Chamber and committees

The Scottish Executive no longerprovides core funding to the Scottish Agricultural and Biological Research Institutes(SABRIs) and the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC).

From 1 April 2006 the SABRIsand SAC are funded to undertake a number of research programmes that focus on theareas of policy priority to the Scottish Executive and the needs of end-users asspecified in the document Strategic Research for SEERAD 2005-2010.

The Scottish Executive is makingavailable transitional funding of approximately £1.9 million in 2006-07, £2 million in 2007-08 and £2 million in 2008-09to enable former Hannah scientists to develop their research in an alternativeorganisation and to look for alternative sources of funding subsequently.

The information requested isshown in the following tables. It should be noted that (a) ISD Scotland doesnot collect information on the specific reasons why dentists cease to providegeneral dental services and (b) that ISD Scotland would expect a “drop-out”rate of dentists to be observed over any period through retirals, resignations,etc.

Table 1: Number of SalariedDentists Who Have Started Providing NHS General Dental Services Since thePublication of An Action Plan For Improving Oral Health And Modernising NHSDental Services In Scotland (17 March 2005)^1,2,6; by NHS BoardArea

NHS board area	No. of Dentists
Argyll and Clyde	7
Ayrshire and Arran	2
Borders	3
Dumfries and Galloway	3
Fife	-
Forth Valley	9
Grampian	1
Greater Glasgow	7
Highland	7
Lanarkshire	-
Lothian	2
Orkney	4
Shetland	-
Tayside	-
Western Isles	2
Scotland1,2,6	33

 

Table 2: Number ofNon-Salaried Dentists Who Have Started Providing NHS General Dental ServicesSince the Publication of An Action Plan For Improving Oral Health And ModernisingNHS Dental Services In Scotland (17 March 2005)^1,2,6; by NHS BoardArea

NHS board area	No. of dentists
Argyll and Clyde	28
Ayrshire and Arran	9
Borders	2
Dumfries and Galloway	1
Fife	10
Forth Valley	16
Grampian	19
Greater Glasgow	45
Highland	9
Lanarkshire	26
Lothian	24
Orkney	2
Shetland	1
Tayside	18
Western Isles	-
Scotland1,2,6	143

 

Table 3: Number of SalariedDentists Who Have Stopped Providing NHS General Dental Services Since thePublication of An Action Plan For Improving Oral Health And Modernising NHSDental Services In Scotland (17 March 2005)^3,4,5,6; by NHS BoardArea

NHS board area	No. of Dentists
Argyll and Clyde	4
Ayrshire and Arran	-
Borders	-
Dumfries and Galloway	2
Fife	1
Forth Valley	1
Grampian	3
Greater Glasgow	-
Highland	4
Lanarkshire	-
Lothian	-
Orkney	1
Shetland	1
Tayside	-
Western Isles	-
Scotland3,4,5,6	14

 

Table 4: Number ofNon-Salaried Dentists Who Have Stopped Providing NHS General Dental ServicesSince the Publication of An Action Plan For Improving Oral Health And ModernisingNHS Dental Services In Scotland (17 March 2005)^3,4,5,6; By NHS BoardArea

NHS board area	No. of dentists
Argyll and Clyde	11
Ayrshire and Arran	10
Borders	-
Dumfries and Galloway	2
Fife	13
Forth Valley	15
Grampian	11
Greater Glasgow	45
Highland	4
Lanarkshire	28
Lothian	36
Orkney	2
Shetland	-
Tayside	17
Western Isles	-
Scotland3,4,5,6	116

Source MIDAS (ManagementInformation and Dental Accounting System). Data extracted on 26 May 2006.

Notes:

1. The number of salaried NHS general dental serviceprincipals who were not active at anypoint in the year prior to 17 March 2005 in one NHS board area and who openedat least one list number in the corresponding NHS board in the period 17 March2005 to 31 March 2006. A small number of dentists who started operating in a dual-role salaried and non-salaried capacityhave been included in Table 1.

2. Some NHS general dental service principals mayhave been providing NHS services in another NHS board area in the year prior to17 March 2005.

3. The number of salaried NHS general dental serviceprincipals who terminated all list numbers in one NHS board area in the period17 March 2005 to 31 March 2006.

4. Some NHS general dental service principals mayhave terminated all list numbers in one NHS board area, but still provide NHSservices elsewhere in Scotland.

5. NHS general dental service principals may cease providing NHS services on a temporarybasis.

6. NHS general dentalpractitioners (GDPs) enter into a contract with their local NHS board. A GDPmay have more than one contract with an NHS board if he/she has more than onepractice, and a contract with more than one NHS board if he/she practises inmore than one NHS board area. As a result, the sum of the number of dentists ineach NHS board area exceeds the number of dentists practising in Scotland.

The criteria for beingregarded as an NHS committed practice for the enhanced rate of the generaldental practice allowance is contained in Determination XIV of the Statement ofDental Remuneration. Dentists were provided with an outline of the new NHScommitment criteria in the October edition of the Scottish Dental News. Iprovided further details in my letter to dentists of 29 November. Full guidanceon the introduction of this allowance was issued to NHS boards, PractitionerServices of NHS National Services Scotland and dentists in NHS: 2005 PCA(D)11,issued on 29 December 2005, a copy of which is available on SHOW at http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/pca.asp.

The criteria for beingregarded as an NHS committed practice, in respect of the payment of certainallowances, are that the dentists within a practice have to:

provide general dentalservices to all categories of patients;

have an average of 500registered NHS patients per dentist, of which at least an average of 100 perdentist must be fee paying adults, and

have average gross earningsof £50,000 or above per dentist.

To continue to be regardedas an NHS committed practice a practice has to continue to meet the abovecriteria but must also maintain or increase its NHS patient profile.

Failure to continue to meetthe above criteria will result in the practice no longer being regarded as NHScommitted. Where a practice has exceptional reasons for not continuing to meetthe criteria this will be taken into consideration.

The information requested isshown in the annual accounts published for each of the financial years inquestion. Copies of the accounts for Scottish Water and its predecessororganisations may be found in the Scottish Parliaments Information Centre. Therelevant Bib. numbers are:

Financial Year	North of Scotland Water Authority	East of Scotland Water Authority	West of Scotland Water Authority
2000-01	16464	17792	16463
2001-02	24607	24610	24612

 

Financial Year	Scottish Water
2002-03	28754
2003-04	33541
2004-05	36848

 

A breakdown of the incomereceived from non-statutory functions and other trading activities may be foundin the annual accounts published for each of the financial years in question. Copiesof the accounts for Scottish Water and its predecessor organisations may befound in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. The relevant Bib. numbersare:

Financial Year	North of Scotland Water Authority	East of Scotland Water Authority	West of Scotland Water Authority
2000-01	16464	17792	16463
2001-02	24607	24610	24612

 

Financial Year	Scottish Water
2002-03	28754
2003-04	33541
2004-05	36848

 

The information requested isshown in the annual accounts published for each of the financial years inquestion. Copies of the accounts for Scottish Water and its predecessororganisations may be found in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Therelevant Bib. numbers are:

Financial Year	North of Scotland Water Authority	East of Scotland Water Authority	West of Scotland Water Authority
2000-01	16464	17792	16463
2001-02	24607	24610	24612

 

Financial Year	Scottish Water
2002-03	28754
2003-04	33541
2004-05	36848

 

This information is not heldcentrally.

The information requested isnot held centrally.