- 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 Shona Robison on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist multidisciplinary teams there are to support pregnant women with a drug or alcohol problem, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what definition of homeless is used in determining the per-patient fee as part of the national enhanced service for care for homeless people.
Answer
As defined in the national enhanced services guidance for GP practices, homelessness is described as a wide range of circumstances where people have no secure home and is defined in legislation for the purpose of determining entitlement to assistance and support from public service providers.
Groups defined as homeless for Healthcare provision include: rough sleepers, hostel/night shelter residents; residents in bed and breakfast premises, squatters; people staying temporararily with friends and family; all those with physical/mental health problems and all vulnerable people who have experienced domestic or racial abuse.
- 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: 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: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children under 16 years old were admitted to adult psychiatric wards and how many of these admissions were deemed inappropriate, in each of the last three years.
Answer
The number of children under 16 admitted to an adult psychiatric ward are:
2007-08: 28
2008-09: 34
2009-10: 35
The latest figures from the Mental Welfare Commission show that the number of young people under the age of 16 who were admitted to adult mental health beds is similar to that of the previous year. However the number of young males admitted has increased whilst the number of females has decreased. This may be due to young males requiring urgent admission for other mental health problems with young women more likely being admitted on an arranged basis, often for eating disorders.
With regard to the number who were deemed to be admitted inappropriately this information is not available.
Further information can be obtained at:
http://reports.mwcscot.org.uk/annual_monitoring/overview2009-2010/monitoringourpriorityareas2010/young_people_under_18_2010.aspx.
- 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 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the European average is, per 1 million of population, of beds for mental health admissions for children up to 16 years old.
Answer
This information is not available. The World Health Organization has a European Health for All Database with various indicators, however beds per 1 million of population for mental health admissions for children up to 16 years old are not one of the indicators.
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/data-and-evidence/databases/european-health-for-all-database-hfa-db2.
Information on child/adolescent beds for Scotland is published on the ISD website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3426.html.
- 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.
