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The following table shows the total number of bed days of patients treated in acute hospitals in Highland, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland for alcohol related conditions for the calendar year 2009. NHS Boards data returns for 2010 are currently incomplete. These statistics are published by financial year and statistics for 2010-11 is planned to be published by ISD in February 2012.

Total Number of Bed Days in General Acute Hospitals^1,2,3 for Alcohol-Related⁴ Diagnosis^5,6 for Selected NHS Boards⁷; 2009^P

NHS Health Board7	Number of Bed Days
Highland	12, 319
Orkney	866
Shetland	474
Western Isles	1, 728

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

^PProvisional.

Date Extracted: March 2011.

Information is based on date of discharge (rather than date of admission) because the SMR01 dataset is a discharge summary record.

Excludes mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and maternity hospitals.

Figures in this table relate only to those individuals who are treated as inpatients or day cases in an acute hospital. They do not include individuals managed as outpatients.

Diseases recorded using the World Health Organization''s International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10). Alcohol-related codes: F10, K70, X45, X65, Y15, Y90, Y91, E24.4, E51.2, G31.2, G62.1, G72.1, I42.6, K29.2, K86.0, O35.4, P04.3, Q86.0, T51.0, T51.1, T51.9, Y57.3, R78.0, Z50.2, Z71.4, Z72.1.  Up to 6 diagnoses are recorded. All six diagnoses have been used to identify alcohol related conditions.

Caution is necessary when interpreting these figures. The recording of alcohol misuse may vary from hospital to hospital. Where alcohol misuse is suspected but unconfirmed it may not be recorded by the hospital.

Note that these figures include residents from other health boards that were treated in Highland, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland hospitals but do not include Highland, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland residents treated in other health boards.

Health board of treatment.

Due to the cuts in the Scottish Government budget imposed by the UK Government, there is no budget identified for Rural Home Ownership Grants (RHOGs) for 2011-12. Details of the housing budget for 2012-13 have yet to be determined. However, the Scottish Government has recently announced a further £3 million which will be added to our 2011-12 Open Market Shared Equity budget and will be targeted at helping first time buyers to purchase a home in 13 remote rural local authority areas. As the strategic housing authority, local authorities can also play a key role in enabling self-build, and some may wish to provide loans or other support for self-builders, for example by using council tax income from second homes and long-term empty properties.

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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39919 on 10 March 2011. All the 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.

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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39919 on 10 March 2011. All the 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.

All NHS boards are actively working to deliver the 18 weeks referral to treatment time target by the end of this year. Some boards have made better progress than others. That is why the Health Delivery Directorate are providing additional support to boards to ensure that the target is delivered.

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 number of (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists in the Highland and Islands area who received the £9,000 remote areas allowance in each of the last three years for which information is available is shown in the following table:

Dentists	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11 (to date)
(a) independent	19	24	27
(b) salaried	30	34	41

 

The figures in the table do not include (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists who have received, in the last three years, the remote areas allowance payable at amounts of less than the full £9,000.

The number of newly-qualified nurses employed by NHS Shetland since 2007 is as follows:

2007 - 3

2008 - 7

2009 - 10

2010 “ 2.

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