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Recruitment of newly qualified doctors into Foundation Programmes in NHSScotland is managed centrally by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) which liaises with individual health boards about where those junior doctors should be placed.

The following table provides the information requested showing numbers recruited by NHS Highland and the other NHS boards covered by the North of Scotland Deanery.

	NHS Grampian	NHS Highland	NHS Orkney	NHS Shetland	NHS Western Isles
2007	100	29	0	1	2
2008	92	30	0	0	2
2009	88	27	0	1	2
2010	97	30	0	1	2
2011  (to date)	102	30	0	1	2

Source: NHS Education for Scotland.

The Scottish Government has taken significant steps through a series of measures to increase access to NHS dentistry in rural and remote areas.

In the period 31 March 2007 to 31 December 2010 dental registrations have increased by 1.15 million.

The following table shows the increase in dental registrations by NHS board.

Difference in Number of Registrations by Age Category

NHS Board	Child	Adult	All Ages
Scotland	163,714	989,579	1,153,293
Ayrshire and Arran	8,621	67,752	76,373
Borders	4,550	18,438	22,988
Dumfries and Galloway	3,714	29,792	33,506
Fife	10,817	60,196	71,013
Forth Valley	9,632	57,627	67,259
Grampian	13,683	73,619	87,302
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	22,660	198,052	220,712
Highland	11,810	59,827	71,637
Lanarkshire	18,322	108,805	127,127
Lothian	12,798	127,023	139,821
Orkney	1,597	3,696	5,293
Shetland	1,889	4,562	6,451
Tayside	4,878	56,978	61,856
Western Isles	1,115	4,032	5,147

 

The hospital services drug expenditure for the last four years at NHS Highland:

Year	Amount (£ million)
2009-10	11.9
2008-09	10.4
2007-08	9.0
2006-07	9.5

Source: ISD Scotland costs book.

The hospital services drug expenditure for the last four years at NHS Shetland:

Year	Amount £(m)
2009-10	0.6
2008-09	0.4
2007-08	0.4
2006-07	0.5

Source: ISD Scotland costs book.

The number of newly-qualified midwives employed in NHS Highland since 2007 is as follows

2007 “ 2

2008 “ 1

2009 “ 0

2010 “ 6

2011 “ 1.

Recruitment of newly-qualified nurses and midwives in 2011 is on-going.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39919 on 10 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Grampian. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

Financial Year	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)
2006-07	3,779,874
2007-08	4,001,780
2008-09	3,961,375
2009-10	4,224,740

Notes:

The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.

Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.

The number of newly-qualified nurses employed in NHS Orkney since 2007 is as follows

2007 “ 0

2008 “ 2

2009 “ 4

2010 “ 1

2011 “ 0.

Recruitment of newly-qualified nurses and midwives in 2011 is on-going.

The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Shetland. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

Financial Year	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)
2006-07	141,214
2007-08	149,573
2008-09	148,523
2009-10	158,133

Notes: The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.

Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.

The number of newly-qualified nurses employed in NHS Western Isles since 2007 is as follows

2007 “ 1

2008 “ 3

2009 “ 1

2010 “ 6

2011 “ 0.

Recruitment of newly-qualified nurses and midwives in 2011 is on-going.