- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful claims were made against the insurers of each health board in each of the past three years.
Answer
Health boards and NHS trusts do not carry commercial insurance for clinical negligence and most areas of public and employer liability. Cover for these is provided through the departmentally administered Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS).Where individual health bodies choose to carry insurance for other risks not covered by CNORIS, neither details of these policies nor any history of claims lodged are held centrally.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been prescribed methadone in each health board area in each of the past three years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died as a direct result of ecstasy consumption in each of the past three years.
Answer
The following table presents the information available. For most of these cases other drugs including alcohol were also involved. It is therefore not possible to say how many of the deaths were as a direct result of ecstasy consumption.Drug-related deaths involving ecstasy, Scotland, 1998-2000
| Year | Number |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 11 |
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers currently continue to breastfeed at six weeks in each NHS board area.
Answer
Centrally held figures are not available for all NHS board areas. The following table, which is compiled by ISD and is drawn from the child surveillance pre-school system, shows the percentage of mothers breastfeeding at the six- to-eight week review point for those boards participating:
| NHS Board | Breastfeeding % |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 31.7 |
| Borders | 45 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 31.5 |
| Fife | 34.4 |
| Greater Glasgow | 33.4 |
| Lanarkshire | 24.5 |
| Lothian | 46.9 |
| Tayside | 39.1 |
| Forth Valley | 32.2 |
Notes:1. Missing and unknown data have been excluded.2. Figures are for exclusively breastfed and both breast and formula milk fed.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities currently have strategies in place to offer help and advice to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. It is entirely up to local authorities if they wish to develop strategies to provide help and support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. However, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) would be better placed to offer information regarding individual authorities.Jon Harris, Director of Policy and Legislation at COSLA has offered himself as a point of contact. His address is: COSLA, Rosebery House, 9 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5XZ.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school nurses were employed in each local authority area at 31 March and 30 September in each of the past three years.
Answer
Local authorities do not employ school nurses. School nurses are employed by NHS boards and the figures are detailed in the following table. The figures reflect the number of school nurses at 30 September each year. There are as yet no figures available for the year 2001.School Nurses directly employed by NHSScotland by NHS BoardHeadcount and Whole Time Equivalent at 30 September
| | Headcount | Whole Time Equivalent |
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Scotland | 395 | 388 | 384 | 284.4 | 277.5 | 275.6 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 34 | 35 | 34 | 22.8 | 23.2 | 23.8 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 26 | 27 | 27 | 18.9 | 19.7 | 18.9 |
| Borders | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 12 | 12 | 11 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| Fife | 37 | 38 | 38 | 27.4 | 29.6 | 29.7 |
| Forth Valley | 17 | 17 | 17 | 13.5 | 13.5 | 13.4 |
| Grampian | 40 | 49 | 54 | 25.3 | 31.6 | 34.3 |
| Greater Glasgow | 69 | 66 | 69 | 54.7 | 52.2 | 54.7 |
| Highland | 19 | 19 | 22 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 16.7 |
| Lanarkshire | 45 | 42 | 51 | 37.4 | 34.3 | 42.2 |
| Lothian | 40 | 34 | 14 | 28.4 | 24.7 | 8.6 |
| Orkney | 1 | - | - | 0.6 | - | - |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Tayside | 44 | 40 | 40 | 27.1 | 21.8 | 21.7 |
| Western Isles | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
Source: National Manpower Statistics from Payroll ISD Scotland.Note:Comprises qualified nurses and excludes nurse teachers and nurses in training.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many audiologists trained in (a) the diagnosis of a patient's suitability for digital hearing aids and (b) the fitting of such aids there were in each health board area at 31 March and 30 September in each of the past three years.
Answer
Information on the total number of qualified audiologists working in NHSScotland is not held centrally, but will be held by local NHS management. Contact details for NHS management personnel are available on: www.show.scot.nhs.uk.The supplier generally undertakes training on the fitting of digital hearing aids.I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23079 on 13 March 2002, which provides information on the number of medical staff in the specialty of audiological medicine in the last three years for which information is available.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was allocated to audiology departments by each health board area in each of the past three financial years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally but is being collected as part of the wide-ranging review of audiology services, which is currently under way. The review is due to report in the autumn.
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dedicated audiology departments there currently are in each NHS board area.
Answer
There are currently 22 main audiology services. The majority of these services provide satellite clinics outwith their main bases - one service visits 18 peripheral clinics.NHS Board
| Argyll and Clyde | 4 (Inverclyde, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Dunbarton Health Centre, Lorn and Islands District General Hospital (DGH)) |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1 (South Ayrshire DGH) |
| Borders | 1 (Borders DGH) |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 1 (Dumfries Royal Infirmary) |
| Fife | 1 (Victoria Hospital ,Kirkcaldy) |
| Forth Valley | 1 (Stirling Royal Infirmary) |
| Grampian | 1 (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary) |
| Greater Glasgow | 5 (Yorkhill Hospital, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow Royal, Stobhill, Gartnaval) |
| Highland | 1 (Raigmore Hospital) |
| Lanarkshire | 1 (Audiology Unit ,Auchingramont Road) |
| Lothian | 3 (Edinburgh Royal Adult Service, Edinburgh Royal Paediatric Service, St Johns Hospital) |
| Tayside | 2 (Ninewells Hospital, Perth Royal Inf.) |
- Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many diabetic out-patient clinics there currently are in each NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. NHS boards are expected to ensure appropriate services are provided for people with diabetes. This includes community and primary care services as well as hospital in-patient and out-patient care.
