- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pregnant teenagers were children of single parents, expressed also as a percentage of all teenage pregnancies, in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot centrally available.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been made available to promote sexual health to (a) patients, (b) parents and (c) schools in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is notavailable centrally in the form requested.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tier 4 services, as referred to in the supporting papers to Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health Relationship Strategy, there are in each community health partnership area.
Answer
The establishment of communityhealth partnerships is subject to the passage of the National Health ServiceReform (Scotland) Bill. The geographical areas covered by community healthpartnerships have still to be defined.
Service provision will beone of the issues to be considered in the light of the current consultation onthe proposals for a national sexual health strategy.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what services there are to support (a) women and (b) men in the event of termination of pregnancy, miscarriage or stillbirth in each NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been provided to improve access to sexual health services for (a) lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, (b) ethnic minority groups, (c) commercial sex workers and (d) homeless people in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Executive has, under theInclusion Project, provided £260,000 over the two years from 2002, to fund aproject manager to conduct research and develop a mainstreamed approach to theeffective inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in healthplanning and services. It has also, to date, provided £5,000 to fund a seriesof open-space events to explore issues of information and sexual health foryoung people in this group.
We would expect NHS boardsto be addressing sexual health issues in their health and homelessness actionplans, and to have regard to the needs of other groups in their local needsassessments, where appropriate using the £8.119 million the Executive isproviding in the current year to facilitate measures to prevent HIV and otherbloodborne issues.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated for providing information to the public on how to access sexual health services in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive would expect NHS boards to have regard to such issues in theirassessment of local needs. As such, the information requested is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) GPs and (b) other members of primary care teams would be needed to ensure adequate implementation of Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health Relationship Strategy at (i) tier 1 and (ii) tier 2 level.
Answer
Such issues will beconsidered in the light of the responses to the current consultation on theproposals for a national sexual health strategy.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) HIV and (b) chlamydia tests have been carried out in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The number of diagnosticHIV-antibody tests undertaken by HIV testing laboratories in Scotland in 1999-2002is as follows:
| NHS Board | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 985 | 845 | 990 | 1,061 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 594 | 666 | 823 | 1,319 |
| Borders | 113 | 115 | 147 | 139 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 234 | 285 | 324 | 271 |
| Fife | 547 | 740 | 817 | 915 |
| Forth Valley | 384 | 401 | 430 | 531 |
| Grampian | 2,407 | 2,234 | 1,962 | 2,462 |
| Greater Glasgow | 4,369 | 4,410 | 6,133 | 5,917 |
| Highland | 766 | 748 | 829 | 924 |
| Lanarkshire | 1,052 | 1,150 | 1,281 | 1,569 |
| Lothian | 5,067 | 5,249 | 5,703 | 6,043 |
| Orkney | 12 | 13 | 26 | 55 |
| Shetland | 101 | 112 | 127 | 137 |
| Tayside | 1,954 | 1,665 | 1,850 | 1,792 |
| Western Isles | 26 | 0 | 6 | 49 |
| Not Known | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Total | 18,611 | 18,640 | 21,455 | 23,184 |
Note: These figures exclude blood donors and pregnant women.
Similar data for chlamydia tests are not held centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) are currently waiting for and (b) have received in each year since 1999 an initial consultation with a sexual dysfunction specialist, giving the median waiting time for each year.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will provide to short-term pilot projects on anonymous bar coding and diagnostic test kits for sexually transmitted infections, as referred to in its sexual health strategy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4731. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
