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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-06693

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that a more strategic approach is taken to involving older people in shaping public services, given the findings set out in Involving Older People: Lessons for Community Planning.

A Partnership for a BetterScotland makes clear the Executive’s commitment to ensuring public services aredesigned around the needs of individuals.

Community engagement is akey part of the community planning process. Communities Scotland aredeveloping national standards to improve the way communities, including olderpeople, can influence the planning and delivery of services. The standards arebeing developed from a series of focus groups, which include one aimedspecifically at older people. One of the principles underpinning the standardsis that fairness, equalityand inclusion must underpin all aspects of community engagement. This shouldhelp ensure that older people are effectively engaged. The detail of howengagement is taken forward is a matter for community planning partnershipsdepending on local circumstances.

The findings of the researchInvolving Older People: Lessons for Community Planning have been widelycirculated to service planners and providers and were the focus of a conferenceorganised by COSLA on 1 December 2003. This was designed to raise awareness anddisseminate good practice supplementing the guidance referred to above.

The Health WhitePaper, Partnership for Care, is explicit that looking at services from apatient’s point of view should be a key driver of change in the Health Service.Patient Focus and Public Involvement (PFPI) aims to ensure all patient and public groups are considered in NHSservice planning as appropriate, taking full account of equality and diversityissues such as age, religion/faith, race/ethnicity, sexuality, disability andgender. Draft guidance to ensure that the public are informed, engaged andconsulted on all policies and services developed by the Health Department andNHSScotland has recently been distributed to NHS board chief executives andother key stakeholders for final comment. This guidance takes account of equalityissues, including age.

Question reference: S2W-06687

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the National Clinical Assessment Authority regarding the consultation paper “Safer for Patients, Supportive for Professionals”.

Question reference: S2W-06684

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many NHS nurses who work in Scotland have been reported to the Nursing and Midwifery Council for poor performance in each year since 1999 and the outcome of each reported case.

The Scottish Executive does not hold this information.

The Nursing and Midwifery council have provided the following information on Scottish cases referred to them for misconduct or lack of competence.

	Total cases referred to NMC	Scottish cases referred to NMC
2002-03	1,301	97
2001-02	1,304	69
2000-01	1,240	81
1999-2000	1,142	92

Question reference: S2W-06419

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many carers' assessments there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-06695

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take to reduce negative attitudes towards older people and increase their expectations of the effectiveness of their involvement in planning public services.

Question reference: S2W-06681

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions External Clinical Assessment Teams have been called in in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-06682

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many doctors who work in Scotland have been reported to the General Medical Council for poor performance in each year since 1999 and the outcome of each reported case.

Question reference: S2W-06680

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidences there were of poor performance, as referred to in the consultation document Safer for Patients, Supportive for Professionals, in the NHS in each year for which figures are available and, of these, how many incidences were deliberate or pre-meditated.

Question reference: S2W-06333

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been distributed in grant aid by the Scottish Football Partnership and to which organisations.

Question reference: S2W-06334

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #6 million fund operated by the Scottish Football Partnership has been distributed.