- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community centres offer smoking cessation services, broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) deprivation category.
Answer
I refer the member to the questionS2W -11026 answered on 12 November 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility 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, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people quit smoking in each year since 1999, broken down by deprivation category.
Answer
This information is not currentlyheld centrally. However, steps are being taken to establish a national data basefor Scottish smoking cessation services which will mean that information on uptakeof services and quit rates at national level and for different localities throughoutScotland with a breakdown of different sub-sections of the community (e.g. by gender,age, ethnicity, and socio-economic group) will be available from 2005.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response was to the consultation which ended on 22 September 2004 on a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time and whether it will publish the response.
Answer
The Executive made no formalindividual response to the DTI consultation but has been fully involved in developingthe UK position on the Working Time Directive proposals.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are employed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in its Dundee office.
Answer
Sixty-two staff are currentlyemployed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in their Dundee office.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS locum medical staff there currently are, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) speciality.
Answer
The question requires a considerablelevel of detail in the answer and a copy of the information (Bib. number 34107)has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9898 by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 September 2004, how many locum consultants were working in the NHS in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) speciality and (b) NHS board area.
Answer
The question requires a considerablelevel of detail in the answer and a copy of the information (Bib. number 34107)has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is that a patient with an availability status code has to wait for in-patient/daycase treatment, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally because retrospective waiting times information does not separately identify patients with availability status codes.
Patients with availability status codes do not have a maximum waiting times guarantee. Patients on the inpatient/day case waiting list may have an availability status codes are applied if they cannot attend for personal or social reasons, did not attend their appointment, have a medical condition which prevents treatment, or are awaiting treatment deemed to be highly specialised or of low medical priority. Availability status codes can also be applied on occasions of exceptional strain on the NHS.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the average population size served by a district general hospital has changed since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-11477 answered on 10 November 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is that a patient with an availability status code has to wait for in-patient/daycase treatment, broken down by speciality.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive in which specialities availability status code 3 has been given in the last year.
Answer
The specific information required is not available centrally.
Information on the numbers of patients with availability status code 3, and the specialties in which they are waiting treatment, is however available from quarterly waiting list census data. On 30 June 2004, patients on the inpatient and day case waiting list with an availability status code 3 were awaiting treatment in the specialties of cardiology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology, general medicine, general surgery, gynaecology, ophthalmology, oral surgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, surgical paediatrics and urology.
