- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours per week consultants at the Immunology Clinic at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow work and what average time is taken to carry out consultations.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-20011.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultants are based within the Immunology Clinic at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow.
Answer
This is an operational matter for North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust as local service providers.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how successful the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network have been in providing guidance to health professionals; whether this guidance has been acted upon effectively, and what evidence there is of the clinical and cost effectiveness of this guidance and that patients are accessing the most suitable treatments.
Answer
The clinical guidelines produced by Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), which are based on the most up-to-date published evidence, are of international renown. One of the accepted strengths of SIGN guidelines, apart from their technical excellence, is the wide professional ownership that follows from the intercollegiate nature of SIGN. So far SIGN has published 54 guidelines. Local NHS organisations and clinicians are expected to take the advice in the guidelines and adapt them as local protocols. This advice is also being built into integrated care pathways and managed clinical networks and into the standards developed by the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland.SIGN Guidelines therefore make a significant contribution to improving the quality and effectiveness of patient care by ensuring that Scottish clinicians have ready access to a single source of high quality, up-to-date evidence-based advice.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network has provided a single national focus for health professionals.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to Question S1W-20469.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive who the members are of the Review of Educational Psychologists and to whom the review will report and when.
Answer
The review is in its final stages and the report will be put to ministers soon. The members are:
Eleanor Currie | Chair - Director of Education, East Renfrewshire Council |
Gordon Jeyes | ADES - Director of Children's Services, Stirling Council |
Gerry McGeoch | ADSW - Housing and Social Work Services, Clackmannanshire Council |
Ian Liddle | ASPEP (Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists) |
Fergal Doherty | EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) |
Graeme King | BPS-SDEP (British Psychological Society - Scottish Division of Educational Psychology) |
Jane Hook | SEN Parent/Chair of Scottish Society for Autism |
Lorraine Dilworth | SEN Parent/ISEA (Independent Special Education Advice) |
Patricia Cairns | Headteacher - Firhill High School, Edinburgh |
Marie Wallace | Headteacher - Drummore Primary School, Glasgow |
Patricia Jackson | Consultant Paediatrician - Community Child Health, Edinburgh |
Kay Tisdall | Children in Scotland |
Bill Sadler | SSLA (Scottish Support for Learning Association) |
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many educational psychologists are specialists in autism, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Data is not collected centrally on the allocation of responsibilities within services or on an educational psychologist's professional levels of specialist expertise. However, educational psychologists will have an understanding of autism and those dealing particularly with autism will have appropriate training.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network operates in an independent manner and how it will ensure that it continues to do so.
Answer
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) is a network of clinicians and other health care professionals, including all the medical specialties, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, professions allied to medicine, patients and health service management. Although the Scottish Executive Health Department funds SIGN, it is an independent intercollegiate body based at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. There are no plans to alter this arrangement.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are currently participating in home-based learning, broken down by (a) local authority area, (b) age and (c) gender.
Answer
This information is not yet available. The Scottish Executive has recently undertaken a statistical survey to collect data on the number of children who are educated outwith school. The results will be published later this month and will provide data by local authority area on two groups of children - (1) those for whom education is provided outwith school because they are unable, due to certain circumstances, to attend school, and (2) those educated at home as a result of parental choice. This is the first time that data has been collected on the latter group of children. Age and gender data has not been collected and will therefore not be available.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Needs Assessment Report on autistic spectrum disorders by the Public Health Institute of Scotland will be published and what course of action it will then take with regard to the report's recommendations
Answer
The Needs Assessment Report on Autistic Spectrum Disorders is expected to be published at the end of December 2001.We will wish to consider the report's recommendations carefully, particularly in relation to setting up the national network for autistic spectrum disorder.
- Asked by: Mr Lloyd Quinan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to ensure that general practitioners are qualified to give a diagnosis of autism or Asperger's syndrome.
Answer
General practitioners, like other professionals, are encouraged to look at their own personal learning needs and the health needs of their patients and to seek training in specific areas accordingly. Guidance and assistance is available from the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education via the postgraduate Directors of General Practice Education. Each GP already receives an annual Postgraduate Education Allowance to support an agreed amount of training.In addition, revalidation by the General Medical Council and clinical governance now make explicit requirements for all doctors to provide evidence of their continuing competence.
