- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what continuing professional development has been offered to midwives on educating parents on alcohol matters.
Answer
We would expect all NHS boards to ensure their staff, including midwives, have the relevant continuous professional development required to undertake their role. To support this, NHS Health Scotland has developed materials and resources to support NHS staff in delivering education and intervention in relation to alcohol matters.
As part of Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) HEAT target, antenatal care has been included as one of three priority settings. Work is ongoing to roll out a national training programme, led by NHS Health Scotland, to provide confident and competent practitioners in delivering ABIs. This includes a specifically tailored programme and resources for the antenatal setting.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has an agreement with child and adolescent mental health services on the target number of inpatient beds for children and adolescents.
Answer
We are working closely with NHS boards to ensure that the number of specialist beds matches the need and demand of children and adolescents. We are also encouraging NHS boards to develop their community based intensive outreach services in order to enable children and young people to return to their own communities at an earlier stage of their recovery.
Since 2009 the Scottish Government have invested an additional £2 million annually to support these developments which shorten the time young people have to be in hospital and free up capacity for others who require admission.
We are operating a regional model of service delivery and presently have 51 beds with plans in place to increase the size of the Dundee Unit (which serves the North of Scotland Boards) from six beds to 12 and this will take the total bed numbers in Scotland to 57.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Royal College of Psychiatry or child and adolescent mental health services staff have made a recommendation on the appropriate number of inpatient beds for child and adolescent patients.
Answer
We have been working closely with NHS boards to determine the number of beds that would best meet the needs and demand of the children and adolescent population in Scotland. We have also been working on encouraging the development of new models of service delivery which either shorten admissions or act as alternatives to admissions.
The 2005 report Building and Sustaining Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, recommended 20 to 40 inpatient beds per 1 million population across each of the five jurisdictions (England, Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic).
The Scottish Executive inpatient working group recommended in its document Psychiatric Inpatient Services for Children and Young People in Scotland: A way Forward, that planning should commence now for a phased increase to 60 psychiatric inpatient places for young people in Scotland with ongoing review of need and demand.
We are operating a regional model of service delivery and presently have 51 beds with plans in place to increase the size of the Dundee unit (which serves the North of Scotland Boards) from six beds to 12 and this will take the total bed numbers for children and young people in Scotland to 57.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-35505 by Shona Robison on 24 August 2010, whether the Minister for Public Health and Sport will update the Parliament on current statistics from local authorities on the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement Programme.
Answer
A report compiled by the Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland which provides details of local authorities'' engagement with the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement Programme has now been published. Copies of the report will be made available through the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52522).
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 25 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38441 by John Swinney on 21 January 2011, what payments were made to each area data sharing partnership in 2009-10 and how much is budgeted for 2011-12, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
No funding was provided to data sharing partnerships in 2009-10. No funding will be provided in 2011-12.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-35505 by Shona Robison on 24 August 2010, what the reason is for the delay to the report on progress made under the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement, which was due to be published in 2010.
Answer
The reason for the delay was the extended absence and subsequent resignation of the Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS) National Co-ordinator who is responsible for compiling the report. The appointment of an interim co-ordinator has meant that this work can be completed to enable the report to be published by the end of February.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-medical prescribers (a) have completed the appropriate course to allow them to become independent prescribers, (b) are registered to prescribe and (c) are prescribing in the field of drug and alcohol treatments as either supplementary or independent prescribers.
Answer
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) supports non-medical independent prescribing programmes for relevant NHS staff. The courses run to different timescales therefore the data available reflect this.
NHS NES has advised that, as at February 2010, 2,196 nurses and midwives had completed the training programme; as at November 2010, 390 pharmacists had completed the training programme; and, as at February 2011, 30 optometrists had completed the training programme.
Successful completion of the independent prescribing training programme enables the healthcare professional to register as a prescriber with the relevant professional body. Data on all active registrations is not held centrally.
The total number of non-medical prescribers who are prescribing in the field of drug and alcohol treatments as either supplementary or independent prescribers is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has put in place to increase the uptake of breast screening by women from ethnic minority groups.
Answer
Information leaflets about the Scottish Breast Screening Service are available in various languages from NHS Health Scotland.
These leaflets are available to download from the NHS Health Scotland website at:
http://www.healthscotland.com/topics/health-topics/screening/breast.aspx.
NHS boards throughout Scotland run local initiatives to help improve informed uptake of breast screening.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Scotland's Healthy Working Lives on the possible adverse health effects of shift working.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has regular communications with the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives in relation to general health and wellbeing in the workplace. The Centre makes information available to employers and employees on shift working through its website and advice line.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has agreed with the Food Standards Agency regarding the reduction of the intake of salt.
Answer
There are two sets of salt targets, population targets and industry targets. The agreed population target is to reduce sodium intake of the Scottish population to 100mmol per day or 6g salt/day.
The Scottish Dietary Targets were first set out in Eating for Health: Diet Action Plan for Scotland and have since been reiterated in the Scottish Government''s publications Healthy Eating, Active Living (2008), Recipe for Success National Food and Drink Policy (2009) and Preventing Overweight and Obesity in Scotland a Route Map Towards Healthy Weight (2010).
In 2006 the Food Standards Agency introduced voluntary salt reductions for industry across 80 categories of food, for achievement by 2010. Through a review in 2008 it was found that a number of retailers had already met these targets. Therefore, some of the 2008 targets were revised and a further version to create more challenging targets were set for achievement by 2012. You can find out more about the targets at:
http://www.food.gov.uk/scotland/scotnut/salt/saltreduction.
These industry targets remain in place in Scotland. The population-based Scottish dietary targets are currently monitored by the FSA urinary sodium survey.
