- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has to vary the selected list or prevent a medicine or class of medicines from being provided on the NHS and whether it has used such powers and, if so, when.
Answer
Schedule 10 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 lists those drugs and other substances which general practitioners may not prescribe on the NHS. Schedule 10 is known as The Selected List.Amendments to Schedule 10 are made by Statutory Instrument.The selected list was introduced in 1985 and extended in 1992 and it has been amended on a number of occasions. There have been two amendments since July 1999. NHS (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2000 added Propecia to the list. The NHS (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 removed nicotine replacement therapies from the list. Corresponding amendments were made to Schedule 10 to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 in England.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide additional guidance to local authorities to reinforce the importance of carer consultation and encourage best practice in this area.
Answer
Consultation with carers about service planning and delivery is expected of all local authorities. The Carers Strategy made clear the importance which the Executive places on the inclusion of carers' views and expertise in the development of community care plans and services. Each local authority will wish to develop its own links with carers in its area. We plan to issue wide-ranging good practice guidance on supporting carers to local authorities and NHS bodies, which will remind local authorities and the NHS of the importance of involving carers in planning services. Carers' organisations and statutory agencies will have a lead role in developing this guidance, which we propose should include some monitoring component.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering providing guidelines on carer consultation for NHS staff to ensure carers are fully involved in service planning.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27294.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will monitor local authority community care planning structures to ensure that they are made more open, accessible and carer friendly.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27294.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current average waiting times are for homeopathy treatment in each NHS board area.
Answer
Homeopathy treatment is provided in out-patient clinics or in general practice. Information on waiting times for homeopathy is available centrally only for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant following referral by a General Medical Practitioner.The median waiting time for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant in homeopathy, following referral by a General Medical Practitioner, in the year ending 31 December 2001, by NHS board of residence, is given in the table.NHSScotland: Median Waiting Times for a First Out-patient Appointment with a Consultant in Homeopathy, Following Referral by a General Medical Practitioner, by NHS Board of Residence. Year Ended 31 December 2001
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| NHS Board | Median Wait |
| Argyll and Clyde | 350 days |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 362 days |
| Borders | 138 days |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 337 days |
| Fife | 154 days |
| Forth Valley | 344 days |
| Grampian | 111 days |
| Greater Glasgow | 369 days |
| Highland | 55 days |
| Lanarkshire | 330 days |
| Lothian | 103 days |
| Orkney | 452 days |
| Shetland | 384 days |
| Tayside | 155 days |
| Western Isles | 314 days |
| SCOTLAND | 244 days |
Source: ISD Scotland, SMR00.Notes:
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- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the range in costs of nurse training provided by each contracted nurse education provider has been per trainee nurse in each of the last five years.
Answer
Expenditure on the seven pre-registration nursing education contracts in the last five years and the number of students in training is as follows.
| | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| Contracts(£ million) | 31.3 | 33.5 | 34.2 | 35.8 | 40.2 |
| Students in training | 6,369 | 6,568 | 6,849 | 7,633 | 8,083 |
Under the terms of the contract between the Scottish Executive Health Department and the individual higher education institutions (HEIs) that provide nurse education in Scotland, details of the range of costs of nurse training per trainee nurse are a matter between the department and the individual HEI.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all student nurses have to pay for (a) uniforms and (b) occupational health assessments.
Answer
All student nurses are provided with free uniforms.Occupational health assessments are carried out free of charge by the seven higher education institutions contracted to the Scottish Executive Health Department to provide pre-registration nursing education. However, the four non-contracted higher education institutions who provide nurse education have varying arrangements in place.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all universities that provide undergraduate nurse education were asked to bid for the recently announced increase in intakes for student nursing.
Answer
The increase in intakes for student nursing arose from the recommendation of the Student Nurse Intake Planning process. This informs assessment of the numbers of higher education places needed each year for pre-registration nursing and midwifery students. Pre-registration training is provided through nurse education contracts directly funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department. The seven higher education institutions which operate these contracts were asked to bid for an additional 250 student places in 2002-03.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to improve the provision of out-of-hours medical cover in remote and rural areas as suggested in the "Team Working" chapter of the report by the Solutions Group of the Scottish Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative, Solutions for the Provision of Health Care in the Remote and Rural Areas of Scotland in the 21st Century.
Answer
The Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative's (RARARI) Solutions Group report identifies team working as the key to many solutions to the provision of out-of-hours cover in remote and rural areas. The report was intended to stimulate interest within NHS Boards in piloting some of the work suggested. RARARI has received a number of responses and will take them forward in due course. The Scottish Health Plan requires Boards serving rural areas to draw up plans for rolling out good practice from RARARI projects. In addition, as part of the negotiations on a new GP contract, the NHS Confederation and the UK General Practitioners Committee are setting up a working group to take forward how the new contract would operate in remote and rural areas, including issues relating to out of hours cover. The working group will meet in and be run from Scotland.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what methods for the monitoring and auditing of targets set by the Scottish Prison Service exist in relation to the report Standards for the Health Care of Prisoners.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-26897.
