- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children have been diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis and ottis media by the time they are five years old.
Answer
For year ending March 2000, 20 children under five years old, representing 0.007% of all children in that age group across Scotland that year, were discharged from NHS hospitals having been diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis.
For year ending December 2000, from a sample of 54 General Practices across Scotland which provided Continuous Morbidity Recording (CMR) data, 2,903 children (representing 15.9% of children registered in these practices between zero and four years old) saw their General Practitioner with the complaint otitis media. The CMR sample is broadly representative of the national population.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 17 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timescale is for the provision of specific clinics for diabetes at general practice surgeries.
Answer
There is currently no target for individual general practice surgeries to establish diabetes-specific clinics. However, the Scottish Executive would expect Primary Care Trusts and Local Health Care Co-operatives to ensure that there is adequate local provision for people with diabetes. Under current Chronic Disease Management (CDM) arrangements, around 97% of GPs currently provide a diabetes service for diabetic patients.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 13 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people received drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment in each of the past five years.
Answer
Information on the total number of individuals receiving drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment is not available centrally.The following table shows the number of new patients reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. Agencies reporting to the database provide a wide range of drug-related services; patients receiving rehabilitation cannot be explicitly identified from the database. Misuse of alcohol may be reported to the database, but only when alcohol is secondary to other drugs of misuse.
| New Individual Patients/Clients reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database1-3;by Health Board area of residence; Years ending 31 March |
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 20004 |
Scotland | 7,694 | 8,652 | 8,846 | 9,759 | 11,237 |
by heath board of residence | | | | | |
Argyll and Clyde | 730 | 958 | 1,365 | 1,468 | 1,255 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 189 | 303 | 356 | 140 | 1,181 |
Borders | 43 | 59 | 21 | 79 | 80 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 134 | 149 | 153 | 232 | 199 |
Fife | 221 | 384 | 362 | 395 | 434 |
Forth Valley | 160 | 172 | 160 | 334 | 280 |
| Grampian | 752 | 947 | 1,056 | 1,316 | 1,348 |
Greater Glasgow | 3,066 | 3,223 | 2,833 | 2,866 | 3,274 |
Highland | 59 | 58 | 61 | 75 | 124 |
Lanarkshire | 328 | 353 | 320 | 427 | 543 |
Lothian | 1,767 | 1,886 | 1,788 | 1,877 | 2,012 |
Orkney | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Shetland | 26 | 27 | 43 | 24 | 17 |
Tayside | 243 | 169 | 357 | 577 | 550 |
Western Isles | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
Outside Scotland | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
Notes:1. The definition of "new" is (a) the person is attending the particular service for the first time ever or (b) the person has attended before but not within the previous six months.2. All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates.3. Please note alcohol is reported to the database only if it is used as a secondary drug.4. In 1999-2000 information was received for the first time from nine agencies in Ayrshire & Arran health board area.Additional information is published in
Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2000; a copy of this publication will be held by the Parliament's Reference Centre or is available online at:http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/ISDbull.htm.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how people with mental health problems and their carers are involved in the development of local mental health strategies.
Answer
The Mental Health and Well Being Support Group, which of course includes a user of mental health services and a carer on each visit, raises this important issue in their discussion with the care agencies in each area. The group stress the importance of meaningful and continued engagement at all stages of planning and delivery of services, so that strategies agreed are fit for purpose. Where necessary, recommendations for improvement are made in the outcome reports from the group.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources were disbursed to Highlands and Islands Enterprise to assist with training and employment opportunities for the 3,500 BARMAC workers made redundant last year.
Answer
It estimated that £1.7 million has been made available to support former BARMAC employees, through ongoing support for the oil and gas industry. This includes funding from existing and new allocations for years 2000-02.This support includes training for general and specialist engineering skills, Health and Safety, Information Technology, and initiatives to promote employment such as the HIE-OPS database, the Reducing the Impact of Redundancy programme, and the Training for Work, Next Step, and Working Abroad schemes. These programmes have assisted ex-BARMAC employees and ex-subcontractors with some 2,671 job placements, with a number of individuals gaining more than one placement.In addition, Employment Service data shows that as at 2 March 2001, the total number of ex-BARMAC and ex-subcontractor employees registered as unemployed and claiming Jobseekers Allowance was 283, and that the cumulative number of job entries was 1,286.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been any increase in the rates of oesophageal cancers in males over the past 10 years and, if so, what plans it has to address such increases.
Answer
The incidence of oesophageal cancer in males in Scotland has risen over the last 10 years, from 13.0 per 100,000 in 1988 to 16.8 per 100,000 in 1997.
Our National Health reaffirmed cancer as one of the top priorities for the NHSScotland. The Cancer Strategy for Scotland will set out a comprehensive range of measures designed to provide swifter, better diagnosis, treatment and care together with measures to help prevent cancer from occurring. The results from a CRAG-funded Scottish Audit of Gastric and Oesophageal Cancer will be available by the autumn and will inform further consideration of how best to organise services to improve outcomes for patients.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 11 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are being taken to ensure that farm workers and abattoir staff are not at risk from "pig meningitis".
Answer
The Occupational Zoonoses, published by the Health and Safety Executive, gives guidance on the prevention of this infection.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on general medical services both (a) cash limited and (b) non-cash limited in each year since 1996-97 to date.
Answer
Details of expenditure on General Medical Services Cash Limited and Non-Cash Limited and their percentage share of total health expenditure for 1996-97 to 1999-2000, based on audited accounts, is given in the table. The abolition of GP fund holding in 1999-2000 led to a change in accounting arrangements which is reflected in that year's apparently smaller proportion of General Medical Services Cash Limited expenditure compared with earlier years.The apparent reduction in the share of General Medical Services Non-Cash Limited expenditure from 1998-99 reflects a transfer of resources from that budget to the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education when it took over responsibility for vocational training for GPs.
| General Medical Services Cash Limited | General Medical Services Non-Cash Limited |
| Expenditure (£ million) | Percentage of Total Health Expenditure | Expenditure (£ million) | Percentage of Total Health Expenditure |
| 1996-97 | 95.7 | 2.30% | 237.7 | 5.60% |
| 1997-98 | 108.4 | 2.50% | 248.7 | |
| 1998-99 | 119 | 2.60% | 243.8 | 5.30% |
| 1999-2000 | 108.9 | 2.20% | 268.8 | 5.40% |
Note:The General Medical Services Cash Limited expenditure from 1996-97 to 1999-2000 comprise a central allocation plus additional expenditure by health boards from their general allocations/unified budgets.Information on the total budgets for General Medical Services Cash Limited expenditure for 2000-01 to 2002-03 is not yet identifiable from health boards' unified budgets. Indicative allocations for General Medical Services Non-Cash Limited for 2000-01 to 2002-03 have been issued. They represent 5.2%, 5.1% and 5.0% respectively of the total health budget. However, these proportions are likely to change as actual expenditure on these demand-led services will reflect actual usage.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage share of total health expenditure has (a) been used and (b) is budgeted in future for general medical services, both (i) cash limited and (ii) non-cash limited in each year from 1996-97 to 2002-03.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-15283.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the budget is for general medical services both (a) cash limited and (b) non-cash limited in (i) 2001-02 and (ii) 2002-03.
Answer
Details are as follows:
| 2001-02 (£ million) | 2002-03 (£ million) |
| General Medical Services Cash Limited | 103.1 | Not separately identified |
| General Medical Services Non-Cash Limited | 297.6 | 311.1 |
General Medical Services Cash Limited provision is included in health boards' unified budget. No sum has been specifically identified for 2002-03. General Medical Services Cash Limited expenditure comprises a central allocation plus additional expenditure by health boards from their unified budgets. The figures shown are the central allocations only.
The budgets for General Medical Services Non-Cash Limited are indicative. General Medical Services Non-Cash Limited are demand-led and final levels of expenditure will reflect actual usage.
