- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the waiting times for fertility treatment are in accordance with Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights in light of the fact that this can exclude many women due to the age barrier of 38.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-11515, answered on 12 November 2004. All answersto 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: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to National Progress Report - September 2004, Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI); Infection Control in NHSScotland, what information on infection rates in hospitals will be made available to the public.
Answer
A national mandatoryhospital surveillance system was introduced in 2001 to monitor MRSA bloodinfections and extended to include selected surgical site infections. Theresults are published quarterly by the Scottish Centre for Infection andEnvironmental Health (see
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/scieh/).
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether excluding women from fertility treatment at the age of 38 is in accordance with Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answer
The clinical criteria foraccessing NHS funded infertility treatment, such as the female upper age limit,was developed by the Expert Advisory Group on Infertility Services in Scotland(EAGISS 2000) using the best available evidence, at the time, for clinical effectivenessof the treatment.
Article 12 of the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights does not impose a positive obligation on states toprovide fertility treatment. Therefore any clinical criteria for accessinginfertility services in Scotland, is in accordance with the Convention.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to National Progress Report - September 2004, Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI); Infection Control in NHSScotland, which NHS boards need to clarify responsibility and accountability relating to healthcare associated infections.
Answer
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland isreviewing the self-assessment information provided by NHS boards for thenational progress report. This will identify the extent to which NHS boards andoperating divisions have achieved compliance with the declared standard for responsibilityand accountability relating to healthcare associated infections. NHS QIS plansto publish a national overview and local update reports in May 2005.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the treatment fee per patient is for private podiatry practitioners who undertake work on behalf of the NHS.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot set these fees centrally. It is for NHS boards to agree fees locally withindividual practitioners.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to encourage people with mental health problems to access direct payments.
Answer
The Executive funds Direct PaymentsScotland (DPS) and the Scottish Personal Assistants Employers Network (SPAEN) toassist those that are eligible to receive direct payments, those with mental healthproblems being one such group.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that trained doctors from other countries are familiar with NHS protocols and administrative procedures prior to taking up consultant and other posts in the NHS.
Answer
Any doctor undertaking work in Scotland or the rest of the United Kingdom must beregistered with the General Medical Council. Appointment procedures are designed to ensure that doctors are fit for purpose for the particular post to which they are appointed. It is an essential component of the recruitment process by NHS Scotland boards to ensure that doctors from other countries have a full and complete induction process which would embrace NHS protocols and administrative procedures.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its response to the consultation on children’s oral health Towards Better Oral Health in Children and whether it will indicate its position on compulsory water fluoridation.
Answer
The outcome of our consultation on measures to improve the oral health of children in Scotland will be announced as soon as we have completed our consideration of the many responses we have received.
As previously stated, the Executive is neutral on the subject of water fluoridation, pending the outcome of the consultation.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9606 by Euan Robson on 3 August 2004, what the cost is per child to attend as a (a) day and (b) residential pupil at each specialist school.
Answer
Attendance at these schools is free. Information on the costs of providing different categories of place at such schools is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many podiatric surgeons are currently being trained in Scotland.
Answer
Twenty students have registered for the first year of the recently introduced MSc in the theory of podiatric surgery being run jointly by Glasgow Caledonian University and Queen Margaret University College.
