- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional ambulances are to be made available to provide the new rapid transport service to Hairmyres Hospital or the Golden Jubilee National Hospital for patients with a myocardial infarction for whom primary angioplasty is to be the intervention.
Answer
This work is being taken forward by the West of Scotland Regional Planning Group and implementation planning is still being progressed by the partners involved, including the Scottish Ambulance Service.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the discovery of personal records at Strathmartine Hospital, it is now confident that all sites of NHS buildings that have been decommissioned will be totally cleansed of all personal records, both paper and digital versions.
Answer
The NHSScotland Chief Executive wrote to all NHS boards on 22 May seeking confirmation that obligations were met with regard to the management, retention and disposal of records. A reference to decommissioned hospitals premises was also included. All replies have given that assurance.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in the event of a positive decision to transfer medical, nursing, and/or allied health professional services from the Scottish Prison Service to the NHS, what additional funding will be made available to individual NHS boards, including Forth Valley in whose area there are three prisons.
Answer
The Scottish Government has accepted the recommendations of the Prison Healthcare Advisory Board in principle and intends to establish a national programme board for prisoners’ healthcare which will oversee and steer the preparatory work for the eventual transfer of the primary healthcare services from Scottish prison services to the NHS. This will include the financial implications and funding requirements to deliver the proposed models of care in due course.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff will be lost in achieving efficiency savings in the NHS shared support services programme in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Answer
The efficiency objectives that we have in Scotland are sustainable and will allow us to implement changes to government in Scotland without compulsory redundancies.
It is important not to confuse staffing changes with job cuts. Staffing changes will be brought about though measures such as redeployment and the further training and development of existing staff.
NHS boards are in the process of formulating plans on how the current phase of shared support services will impact on staff numbers and redeployment. These plans and any decisions on staffing changes are for individual NHS boards to take, in line with their local policies.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff will be made redundant as a result of achieving efficiency savings in the NHS shared support services programme in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Answer
The efficiency objectives that we have in Scotland are sustainable and will allow us to implement changes to government in Scotland without compulsory redundancies.
It is important not to confuse staffing changes with job cuts. Staffing changes will be brought about through measures such as redeployment and further training and development of existing staff.
NHS boards are in the process of formulating plans on how the current phase of shared support services will impact on staff numbers and redeployment. These plans and any decisions on staffing changes are for individual NHS boards to take, in line with their local policies.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency and bank staff were employed to cover (a) sickness absence, (b) holiday leave and (c) lack of capacity in NHS boards in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. However, the National Services Scotland, Information Services Division website holds information on costs and worked hours for agency and bank staff for 2006-07. Information for 2007-08 is due to be published shortly.
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/workforce-statistics.jsp?pContentID=1350&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of agency and bank staff in each NHS board area due to (a) sickness absence (b) holiday leave and (c) lack of capacity in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14132 on 24 June 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be allocated to Breathing Space telephone advice lines in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s Mental Health Division has allocated £800,000 to NHS24 in each of 2009-10 and 2010-11 to support the running, staffing and advertising of the Breathing Space advice line.
In addition, NHS24 have allocated a further £225,000 to support Breathing Space in each of these years.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds have been allocated to Breathing Space telephone advice lines in 2008-09.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s Mental Health Division has allocated £800,000 to NHS24 in 2008-09 to support the running, staffing and advertising of the Breathing Space advice line.
In addition, NHS24 have allocated a further £225,000 to support Breathing Space in 2008-09.
- Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds have been allocated to support the Choose Life programme in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, and (c) 2008-09, also broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Government allocated £8.6 million over 2006-08 for the further implementation of Choose Life. National activities, led by the Choose Life national implementation team, received £2 million over 2006-08. Local activities received a total of £6.6 million over 2006-08.
Funding allocation to each local authority for Choose Life for 2006-07 and 2007-8 is recorded in the following table:
| Area | 2006-07 Allocation (£000) | 2007-08 Allocation (£000) |
| Aberdeen City | 114 | 114 |
| Aberdeenshire | 117 | 117 |
| Angus | 87 | 87 |
| Argyll and Bute | 83 | 83 |
| Clackmannanshire | 72 | 72 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 97 | 97 |
| Dundee City | 97 | 97 |
| East Ayrshire | 90 | 90 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 87 | 87 |
| East Lothian | 83 | 83 |
| East Renfrewshire | 83 | 83 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 173 | 173 |
| Eilean Siar | 67 | 67 |
| Falkirk | 97 | 97 |
| Fife | 148 | 148 |
| Glasgow City | 206 | 206 |
| Highland | 213 | 213 |
| Inverclyde | 81 | 81 |
| Midlothian | 80 | 80 |
| Moray | 82 | 82 |
| North Ayrshire | 94 | 94 |
| North Lanarkshire | 141 | 141 |
| Orkney Islands | 65 | 65 |
| Perth and Kinross | 94 | 94 |
| Renfrewshire | 104 | 104 |
| Scottish Borders | 87 | 87 |
| Shetland Islands | 66 | 66 |
| South Ayrshire | 88 | 88 |
| South Lanarkshire | 136 | 136 |
| Stirling | 82 | 82 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 84 | 84 |
| West Lothian | 100 | 100 |
| Total | 3,198 million | 3,198 million |
Following spending review 2007, £1.2 million is allocated for national Choose Life activity for 2008-09. Following the concordat between government and COSLA, funding for local suicide prevention activity will be drawn from the overall funding provided to local authorities, and will be determined by local need.
