- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any local supplier tenders have been put on hold during the transition to centralised NHS procurement and, if so, how many such cases there have been in (a) Scotland and (b) the Lothians.
Answer
Information on localsupplier tenders put on hold during the transition to centralised NHSprocurement is not held centrally. However, local suppliers are mostly involvedwith the supply of fresh foodstuffs to NHS boards. The supply of freshfoodstuffs is not a commodity covered by the new national procurementorganisation.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals are awaiting a community care needs assessment in each local authority area.
Answer
This information is not availablecentrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time has been for a community care needs assessment in each year since the introduction of free personal care, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This Information is not availablecentrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time has been between individuals' community care needs assessments and receipt of payments towards personal care in each year since the introduction of free personal care, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the waiting times are for accessing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation in each NHS board, by location.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. The general waiting times standards apply to the care of those with chronicobstructive pulmonary disease. There is no specific waiting time standards for accessto pulmonary rehabilitation.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding has been allocated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
NHS boards are expected to provideappropriate rehabilitation and other services for people with chronic obstructivepulmonary disease from their unified budgets. It is not possible to isolate theresources allocated to pulmonary rehabilitation.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Grampian provides a comprehensive service for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation, as recommended in national guidelines, as compared with other NHS boards and what the reasons are for the position on the matter.
Answer
NHS Grampian currentlyprovides a rolling programme of pulmonary rehabilitation for suitable patientswith chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), aimed at maximisingindividual patients’ well-being, quality of life and life expectancy. In linewith the recommendations of the NICE guidelines on COPD, the programme isdelivered by a range of professionals, and covers smoking cessation, dietaryadvice, medication support, a graduated exercise programme and emotionalsupport.
Information on comparisonsbetween the NHS Grampian programme and those of other NHS boards is not heldcentrally, but NHS Grampian believes that its pulmonary rehabilitationprogramme is as comprehensive as any in Scotland.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any Senior House Officers (SHOs) expressing concerns in respect of obtaining employment due to the phasing-out of the training grade and introduction of the Modernising Medical Careers initiative; if so, whether it will provide an assurance that, if jobs under the initiative are open to competitive recruitment, current SHOs would be eligible to apply and what measures it is taking to ensure that these doctors do not find employment elsewhere.
Answer
The Executive is committedto effective implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), the UK-widereform of postgraduate medical training. Arrangements have not yet begun inScotland to phase out the SHO grade. We are considering how best to assimilateboth current training posts and, subject to open competition, the junior doctorswho occupy them into the new MMC programmes.
We recognise the concerns ofcurrent SHOs about their future employment options under MMC. Officials are workingwith stakeholders, including the BMA and NHS Education for Scotland, inplanning for implementation to ensure an effective transition.
Entry to, and progressthrough, MMC training will be competency-based, although the detailed selectionarrangements for individual MMC specialty and general practice training programmeshave yet to be finalised. Current SHOs will be eligible to apply for advertisedMMC training programmes, subject to confirmation of the individual specialtyselection criteria and to existing legislative requirements which governappointment processes across the UK.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people require access to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. The NICE Guidelines on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease set outthe indications regarding patients who would benefit from access to pulmonary rehabilitation.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23572 by Mr Andy Kerr on 9 March 2006, whether the same method is used to record the number of patients waiting for angiography, angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft as is used to record the number of patients waiting over six months for in-patient treatment.
Answer
The number of patients waitingfor angiography or cardiac revascularisation (angioplasty or coronary artery bypassgraft) is measured and reported using a quarterly census carried out by InformationServices Division of NHS National Services Scotland (ISD Scotland) involving allNHS boards in Scotland. The information is published on the ISD Scotland web siteas soon as it is available. Explanatory notes on the website provide details of the source of the information. These notes make clear that the information aboutpatients waiting for cardiac treatment is derived from the same census as that usedto provide data about in-patients and day cases generally.
