- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-30741 by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010, what specialist advice has been provided by the community and voluntary organisations with which the Directorate of Equalities and Planning of NHS Health Scotland established the 13 service level agreements in August 2009.
Answer
During 2009-10, community and voluntary organisations were involved in 8 of NHS Health Scotland''s equality impact assessment workshops to help identify the potential impact of certain areas of NHS Health Scotland''s work on equality. Organisations with particular expertise in areas such as race, disability and sexual orientation equality contributed to developing recommendations for these health improvement programmes and NHS Health Scotland''s corporate services. NHS Health Scotland will publish these recommendations for wider consultation by
March 2010.
This is a new model piloted by NHS Health Scotland in 2009-10 and it is currently being reviewed together with the organisations involved so that community engagement and the quality of equality impact assessments continue to improve.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what systems NHS Health Scotland has inhouse for monitoring the effectiveness of its corporate communications activity with MSPs; what changes have been made recently as a direct result of such monitoring, and when NHS Health Scotland will share this information with MSPs and other stakeholders.
Answer
The Scottish Government can confirm that NHS Health Scotland does not monitor the effectiveness of its corporate communications, but monitors the effectiveness of its campaigns across a wide range of audiences. NHS Health Scotland does this through tracking awareness and understanding among the target audience, feedback from NHS partners, number of opportunities to see of advertising, visits to campaign websites, media coverage, programme mentioned in a parliamentary question, motion or debate, visits to road shows and NHS24 helpline enquiries. This information is used to develop subsequent phases of the campaign in terms of creative approaches and channels used. Information on each campaign is shared with campaign partners and can be made available on request.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-30742 by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2010, what action the Directorate of Equalities and Planning of NHS Health Scotland took to ensure that the original proposal to appoint consultants to assist NHS Health Scotland communicate with MSPs would have delivered opportunities for organisations from the major equality communities to have bid for the work or parts of it.
Answer
The Scottish Government can confirm that the Directorate of Equalities and Planning within NHS Health Scotland has ensured there is a mandatory equality and diversity questionnaire which forms part of all tender documentation considered by the organisation. Contracts and agency appointments are all tested through rigorous procurement procedures. This includes taking account of principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination in the tendering process. The pre-qualification questions are all compliant with the directives contained within the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 and EU Procurement legislation. This tender documentation is derived directly from the Scottish Government''s Procurement toolkit.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 26 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it includes Uddingston Grammar School as one of the 236 new or refurbished schools completed since May 2007 referred to in its news release, School building programme, of 8 October 2009.
Answer
Uddingston Grammar School was included by South Lanarkshire Council in their 2009 School Estate Statistics return as being completed in 2008-09, and was therefore included in the list of schools built or refurbished since May 2007.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any pupils will be taught in schools announced as being in the initial phase of its school rebuilding programme in the current parliamentary term.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor1008-01.htm
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what organisations it consulted before changing the code of practice in relation to Part 5 of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 and whether these are the same organisations that it consulted when the original code of practice was drawn up.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0924-01.htm
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 8 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Irish organisations in Scotland it has contacted in order to promote dialogue about identity and the meaning of multiculturalism or pluralism in modern-day Scotland in accordance with the Scottish Government Race Equality Statement of 8 December 2008.
Answer
The dialogue around identity and the meaning of multiculturalism or pluralism in modern day Scotland is being taken forward in partnership with a range of stakeholders including Black and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure Scotland (BEMIS) and Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations (CEMVO). These stakeholders are in turn in contact with a range of communities, and we would expect that they would engage those communities, including the Irish Community organisations. It is our intention to involve as many minority ethnic communities as possible, including the Irish community, in our work around identity and multiculturalism. The race conference planned for early 2010 will provide an excellent opportunity to focus on these issues and the Irish community organisations will be invited to attend.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 8 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £5.6 million allocated in relation to its Race Equality Scheme 2008-2011 has been allocated to projects representing the Irish community in Scotland.
Answer
The 33 projects allocated funding under the Race, Religion and Refugee Integration Funding Stream are benefiting a wide range of diverse minority ethnic communities. Many of these projects are open to members of all minority ethnic communities, including the Irish community. We did not receive any funding applications for projects from organisations targeting Irish communities.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female staff identified themselves in last year’s NHS staff survey as having experienced bullying or harassment.
Answer
The NHS Scotland 2008 staff survey took place between 20 October 2008 and 21 November 2008. A total of 58,381 staff completed the staff survey.
From the 2008 staff survey results, 7,323 female staff identified themselves as having experienced bullying and 7,242 reported having experienced harassment.
NHS boards are required to develop local action plans that address the issues raised by the staff survey results.
- Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled staff identified themselves in last year’s NHS staff survey as having experienced bullying or harassment
Answer
The NHS Scotland 2008 staff survey took place between 20 October 2008 and 21 November 2008. A total of 58,381 staff completed the staff survey.
From the 2008 staff survey results, 695 disabled staff identified themselves as having experienced bullying and 756 reported having experienced harassment.
NHS boards are required to develop local action plans that address the issues raised by the staff survey results.
