Chamber and committees

Only four of 23 health boards are projecting cumulative overspends. These are:

NHS Boards	Projected 2005-06 Outturn (£000)
NHS Argyll and Clyde	72,541
NHS Grampian	8,123
NHS Lanarkshire	19,959
NHS Western Isles	738

 

I have already announced my intention regarding Argyll and Clyde.

NHS Grampian have in place an agreed financial recovery plan which will see them returning to financial balance in 2006-07.

The Lanarkshire deficit is from an earlier period and is planned to be managed using profit on a land sale.

The new Director of Finance of NHS Western Isles is currently working through the board’s financial recovery plans to address the deficit. This is due to be submitted to the department by the end of September.

This information is not available as the distribution of practice income between General Practices and their staff is a matter for each practice.

The table illustrates average gross payments to practices per GP whole-time equivalent collected by Practitioner Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland. This does not include other income such as fees and direct payments between each NHS board and each practice.

GP Practice Gross Payments

All Scotland Average Gross Payments per GP (Whole-Time Equivalent)	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
	£108,951.90	£122,138.30	£146,208.60

 

This information is not held centrally.

The information requested is shown in the table.

Average Gross NHS Remuneration^1,2 Paid to Dentists Providing NHS general Dental Services; Year Ending March

2003	2004	2005
£85,985	£84,702	£85,828

Source: MIDAS (Management Information & Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

1. Gross earnings (item of service fees, plus capitation and continuing care fees), divided by the number of non-salaried dentists (principals and assistants) who had earnings during the financial year.

2. Excludes grants and allowances that non-salaried dentists may be entitled to claim in addition to item of service, capitation and continuing care fees.

Information on the average gross remuneration of non-medical staff in the NHS for the last three years is given in the following table. Latest available data is at 31 March 2005.

Average Gross Remuneration (£) of Non-Medical Staff in NHSScotland

	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Non-medical Staff	20,177	22,272	22,714

Source: Scottish Standard Payroll System.

Notes:

1. Average gross remuneration is calculated using total cost divided by whole-time equivalent staff who were in post for the full financial year. Information for staff who joined or left part way through the year have been excluded. Ambulance staff have been excluded due to incomplete data.

2. Total cost: gross salary (basic salary plus overtime, enhancements and allowances etc) plus employers' national insurance and superannuation.

3. Whole time equivalent is calculated by dividing the number of contracted hours/sessions by the normal conditioned hours for a particular group of staff.

4. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest pound.

I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

Information about short Scottishsecure tenancies from registered social landlords has been collected since September2002. A total of 1,228 short Scottish secure tenancies have been issued up to 31 March 2005. The followingtable provides a breakdown on a yearly basis:

	Number of Short SSTs Issued
2002-03	341
2003-04	427
2004-05	460
Total Granted	1,228

 

Information is not held centrally on the total number of temporary accommodation places available, neither in properties owned by registered social landlords, nor in properties in other tenures.Under the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, as amended, local authorities have a duty to ensure that temporary accommodation is made available for homeless people in a number of different circumstances. The accommodation can be provided across a range of tenures including private rented accommodation and temporary accommodation in the council’s own property. The latest available information on numbers of homeless households in temporary accommodation in each local authority area at 30 September 2005 was published in February 2005 and is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00399-00.asp.

The table shows for each local authority for each of the last three years the total number of houses owned by the council which the council has designated as temporary accommodation for homeless applicants.

Local Authority Dwelling Stock and Temporary Accommodation for Homeless Households as at 31 March 2003-05 by Local Authority Area.

Local Authority Area	2003		2004		2005
	Total Stock	Designated temp. accommodation for homeless	Total Stock	Designated temp. accommodation for homeless	Total Stock	Designated temp. accommodation for homeless
Local Authorities	415,992	1,712	388,970	2,066	373,554	2,923
Aberdeen City	25,841	66	25,193	72	24,683	72
Aberdeenshire	14,642	74	14,316	90	13,994	107
Angus	9,043	46	8,737	51	8,494	51
Argyll and Bute	6,302	24	6,062	40	5,707	40
Clackmannanshire	5,787	71	5,607	51	5,482	59
Dumfries and Galloway	11,878	63	0	na	0	na
Dundee City	17,841	82	16,754	77	15,940	76
East Ayrshire	16,037	17	15,313	24	14,657	53
East Dunbartonshire	5,322	66	5,153	75	4,077	90
East Lothian	9,040	38	8,671	38	8,417	41
East Renfrewshire	3,804	15	3,695	21	3,536	22
City of Edinburgh	26,497	n/k	25,399	n/k	24,115	493
Eilean Siar	1,880	14	1,834	23	1,841	23
Falkirk	19,479	26	18,837	82	18,196	106
Fife	36,570	0	35,430	0	34,207	0
Glasgow City	0	nk	0	na	0	na
Highland	16,188	60	15,538	95	14,725	81
Inverclyde	9,233	55	8,866	85	9,328	100
Midlothian	6,969	42	6,604	39	6,385	43
Moray	6,751	9	6,567	6	6,373	18
North Ayrshire	15,928	35	15,333	104	14,816	115
North Lanarkshire	43,745	238	42,392	291	41,145	288
Orkney	876	37	838	42	819	47
Perth and Kinross	9,142	0	8,807	0	8,312	80
Renfrewshire	18,228	112	16,881	105	15,725	136
Scottish Borders	0		0	na	0	na
Shetland	2,073	60	2,027	60	2,027	93
South Ayrshire	9,790	55	9,411	66	9,024	63
South Lanarkshire	31,872	249	30,358	239	29,094	198
Stirling	7,116	23	6,869	23	6,618	25
West Dunbartonshire	13,179	50	12,577	182	12,121	240
West Lothian	14,939	85	14,901	85	13,696	163
Scottish Homes	2,002	0	1,158	0	479	0

Source: Scottish Executive HousingStatistics branch – Stock 1 Return.

Notes:

Glasgow were unable to provide a breakdown for 2003.

Due to stock transfer, no figuresare provided for Dumfries and Galloway, Glasgow and Scottish Borders for 2004 onwards.

I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

The information requested isnot held centrally.

The information requested is provided in the following tables. The data has been extracted from the Scottish Health Service Cost Book, Expenditure on Health Services, Reports 200 to 280. This includes health care commissioned expenditure on: acute services; maternity services; geriatric assessment services; general psychiatry services; learning disabilities services; geriatric continuing care services; younger physically disabled services, and community services.

The expenditure per head figures relates only to expenditure on the health care commissioned services listed above. These figures were used to provide to be comparable with the activity figures.

A range of activity figures have been provided for each health board due to the different types of activity that is undertaken by health boards.

Table 1: Expenditure per Head and Activity per Health Board Resident for Year Ended 31 March 2002

Health Board	Expen per Head (£)	Activity Per Person Resident in Health Board
		In-Patient Cases1	In-Patient Weeks2	Day Cases3	Day Patient Attendances4	Out Patient New Attendances5	A&E Attendances6	Community Visits7
Argyll and Clyde	792	0.20	0.16	0.09	0.20	0.35	0.36	2.68
Ayrshire and Arran	748	0.18	0.13	0.10	0.09	0.28	0.27	2.21
Borders	778	0.18	0.12	0.08	0.19	0.24	0.25	1.75
Dumfries and Galloway	810	0.18	0.11	0.10	0.22	0.30	0.33	2.33
Fife	689	0.17	0.10	0.11	0.16	0.31	0.25	2.31
Forth Valley	705	0.16	0.13	0.10	0.15	0.24	0.26	2.36
Grampian	662	0.18	0.10	0.05	0.11	0.21	0.24	1.97
Greater Glasgow	792	0.20	0.12	0.09	0.08	0.27	0.39	1.76
Highland	787	0.19	0.08	0.06	0.12	0.25	0.25	1.76
Lanarkshire	739	0.19	0.10	0.09	0.07	0.22	0.04	1.65
Lothian	755	0.15	0.10	0.07	0.13	0.26	0.25	1.35
Orkney	879	0.20	0.09	0.05	0.05	0.45	0.14	1.94
Shetland	720	0.20	0.09	0.06	0.10	0.26	0.28	2.47
Tayside	807	0.19	0.12	0.07	0.27	0.49	0.29	1.85
Western Isles	1189	0.23	0.11	0.07	0.11	0.25	0.21	2.41
Totals or Averages	756	0.18	0.11	0.08	0.13	0.28	0.27	1.92

Source: Scottish Health Service Cost Book 2002.

Notes:

1. Acute, maternity and geriatric assessment.

2. General psychiatry services; learning disabilities services; geriatric continuing care services, and younger physically disabled.

3. Acute and maternity.

4. Geriatric assessment services; general psychiatry services; learning disabilities services; geriatric continuing care services, and younger physically disabled.

5. Acute, maternity, geriatric assessment services; general psychiatry services, and learning disabilities services.

6. Acute

7. Community midwifery; community psychiatry services; community learning disability services, and nursing and health visiting.

Table 2: Expenditure per Head and Activity per Health Board Resident for Year Ended 31 March 2003

Health Board	Expen per Head (£)	Activity per person resident in Health Board
		In-Patient Cases1	In-Patient Weeks2	Day Cases3	Day Patient Attendances4	Out Patient New Attendances5	A&E Attendances6	Community Visits7
Argyll and Clyde	840	0.20	0.16	0.09	0.20	0.35	0.31	2.75
Ayrshire and Arran	804	0.19	0.12	0.09	0.09	0.30	0.27	2.20
Borders	823	0.18	0.11	0.06	0.16	0.26	0.26	2.66
Dumfries and Galloway	853	0.18	0.10	0.11	0.22	0.27	0.32	2.45
Fife	731	0.17	0.09	0.10	0.16	0.39	0.22	1.83
Forth Valley	767	0.15	0.08	0.09	0.15	0.23	0.26	2.32
Grampian	716	0.18	0.10	0.04	0.12	0.21	0.24	1.98
Greater Glasgow	890	0.21	0.12	0.09	0.06	0.29	0.40	1.84
Highland	852	0.20	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.26	0.24	1.59
Lanarkshire	789	0.21	0.10	0.09	0.07	0.24	0.28	1.63
Lothian	729	0.15	0.10	0.06	0.12	0.25	0.24	1.29
Orkney	1031	0.20	0.09	0.05	0.05	0.61	0.15	2.32
Shetland	691	0.19	0.05	0.06	0.10	0.27	0.28	2.49
Tayside	820	0.18	0.11	0.06	0.25	0.51	0.26	1.84
Totals or Averages	798	0.18	0.11	0.08	0.12	0.30	0.29	1.90

Source: Scottish Health Service Cost Book 2003.

Note:

1-7. As above.

8. Data is not available for Western Isles.

Table 3: Expenditure per Head and Activity per Health Board Resident for Yyear Ended 31 March 2004

Health Board	Expen per Head (£)	Activity per person resident in Health Board
		In-Patient Cases1	In-Patient Weeks2	Day Cases3	Day Patient Attendances4	Out Patient New Attendances5	A&E Attendances6	Community Visits7
Argyll and Clyde	959	0.20	0.14	0.10	0.20	0.28	0.32	1.37
Ayrshire and Arran	863	0.20	0.11	0.09	0.09	0.30	0.28	2.26
Borders	893	0.18	0.09	0.05	0.24	0.83	0.22	2.85
Dumfries and Galloway	934	0.20	0.10	0.08	0.18	0.24	0.33	1.83
Fife	796	0.17	0.09	0.11	0.15	0.48	0.25	2.19
Forth Valley	789	0.15	0.10	0.09	0.15	0.25	0.26	2.08
Grampian	754	0.19	0.10	0.04	0.12	0.23	0.24	1.95
Greater Glasgow	965	0.20	0.11	0.09	0.04	0.27	0.38	1.87
Highland	927	0.20	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.25	0.24	1.59
Lanarkshire	837	0.20	0.09	0.09	0.07	0.25	0.30	1.51
Lothian	846	0.16	0.09	0.07	0.11	0.26	0.23	1.08
Orkney	1009	0.23	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.50	0.17	2.09
Shetland	802	0.56	0.08	0.06	0.09	0.32	0.35	2.64
Tayside	880	0.19	0.10	0.06	0.19	0.51	0.29	1.90
Totals or Averages	870	0.19	0.10	0.08	0.11	0.31	0.29	1.75

Source: Scottish Health Service Cost Book 2004.

Notes:

1-8. As above.

I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-18749 on 26 September 2005. 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/wa/search.