- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of suspension payments for medical staff was in each year since 1999.
Answer
The latest informationprovided by Health Boards in response to the above question on the cost ofmedical suspensions in each year since 1999 is in the following table.
| | £ |
| 1999 | 58,823. |
| 2000 | 25,000 |
| 2001 | - |
| 2002 | 4,065 |
| 2003 | 87,772 |
| 2004 | 162,981 |
| 2005 | 180,164 |
| 2006 | 154,044 |
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of cancer patients wait longer than four weeks for radiotherapy.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
The Scottish RadiotherapyAdvisory Group is seeking to develop a core data set to capture qualityassurance information to support the continuous improvement of radiotherapyservices.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses have been employed by NHS 24 in each year since its inception.
Answer
As NHS 24 implemented its phased rollout across Scotland, recruitment was also phased and began in the Grampian area, to staff the Aberdeen Contact Centre in advance of its launch on 8 May 2002.
At that stage, NHS 24 employed 23 frontline nurses (headcount) and now, between its three main contact centres and the five smaller satellite centres, there are 491 nurses (headcount) which equates to 294.0 whole time equivalent.
Details of the number of nurses (whole time equivalent and headcount) providing frontline NHS 24 services for each year since 2002 are listed in the following table:
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Wte | Headcount | Wte | Headcount | Wte | Headcount |
| 119.2 | 199** | 289.6 | 374 | 301.2 | 417 |
| 2005 | 2006 |
| Wte | Headcount | Wte | Headcount |
| 291.7 | 477 | 294.0 | 491 |
* Figures provided by NHS24, as at 30 June each year. The numbers are taken from NHS 24’s monthlymanagement information report and refer to frontline nurses – they do notinclude Team Leaders, Clinical Service Managers or PracticeEducators/Facilitators who are non-frontline or nurses who are employed in amanagement post.
** The 2002 headcount figureis an average figure for June 2002, based on whole time equivalent numbers.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GPs have (a) retired and (b) started practice in each year since 1995.
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: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths were linked to MRSA in 2005.
Answer
MRSA was recorded on Scottishdeath certificates as likely to be “the underlying cause of death” in 38 casesin 2005. In a further 174 death certificates, MRSA was mentioned as acontributing factor.
These datashould be treated with great caution. Detailed information on healthcareassociated infections (HAIs) as a cause of death from specific infections canbe difficult or impossible to interpret safely. As at the end of 2005, therewas no international code in use for recording MRSA as a cause of death and theMRSA data above were obtained by analysing the original written text recorded onthe death certificate by certifying doctors.
Recording ofspecific HAIs as a cause of death is often influenced by the general level ofprofessional and public awareness of that HAI at the time and may reflect anincrease in awareness, rather than a real change in the actual number of deathsin which the HAI was an underlying or contributory factor. It is also importantto note that these figures are not set in the context of the total number ofpatients treated in the NHS. Reportsfrom national surveillance of serious MRSA infections in Scotlandprovide evidence that MRSA rates have remained stable in recent years.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of breast cancers are HER-2 positive, broken down by NHS board or managed clinical network.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times are for patients with breast cancer, broken down by NHS board or managed clinical network.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S2W-25424, answered on 10 May 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
The latest available informationfor the quarter October - December 2005 is available on http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/health/cancer/waiting-times/Intro.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence is of breast cancer, broken down by NHS board or managed clinical network.
Answer
Breast cancer incidence from1980 – 2003 (the most recent year for which data is available) broken down byage, sex, regional cancer network and NHS board is available on the NHSNational Services Scotland (NSS) Information Services Division (ISD) website at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/cancer_definition.jsp?pContentID=1421&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the mortality rate is of patients with breast cancer, broken down by NHS board or managed clinical network.
Answer
Breast cancer mortalityrates from 1980 – 2004 (the most recent year for which data is available)broken down by age, sex, regional cancer network and NHS Board is available onthe NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) Information Services Division (ISD)website at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/cancer_definition.jsp?pContentID=1421&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of breast cancer patients are tested for their HER-2 status at diagnosis, broken down by NHS board or managed clinical network.
Answer
The information in respectof all breast cancer patients is not available centrally in the formatrequested. NHS boards confirm that arrangements have been or are being put inplace to test all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients to confirm HER-2status.
