- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 27 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many welfare attorneys have been appointed under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 in each year since it came into effect.
Answer
The numbers of welfare powersof attorney registered with the Office of the Public Guardian since part 2 of theAdults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 came into effect on 2 April 2001 areas follows:
| Year | Number |
| 2001-02 | 1,645 |
| 2002-03 | 3,976 |
| 2003-04 | 6,917 |
These figures include powersof attorney covering welfare and financial/property matters: both may be dealtwith in the one document.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 27 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) intervention and (b) guardianship orders in respect of personal welfare have been made under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 in each year since it came into effect.
Answer
Figures provided by theOffice of the Public Guardian indicate that the numbers of intervention andguardianship orders granted in respect of personal welfare since part 6 of theAdults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 came into effect on 1 April 2002 areas follows:
Intervention Orders inrespect of personal welfare
Guardianship Orders inrespect of personal welfare
These figures include ordersgranted where powers include both welfare and property/financial matters.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many abortions have been carried out in Scotland under the Abortion Act 1967 in each of the last five years, broken down into those carried out using (a) vacuum aspiration, (b) dilation and evacuation or curettage, (c) hysterectomy, (d) other surgical methods, (e) prostaglandins only, (f) prostaglandins with other agents, (g) antiprogesterones with, or without, prostaglandins, (h) other medical methods and (i) other combined methods.
Answer
Information to the level of detail sought could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. Information on the numbers of abortions carried out by surgical and medical means, based on notifications of legal abortions to the Chief Medical Officer, is however, publicly available online from Scottish Health Statistics - Abortions in table 9 and chart 4 at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=1919&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many abortions were carried out in each of the last five years where the woman had at least one previous abortion, broken down by age of the woman involved.
Answer
The following table provides the information sought by age band.
| Year ended 31/12 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Total number | 2,884 | 2,796 | 2,996 | 3,010 | 3,135 |
| Under 20 | 266 | 254 | 282 | 253 | 271 |
| 20-24 | 770 | 723 | 824 | 896 | 921 |
| 25-29 | 792 | 788 | 809 | 722 | 801 |
| 30-34 | 597 | 575 | 603 | 627 | 633 |
| 35-39 | 366 | 360 | 370 | 400 | 373 |
| 40-44 | 86 | 91 | 103 | 106 | 128 |
| Over 45 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many requests have been made to the Mental Welfare Commission to nominate a medical practitioner to give an opinion in respect of the medical treatment proposed where a disagreement arose between the medical practitioner primarily responsible for the medical treatment of the adult and a welfare attorney under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 in each year since it came into effect.
Answer
I understand that the Commission has not received any requests for a medical practitioner to give an opinion about the medical treatment proposed in cases of disagreement between the medical practitioner primarily responsible for the medical treatment of the adult and a welfare attorney under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complications there have been with legal abortions in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) per 1,000 head of the population, broken down by number of gestation weeks, and how many such complications were (i) sepsis, (ii) haemorrhage, (iii) perforation and (iv) other complications.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Executive believes the number of cases of complications during a legal abortion would be relatively low. Statistics obtained in England suggest about three per 1,000 abortions result in complications, a figure which if applied to Scotland would imply about 36 cases per year
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to NHS boards to fund the new GP contract.
Answer
Details are as follows:
| NHS Board | Totals (000s) |
| Argyll and Clyde | 43,939 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 36,700 |
| Borders | 11,382 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 16,312 |
| Fife | 33,153 |
| Forth Valley | 27,620 |
| Glasgow | 92,719 |
| Grampian | 54,346 |
| Highlands | 32,132 |
| Lanarkshire | 50,818 |
| Lothian | 78,646 |
| Orkney | 3,695 |
| Shetland | 2,645 |
| Tayside | 44,762 |
| Western Isles | 5,224 |
| Total | 534,093 |
Note:
A total of £559.2 million of resources are being allocated to NHS boards in the 2004-05 Primary Medical Services allocation. NHS boards will be notified of the allocation of any remaining Quality funding in relation to Quality Achievement Payments later in the year.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people it estimates (a) pay for private medical insurance and (b) are uninsured but are receiving private medical treatment.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether imatinib, irontecan and trastu'mab have been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium or NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and, if so, whether these drugs are available in each NHS board area.
Answer
Advice on the use of the drugimatinib (Glivec) for chronic myeloid leukaemia and for gastrointestinal stromaltumours has been issued by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC). The advice canbe accessed at
www.scottishmedicines.org.
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland(NHS QIS) has provided an authoritative comment on the assessment of all three drugsby the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. The comments can be accessedat www.nhshealthquality.org.
Tumour specific multidisciplinarycancer networks aim to ensure that the best possible quality of care is providedequitably across a geographical area. Where the SMC and NHS QIS have provided adviceand evidence for particular drugs, NHSScotland should ensure that recommended drugsare made available to meet clinical need.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the infant mortality rates were in each year from 1997 to 2003, broken down by deprivation category.
Answer
Table 1 details the infant mortality rates for Scotland, by deprivation category, for 1997-2002. The rates for 2003 are currently unavailable.
| Infant Deaths | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | Total |
| 1 - Least Deprived | 2.20 | 5.79 | 4.86 | 4.61 | 5.07 | 3.38 | 4.31 |
| 2 | 4.85 | 3.76 | 4.18 | 4.28 | 4.60 | 2.43 | 4.03 |
| 3 | 5.27 | 4.45 | 4.08 | 5.09 | 6.17 | 5.53 | 5.08 |
| 4 | 5.80 | 6.31 | 5.70 | 5.19 | 5.72 | 4.92 | 5.63 |
| 5 | 5.14 | 6.55 | 4.91 | 6.62 | 5.42 | 5.50 | 5.69 |
| 6 | 4.65 | 6.55 | 6.03 | 6.98 | 7.66 | 8.13 | 6.62 |
| 7 - Most Deprived | 9.44 | 7.43 | 7.27 | 10.66 | 4.02 | 9.88 | 8.15 |
| Total | 5.39 | 5.68 | 5.12 | 5.82 | 5.67 | 5.42 | 5.52 |
Notes:
1. Excludes cases where the deprivation category was unknown.
2. Rates are per 1000 live births.
3. Infant deaths refer to all deaths in the first year of life.
This information was supplied by the Information and Statistics Division of NHS National Services Scotland.
