- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) professors of and (b) senior lecturer posts in neurosurgery there were in 1999 and how many there are now
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
The Scottish Government is aware, however, that at present there is one academic neurosurgery post in Scotland.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many posts in the NHS are currently advertised on the national website as being available for redeployment.
Answer
Advertising and filling vacancies through redeployment is a matter for NHSScotland NHS boards as employers. The data requested is not held centrally.
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- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly diagnosed patients each nurse specialist in neurology has responsibility for annually.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However, it is for NHS boards to determine their workforce requirements, including specialist nurses, based on the clinical needs of the population and service developments in their area.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent nurse specialists are working specifically in epilepsy, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
NHS Workforce data is published by National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland annually, as at 30 September. Information showing clinical nurse specialists by specialty, including epilepsy, and NHS board at 30 September 2009 is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Clinical%20Nurse%20Specialists%202009a.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent nurse specialists are working specifically in neurology, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
NHS Workforce data is published by National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland annually, as at 30 September. Information showing clinical nurse specialists by specialty, including neuroscience/neurology, and NHS board at 30 September 2009 is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Clinical%20Nurse%20Specialists%202009a.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly diagnosed patients each nurse specialist in epilepsy has responsibility for annually.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However, it is for NHS boards to determine their workforce requirements, including specialist nurses, based on the clinical needs of the population and service developments in their area.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-34309 by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 June 2010, whether as part of its review of the appendix 3.1 Model freedom of speech in the Partnership Information Network (PIN) guideline, Dealing with employee concerns, the revised model will ensure that concerns that employees may have, and that are not being responded to by management, about (a) reductions in posts being inappropriate, (b) vacancy management creating undue stress on other team members, (c) voluntary redundancies resulting in the loss of staff key to service delivery or (d) any other changes that they consider might harm patient care can be conveyed to their MSP or MP as a matter of right.
Answer
The Dealing with Employee Concerns Partnership Information Network (PIN) guideline, which contains the model freedom of speech policy, is currently under review. As part of this process, the review group will consider and include the provisions of the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) which gives workers automatic protection for raising a matter internally and the right to make disclosures to prescribed regulators.
The review group, consisting of representatives from employers and trade unions, will consider all aspects of PIDA, including current provision for disclosures to MPs and MSPs in certain circumstances. The revised PIN will be published in early 2011.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it regards the current plan for reductions of 1,523 nursing, 68 doctor and 230 allied health professional posts as sufficient for any or all NHS boards to require to implement the Partnership Information Network (PIN) Redeployment guideline for boards to have a substantive post dealing specifically with redeployment rather than a designated redeployment co-ordinator.
Answer
Scottish Ministers have made clear their expectation that NHS boards will work towards compliance with Partnership Information Network (PIN) policies. All NHS boards have a designated redeployment co-ordinator as specified in the Redeployment PIN guideline. It is for individual boards to consider at what stage it would be appropriate to make an explicit redeployment co-ordinator appointment in response to any predicted substantial period of change.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has made of the use by NHS boards of returns of Redeployment Assessment Forms as outlined in Appendix 3.2 of the Partnership Information Network (PIN) guideline on redeployment.
Answer
The redeployment of staff forms part of individual NHS boards'' workforce management arrangements. NHS boards are responsible locally for monitoring the effectiveness of those arrangements, including redeployment. As set out in the Redeployment Partnership Information Network (PIN) guideline, the monitoring arrangements may include analysis of the redeployment assessment forms that are outlined in Appendix 3.2 of the Redeployment PIN.
The Scottish Government has not carried out any national evaluation of the effectiveness of NHS boards'' redeployment processes. However, local redeployment issues are, where necessary, considered in partnership with staff side representatives. In addition, it will be open to the national scrutiny group to consider whether any wider issues are raised by the operation of redeployment processes.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it has received in the last 12 months from any part of the NHS that have evaluated success in redeployment measured as (a) turnover post-redeployment compared with pre-redeployment and (b) number of staff successfully redeployed.
Answer
The redeployment of staff forms part of individual NHS boards'' workforce management arrangements. NHS boards are responsible locally for monitoring the effectiveness of those arrangements, including redeployment. As set out in the Redeployment Partnership Information Network guideline, the monitoring arrangements may include the evaluation of pre- and post-redeployment turnover and the number of staff successfully redeployed.
The Scottish Government has not carried out any national evaluation of the effectiveness of NHS boards'' redeployment processes. However, local redeployment issues are, where necessary, considered in partnership with staff side representatives. In addition, it will be open to the national scrutiny group to consider whether any wider issues are raised by the operation of redeployment processes.
