- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS patients were treated in non-NHS institutions in each of the four most recent quarters.
Answer
Reliable information on the number of NHS patients treated in non-NHS institutions is not available centrally. However, the Information and Statistics Division, part of the Common Services Agency in NHSScotland, are currently working with the Scottish Executive, NHS boards, trusts and the independent sector to improve data coverage and data quality.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours of teaching are carried out by each NHS acute hospital where teaching takes place.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the abolition of NHS trusts will (a) cost and (b) save, as referred to in chapter 7 of Partnership for Care: Scotland's Health White Paper.
Answer
When we set out our proposals in Partnership for Care to dissolve the remaining NHS trusts, our primary objective was not to achieve financial savings, and nor have we identified any direct cost implications. Rather, changes to the governance of local NHS systems should be seen as part of our drive to develop integrated, decentralised health care services that devolve management authority to the front line of patient care.Nevertheless, by consolidating around 15 NHS boards with minimal structural change and disruption, unnecessary bureaucracy will be reduced, and resources will be freed up and redirected towards improved patient care.Specifically, the removal of the remaining trusts will support a whole-system approach to financial management, accountability and planning which maximises the return on additional investment, simplifying the way money flows in the local NHS system and allowing greater flexibility for financial planning over the longer term.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which nursing agencies received a share of the #24,530,733 spent by the NHS on agency nurses in 2001-02, as shown in table E21 of the NHS workforce statistics produced by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 12 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether blood transfusion products are not being tested for hepatitis G and what the reasons are for the position on the matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-34008 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 12 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether recipients of any blood products that have been exposed to hepatitis G are informed.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-34008 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 12 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether blood products are being tested for hepatitis G.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service does not screen blood donations for this virus because it is unaware of any evidence that it causes any illness in humans.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it has made available to NHS trusts for the implementation of Partnership Information Network guidelines.
Answer
NHSScotland Organisations receive a general allocation of funding each year and it is for them to decide how to allocate that funding in accordance with national and local priorities. Area partnership and local partnership forums should be involved in determining the funding process.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much having patients ready for, but still awaiting, discharge from an NHS hospital cost the NHS (a) in total and (b) per person in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally available. The available information on delayed discharges is published on a quarterly basis by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency and is available at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/Joint_futures/delayed_discharges/ready_for_discharges.htm.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the patients ready for discharge, as specified by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency on 15 October 2002, were 65 and over.
Answer
The information requested is contained in
Patients Ready for Discharge in NHSScotland - figures from 15 October 2002 census (Chart 5), published by ISD Scotland on 17 January 2003. This information is available at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/Joint_futures/delayed_discharges/ready_for_discharges.htm.
