- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities last met and what issues were discussed.
Answer
The Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities last met on Tuesday 13 April 2010. This was the Task Force''s third and final meeting as part of its review of
Equally Well. The Task Force considered papers on: Persistent Poverty; Health Inequalities and links to Justice, and the Curriculum for Excellence. It also discussed its report of the review of
Equally Well which was subsequently published on 23 June 2010:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/06/22170625/0.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on developing a referral-to-treatment target to drive faster access to psychological therapies and reduce antidepressant prescribing.
Answer
The HEAT targets for 2011-12 were published in the Local Delivery Plan Guidance on 1 December 2010. This included a HEAT target to improve access to mental health services by delivering 18-week referral-to-treatment for psychological therapies from December 2014.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 3 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been an increase in the number of patients registering with an NHS dentist since 1 April 2010.
Answer
In the period from 30 March 2010 to 30 September 2010 there was an increase in NHS general dental service registrations for children from 815,248 to 867,200.
In the period from 30 March 2010 to 30 September 2010 there was an increase in NHS general dental service registrations for adults from 2,571,860 to 2,815,576.
Data showing the number of NHS general dental service registrations in Scotland is available at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4680.html.
Source: Information Services Division, National Services Scotland
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it considers the NHS is sharing good practice.
Answer
The NHS shares good practice through a range of general and topic specific mechanisms.
The NHS event held annually, The NHS Education Evidence into Practice website and the annual NHS Awards contribute to the sharing of good practice generally.
More specifically, national improvement programmes engage every NHS board to share good practice and test service innovation. These programmes include:
The 18 Weeks Referral to Treatment programme,
The Mental Health Collaborative,
The Long Term Conditions Collaborative,
The Scottish Patient Safety Programme and
Releasing Time to Care in acute and mental health wards and in community hospitals.
These programmes share good practice through a variety of channels, including education and network events, newsletters, good practice publications, case studies and through a supporting website http://www.improvingnhsscotland.scot.nhs.uk.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37293 by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 November 2010, whether the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation considered its work plan for 2011-12 at its meeting on 30 November 2010 and, if so, what its work plan is.
Answer
The meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA) on 30 November 2010 was cancelled due to the severe weather conditions. TAGRA''s work plan for 2011-12 has been discussed through correspondence with members, and will cover:
GP out of hours services;
Moving from episodes to spells within specialty as the basis of acute activity costs;
Commencing a review of the morbidity and life circumstances adjustment, and
Reviewing the split between fixed and variable costs.
A new working group will also be established between members of TAGRA and the North of Scotland Planning Group to progress issues concerning the provision of healthcare in remote and rural areas.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37293 by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 November 2010, what issues were discussed at the meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation on 30 November 2010.
Answer
The meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA) on 30 November 2010 was cancelled due to the severe weather disruption. The issues which were due for discussion were:
Updates to the morbidity and life circumstances adjustment within the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) formula;
Options for the future development of the NRAC formula;
TAGRA''s 2011-12 work plan; and
Potential changes to the Costs Book which may affect NRAC formula data.
These issues have been discussed through correspondence with members.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37923 by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 November 2010, whether the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation has agreed a timetable for implementation of the recommendations in its recently published report on the impact of the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) formula on remote and rural areas.
Answer
The key recommendation of the report, relating to GP out-of-hours, has been included on the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation''s work plan for 2011-12.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 21,660 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2009-10 referred to the procurators fiscal resulted in a prosecution.
Answer
Criminal proceedings data for 2009-10, covering the period April 2009 to March 2010, is planned for release on 25 January 2011.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-harassment orders were granted as part of the disposal in relation to the 21,660 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2009-10 referred to the procurators fiscal.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sentences of (a) up to six months and (b) six months or over were issued in relation to the 21,660 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2009-10 referred to the procurators fiscal.
Answer
Criminal proceedings data for 2009-10, covering the period April 2009 to March 2010, is planned for release on 25 January 2011.
