- 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 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultants are suspended across Scotland and for how long they have been suspended.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- 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 what percentage of patients in residential psychiatric care facilities are smokers.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- 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: 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: 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, 27 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11034 by Mr Andy Kerr on 25 October 2004, which agencies each NHS employer engages with to meet service needs at a local level.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS employers who are responsible for the planning and delivery of a range of services and for ensuring a competent workforce to deliver these.
- 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: 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: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many obstetricians were trained in each of the last five years.
Answer
The route to being able to apply for consultant posts within obstetrics and gynaecology is through attainment of the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) by Specialist Registrars (SpRs).
NHS Education for Scotland are responsible for overseeing the management of the training programmes. The following table provides a breakdown, by postgraduate deanery, of the number of SpRs who have completed their training.
Number of Trainees Completing Training in Scotland (I.E. Certificate Of Completion Of Specialist Training) - 1 October 1999 - 30 September 2004
| Specialty | Date CCST awarded |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 01.10.99 - 30.09.2000 | 01.10.2000 - 30.09.2001 | 01.10.2001 - 30.09.2002 | 01.10.2002 - 30.09.2003 | 01.10.2003 – 30.09.04 | |
| East | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| North | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| S East | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| West | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | Overal Total |
| Total | 18 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 57 |
Source: NHS Education for Scotland.
