- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has taken to educate people who do not have HIV/AIDS about the illness.
Answer
The National Sexual Health StrategyRespect and Responsibility, published in January 2005, includes a number of recommendationson the importance of educating the general public on prevention of sexually transmitteddiseases such as HIV/AIDS.
NHS boards are delivering educationthrough their locally appointed Health Promotion Managers and Drug Action Teams.In addition, NHS Health Scotland is working with key stakeholders to support positiveSexual Health in the workplace in relation to HIV status.
NHS Health Scotland are alsoworking closely with the Executive on two programmes, “Healthy Respect” and “Respectand Responsibility” where HIV/AIDS is seen as being an important element in workaround promoting protection against all STIs, reducing stigma and discriminationand improving access to services for those people who are living with HIV/AIDS.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on measures to educate people who do not have HIV/AIDS about the illness in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the steering group which has overseen the introduction of new arrangements for the supply of stoma appliances will be invited to reconvene to oversee the scheduled review of these arrangements in the autumn and, if not, whether all members of the existing steering group will be invited to sit on any new group formed for this purpose.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-26419 on 14 June 2006. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that all suppliers of stoma appliances comply with new service standards to protect and enhance the standard of care received by patients and whether suppliers failing to satisfy these requirements will not be allowed to continue to supply stoma appliances.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-26419 on 14 June 2006. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to honour its commitment that, under new arrangements for the supply of stoma appliances, all stoma patients will continue to be able to choose to receive their stoma appliances from a community pharmacist or a specialist dispensing appliance contractor.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-26420 on 14 June 2006. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been supplied with insulin pumps to manage their diabetes at home in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The following table, which hasbeen compiled from information supplied by the Diabetes Managed Clinical Networks,sets out the number of people with diabetes using an insulin pump in June 2006 ineach NHS board area.
| NHS Board | No. of People with Diabetes Using an Insulin Pump |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1 |
| Borders | 5 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5 |
| Fife | 15 |
| Forth Valley | 8 |
| Grampian | 13 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 22 |
| Highland | 6 |
| Lanarkshire | 5 |
| Lothian | 45 |
| Orkney | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 |
| Tayside | 34 |
| Western Isles | 1 |
| Scotland | 160 |
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any funding shortfall for specialist stoma nurses which has arisen from the introduction of new arrangements for the supply of stoma appliances and, if so, whether it will provide funding to NHS boards to address the shortfall.
Answer
No. The new arrangements haveended the practice of specialist stoma nurses advising NHS patients being employedor sponsored by appliance contractors or manufacturers. Transitional funding fora period of two years, based on the historic level of sponsorship or employmentcost is, however, being made available by the industry to allow time for NHSboards to adjust to the new regime.
The ingredient cost of appliancescontinues, as previously, to be a call on NHS boards’ unified budget.
A sum of £2.5 million has beenadded to NHS boards’ unified budget in respect of dispensing fees which now fallto be met directly by NHS boards.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current average waiting times are for the supply of insulin pumps to patients who require such pumps to manage their diabetes at home, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much local produce is used in preparing prison meals in each prison in Scotland.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The information requested isnot available. Most foodstuffs used in prisons are procured centrally to ensureboth the required level of quality and value for money.
The SPS have established a goodfood group to ensure that prisoners are provided with a healthy and balanced diet.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it provides to the Caledonian Virtual Practice Development College.
Answer
The Scottish Executiveagreed to provide a contribution to the running costs for one year (2005-06),along with NHS Education for Scotland and NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, to allow theCollege to continue functioning while an external evaluation of practice developmentmodels was carried out. The Scottish Executive contributed £40,000.
