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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 Orkney. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

Financial Year	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)
2006-07	140,736
2007-08	145,558
2008-09	150,501
2009-10	156,756

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 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 hospital services drug expenditure for the last four years at NHS Western Isles:

Year	Amount (£ million)
2009-10	0.8
2008-09	0.7
2007-08	0.7
2006-07	0.6

Source: ISD Scotland costs book.

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

Year	Amount (£ million)
2009-10	30.1
2008-09	26.6
2007-08	23.3
2006-07	21.5

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.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39914 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.

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 information requested is not centrally held for 2007.

Information for 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as follows:

Year	Grampian WTE	Highland WTE	Orkney WTE	Shetland WTE	Western Isles WTE
2008-09	74.5	62.7	5.9	22.0	11.0
2009-10	36.0	62.9	6.1	35.0	11.0

Source: Annual Accounts.

Note: The annual mean number of employees is calculated as the total whole-time equivalent (WTE) number of employees under contract of service in each week in the financial year, divided by the number of weeks in the financial year.

Information for 2010-11 will be available when NHS boards produce their annual accounts for 2010-11 at the end of June.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39914 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-39914 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.