- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the data it uses for measuring its waiting time targets include patients who are currently waiting.
Answer
Yes. The key datasets usedto measure performance against waiting times targets are the inpatient and daycase and outpatient waiting list censuses, which show the numbers of patientscurrently waiting – and how long they have been waiting – on the census dates.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many neonatal units have a specialist counsellor in breastfeeding.
Answer
This is a matter for individualNHS boards. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether neonatal units issue the free information packs provided by the charity, BLISS.
Answer
This is a matter for individualNHS boards. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to increase the number of specialist neonatal nurses.
Answer
We are on track to achieve thePartnership Agreement target of attracting 12,000 nurses and midwives into NHSScotlandby 2007. This target is associated with all qualified nurses and midwives, includingneonatal nurses. Information on specialist neonatal nurses is not collected separately.
The Scottish Executive publishedthe National Workforce Planning Framework 2005 in August 2005 which setsout a workforce planning cycle at national, regional and NHS board level. This planningcycle allows for a bottom up evidence based approach to future staffing numbersacross all staff groups, including nurses and midwives. Workforce forecasts containedwithin NHS board workforce plans will help inform national decisions on future trainingnumbers and supply.
In addition, the Scottish Executivehas funded 18 experienced nurses and midwives from across NHSScotland to completethe Advanced Neonatal Intensive Care course (NNIC) at Napier University. Thiscourse will take two years (part-time) and includes eight modules at Masters Level.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to ski areas to encourage the development of ski communities.
Answer
The Executive, through the Enterprise Networks, VisitScotland and sportscotland works with communities including those close to ski centres, to support their development.
Assistance is tailored to local opportunities and can include activities such as; destination marketing, encouraging diversification, business networking and infrastructure investment – all of which contribute to the long-term development of the community.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 31 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) grocery, (b) butcher, (c) baker, (d) fishmonger, (e) newsagent, (f) confectionery and (g) tobacco retail outlets and how many wholesalers there were in (i) 1998 and (ii) 2004.
Answer
The number of retail outlets in Scotland was as follows (separate figures are not available for newsagents and confectionery):
| | Number of business sites |
| | Business Activity | 1998 | 2004 |
| (a) | Retail sale of fruit and vegetables | 1160 | 620 |
| (b) | Retail sale of meat and meat products | 1310 | 880 |
| (c) | Retail sale of bread, cakes, flour confectionery and sugar confectionery | 1050 | 890 |
| (d) | Retail sale of fish, crustaceans and molluscs | 425 | 315 |
| (g) | Retail sale of tobacco products | 1220 | 505 |
| (e,f,g) | Retail sale by confectioners, tobacconists and newsagents (CTNs) | 910 | 1205 |
The total number of wholesalers in Scotland was as follows:
| | | Number of Enterprises |
| | Business Activity | 1998 | 2004 |
| | Wholesale Trade and Commission Trade, Except of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles | 6615 | 6325 |
Of this, the number active in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco was:
| | | Number of Enterprises |
| | Business Activity | 1998 | 2004 |
| | Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco | 1210 | 1150 |
Source: Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) which is maintained by the Office for National Statistics.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwife hours have been worked in each year from 1994 to 2005.
Answer
The number of midwife hours worked in each year is not available centrally. Centrally held information provides details of staff in post at particular workforce census dates.
Snapshot figures are available for headcount and whole-time equivalent (WTE) staff in post. WTE adjusts headcount to take account of part time working. Latest available figures are at 30 September 2005. These do not include data on bank and agency usage.
Further information is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Midwives in NHS Scotland
Headcount and Whole-Time Equivalent as at 30 September
| Year | Headcount | WTE |
| 1994 | 3,964 | 3,284.6 |
| 1995 | 3,875 | 3,184.9 |
| 1996 | 3,812 | 3,126.2 |
| 1997 | 3,748 | 3,076.6 |
| 1998 | 3,663 | 2,995.3 |
| 1999 | 3,626 | 2,962.8 |
| 2000 | 3,600 | 2,928.2 |
| 2001 | 3,504 | 2,859.9 |
| 2002 | 3,475 | 2,839.0 |
| 2003 | 3,506 | 2,862.9 |
| 2004 | 3,507 | 2,857.8 |
| 2005 | 3,534 | 2,861.9 |
Source : ISD Scotland.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 26 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5654 by Mr Tom McCabe on 2 February 2004, how many calls there have been to the healthyliving line in each month since January 2004.
Answer
The number of calls to the healthy living advice line between 1 February 2004 and 31 December 2005 are as follows:
| 2004 | 2005 |
| | | January | 231 |
| February | 491 | February | 226 |
| March | 351 | March | 265 |
| April | 255 | April | 237 |
| May | 308 | May | 225 |
| June | 303 | June | 200 |
| July | 588 | July | 163 |
| August | 917 | August | 230 |
| September | 658 | September | 249 |
| October | 393 | October | 196 |
| November | 292 | November | 170 |
| December | 136 | December | 105 |
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many practising maternity units there have been in each year from 1980 to 2005 and what the reasons were for any closures.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-20693 on 25 November 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
A table showing number of births by hospital for years 1980-2003 is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 38645). This shows the hospitals at which babies were delivered, but does not specify whether deliveries were in a maternity unit.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the largest maternity unit is in Scotland and how many births have been delivered at it in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the table.
Number of Births1 by Hospital, Calendar Years 1999-2003
| Hospital | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Simpson’s Memorial Maternity Pavilion/New Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh | 6,443 | 6,333 | 5,891 | 5,589 | 5,903 |
Source: ISD Scotland.
Note: 1 Where four or more babies are involved in a pregnancy, birth details are recorded only for the first three babies delivered.
