- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has taken action to avoid any shortage in supply of morphine within the NHS.
Answer
The NHS Purchasing and SupplyAgency is in contact with the suppliers of morphine, who have increased their productionof this product.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cancer patients use complementary medicines.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. It is open to NHS boards to provide complementary medicines at theirdiscretion and based on their assessment of local needs.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14155 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, whether it will list all the members of the Scottish Health Council, their areas of expertise and their home areas.
Answer
This information wasprovided in press releases, copies of which are available in the Parliament’s ReferenceCentre (Bib. numbers 35664 and 35665) which announced the appointments.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-14158 and S2W-14156 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, why new advice and support systems are unlikely to be in place on 1 April 2005.
Answer
The provision of advice and supportfor people wishing to comment on NHS services is the responsibility of NHS boardsand will remain so. New advice and support systems will be available from 1 April 2005.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14157 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, what payments have been made, or may be made, to any of the organisations referred to for the provision of advice and support to those seeking to complain about the NHS in their area.
Answer
The Health Department have fundedCitizens Advice Scotland to develop a draft framework for an independent adviceand support service. This envisages NHS boards working in partnership with the CitizensAdvice Bureaux in their area to provide a service to meet the needs of the peoplethey serve. A first draft will issue to NHS boards for comment shortly.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive when the new framework for a new independent advice and support service to replace the work currently done by local health councils will be approved and published.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto S2W-14970 on 10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14160 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 February 2005, whether it will give the explicit reasons why the new Scottish Health Council was not given the task of providing advice and support services for those people seeking to complain about the NHS.
Answer
The consultation document
ANew Public Involvement Structure for NHSScotland, held in the Parliament’s ReferenceCentre (Bib. number 26830), outlined the proposals for the Scottish Health Councilwhich were based on an increasing emphasis on NHS Boards directly engaging withand involving the public, and the need for a new body to provide quality assuranceof boards’ performance.
Providing advice and supportservices to people wishing to comment on NHS services has been the responsibilityof the board. This service has been provided by some local health councils in thepast and some NHS boards have provided funding for complaints support staff. Thereare currently no national standards for the delivery of complaints advice and supportand it is outwith the health council core remit. Arrangements are now being developedto establish a partnership with Citizens Advice Scotland and their local bureauxto formalise their existing arrangements for providing advice and support on NHSservices.
The Scottish Health Council willnot provide advice and support services, but they will seek to ensure that NHSboards have appropriate and effective arrangements in place. The Scottish HealthCouncil will also ensure that individual patients, carers and members of the publicare able to make their views on health services known.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many speed cameras have been removed in each of the last three years and from what locations they have been removed.
Answer
No fixed site safety camerashave been permanently removed since safety camera partnerships startedoperating in Scotland. Information relating to the removal of cameras beforethe establishment of partnerships is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements will be in place in respect of retirement arrangements and pension plans for doctors and dentists working in the NHS in 2013.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-14609 on 8 March 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 8 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to alter the retirement age of doctors and dentists working in the NHS.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-14609, answered on 8 March 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/webapp/wa.search.
