- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial impact the 1% increase in employers' National Insurance contributions announced in the UK Budget 2002 will have on each local authority and what additional financial resources will be allocated to each local authority specifically to compensate for the increase.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25291 on 14 May 2002.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA following the announcement in the UK Budget 2002 of an increase in employers' National Insurance contributions by 1%.
Answer
This issue is being considered as part of our discussions with COSLA on the current Spending Review.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial impact the increase in landfill tax announced in the UK Budget 2002 will have on each local authority and what additional financial resources will be allocated to each local authority specifically to compensate for the increase.
Answer
The intention to increase the rate of landfill tax for active waste from £12 to £13 per tonne in April 2002 had previously been announced in the Government's 1999 Budget. The tax is intended to be an incentive for all those disposing of waste, including local authorities, to deal with it in more sustainable ways. The financial impact of the tax will depend on decisions made by local authorities about the disposal of waste.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial impact the 1% increase in employers' National Insurance contributions announced in the UK Budget 2002 will have on each NHS board and trust and what additional financial resources will be allocated to each board and trust specifically to compensate for the increase.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25291 ON 14 May 2002.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial impact the 1% increase in employers' National Insurance contributions announced in the UK Budget 2002 will have on non-departmental public bodies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25291 on 14 May 2002.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what account will be taken of Dr Andrew Walker's report into hospital-acquired infection and bed use in the NHS.
Answer
Dr Walker's report will contribute along with other information and studies to the development of policy for dealing with health care associated infection.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it accepts the number of 1,416 acute hospital beds occupied full-time by patients with hospital-acquired infection (HAI) as estimated by Dr Andrew Walker in his report into HAI and bed use in the NHS.
Answer
There are no statistics on hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and bed use. Any figure can only be an estimate based on studies conducted in a few hospitals in England and elsewhere.The new HAI surveillance system currently provides data on the incidence of blood-borne MRSA infections and will provide similar data on the incidence of infection for selected surgical site infections and neurosurgery.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact actions taken to tackle hospital-acquired infection are having.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has put in place a range of measures to tackle hospital acquired infection (HAI). These include the introduction of service standards by the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland (CSBS) for infection control and cleaning services, a national mandatory system of surveillance of HAI, improved measures for the decontamination of re-usable medical devices, the antimicrobial resistance strategy and additional funding for the training of infection control nurses.The CSBS interim report on performance against the infection control standard will be the first indication of how well the NHS in Scotland is responding to the new measures.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of patients in Angus requiring ambulance transfers within one or two hours are not transported within this timeframe.
Answer
There has been an improvement in the performance in response to GPs' urgent calls. These calls mostly concern the admission of patients to hospital following a doctor's home visit. Here the service aim to transfer 95% of such requests to hospital within 15 minutes of the time agreed with the doctor, which might typically be two or three hours from the time the request is made. In Angus the service is currently transferring 90.7% of such cases to hospital within 15 minutes - an improvement of 2% on the previous reporting period.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes there have been to the provision of ambulance services for Angus since the withdrawal of acute services from Stracathro Hospital.
Answer
An additional seven front line emergency ambulance staff are now operational in the Angus area and there are another two vacancies waiting to be filled. All the ambulance stations in the area are now operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A paramedic-led thrombolytic service has been introduced to reduce the "pain to needle" time for cardiac patients who require thrombolysis. There are also plans to introduce some dedicated "GPs' urgent" resources in the near future.
