- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any statutory basis for disregarding war pensions or war gratuities or parts thereof when income is being assessed in the context of access to services provided by local authorities, provided either by the local authority alone or in partnership with other agencies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30979 on 23 January 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 20 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will encourage the incorporation into teacher training courses of an understanding of the processes by which children acquire speech and language skills.
Answer
All students undertaking initialteacher education courses are already required to understand the processes by whichchildren acquire speech and language skills.
By the end of the course, andto reach the Standard of Initial Teacher Education, all student teachers must demonstrateknowledge and understanding of the stages of child development and take accountof individual pupils’ needs.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions commenced under section 5(1) of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 have been for incidents that occurred in a community setting.
Answer
The provisions of section 5(1)of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 apply only to incidents which takeplace “in a hospital or on land adjacent to and used wholly or mainly for the purposesof a hospital”.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have commenced under section 5(1) of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005.
Answer
As at 7 December 2006, therewere 215 charges relating to offences undersection 5(1) of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 where the Procurator Fiscal had initiated courtproceedings.
Notes:
1. This information has beenextracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s case managementdatabase. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processingof reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies.If a Procurator Fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency, the databasewill record details only of the amended charge.
2. The database is charge-based.The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the numberof individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the occupational health cost of violence against healthcare staff has been in each NHS board in the last three years.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives it has undertaken to improve the safety and security of NHS staff working in the community.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasspent over £700,000 on projects aimed at reducing violence and aggression overthe last few years.
This includes two zerotolerance poster campaigns which applied across NHSScotland, including generaland dental practices and pharmacies. In addition I recently launched GPpractice specific posters to raise awareness to GPs and their staff that violentor abusive behaviour is unacceptable. The pack includes a web site access to asimple incident reporting form for GP practice use.
Amongst the individualprojects funded was “Guardian Angel”, this is a phone operated system whichlinks the healthcare worker with a central base that tracks the worker andprovides an alert to the police should the worker not respond within a certaintimescale. Other aspects of funding have been used in the acute setting or in amore generic capacity, such as for de-escalation training.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many attacks on nursing staff working in the community have been recorded in each NHS board area in the last three years.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally in the form requested. However with the development of the Scottish Workforce Information Statistical System (SWISS) this kind ofinformation will be available in the future.
The data available onviolence and aggression related incidents up to 31 March 2004 can be seen onthe Scottish Health Statistics website under workforce statistics:
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 23 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the level of housing association grants provided to housing associations in the Scottish Borders.
Answer
In thecurrent year we will provide £502 million of funding through the AffordableHousing Investment programme to support affordable housing projects across Scotland.
Ouraffordable housing investment in the Scottish Borders in the current yearstands at an all time high of £7 million.
Theseinvestment levels are good news for Scotland and especially good news for the Scottish Borders.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what account has been taken of any savings to the NHS and local authorities in social care costs as a result of people being able to lead independent lives for longer if donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine were to be prescribed to those suffering from the mild form of Alzheimer’s disease
Answer
The National Institute forHealth and Clinical Excellence (NICE) process for developing its multipletechnology appraisals takes factors such as wider benefits to patients’families and society into account when it is appropriate to do so.
NICE’s economic modelling onits work for the appraisal of donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine includedan assessment of the impact of benefits accruing to carers. The NICE processalso assessed the impact of alternative cost estimates (including a scenario inwhich 100% of the costs of institutional care was met by the NHS), extrabenefits from using the drugs and sensitivity analysis on mortality andbehavioural symptoms.
All the informationpertaining to the NICE multiple technology appraisal process, includingresponses to the two consultations on drugs used in Alzheimer’s disease, can befound at www.nice.org.uk.
- Asked by: Euan Robson, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will monitor the number of patients who choose to purchase donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine privately for mild Alzheimer’s disease.
Answer
Information on private prescriptionsis not collected centrally except for schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs.
