- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether sufficient theatre and laboratory capacity and colonoscopy skills are available to allow the colorectal cancer screening programme to be rolled out throughout Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-2628 today, which is available on the Parliament’s website, thesearch facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made with the colorectal cancer screening pilot and when the outcome of the pilot will be published.
Answer
The
Evaluation of the UK ColorectalCancer Screening Pilot was released on 8 July 2003. Acopy of the report is available at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/publications/ColorectalCaScreenpilotEval2003.pdf.A second round of colorectal cancer screening covering the pilot area of Fife, Grampianand Tayside commenced in December 2002.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to increase the number of staff within the NHS who are able to perform colonoscopies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-2628 today, which is available on the Parliament’s website, thesearch facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 26 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-1588, S2W-1589, S2W-1590, S2W-1591, S2W-1592 and S2W-1593 by Peter Peacock on 14 August 2003, how many posts there are at each salary point for (a) promoted teachers, and (b) principal teachers of guidance, following the job-si'ing exercise on promoted postholders in schools, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information cannot beprovided in the format requested. To do so could raise data protection issuesby potentially revealing personal data to third parties without the consent of the persons concerned.
Thefollowing tables provide the number of posts on each salary point across Scotland.The Scottish Executive generally does not provide data where numbers are fiveor less.
| Principal Teachers salary point | Number of Principal Teachers | Number of Guidance Principal Teachers | Deputy Headteacher/ Headteacher salary point | Number of Deputy Headteachers/ Headteachers |
| 1 | 344 | 141 | 1 | 498 |
| 2 | 953 | 221 | 2 | 617 |
| 3 | 2,050 | 400 | 3 | 802 |
| 4 | 2,155 | 235 | 4 | 905 |
| 5 | 1,058 | 86 | 5 | 787 |
| 6 | 384 | 17 | 6 | 517 |
| 7 | 114 | * | 7 | 600 |
| 8 | 59 | * | 8 | 452 |
| | | | 9 | 359 |
| | | | 10 | 159 |
| | | | 11 | 88 |
| | | | 12 | 60 |
| | | | 13 | 33 |
| | | | 14 | 48 |
| | | | 15 | 82 |
| | | | 16 | 67 |
| | | | 17 | 44 |
| | | | 18 | 22 |
| | | | 19 | 15 |
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*Number is five or less.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 26 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-1588, S2W-1589, S2W-1590, S2W-1591, S2W-1592 and S2W-1593 by Peter Peacock on 14 August 2003, whether the management of assistant principal teacher posts was considered in the weighting process for the job-si'ing exercise on promoted postholders in schools.
Answer
Yes. The management of allteaching and non-teaching staff was taken into consideration in the job sizingprocess.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the waiting times are for an assessment for low-vision aids in each NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally. Information on waiting times for a first out-patientappointment with a consultant, following GP referral, is collected at specialtylevel only. The assessment for low-vision aids is undertaken in the specialtyof ophthalmology.
The median waiting times fora first out-patient appointment with a consultant in ophthalmology, followingGP referral, in the year ended 30 June 2003, in each NHS board area, is givenin the table.
NHSScotland: Median WaitingTimes for a First Out-Patient Appointment with a Consultant in the Specialty ofOphthalmology, Following Referral by a General Medical Practitioner, by NHSBoard Area of Residence. Year Ended 30 June 2003P
| NHS Board | Median Wait (Days) |
| Argyll and Clyde | 84 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 60 |
| Borders | 55 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 60 |
| Fife | 56 |
| Forth Valley | 73 |
| Grampian | 75 |
| Greater Glasgow | 124 |
| Highland | 108 |
| Lanarkshire | 147 |
| Lothian | 56 |
| Orkney* | - |
| Shetland* | - |
| Tayside | 50 |
| Western Isles* | - |
| Scotland | 79 |
PProvisional.
Source: ISD Scotland.
Note:
*Information not shown dueto small numbers (less than 100).
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications of the introduction of free eye tests are for low-vision services.
Answer
None.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many training places are available for rehabilitation workers for blind and partially sighted people.
Answer
The Guide Dogs for the BlindAssociation's School of Vision and Rehabilitation Studies in Glasgow offerstraining for rehabilitation workers in Scotland. Over the past 11 years in excess of 300 students havecompleted courses to qualify as rehabilitation workers. The most recent intake onthe full-time Diploma of Higher Education in Rehabilitation Studies - the entrylevel qualification for becoming a rehabilitation worker - had nine students.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has issued any advice to NHS boards on the assessment for, and issuing of, low-vision aids to registered blind and partially sighted people.
Answer
No such advice has been issued.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans for a recognised funded qualification course for rehabilitation workers for blind and partially sighted people.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is aware that the Diploma of Higher Education in Rehabilitation Studiesoffered at the Guide Dogs for the Blind School of Vision and RehabilitationStudies is at present on its final intake. The Social Work ServicesInspectorate have seconded an expert from the field of visual impairment for sixmonths to review the situation and establish best alternatives to this courseand the future provision of rehabilitation workers in the immediate and longerterms.
