- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 7 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what training provision is in place to provide lay members of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland's service review groups with the level of specialist knowledge required to carry out their duties effectively and which organisation provides any training given.
Answer
All lay members of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland's review groups attend a two-day training course which covers general reviewing skills. This course has been developed and piloted on the board's behalf by Dumfries and Galloway Health Council.Lay reviewers also attend training prior to an actual review visit, in the delivery of which the board is being assisted by three external training organisations.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 28 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has, or intends to compile, any data on the number of people ordinarily resident in Scotland who have received NHS medical treatment in the North of England in the last three years.
Answer
Information on residents of Scotland treated in the North of England is not available from routine central returns. We are in the process of establishing a routine exchange of information between the Information & Statistics Division in Scotland and the Department of Health in England for residents of Scotland treated in England and residents of England treated in Scotland, but the results of this exercise are unavailable at present.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has, or intends to compile, any data on the number of people resident in the North of England who have received NHS medical treatment in Scotland in the last three years.
Answer
The available information on North of England residents treated in the National Health Service in Scotland is distributed over a variety of sources, relating principally to the acute, maternity and psychiatric hospital sectors, and is presented in Table 1 for the years ending (y/e) 31 March: 1998-2000.
Table 1
| | Y/e Mar 1998 | Y/e Mar 1999 | Y/e Mar 2000p |
1.New outpatient attendances referred from GPs | 1,972 | 2,100 | 2,004 |
2. General acute discharges | 3,373 | 3,846 | 3,799 |
3. Maternity/obstetric discharges | 271 | 208 | 195 |
4. Psychiatric/mental illness admissions | 71 | 83 | 83 |
Sources: SMR00, SMR01, SMR02, SMR04p
Provisional
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 27 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what relationships it has, or intends to establish, with local or regional governmental bodies in the North of England.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no formal links with local authorities in the North of England. However, the Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the government offices in the North-East and the North-West on issues of common interest.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 24 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has evaluated the Hydroscience rapid expansion dam flood protection system currently being considered by Dumfries and Galloway Council for central Dumfries.
Answer
No. It is for councils to consider whether a temporary measure, such as the rapid emergency response offered by the Hydroscience system, would meet their needs.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP surgeries in each health board area have videoconferencing facilities and what measurement of usage of such facilities has taken place.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
There is no widespread implementation of videoconferencing, although there have been small scale experiments. Videoconferencing is one aspect of telemedicine and is part of the remit of the Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum (STAF). STAF has been established to fund and evaluate telemedicine projects and to nurture interest in using technology to support and develop clinical practice. The approach is to carefully evaluate patient care benefit from the use of such technologies.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what targets have been set for the number of GP surgeries to have videoconferencing facilities by 2003.
Answer
No national targets have been set for the number of GP surgeries to have videoconferencing facilities.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Dumfries and Galloway Council about the repeated flooding of the River Nith at the Whitesands in Dumfries.
Answer
Dumfries and Galloway Council have not approached my officials about flooding of the Whitesands in Dumfries. Consequently, no discussions have taken place.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-2432 by Sarah Boyack on 2 November 2000, where Moffat's "thistle sign" is located and what words it bears.
Answer
The town of Moffat itself does not have a "thistle sign" located on either the A74(M) or the adjacent A701 trunk road. However, Moffat Woollen Mill and Moffat Station Park have tourist information signs on the A701 trunk road approach to junction 15 on the A74(M). These signs include the Scottish Tourist Board "thistle".
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review its current expenditure on flood prevention.
Answer
Resources for flood prevention were considered as part of the recently completed Spending Review. This led to a significant increase in resources being made available for flood prevention measures over the next three years.
