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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-18643

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether, prior to the IT failure on 1 October 2013, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had checked whether it could restore its active directory service from backups and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Question reference: S4W-18639

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government on what basis the report, Technical Assurance Review: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde: Critical Incident - 1 October 2013, concluded that "the design and implementation of the XGGC Microsoft Active Directory with associated services is a fit for purpose and resilient implementation" given that it found that the error was "associated with the Active Directory software environment".

Question reference: S4W-18646

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde patients were attended by medical staff when the clinical notes were unavailable during the IT failure of 1 October 2013.

Question reference: S4W-18645

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) planned and (b) unplanned service outages there have been on NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's IT systems since 1 October 2013.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s statistics for “Outage” include incidents where systems remain fully available to users, but elements are undergoing maintenance or remedial activities. In the period 2 October to 3 December there have been 10 planned outages (all restricted to either individual applications or sites. All occurred either out of hours when no users dependent on the services, or by pre-arrangement such that no risk to services occurred). There have been four periods of unplanned partial/total individual server outages during the period under review. These ranged between five and 60 minutes and on none of these occasions were patient services disrupted. This must be placed within the context of an IT estate with over 400 applications, supporting 11 major hospitals, over 250 GP and Health Centres and 40,000 staff.

Question reference: S4W-18641

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the IT failure at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on 1 October 2013, whether active directory auditing was switched off and, if so, for what reason.

Question reference: S4W-18638

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the IT failure at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, whether (a) domain name system requests had been failing from 26 September 2013 and (b) new web filter software had been brought online on the day of the failure and, if so, for what reason this is not mentioned in the report, Technical Assurance Review: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde: Critical Incident - 1 October 2013.

Question reference: S4W-18647

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many rapid alerts were caused by the IT failure at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde of 1 October 2013.

Question reference: S4W-18690

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 11 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the implementation plans produced by NHS boards for Neonatal Care in Scotland: a Quality Framework will be made public and, if so, in what form.

The new Local Delivery Plan format, focusing on the 12 priority areas for action in the Routemap to the 2020 Vision for Health and Social Care, will give NHS boards the opportunity to set out the action they are taking to implement Neonatal Care in Scotland: A Quality Framework.

Considerable progress has already been made, with the vast majority of statements in Neonatal Care in Scotland: A Quality Framework already being met, and full implementation taking place over the next five to 10 years.

Question reference: S4W-18691

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 11 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how regularly it will meet (a) NHS boards and (b) managed clinical networks to discuss progress toward implementing Neonatal Care in Scotland: a Quality Framework.

Discussions with NHS boards and managed clinical networks are underway to determine what the process will be for monitoring the implementation of Neonatal Care in Scotland: A Quality Framework. Once agreed with Ministers, the governance process will form part of this discussion.

Question reference: S4T-00540

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 December 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to tackle alcohol misuse.