- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS patients accessed private health care facilities in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not available.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all GPs and consultants in the NHS have access to the National Waiting Times database and whether all patients waiting for surgery are given the option to choose a hospital with the shortest waiting times.
Answer
The National Waiting Times database currently being developed is to provide general practitioners, consultants, patients and the public with readily accessible, accurate and up-to-date information on hospital waiting times throughout Scotland. We intend that patients will be able to choose to be treated at a hospital where they will have a shorter wait.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether patients can claim compensation for problems arising from hospital-acquired infection.
Answer
It is open to any patient to claim compensation where they consider that they have suffered in some way as a result of their NHS treatment. However, compensation is payable only where the health care provider accepts that the injury arose following an act of negligence on their part.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on the extent of diagnosed or suspected diseases arising in children as a direct result of malnutrition.
Answer
Acute illnesses, chronic or severe, can cause malnutrition. Information collected by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency through the Scottish Morbidity Record, the Continuous Morbidity Record and child health surveillance identifies a condition, although not the cause of a condition.The following table shows the number of discharges over the four years to December 2001 for conditions where malnutrition is either specifically mentioned or where it is highly likely, excluding codes where the deficiency is more likely to be secondary to another condition.General Acute Hospital Discharges Involving a Diagnosis of Malnutrition, Under 15 Year-Olds, Scotland
| Year End December |
| Diagnosis (ICD10 code(s)) | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001P |
| Malnutrition Total* | 49 | 55 | 45 | 31 |
| Malnutrition (ICD10 E40-E46) | 11 | 23 | 13 | 4 |
| Effects of Hunger (ICD10 T73.0) | 2 | - | 1 | - |
| Other Nutritional Deficiencies (ICD10 E50- E63) | 21 | 20 | 20 | 18 |
| Sequelae of Vitamin/Mineral/Other Deficiencies(ICD10 E64.1-E64.9) | - | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Other Iron Deficiency Anaemia (ICD10 D50.8) | 15 | 11 | 8 | 8 |
Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01.
PProvisional.Notes:*The same patient may be counted in more than one disease category. The sum of the groups may exceed the total displayed.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental education programmes include infection control and anti-microbial prescribing.
Answer
The standards for medical and dental education are set by the General Medical Council and the General Dental Council respectively and are therefore reserved. However, I am aware that both these topics are covered in both undergraduate and postgraduate training in medicine and dentistry.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland's report on health care associated infection peer review visits due in January 2003 will outline the extent of infection in every NHS hospital.
Answer
The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland report will detail for each NHS trust in Scotland whether their performance meets the infection control standards required. The incidence of selected health care associated infection is being measured through the new surveillance arrangements led by the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that all NHS trusts' infection control programmes include an audit of infection control policies, procedures and guidelines.
Answer
Standard 5 of the Infection Control Standard requires the Infection Control Programme to include reference to audit of the implementation of, and compliance with, selected infection control policies, procedures and guidelines. Documentary evidence of this will be required by Clinical Standards Boards for Scotland during their peer review visits to establish whether trusts are meeting the requirement.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken when a hospital is found not to meet infection control standards.
Answer
A great deal of action is already being taken on infection control. When the Clinical Standards Boards for Scotland publishes reports on individual hospitals the Scottish Executive will ensure that appropriate action is taken by the NHS trusts concerned.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to ensure that there is documentary evidence of a structured infection control programme in each hospital.
Answer
Standard 5 of the Clinical Standards Boards for Scotland (CSBS) Infection Control Standards requires trusts to produce annual infection control programmes. Documentary evidence of this will be required by CSBS during their peer review visits to establish whether trusts are meeting the standard.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the difference is between a hospital-acquired infection and a health care associated infection.
Answer
Health care associated infection is a more precise term than hospital-acquired infection. It recognises that many infections occur in health care settings other than hospitals. It also recognises that whilst many infections are acquired in hospital this is not always the case.The joint Health Department and NHS Scotland Working Group report on Managing the Risk of HAI (2001) used "health care associated infection" to reflect this assessment. The department along with the other UK Health Departments and public health agencies has also used this terminology because it reflects more accurately the scope of issues being addressed. The UK-wide use of the term facilitates the comparison of statistics related to these types of infection.
