- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children currently in care are being prescribed psychiatric drugs.
Answer
Prescription data collected centrally are not patient-specific.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 16 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the expert group to review models and approaches to providing services for people with alcohol-related brain damage will report and when the report will be made publicly available.
Answer
The expert group expect to issue a draft report on establishing numbers and characteristics of people with alcohol-related brain damage and good models of service for consultation in April 2003. A final report is due to be submitted to the Executive in May 2003. The report will be made available on the Executive's website.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 16 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which relevant national strategies and plans now ensure that alcohol problems are highlighted and addressed, as referred to on page 70 of the Plan for Action on Alcohol Problems.
Answer
Alcohol problems are highlighted and addressed in the national strategy and action plan to prevent suicide and in forthcoming guidance on working with children and families affected by substance misuse. Alcohol problems also remain an integral part of the Executive's on-going health improvement drive.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all children are given standard basic medical tests, such as the orthomolecular deficiency test, prior to being prescribed Ritalin.
Answer
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) Guideline 52 on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) provides clinicians with advice on the diagnostic criteria and assessments for ADHD. It is for clinicians to determine the most appropriate tests for the individual patient.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue further guidance on principles and good practice in accommodating individuals' and relatives' choice of care homes in placement arrangements.
Answer
New guidance on choice issues is currently being drafted by the Scottish Executive. In addition to this, the Executive's Delayed Discharge Good Practice Resource and Learning and Sharing Network will provide examples of good practice in this and related areas.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will commit resources in the future to support the implementation of new guidelines and recommendations for NHS primary care treatment.
Answer
Decisions about the level of resources to commit to supporting the implementation of new guidelines and recommendations for NHS primary care treatment are for NHS boards to make in the light of local priorities. However, the resources provided to NHS boards are at record levels with a real increase, averaging 7.8% indicated for 2003-04.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it was made aware of the risk of transmission of variant Creut'feldt-Jakob disease through blood transfusion.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32184 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive from which countries the plasma for fractionation is currently being imported on the basis of lower incidence of variant Creut'feldt-Jakob disease.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32184 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when regulations for reducing the risk of transmission of variant Creut'feldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) through blood transfusion were brought into force.
Answer
Precautionary measures to reduce the theoretical risk of transmission of vCJD through blood or blood products were introduced in 1998 following advice from the UK Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) and the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC).There is no scientific evidence that vCJD can be transmitted in humans through blood or blood transfusion. Purely as precautionary measures, and to reduce the theoretical risk to the blood supply, plasma for the manufacture of blood products is currently obtained from non-UK sources (Germany and USA) and donated blood from UK donors is leucodepleted (white blood cells are removed).
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Audit Scotland will be invited to review the policies and practices associated with NHS trusts and hospitals that have high and low rates of delayed discharge patients.
Answer
We understand Audit Scotland has delayed discharge in its forthcoming programme. The remit and detail of the review is for Audit Scotland to determine. The introduction of the Executive's Delayed Discharge Good Practice Resource and Learning and Sharing network will provide on-going examples of good practice and provide support for local authority and NHS partnerships in improving their policy and practice.
