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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-30196

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Health and Community Care has made a statement on endorsing the video about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy produced by the Cardiomyopathy Association in 2002.

Question reference: S2W-30125

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20130 by Mr Andy Kerr on 7 November 2005, whether the business case has been considered by the minister; if not, when he will consider it, and what the up-to-date position is on the matter.

Question reference: S2W-29893

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 29 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29406 by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2006, how many children suffering from mental ill-health have been admitted to adult hospital wards in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-29813

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to publish a waste audit of local authorities.

Question reference: S2W-29811

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive for what average length of time children under the age of 18 receive treatment when they are prescribed anti-depressant drugs.

Question reference: S2W-29812

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children under the age of 18 have received counselling (a) since and (b) prior to receiving anti-depressant drug treatment.

Question reference: S2W-29635

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1303 by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2003, how many episodes of care English residents have received as out-patients, in-patients or day cases in NHS Scotland facilities in each year since 2002.

The numbers of new out-patientappointments and episodes of in-patient day-case care that English residentshave received in NHS Scotland facilities between 2002 and 2006 are shown inTable 1, broken down by data source.

Table 1: New Out-PatientAppointments and In-Patient/Day Case Episodes of Care that English Residents haveReceived in NHS Scotland facilities

Years Ending 31 March2002-06

Year ending 31 March	Out-Patients	Acute Discharges		Maternity Discharges	Neonatal Discharges
	New Out-Patient Appointments	In-Patient Episodes	Day Case Episodes	In-patient episodes	In-Patient Episodes
2002	2,203	5,090	557	265	39
2003	2,197	5,256	436	274	38
2004	2,168	5,305	472	262	18
2005	2,254	5,592	481	229	32
2006^P	2,133	5,113	520	212	21

^PProvisional data.

“Year”refers to: “year of clinic” (out-patients) or “year of discharge” (in-patients/daycases).

Additional Notes:

Information is drawn fromthe following sources. Note that the schemes are not mutually exclusive and thesame patient may appear in more than one of them:

(a) SMR00 - out-patientappointments (excludes accident and emergency and Genito-urinary Medicine). The figures refer only to new out-patient appointments at consultant-ledclinics and include patients who did not attend (DNA) for their appointments.Return out-patient appointments, and appointments at clinics led by nurses andhealth professionals other than consultants, are excluded because the recordingof such activity is currently under development (and is therefore incomplete atpresent).

(b) SMR01 - in-patient/daycase discharges from acute (non-obstetric/non-psychiatric) specialties.

(d) SMR11/SBR (ScottishBirth Record) – neonatal discharges.

2. The same patient may havemore than one new out-patient appointment or episode of care and, as a result,every appointment or episode will be counted each time.

3. For episodes of care spanningmore than one year, the end-point of the episode determines the year to whichit is attributed.

4. English residents havebeen identified by their postcode of residence. This approach to selectingEnglish residents is more specific than that taken in S2W-1303, where thefigures quoted also included a small proportion of patients resident in Walesand Northern Ireland.

Question reference: S2W-29802

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many flu vaccinations were (a) ordered and (b) assessed as being needed and how many have been accrued for the 2006-07 winter period.

Question reference: S2W-29637

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the central stockpile of antiviral agents for avian influenza has been completed and, if so, whether each NHS board has been allocated its share.

The Scottish Executive hasstockpiled 1.3 million courses of oseltamivir (known as Tamiflu), an antiviralmedicine which may reduce deaths and complications from an influenza pandemic. Although theavian influenza virus poses a risk to birds its risk to humans is extremelylimited.

A small percentage of thestockpile has been predistributed to NHS boards in accordance with the ScottishOperational Framework for Stockpiling, Distributing and Using AntiviralMedicines for Patient Treatment in the Event of Pandemic Influenza availableat:

http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pandemicflu/Pages/PanFluFramework.htm.

Question reference: S2W-29739

Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there were for newly qualified midwives in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

The information requested isnot held centrally. Information on those vacancies suitable for newly qualifiedmidwives are held by individual NHS boards in Scotland.

However, Table 1 shows the wholetime equivalent number of registered vacancies within maternity services at 31 March 2006. Theseare largely accounted for by Registered Midwives.

Table 1

	Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE)
Scotland	46.2
NHS Argyll and Clyde	1.0
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	1.3
NHS Borders	-
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	3.0
NHS Fife	0.7
NHS Forth Valley	-
NHS Grampian	10.1
NHS Greater Glasgow	17.0
NHS Highland	4.6
NHS Lanarkshire	2.5
NHS Lothian	1.0
NHS Orkney	-
NHS Shetland	-
NHS Tayside	4.0
NHS Western Isles	1.0

Source: ISD Scotland, NHS Workforce Statistics.Latest available data is at 31 March 2006.

Note: 1. Thevacancy figures relate to posts vacant at 31 March, irrespective of when thevacancy arose.

Further information on the statistics, includinginformation on how the data are collected and notes to aid interpretation, is givenin the Background Notes document on the Workforce Statistics homepage at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.