- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are currently set in the NHS for assessing entitlement and access to long-term care for elderly people.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24852.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what specific action has been or will be taken to tackle depression in children aged 5-14.
Answer
The Executive has already commissioned the Public Health Institute for Scotland to conduct a national review of child and adolescent mental health services. Their report is due later this year. In addition separate studies of adolescent psychiatry out-patient services, depression among adolescents and adolescent psychosis have been funded. Together, the findings will inform future decisions on the best organisation of services for this important care group.A national programme is also being developed to promote mental health and well-being and prevent mental health problems and illnesses, for both children and adults.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23297 by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2002, what plans it has to collate information centrally on the use of statins, given that they are the drugs of first choice in the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Guideline 40 on Lipids and the Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease and that their prescription is one of the essential criteria in the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland's standards for secondary prevention following an acute myocardial infarction.
Answer
Data on the prescribing of statins will be included in the National Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) database, as the data will be generated by routine patient management. Information about the database will be given in the CHD and Stroke Strategy for Scotland, which we expect to publish in the early summer.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the NHS will receive additional funding for free personal and nursing care for the elderly where a patient's assessment fits the prescribed criteria.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24852.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many audiology departments are complying with the Good Practice Guidance for Adult Hearing Aid Fittings and Services and what action is being taken to assist those departments who are failing to comply with the guidance.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-23845 20 March 2002 and S1W-24850 on 19 April 2002.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any patient who meets the assessment criteria for free personal and nursing care will be cared for by the NHS.
Answer
The purpose of a needs assessment is to determine the requirement for social care for an individual. This is linked to the provision of services by, or for, local authorities under social work legislation, not to services provided by the NHS. The extension of free personal and nursing care only applies to those who currently pay for, or towards, such care in community settings (e.g. in a care home or in their own home). All NHS care is provided free at the point of delivery already and is not affected by the introduction of free personal and nursing care which only applies outside an NHS setting. There is therefore no requirement for additional funding for the NHS as a consequence of the introduction of this policy.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Public Health Institute has a remit on tackling coronary heart disease and, if so, what programmes it has developed.
Answer
The Public Health Institute for Scotland's remit extends to the creation of a Scotland wide learning network of practitioners, academics and decision makers around the topic of heart health. The functions of this network will be:
- To sift, analyse and share the existing national and international evidence base.
- To collate and analyse existing practice and share lessons.
- To support local policy-makers and practitioners to translate policy priorities into strategic action.
- To inform plans for dissemination and roll-out of lessons learned from the demonstration projects and identified areas of good practice.
- To identify implications for future practice and put forward relevant strategies/plans.
A co-ordinator for the network has recently been appointed and will take up post on 1 May.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all categories of NHS staff, including consultants, have to abide by the European Working Time Directive.
Answer
The European Working Time Directive applies to all categories of NHS Scotland staff, with the exception of doctors in training. Application of the directive to this group of NHS staff will apply in full by 2009, with the option available to EC member states to extend the deadline by a further three years, if operational circumstances support a case for doing so.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients with drug or alcohol dependency are currently participating in clinical trials.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally. Information on conducting clinical trials can be found on the Medicines Control Agency website at:
www.mca.gov.uk.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) males and (b) females suffered from chronic alcohol dependency in each of the past 10 years.
Answer
Information on the number of people suffering from chronic alcohol dependency is not held centrally. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults in private households in 2000 does provide information on the number of people estimated to have mild, moderate or severe dependence on alcohol. The following table gives figures from the survey:Prevalence of Alcohol Dependence in Private Households in Scotland in 2000
| Rate per thousand population aged 16-74 |
| Women | |
| No dependence | 961 |
| Mild dependence | 39 |
| Moderate dependence | 1 |
| Severe dependence | 2 |
| Men | |
| No dependence | 868 |
| Mild dependence | 117 |
| Moderate dependence | 13 |
| Severe dependence | 1 |
Source: Psychiatric Morbidity in Private Households, 2000, ONS.
