- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) applications for central heating have been (i) made and (ii) approved and (b) central heating systems have been installed under its central heating programme in (1) 2001 and (2) 2002 in the East Ayrshire local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30388 today. 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.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) applications for central heating have been (i) made and (ii) approved and (b) central heating systems have been installed under its central heating programme in (1) 2001 and (2) 2002 in the South Ayrshire local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30388 today. 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.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28445 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 September 2002, when the studies carried out by Dr David Cooke, Psychological Disturbance amongst Prisoners, and Dr James McManus, Mentally Disturbed Prisoners, will be updated in order to determine the current situation in the prison service on the matters covered by the studies.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:There are no plans to update these studies.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current average waiting time is from (a) referral by a GP and (b) referral by any other person for (i) children and (ii) adolescents to receive psychological treatment.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is addressing post-natal depression and puerperal psychosis nationally.
Answer
In terms of organisation and delivery of care, it is for all NHS boards and their care partners to consider what provision best suits the assessed needs of their area. Services that are in place range from Community Psychiatric Nursing Services, Psychiatric Obstetric Liaison services to support and interventions in the community such as outreach nursery workers, home support services and parenting programmes.To help with the organisation of provision the Health Department published guidance in March 1999 on the best organisation and provision of post-natal depression services. The guidance promotes a systematic approach to the prevention, detection and treatment of post-natal depression through an Integrated Care Pathway, involving contributions and resources from all relevant skilled professionals.Further, agencies are expected to apply the best practice approaches set out in the recently published Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network evidence-based guidance on Postnatal Depression and Puerperal Psychosis. Work is also under way to develop information systems which will allow the care of women with post-natal depression to be recorded systematically so that agencies have the information, practice and procedures to screen all women and to arrange appropriate follow up care.The visiting Mental Health and Well Being Support Group published a national summary of current practice and innovations in the organisation of post-natal depression support and services across Scotland at: www.show.scot.nhs.uk/mhwbsg. The group consider and report on local responses as part of their local and national review process.The Health Department guidance is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 24358).
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many mothers have been diagnosed with (a) post-natal depression and (b) puerperal psychosis in each of the last five years.
Answer
It is not currently possible to obtain a reliable estimate of the incidence of these specific conditions.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many mothers diagnosed with (a) post-natal depression and (b) puerperal psychosis have been admitted to psychiatric units in each of the last five years.
Answer
The number of patients explicitly diagnosed with post-natal depression or puerperal psychosis and discharged from in-patient care in psychiatric specialties are shown in the following table, for years ending 31 March 1998 to 2002. It is understood that these figures may represent an undercount of the total treated as other patients with these conditions may have been given less specific diagnoses, e.g. depression or unspecified puerperal mental disorders.Patients Discharged from Psychiatric Specialties
1 with a Diagnosis of Post-Natal Depression or Puerperal Psychosis
| Years ending 31 March | Post-Natal Depression | Puerperal Psychosis |
| 1998 | 35 | 16 |
| 1999 | 32 | 12 |
| 2000 | 13 | 13 |
| 2001 | 29 | 9 |
| 2002P | 28 | 14 |
P provisional.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many psychiatric units have specialist units for mothers diagnosed with (a) post-natal depression and (b) puerperal psychosis in order to accommodate safely both mother and child.
Answer
National information returns do not identify such specialist units.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist care is available in the community for mothers diagnosed with (a) post-natal depression and (b) puerperal psychosis.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29577 today. 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
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) children and (b) adolescents are currently waiting for a referral for psychological treatment.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
