Chamber and committees

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) is in the process of reviewing Guideline 71 on the management of osteoporosis. SIGN plans to publish the revised guideline in the summer of 2012.

The information requested is not held centrally as data on cleaning staff directly employed by NHS are not captured separately in the workforce statistics. NHS Services Scotland Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland publish data annually, as at 30 September, on Support Services - Hotel Services staff, which includes domestic staff but following agenda for change (AfC) assimilation the post descriptor domestic staff may not encompass all cleaners. Cleaning staff may have assimilated into other post descriptors. These figures include domestic supervisors and domestic managers. Furthermore, some NHS boards still externally contract cleaning staff which therefore makes it difficult to provide specific and accurate data on cleaners. Data for the years 2007 to 2009 for Hotel Services staff are presented in the following table:

	2007 Head Count	2008 Head Count	2009 Head Count
Scotland	8,753	9,136	9,516
National Waiting Times Centre	45	49	55
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	947	963	963
NHS Borders	306	311	304
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	263	272	278
NHS Education for Scotland	3	-	-
NHS Fife	514	528	546
NHS Forth Valley	540	540	552
NHS Grampian	1,035	1,059	1,101
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	1,947	2,223	2,418
NHS Highland	509	532	530
NHS Lanarkshire	479	489	500
NHS Lothian	1,316	1,307	1,381
NHS National Services Scotland	12	15	16
NHS Orkney	47	44	41
NHS Scottish Ambulance Service	9	9	8
NHS Shetland	1	1	1
NHS State Hospital	50	56	55
NHS Tayside	651	656	687
NHS Western Isles	79	82	80

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).

The data in the table for September 2009 covers only six months of the year 2009-10 for which an additional £5 million was allocated to employ up to 600 more cleaners. When the September 2010 data is published it will show the full impact of that funding.

Prior to 2007 NHS Workforce Information was published based on the Whitley pay structure. For this reason it is not possible to compare the Whitley staff in post information to AfC bandings. Domestic staff information for the years 1999 to 2006 is available at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=WFG02_HB_REG.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.

We do not envisage any changes in the role of clinical nurse specialists (CNS) as a result of proposals in the Consultation on the terms of the tenders to be issued for the provision of stoma appliances as CNS staff are employed directly by NHS boards, who agree their individual workplans.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35407 on 12 August 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Three countries have booked Scottish based facilities for their preparations for London 2012 (Zambia, Namibia and the British swimming team). Edinburgh Leisure are also in ongoing discussions with a National Paralympic Committee for the use of the Royal Commonwealth Pool.

So far, one country has made a booking, three countries have expressed an interest and discussions are taking place with a further three countries in basing their athletes in pre-games training camps in Scotland for the 2014 Games.

However, at this time, the focus of Commonwealth Games Associations (and those who are also National Olympic/Paralympic Committees) is the Youth Olympics and Delhi Games. It is after then that the nations we are targeting will turn their attention to finalising their plans for future Games. In the interim, we are exploring options for Scottish Enterprise to host an event for Commonwealth Games Associations during the Delhi Games.

Eight countries have expressed an interest in using Scottish facilities as pre-Games training camps in 2012. Through Scotland''s Pre-Games Training Camps Co-ordinator and the venue managers, we continue to engage with those, and other, targeted countries both for the 2012 and 2014 Games.

The Scottish Government does not consider that there would be any negative impact upon the choice available to patients for stoma services and care arising from the proposals in Consultation on the terms of the tenders to be issued for the provision of stoma appliances to NHS Scotland for the period 2010-12. The service model continues to accommodate multiple suppliers and stoma appliance manufacturers would remain able to respond to the forthcoming tender by pricing their products as they see fit but within a more transparent framework intended to help NHS boards deliver optimal value for money in the provision of this service.

 

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34658 on 30 June 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

The findings of the consultation on the terms of the tenders to be issued for the provision of stoma appliances to NHS Scotland will have no direct impact on the employment of clinical nurse specialists (CNS) as CNS staff are employees of NHS boards.