- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of children were registered with NHS dentists in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is containedin Appendix 1, table A3 of the
Scottish Dental Practice Board Annual Report2004/05. This can be accessed at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sdpb/Annual%20Report%20and%20Executive%20Summaries/SDPB_annual_report_2004-05.pdf.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practitioners offered NHS dentistry in 2005, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested canbe found on the Scottish Health Statistics website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=3446&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid by each NHS board to general dental practitioners in the year before they moved to private practice since 1999 and how the boards have reallocated the funds saved by such moves.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an update on the progress it has made in discussions with the British Dental Association in respect of a new dental contract for NHS dentists.
Answer
Executive officials meet withrepresentatives from the British Dental Association (BDA) on a regular basis totake forward the implementation of the Action Plan for Improving Oral Healthand Modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotland. I confirmed the basis for additionalfunding for dentists committed to treating all categories of patient on the NHSat the time of the debate on dentistry in the Parliament on 17 November 2005. TheBDA does not support our requirement that all categories of patient be treated onthe NHS. That principle is not negotiable.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any discussions with UK ministers in respect of the procedures for investigating deaths of Scottish soldiers serving with Scottish regiments outwith the United Kingdom.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has notheld any discussions with the UK Government regarding the deaths of Scottish soldiersserving in Scottish regiments outwith the United Kingdom.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has offered access to the Scottish legal system and forensic pathology services to investigate the circumstances in respect of the deaths of Scottish soldiers serving with Scottish regiments outwith the United Kingdom.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has notoffered access to the Scottish legal and forensic pathology services in relationto the deaths of Scottish soldiers overseas.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of adults were registered with NHS dentists in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is contained in Appendix 1, table A6 of the
Scottish Dental Practice Board Annual Report 2004/05.
This can be found at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sdpb/Annual%20Report%20and%20Executive%20Summaries/SDPB_annual_report_2004-05.pdf.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS patients have been removed from general dental practitioner lists as a result of dentists moving to full private practice in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 8 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the outcome was of any monitoring of the efficacy of methadone in reducing crime among those addicted to illicit substances.
Answer
Local research in Glasgow in 1999 suggested that injecting drug users in the city committed 26 crimes per month, compared to four per month when prescribed methadone and when ceased injecting. Findings in 2005 from the much larger National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) in England and Wales showed that, for drug misusers who sought treatment voluntarily, there were substantial reductions both in the number of crimes committed and the percentage of clients engaged in crime. Similar reductions were found among clients from methadone and from residential programmes.
Reports on NTORS can be found at http://www.dh.gov.uk/Publications.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 8 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it uses to assess the efficacy of methadone in reducing infections of hepatitis B and C and HIV among injecting heroin addicts and the population at large.
Answer
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) runs a surveillance initiative to measure the prevalence of infection by hepatitis C among injecting drug users and others and receives information on the number of new hepatitis B diagnoses among persons for whom injecting drug use was indicated as a risk factor. HPS also monitors the prevalence of HIV infection among injecting drug users and others through the surveillance of persons undergoing voluntary confidential HIV testing in Scotland. It is impossible to separate the different strands of the harm reduction intervention programme, such as needle/syringe exchange and methadone maintenance therapy, in terms of specific effectiveness.
