- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how members of the public can gain access to the health plans for each local authority area, as referred to in section 2 of Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.
Answer
The responsibility for ensuring public access to health plans rests with the NHS board.Each NHS board will make its own arrangements, in conjunction with its local partners, for public access to information and health plans in accordance with the needs and circumstances of their local areas.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the Partners in Change programmes in each NHS board area, as referred to in section 5 of Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.
Answer
Eighty-six Partners in Change programmes have been established across Scotland. A directory of these programmes is currently being finalised and a copy will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre in late November.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the results are of the monitoring of the performance in assessing the health impact of the primary care osteoporosis framework, as referred to in section 1 of Reducing fractures and osteoporosis in Scotland: A strategy for health boards, local health care co-operatives, acute and primary care trusts, produced by the National Osteoporosis Society.
Answer
The framework referred to in the question was promulgated by the National Osteoporosis Society, not by the Executive. The Executive acknowledges the role of the voluntary sector in offering advice to NHS boards on service issues, but does not monitor the implementation of such advice.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to place automated external defribillators in public places to reduce the number of deaths from sudden cardiac arrest.
Answer
We will continue to keep under review the evidence as it emerges on the benefits of siting automated external defibrillators in public places. A recent Scottish study suggests, however, that additional resources for wide-scale coverage of public access defibrillators are probably not justified by the marginal improvement in survival.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have received a heart transplant in the Greater Glasgow NHS Board area in 2002.
Answer
Since the beginning of 2002, nine patients have received a heart transplant at the Scottish Heart Transplant Unit in Glasgow.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what sanctions could be taken in the event of a patient not complying with a compulsory treatment order under the Mental Health (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
There are not intended to be sanctions in the sense of any form of punishment for non-compliance with a compulsory treatment order (CTO). If a person is absent without leave from a hospital where they are detained or a place they are required to reside, Part 16 of the bill sets out procedures under which they can be returned to hospital. Sections 84 to 86 set out other procedures where a person subject to a CTO fails to attend for medical treatment when so required or to comply with conditions of the order.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it envisages any police involvement in respect of non-compliance of a compulsory treatment order under the Mental Health (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
As can already happen under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 in respect of a person who is absent without leave from detention or fails to return from a period of authorised leave of absence, the police could be involved, for example, in returning a person subject to a compulsory treatment order who has absconded from hospital. Such involvement may be necessary to support the care team in ensuring the safety of the patient and others.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to study nutritional deficiencies and requirements of children with behavioural problems.
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and care needs in Scotland.The CSO is not currently directly funding any research projects into nutritional deficiencies and requirements of children with behavioural problems but would be pleased to consider funding suitable research proposals into this subject. Such proposals would need to be of a sufficiently high standard and would be subject to the usual peer and committee review.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals exist to upgrade community hospitals in order to treat patients near their own homes.
Answer
I have made clear to the health service that local communities should be at the centre of planning and service delivery. That requires the appropriate supporting infrastructures. It is for NHS boards to determine requirements and to agree suitable local arrangements. This includes deciding how community hospitals can best support the development of local services.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all children with a mental illness are given adequate psychological treatment to support drug therapy.
Answer
Individual care decisions are a matter for clinicians in consultation with the relevant professional staff/multi-disciplinary team and should always be based on individually assessed needs.
