- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will guarantee existing funding for the Dundee and Glasgow dental schools and the Edinburgh Dental Institute, in light of the proposal to open an Aberdeen dental school in 2008.
Answer
Funding for the newAberdeen dental school will be subject to normal businesscase considerations and there are no plans to reduce any existing funding whichhas already been guaranteed to Dundee and Glasgow dental schools and Edinburgh Dental Institute.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to improve child and adolescent mental health inpatient units.
Answer
NHS Education Scotland(NES) has now developed and delivered a New to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) training pack. The associated trainingis being introduced nationally and evaluated. Work continues on Advanced CAMHS trainingto incorporate leadership and management skills. Combined, this training focus andaction will help ensure all staff working in mental health in-patient units andother settings are skilled to offer the best care for children and young peoplein their care.
Attention continueson providing improved standards of accommodation and facilities for child and adolescentmental health care across Scotland.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that young adolescents with mental health problems are treated in appropriate healthcare settings rather than adult psychiatric wards.
Answer
We continue our workwith NHS boards and other partners to deliver the objectives from the Mental Healthof Children and Young People’s Framework (Bib. number 38415) and Delivering a HealthyFuture (Bib. number 42137) designed to achieve early and sustained change and improvementon all aspects of child and adolescent mental health care.
We are seeing progressin delivering the key timetabled milestones including attention on training andworkforce planning; increasing bed numbers; better early intervention; supportedtransitions; improved primary care, and improved planning and delivery of specialistcare for children and young people with mental health problems.
Work to reduce inappropriateadmissions to adult beds is showing real progress. There were 186 such admissionslast year, a significant reduction from the 290 recorded for 2002. This progressreflects our drive to increase the number of dedicated beds for this important caregroup from 44 beds to 56 by 2010 and our attention on improving provision to supportchildren and young people in the community, to prevent inappropriate admissionsand to facilitate earlier and safe discharge from hospital care.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff vacancies in (a) child and adolescent and (b) adult mental health care units there are, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requestedis not held centrally. Each NHS board holds employment details for its own staff.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cochlear implants performed on (a) children and (b) adults in each year from 2003-04 were (i) unilateral and (ii) bilateral fittings.
Answer
Numbers of Unilateraland Bilateral Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults since 2003-04
| | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Unilateral | Bilateral | Unilateral | Bilateral |
| Ayrshire and Arran: | | | | |
| Children | 19 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| Adults | 15 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| Lothian: | | | | |
| Adults | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Unilateral | Bilateral | Unilateral | Bilateral |
| Ayrshire and Arran: | | | | |
| Children | 23 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
| Adults | 11 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Lothian: | | | | |
| Adults | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
“Children” are definedas less than 15 years of age.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have accessed NHS dentistry in each year since the implementation of An Action Plan for Dental Services in Scotland.
Answer
In the year April2005 to March 2006, there were 2,048,302
1 people who had at least onecourse of treatment in the NHS general dental service. In the year April 2006 toMarch 2007, there were 2,066,792
1 people who had at least one courseof treatment in the NHS general dental service.
Source: MIDAS(Management Information & Dental Accounting System).
Note: 1. Thenumber of unique patients treated in each year.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how people receiving free personal care in their own homes are made aware of the minimum standards to which they are entitled.
Answer
The National CareStandards – care at home set out the quality of care people can expect from a providerwhen they receive care in their own home. Standard 1 states that the service willprovide an introductory pack which clearly explains the service and what it canprovide.
Care at home servicesare regulated by the Care Commission, taking account of the National Care Standards.
Copies of the NationalCare Standards are available free of charge from Blackwell’s Bookshop (telephone:0131 622 8283). A general information leaflet about the Standards is also availablefrom outlets such as social work and benefit offices and GP’s surgeries.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet the stage 3 payments in full to pay optometrists under the free eye test initiative, as agreed by the previous administration.
Answer
Any increase inNHS eye examination fees for optometrists for 2008-09 will be subject to theoutcome of the spending review.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the national tariff service agreements between NHS boards will be publicly available.
Answer
Detailed serviceagreements between NHS boards are dealt with at a local level by the NHS boardsinvolved. The Scottish Government does not hold details of these agreements.
A list of the Scottish National Tariff prices for 2006-07 was published on ISD’s datadevelopment website in March 2007.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will develop a programme to make the cervical cancer vaccine available to girls up to 16 years old.
Answer
The ScottishGovernment announced on 26 October 2007 that, inaddition to our commitment to routinely offer HPV vaccination to girls agedaround 12 to 13, we would offer vaccination to girls who are under the age of18 at the start of the immunisation campaign in September 2008.
This commitmentto implement a catch-up campaign follows advice received from the JointCommittee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and will potentially protectan additional 120,000 young Scottish girls.
The routine HPVimmunisation programme for girls aged around 12 to 13 will begin in September2008.
The catch-upcampaign for older girls will be carried out over the two to three year periodfrom September 2008. The exact timing and phasing of the campaign will beconsidered further.
