Chamber and committees

The HPV vaccine is entirely voluntary and girls are entirely free to refuse the offer of the vaccination if they so wish.

In the NHS, equal pay claims are subject of various ongoing legal proceedings. It is not, therefore, considered possible make any estimate of financial liability at this stage as the lack of information available would mean that any such estimate is likely to be misleading. The progress of all equal pay issues in NHSScotland is being monitored closely.

In the NHS, equal pay claims are subject of various on-going legal proceedings. It is not, therefore, considered possible to make any estimate of financial liability at this stage as the lack of information available would mean that any such estimate is likely to be misleading. The progress of all equal pay issues in NHSScotland is being monitored closely.

The updated NHS QIS stroke standards published at the end of June stipulate that thrombolysis services should be aiming to treat more than five stroke patients per 100,000 population and to ensure that the door-to-needle time is less than one hour in at least 80% of patients treated. In anticipation of this, SSCA started collecting data in January 2009 on all patients thrombolysed in Scotland. The first data should be published in summer 2010.

The further information requested in the question is not held in exactly the format requested, but the information we do hold is presented here in the most appropriate way possible. The Scottish Stroke Care Audit database captures information on the percentage of stroke patients undergoing scanning during admission (including CT scan but also other forms), admission to any stroke unit within one day of admission and swallow screening on the day of, or within one day of, admission. The most up-to-date information can be found in the 2008 SSCA national report and is shown in the following table:

NHS QIS Stroke Standards (March 2004)

Source: Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA) 2008 National Report.

Notes:

* includes missing data in the denominator; in general NHS QIS adopt the more rigorous standard where the denominator includes those with missing data i.e. if it is not recorded that something was done then it was assumed that it was not.

Data for 2006 are not available, as the SSCA agreed a data collection amnesty that year to allow hospitals with data entry backlog to focus on collecting audit data for 2007.

The issues raised in the question are highlighted in our Better Heart Disease and Stroke Care Action Plan, published in June 2009.

This campaign, which will focus on giving you more choice, will raise awareness of those types of contraception such as the implant and coil which provide lasting effective contraception for up to 10 years.

Increasing the number of women using long lasting methods of contraception will have a positive impact in the short term on repeat terminations and in the longer term on unintended pregnancy.