- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been a reduction in the number of Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency vessels and, if so, whether the affected crew members have been given alternative employment.
Answer
The Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) was wound up on 31 March 2009. The functions and resources of SFPA were incorporated into Marine Scotland which was launched on 1 April 2009.
The oldest vessel in the Marine Scotland compliance fleet, Marine Protection Vessel Norna (launched in 1987), is being decommissioned. Norna''s crews will be re-deployed throughout the rest of the Marine Scotland fleet.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive who is responsible for taking forward the wheelchair user and carer group in each territorial NHS board.
Answer
All NHS boards have a designated Patient Focus and Public Involvement (PFPI) lead, who has been charged with taking forward the setting up of wheelchair user and carer groups or networks as stipulated in the action plan.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what means NHS boards have at their disposal to ensure that instructions given by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland are implemented by GP surgeries, which are independent contractors.
Answer
NHS boards have a range of powers under the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts)(Scotland) Regulations 2004 and the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Section 17C Agreements)(Scotland) Regulations 2004 in relation to variation and termination of GP contracts and agreements. These regulations require contractors to have an effective system of clinical governance, meaning a framework through which the contractor endeavours continuously to improve the quality of its service and safeguard high standards of care by creating an environment in which clinical excellence can flourish.
In addition, anyone providing primary medical services must be included in a list maintained by NHS boards under the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists)(Scotland) Regulations 2004. These regulations set out various conditions including a requirement that performers exercise a reasonable standard of professional and clinical judgement, behaviour, skill, knowledge and care towards patients who receive primary medical services from them, and in the prescribing or dispensing of any drugs, medicines or appliances to patients.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which of the territorial NHS boards have established a wheelchair user and carer group, as specified under the Wheelchair and Seating Service Modernisation: Action Plan.
Answer
The Wheelchair and Seating Services modernisation action plan states that each NHS Board must establish a wheelchair user and carer group or network as part of their Patient Focus and Public Involvement (PFPI) structures and processes.
User and carer groups or networks have been established by the following NHS boards. Lothian, Fife, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway, Forth Valley, Lanarkshire, Tayside, Highland, Western Isles and Ayrshire and Arran.
Arrangements for the establishment of user and carer groups or networks are currently being progressed by the following boards; Borders, Grampian, Orkney, Shetland.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which territorial NHS boards do not plan to establish a wheelchair user and carer group but rather to rely on the networks being established by the wheelchair service.
Answer
All NHS boards are creating and supporting their own user and carer group or network, as stipulated in the action plan.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-26317 by Shona Robison on 31 August 2009, what funding it provided to the Scottish Football Association from 1999 to 2006.
Answer
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-32354 by Shona Robison on 23 March 2010 stating that information regarding the percentage of patients assessed as being at medium or high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) receiving either mechanical or pharmacological prophylaxis is not collected centrally, what audits it has received from NHS boards since the last revision of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline 62 and the national audit of VTE prophylaxis in NHS hospitals across Scotland.
Answer
We have not received any audits of prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism from NHS boards since publication of SIGN Guideline 62.
In terms of national audits, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland undertook a survey, published in December 2008, which confirmed that all NHS boards have written protocols in place for the prevention and management of DVT, as well as information leaflets based on the model patient leaflet provided by the Chief Medical Officer and Chairman of NHS QIS on 26 January 2008.
The peri-operative work stream of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme collects data on the percentage of eligible surgical patients who receive Deep Vein Thrombosis prophylaxis
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-32353 and S3W-31208 by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 February 2010 and Shona Robison on 23 March 2010 respectively and in light of the recent statement by Professor Tom Treasure that, “Put simply, all patients without exception should be assessed on being admitted to hospital for risk of developing a blood clot, and then given preventative treatment that is appropriate for them”, what steps are being taken prior to the issue of the revised Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline 62 in October 2010 to ensure that every patient is assesed on admission to hospital for risk of venous thromboembolism.
Answer
Until the revised Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) clinical guideline on Venous Thromboembolism is published this October, we have indicated to NHS boards that they must have in place local protocols to make sure people are treated according to SIGN Guideline 62, and other relevant Guidelines such as SIGN 36 on Anti-thrombotic Therapy, SIGN 89 on Drug Therapy for Peripheral Vascular Disease and SIGN 56 on the Prevention and Management of Hip Fracture in Older People. These deal with the management of patients admitted to hospital with major trauma, major surgery or an acute medical illness.
The Chief Medical Officer continues to emphasise to the medical directors of NHS boards the importance of this issue, and has asked NHS QIS to keep it under review.
Prophylaxis of Deep Vein Thrombosis is a key element of the surgical checklist developed by the Scottish Patient Safety''s peri-operative work stream.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 18 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS boards have established wheelchair user groups as required by the wheelchair action plan.
Answer
All territorial NHS boards have either established a wheelchair user and carer group, or network, or are in the process of finalising their models of user engagement.
- Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 17 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish the analysis of responses to its consultation on high hedges and other nuisance vegetation.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3O-9657 on 25 January 2010 which is available on the Parliament''s website, and can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-10/sor0225-02.htm#Col24054.
