission in Scotland.
We have begun preparationsfor a public awareness campaign and increased public information as part of ouraims to improve attitudes to relationships and sexual health, this will includeinformation on HIV and sexually transmitted infections.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 5 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action will be taken to ensure that teeth-whitening treatment offered outside traditional dental practices is safe for all patients.
Answer
Treatment of teethwhitening is the practice of dentistry and therefore should not be carried out byunqualified people.
We would not thereforebe expecting any tooth whitening to be supported outside traditional dental practices.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 29 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all applications for registration under the National Registration Scheme for Private Landlords require to be made on a signed application form.
Answer
Applicants to the National RegistrationScheme for Private Landlords can apply online or can request a paper applicationform from their local authority. Both online and paper applications require applicantsto declare that the information provided is correct. Paper applications are signed,online applications are not.
It is an offence undersection 83(4) of the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004 knowingly toprovide false information or fail to provide the information requested in an applicationfor registration.
