- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have received a community care service from their local authority in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
There is no universallyaccepted definition of a “community care service”; however, statisticalinformation on day care, home care, care homes and other services provided bylocal authorities can be found in the publication “Scottish Community CareStatistics 2002”. This publication can be found on the web, at the followingaddress:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00309-00.asp
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to direct local authorities to improve services for people with sensory impairments, in light of the concerns expressed by the annual report of the Chief Social Work Inspector, Progress with Complexity: The 2003 National Overview Report.
Answer
The Sensory Impairment Action Plan, launched in January, gives the Executive, local authorities andother stakeholders clear goals for improved services for people with a sensoryimpairment. A key recommendation is that a short life working group be set upto produce common sensory impairment service standards for implementation by September 2005.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which long-stay hospitals may not have all residents resettled by 2005 due to uncertainty over the financial framework by local authorities, as referred to in the annual report of the Chief Social Work Inspector, Progress with Complexity: The 2003 National Overview Report.
Answer
The same as you? recommended in May 2000 that all long stay hospitalsfor people with learning disabilities should close by 2005. Six have closedsince May 2000, with seven remaining for closure by 2005. On 12 January Thesame as you? national implementation group published the Home at Last?report on progress with hospital closures and service reprovision, a copy of whichis available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 31309). It setsout a number of action points that aim to assist local authorities and NHS boardsin meeting the 2005 target, including a programme of work by NHS QualityImprovement Scotland (NHSQIS) to monitor the hospital closure programme in therun up to 2005. NHSQIS has set up a project group to work with all partners todeliver the closure of all long stay hospitals for people with learningdisabilities by 2005.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) were eligible for and (b) received direct payments in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The following table provides information on the number of clients receiving direct payments, by local authority, for the years ending 31 March 2001, 2002 and 2003.
This information was not collected prior to the year 2000-01.
Information on eligibility is not available.
Number of Direct Payments by Local Authority
| Local Authority | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Aberdeen City | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| Aberdeenshire | 8 | 6 | 11 |
| Angus | 4 | 23 | 30 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1 | 4 | 18 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 7 | 25 | 27 |
| Dundee City | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Lothian | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 67 | 49 | 89 |
| Eilean Siar | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Falkirk | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 30 | 64 | 120 |
| Glasgow City | 17 | 16 | 15 |
| Highland | 14 | 23 | 43 |
| Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| North Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 3 | 10 | 11 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| Renfrewshire | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Scottish Borders | 12 | 20 | 50 |
| Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | 22 | 18 | 31 |
| South Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stirling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| Scotland | 207 | 292 | 534 |
Source: SEHD – F1 Return.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug misusers have received a drug treatment and care service in the community in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Information is not held centrally on the total number of drug misusers who have received a drugtreatment service since 1999. However, the Information and Statistics Divisionof the Common Services Agency (ISD Scotland) do publish figures on the numbersof new clients entering drug treatment services each year, based on returns tothe Scottish Drug Misuse Database. These figures are broken down by localauthority area and are available at
www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet its target of having a 10% increase in the number of drug misusers receiving a drug treatment and care service in the community this year.
Answer
The target of achieving a10% increase in the number of new clients attending drug treatment services ismonitored through returns to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database and figures arepublished annually by financial years.
Data for 2003-04 will not beavailable until the autumn.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4807 by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004, whether it holds the same information on median and mean waiting times for (a) in-patients and day cases and (b) out-patients, stating availability status codes.
Answer
Availability Status Codes (ASCs) are not mandatory data items on the in-patient and day case discharge record. For this reason the in-patient/day case table in the answer to S2W-4807 includes all cases, and does not exclude cases with an ASC.
On the out-patient record, Availability Status Codes (ASCs) can be identified. The table provides information on the median and mean waiting times for new out-patients without an ASC and new outpatients with an ASC. The mean and median wait data for new outpatients without an ASC was previously included in the answer to S2W-4807.
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/search_wa.
| | Difference in Median Wait and Mean Wait (days) for New Outpatient Appointments |
| Quarter Ended | Excludes ASCs | | Only ASCs |
| | Median | Mean | Difference | | Median | Mean | Difference |
| 30-Jun-1997 | 41 | 54.9 | -13.9 | | 81 | 105.3 | -24.3 |
| 30-Sep-1997 | 45 | 60.5 | -15.5 | | 83 | 101.1 | -18.1 |
| 31-Dec-1997 | 44 | 61.7 | -17.7 | | 87 | 108.6 | -21.6 |
| 31-Mar-1998 | 43 | 60.7 | -17.7 | | 84 | 106.6 | -22.6 |
| 30-Jun-1998 | 43 | 59.3 | -16.3 | | 73 | 97.5 | -24.5 |
| 30-Sep-1998 | 48 | 64.0 | -16.0 | | 79 | 98.2 | -19.2 |
| 31-Dec-1998 | 48 | 64.8 | -16.8 | | 83 | 102.7 | -19.7 |
| 31-Mar-1999 | 47 | 66.2 | -19.2 | | 84 | 104.4 | -20.4 |
| 30-Jun-1999 | 46 | 64.3 | -18.3 | | 75 | 98.0 | -23.0 |
| 30-Sep-1999 | 51 | 69.2 | -18.2 | | 78 | 99.0 | -21.0 |
| 31-Dec-1999 | 50 | 69.6 | -19.6 | | 82 | 104.3 | -22.3 |
| 31-Mar-2000 | 48 | 68.7 | -20.7 | | 87 | 109.2 | -22.2 |
| 30-Jun-2000 | 47 | 65.0 | -18.0 | | 80 | 107.7 | -27.7 |
| 30-Sep-2000 | 50 | 68.3 | -18.3 | | 84 | 108.0 | -24.0 |
| 31-Dec-2000 | 50 | 71.9 | -21.9 | | 87 | 113.1 | -26.1 |
| 31-Mar-2001 | 51 | 78.0 | -27.0 | | 91 | 116.7 | -25.7 |
| 30-Jun-2001 | 50 | 73.4 | -23.4 | | 90 | 119.5 | -29.5 |
| 30-Sep-2001 | 56 | 77.2 | -21.2 | | 91 | 117.5 | -26.5 |
| 31-Dec-2001 | 55 | 79.9 | -24.9 | | 98 | 125.2 | -27.2 |
| 31-Mar-2002 | 56 | 83.3 | -27.3 | | 102 | 130.0 | -28.0 |
| 30-Jun-2002 | 54 | 84.1 | -30.1 | | 91 | 125.6 | -34.6 |
| 30-Sep-2002 | 57 | 87.5 | -30.5 | | 93 | 124.0 | -31.0 |
| 31-Dec-2002 | 57 | 90.8 | -33.8 | | 91 | 123.4 | -32.4 |
| 31-Mar-2003 | 56 | 91.8 | -35.8 | | 95 | 129.9 | -34.9 |
| 30-Jun-2003 | 51 | 84.9 | -33.9 | | 88 | 129.9 | -41.9 |
| 30-Sep-2003 | 55 | 86.9 | -31.9 | | 92 | 131.0 | -39.0 |
Source: Out-patient data issourced from the SMR00 dataset, and covers referrals from a GMP/GDP to a consultantled out-patient clinic.
Note: Data for the mostrecent quarters should be considered provisional
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4807 by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004, what the difference was in median wait and mean wait, broken down by NHS board and speciality in each quarter.
Answer
The information requestedhas been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 31311).
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many social service workers will have to be redeployed by local authorities because they are unable, or unwilling, to achieve the requisite qualifications of the social services register for the staff in phase 1, as referred to in the annual report of the Chief Social Work Inspector Progress with Complexity: The 2003 National Overview Report.
Answer
Staff who comeon to the register in phase one will have until the end of the first period ofregistration (a further three years) to achieve the necessary qualifications. Thenumbers of staff who will not achieve the required qualifications willtherefore be determined by employers as the registration process proceeds.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 4 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the removal of unhealthy food and drink from vending machines in schools.
Answer
We expectall schools to end the active promotion or advertising of fizzy, sugary softdrinks and snacks high in fat and salt. Where vending machines are present theyshould promote healthier options/brands such as water and fruit juices ratherthan high sugar soft drinks.
