Chamber and committees

The purpose of the consultation on the terms of the tenders to be issued for the provision of stoma appliances to NHS Scotland for the period 2010-12 was to invite comments from parties directly affected on proposals developed to improve Value for Money to NHS Scotland, consistent with Conclusion 10 of the paper published in November 2009 “ Provision of appliances for Stoma Care “Scottish Government conclusions following meetings of stoma national review group 2006-9, which relates to Improvements in Value for Money.

The responsibility for making appropriate provision for all aspects of future demand for care for patients with stomas, falls to each NHS board, and is not managed centrally. Requests for further information should be addressed to the chief executive of the NHS board concerned.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34657 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 Scottish Government does not consider that there would be any negative impact upon stoma product availability or innovation 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. 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-34651 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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34651 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 purpose of the consultation on the terms of the tenders to be issued for the provision of stoma appliances to NHS Scotland for the period 2010-12 was to invite comments from parties directly affected on proposals developed to improve Value for Money to NHS Scotland, consistent with Conclusion 10 of the paper published in November 2009 “ Provision of appliances for Stoma Care “Scottish Government conclusions following meetings of stoma national review group 2006-9, which relates to Improvements in Value for Money. Conclusion 4 of the November 2009 paper related to audit arrangements for services supplied under new tender arrangements and stated that these arrangements should be developed through a partnership of relevant parties. This work is being taken forward by the Scottish Stoma Forum supported by a grant from the Scottish Government.

The responsibility for making appropriate provision for all aspects of future demand for care for patients with stomas, falls to each NHS board, and is not managed centrally. Requests for further information should be addressed to the chief executive of the NHS board concerned.

There are nearly 44,000 registered Care Home places in Scotland (March 2009 Scottish Care Homes Census), but no information is gathered on how many of these places are registered as respite care beds.

The following table shows the number of overnight respite and daytime respite purchased or provided by Scottish Local Authorities each year since 2007.

Respite provided or purchased by Local authorities in Scotland.

	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Overnight - respite weeks	63,590	62,900	62,810
Daytime - respite weeks	100,050	109,980	111,230
Total “ respite weeks	163,640	172,880	174,030

Source: Respite Care, Scotland 2009 (Final Figures).

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/02/22113516/0.

This information is not held centrally.

Under the Concordat, the Scottish Government and COSLA committed to ensure progress towards delivering 10,000 extra respite weeks per annum. As part of the local government settlement, the Scottish Government has invested over £4 million in the two years 2009-10 and 2010-11 to enable local authorities to deliver the increase by 2011. The funding is for overnight and daytime respite and for day care and care home, at the discretion of local authorities; it is not apportioned between residential and non-residential respite care.

In addition to these specific resources provided by the Scottish Government, local authorities and health boards have spent their own resources on the provision of respite. Some of this will have been for residential respite care.

Local authorities'' net revenue expenditure on support for carers, including respite care “ some of which is residential care - was £100 million in 2006-07, £117.034 million in 2007-08 and £134.740 million in 2008-09¹.

Note: 1 When comparing revenue expenditure levels in 2008-09 to previous years, there was a change to the local government funding structure in 2008-09, with the former ring-fenced revenue grants being rolled up into General Revenue Funding. As a result of this change, the figure in 2008-09 is not wholly comparable with the previous years'' figures.