- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS prescription services that are only available from supermarkets and large town centre multiple pharmacies could deliver proper pharmaceutical care to people regardless of where they live.
Answer
In general there is a good distribution of community pharmacies throughout Scotland, and through The Right Medicine: A Strategy for Pharmaceutical Care in Scotland the Scottish Executive is committed to ensuring that patients continue to have access to a modern network of community pharmacies.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to expand the Essential Small Pharmacies Scheme.
Answer
We have no current plans to do so.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is for a patient with an eating disorder to receive (a) an initial assessment, (b) an admission to residential care and (c) care support in each NHS board area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33721 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when each NHS board will be able to offer patients with an eating disorder an initial assessment within two weeks of referral.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33721 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what dedicated NHS facilities exist for patients with an eating disorder.
Answer
Ayrshire and Arran, Grampian, Highland, Lanarkshire and Lothian NHS Boards provide a community-based specialist out-patient service. The remaining NHS boards provide treatment and support through their generic mental health services. Where in-patient care is indicated patients are either admitted to NHS general psychiatric wards or boards commission services from the private sector.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which private facilities are used by the NHS to provide residential care to patients with an eating disorder.
Answer
These are operational matters for NHS boards about which information 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: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce dedicated residential units for patients with an eating disorder in each NHS board or local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33721 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community pharmacies will close in rural and suburban areas if the planned pharmacy contract approach does not proceed in the light of the report by the Office of Fair Trading, The control of entry regulations and retail pharmacy services in the UK.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33733 today. 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/search_wa. This answer details the current position with regard to the Office of Fair Trading report.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 10 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will facilitate the establishment of a postgraduate dental teaching institute in the Grampian NHS Board area to attract pre-registration dentists.
Answer
Grampian is already in the process of improving its provision of postgraduate dental teaching facilities with the development of space within the Westburn Centre as a postgraduate dental centre for Grampian. The Scottish Executive, through NHS Education Scotland, have been reviewing all postgraduate dental facilities in Scotland and these are being expanded to support increased postgraduate education and training for all members of the dental team. A further example is the development of a £2.8 million postgraduate dental centre in Tayside which has a remit for the whole of Scotland.
- Asked by: Mr David Davidson, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how the additional #3 million package of support for peripheral fishing communities will be allocated and whether there will be any restrictions on how it can be applied.
Answer
The £3.2 million package announced on 3 February (Scottish Executive Press Release SEen317/2003) represented the latest round of awards from the Scottish Executive under the EU Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) structural fund programmes, which cover the period 2000-06. Awards are allocated to individual grant recipients through the competitive schemes and arrangements that operate under the programmes. The scope of each scheme is determined by the terms of the FIFG regulation and reflected in scheme guidance material.A list of the projects that were awarded assistance, summarising details of recipients, project descriptions and the location of the beneficiaries is available from the Executive, as set out in the press release.
