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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-18617

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to increase trainee GPs' awareness of their public health role.

It is the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) which develops and maintains the general practitioner (GP) curriculum, and this has the public health role of the GP as a key element.

All three elements of public health, health improvement, promoting health and health care services, can be learnt in the practice setting and the GP trainees spend eighteen months of their training in practice. In this environment the GP trainee will be involved in health promotion, prevention and screening activities. They also have the opportunity to work with other health care professionals such as nurses and health visitors.

GP trainees can also use their protected educational half day to spend time with Public Health Specialists if this is an identified educational need.

Question reference: S4W-18620

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government which of the local health care cooperatives that were in place in 2005 are still operating.

Question reference: S4W-18611

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the principles on which it considers GP contracts should be based.

Question reference: S4W-18597

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of the country's (a) current and (b) planned major trauma centres.

Question reference: S4W-18614

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what protected learning time is made available to GPs who work only, or for the most part, in out-of-hours services.

Question reference: S4W-18603

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will carry out a review of how data are collated on nursing and midwifery staff to allow a retrospective review of the workforce following the integration of health and social care.

Question reference: S4W-18598

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether any major trauma centres do not have support staff on duty on the premises 24-hours, seven days a week for (a) heart attacks, (b) strokes and (c) major orthopaedic operations.

Question reference: S4W-18607

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that there are sufficient post-registration midwives to meet demand.

With NHS Scotland and stakeholders we have been developing a suite of workload measurement and workforce planning tools in recent years to support evidence based decisions about the midwifery establishment in clinical areas. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) endorses the use of these tools and NHS boards are must apply them in planning their workforce. Midwifery numbers have increased by 242.7 whole term equivalent (wte), or 8.8%, under this Government.

Question reference: S4W-18621

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support the development of so-called networked GP practices.

The Scottish Government’s “Route Map” to the 2020 Vision for Health and Social Care in Scotland sets out a new and accelerated focus on a number of priority areas for action around Primary Care, a key aspect of this is our “Primary Care Modernisation Programme”.

In November 2013 the Scottish Government announced £1 million towards this programme and an integral part its work will be to trial and test at scale a range of new models of care.

The learning from this work will inform future planning and spread of well-developed and tested new ways of working and models of care as standard across Scotland before 2020.

Question reference: S4W-18606

Asked by: Dr Richard Simpson, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 12 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the number of health visitors in work and in training will meet any increased demand and the switch into family nurse partnerships.