- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 10 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it encouraged Inverclyde and other councils to trial a food collection service for a year but offered no funding for its continuation and carried out no evaluation of the trial.
Answer
The trial was implemented to assess the costs, feasibility and effectiveness of food waste collections. In addition the trial provided an opportunity to compare and evaluate the pros and cons of a food waste collections against food and garden waste collections. All participating local authorities were aware of the fact that this was a trial and was not meant to be long term arrangement.
Over the period 2008-09 to 2010-11 Scottish Government is providing local authorities across Scotland with £80 million from the Zero Waste Fund. Whilst it is for local authorities to decide how to allocate this funding they can of course direct this towards the roll-out of food waste collections should they wish to do so.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 10 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that it can achieve the objectives of its zero waste policy without providing financial support to allow local authorities to establish long-term food waste collection services.
Answer
£80 million of Zero Waste funding will be allocated to local authorities over the 2008-09 to 2010-11 period. It is Scottish Government''s view that the overall funding provided is sufficient to achieve recycling and landfill targets. It for local authorities to decide how best to deploy resources to achieve these goals.
You will appreciate that I am not in a position to comment on funding arrangements beyond 2010-11.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is being made available for the Family Nurse Partnership pilot in Lothian.
Answer
The Scottish Government will be providing NHS Lothian with £1.6 million to support the test of the Family Nurse Partnership Programme, in Edinburgh City Health Partnership (CHP), until the first cohort of children reaches two.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost per client per year will be of delivering the Family Nurse Partnership.
Answer
Due to the phased delivery of this programme, it is not possible to break down costs on an annual basis. The programme is delivered to each client over a two and a half year period. However, some clients may receive more or less than this, depending on when they engaged with the programme, and the number of visits for each phase is different and, in pregnancy at least, do not cover a full year.
A formative evaluation of implementation of the first 10 Family Nurse Partnership sites in England is being conducted by Birkbeck, University of London. This will conclude in 2011 and will include an assessment of costs.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged (a) 10 and under and (b) 11 to 16 have undergone operations under general anaesthetic in hospital in each of the last five years, broken down by (i) type of operation and (ii) NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally available.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to roll out the use of medical homepods to patients with lung disease, heart disease or hypertension living in remote and rural areas.
Answer
The Scottish Government is helping to support the use of medical homepods via the Telecare Development Programme''s Innovation Fund. The Centre for Remote Health at the University of the Highlands and Islands is evaluating the pilots and aims to report on its findings by March 2010. No decisions have yet been taken by the Scottish Government about future support for, or use of, medical homepods.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the medical homepod pilot projects (a) on the Isle of Bute, (b) on the Isle of Luing and (c) in Fife are expected to cost.
Answer
Homepod units cost £1,100 each and community pod units £7,000 each.
On the Isle of Bute, 15 homepods and one community pod are being provided at a total cost of £23,500. On the Isle of Luing, one homepod and one community pod are being provided at a total cost of £8,100. In Fife, no detailed breakdown is yet available but anticipated costs are £30,000.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how long the medical homepod pilot projects have been running (a) on the Isle of Bute, (b) on the Isle of Luing and (c) in Fife and when they will be evaluated.
Answer
Medical homepod pilots have been running since March 2009 on the Isle of Bute, and since summer 2009 on the Isle of Luing. The pilot in Fife is due to commence in early February 2010. The Centre for Remote Health at the University of the Highlands and Islands aims to report its evaluation findings by April 2010.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what conditions the medical homepod pilot projects (a) on the Isle of Luing and (b) in Fife are being used to monitor.
Answer
Homepods in use on the Isle of Luing and in Fife are used exclusively for monitoring Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder.
A community pod is also available to patients on the Isle of Luing allowing them to monitor a wider range of long-term conditions including hypertension and heart disease.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients are participating in the medical homepod pilot projects (a) on the Isle of Bute, (b) on the Isle of Luing and (c) in Fife.
Answer
Fourteen patients are participating in the medical homepod pilot project on the Isle of Bute. One patient is participating on the Isle of Luing via a homepod. Twenty-one patients are participating in the Fife pilot.
Additionally, a number of patients are able to access communal pods in each of those locations.
