- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the introduction of the European working time directive, how it plans to deal with any shortfall in the hours of junior doctors.
Answer
Compliance with the reduction in working hours is the responsibility of NHS boards as employers, as is the implementation of a range of measures to cover the hours previously worked by junior doctors.
At the request of Scottish ministers all NHS boards have provided information on how they plan to achieve compliance with Working Time Regulations (WTR). The Scottish Government continues to support NHS boards as they invest in rota and service redesign and workforce modernisation. The creation of new and extended non-medical roles, the new contract for SAS (Staff and Associate Specialist) Grade doctors and the introduction of the Hospital at Night concept are all ways which will help the boards to reduce their reliance on junior doctors for service delivery.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date the Scottish Futures Trust will publish a detailed business plan.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0305-01.htm
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered mental health nurses were employed in the NHS in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested for 2006 is not centrally available. Data for registered mental health nurses for the last two years can be found in the following table:
Mental Health Nursing “ Bands 5 to 9 in Whole-Time Equivalent
| | 2007 | 2008 |
| Hospital | 3,388.8 | 3,821.0 |
| Community | 1,360.9 | 1,546.0 |
| Combined hospital/community | 403.2 | 392.6 |
| Total | 5,152.9 | 5,759.6 |
Source: Information Services Division Scotland (ISD) from http://www.isdscotland..org/isd/5352.html.
Note: The data is not directly comparable due to the Agenda for Change process of assimilation.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to retain anaesthetics at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0212-01.htm
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will oppose the renaming of Low Moss Prison as HMP Bishopbriggs.
Answer
This PQ was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0122-01.htm
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people under the age of (a) 14, (b) 16 and (c) 18 were treated for alcohol-related health problems in each of the last 12 months, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information on the number of patients aged under 14, 16 and 18 years discharged with an alcohol related diagnosis in 2006-07 by NHS board of treatment and month of discharge is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47367).
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Salmond on 15 January 2009
To ask the First Minister what progress the Scottish Government has made towards ending unintentional homelessness by 2012.
Answer
This PQ was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0115-01.htm
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to deal with retailers selling alcohol to under-18s.
Answer
We are currently implementing the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005. This contains broad new powers to allow tough action to be taken against those who sell alcohol to children. The act comes fully into force on 1 September and we encourage licensing boards to use their new powers to crack down on rogue retailers.
The law in respect of underage sales is also being enforced. Test purchasing is an early success story, helping the police in their efforts to stop underage sales. The number of reports to procurators fiscal in respect of the sale of alcohol to under 18s has also increased significantly from 252 reports in the six months to September 2007 to 394 reports in the six months to March 2008.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-13172 and S3W-13173 by Shona Robison on 3 June 2008, whether the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service intends to introduce a separate tender for the provision of nucleic acid testing of blood for hepatitis C and HIV to cover Scotland only.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service is currently taking part in a tender process which has not yet reached a conclusion.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what it anticipates would be the impact of any new nucleic acid blood testing system in the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) on current arrangements for SNBTS testing of blood products from Northern Ireland.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has informed the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service of its intention to enter into a joint tender with England and Wales for a state of the art nucleic acid testing system. The Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service has advised they would wish the current testing arrangements to continue, subject to contractually agreed periodic review processes.
