- 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 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: 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 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 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: Monday, 13 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the publication of Scottish Health Statistics - Acute Hospital Care on 23 February 2006, how many angiography and angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft patients were treated within (a) eight and (b) 18 weeks in each quarter of the last five years, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of patients.
Answer
The information requested isdetailed in the following table:
Nhsscotland In-Patient/DayCase Discharges for People Seen Within Eight Weeks (Angiography) or 18 Weeks(Angioplasty and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts) in Absolute Numbers and as aPercentage of all Patients Receiving those Treatments*†
| Discharged During Quarter End | Angiography‡ | Angioplasty | Coronary Artery Bypass Graft |
| Number wait ≤ 8 weeks | % wait ≤ 8 weeks | Number wait ≤ 18 weeks | % wait ≤ 18 weeks | Number wait ≤ 18 weeks | % wait ≤ 18 weeks |
| March 2000 | 1,328 | 68.7 | 287 | 86.7 | 338 | 57.4 |
| June 2000 | 1,508 | 75.9 | 358 | 95.5 | 382 | 70.2 |
| September 2000 | 1,303 | 68.8 | 392 | 95.6 | 404 | 65.0 |
| December 2000 | 1,338 | 71.1 | 317 | 93.8 | 360 | 65.0 |
| March 2001 | 1,358 | 67.4 | 340 | 94.2 | 386 | 72.4 |
| June 2001 | 1,266 | 70.8 | 322 | 86.1 | 399 | 78.5 |
| September 2001 | 1,127 | 63.1 | 334 | 88.8 | 421 | 78.4 |
| December 2001 | 1,202 | 69.0 | 371 | 94.2 | 435 | 82.4 |
| March 2002 | 1,359 | 65.2 | 363 | 89.6 | 392 | 76.4 |
| June 2002 | 1,416 | 72.1 | 415 | 87.0 | 345 | 82.1 |
| September 2002 | 1,297 | 67.6 | 352 | 83.2 | 436 | 74.2 |
| December 2002 | 1,322 | 70.5 | 343 | 81.5 | 376 | 64.5 |
| March 2003 | 1,396 | 63.3 | 387 | 83.4 | 397 | 71.3 |
| June 2003 | 1,356 | 65.2 | 415 | 84.7 | 385 | 76.2 |
| September 2003 | 1,417 | 65.3 | 405 | 89.0 | 421 | 81.8 |
| December 2003 | 1,443 | 70.4 | 403 | 84.7 | 381 | 79.5 |
| March 2004 | 1,479 | 67.4 | 420 | 84.0 | 375 | 75.8 |
| June 2004 | 1,234 | 59.5 | 461 | 85.2 | 357 | 74.5 |
| September 2004 | 1,255 | 55.0 | 560 | 90.0 | 437 | 87.2 |
| December 2004 | 1,615 | 62.5 | 507 | 97.3 | 446 | 91.2 |
| March 2005 | 1,877 | 82.5 | 540 | 95.9 | 424 | 91.4 |
| June 2005P | 1,966 | 88.2 | 617 | 95.2 | 358 | 91.6 |
| September 2005P | 1,744 | 89.0 | 572 | 97.6 | 292 | 91.0 |
| December 2005P | 1,440 | 91.8 | 474 | 98.8 | 219 | 88.7 |
Source: ISD SMR01.
PProvisional – source data are incomplete for laterquarters of 2005
Notes:
*Based on routine admissionsfrom the waiting list for inpatient/day case treatment in acute specialties.
†Includes cases where anAvailability Status Code (ASC) applied.
‡Data for residents of NHSFife and NHS Forth Valley undergoing angiography are excluded due to technicalreasons affecting the capture of waiting times information for these patients.
The table includes patients towhom an Availability Status Code (ASC) applied. ASCs describe certain prescribedcircumstances when it may not be possible to meet a waiting time standard (for examplewhen a patient refuses a reasonable offer of admission or is medically unfit forsurgery).
