- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scanning machines there are for detecting osteoporosis.
Answer
At July 2007, there were 15 DEXA scanners in NHSScotland. All NHS boards have access to DEXA scanning.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what preventative measures are currently being taken with regard to osteoporosis.
Answer
Our work on smoking, diet and exercise will help reduce the risk of people developing osteoporosis. The Scottish Medicines Consortium has also provided advice to NHSScotland on drug therapy for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis.
Falls and bone health also form one of the topics NHS boards can choose under the Scottish Enhanced Services Programme, to help improve such services locally. HDL(2007) 13 requires NHS boards to have a falls and prevention strategy linked operationally to bone health services. NHS QIS, NHS Health Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland are now putting in place a programme of work which will stress that bone health needs to be addressed in combination with prevention and management of falls.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are applied to determine whether or not a patient will be referred for an osteoporosis scan.
Answer
The criteria are set out in SIGN Guideline 71 on the management of osteoporosis.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the criteria used to determine referrals for osteoporosis scans.
Answer
SIGN has consulted on the need to review the guideline on the management of osteoporosis (No 71) and agreed to
a complete review of the guideline, encompassing new treatments, falls assessment and learning disabilities. This work will commence as part of the 2008-09 work programme, and is expected to take about 30 months.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been excluded from a waiting time guarantee since September 2007 because treatment is too highly specialised.
Answer
Waiting list information prior to 1 January 2008 was collected by a census undertaken on the last day of each month and published quarterly. The latest available information published on 26 February 2008, showed that the number of patients who had a highly specialised treatment availability status code on 31 October 2007, 30 November 2007, and 31 December 2007 was 472, 212, and 64 respectively.
From 1 January 2008 where a patient is placed on a waiting list the patient is treated within the national maximum waiting time target, subject to any periods of unavailability. There is no category of highly specialised treatment.
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- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been informed by consultants that they have been removed from waiting lists since September 2007, also broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-9328 on 27 February 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: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been removed from hospital waiting lists since September 2007.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-9328 on 27 February 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: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been excluded from a waiting time guarantee since September 2007 because treatment is deemed to be a low clinical priority.
Answer
Waiting list information prior to 1 January 2008 was collected by a census undertaken on the last day of each month and published quarterly. The latest available information published on 26 February 2008, showed that the number of patients who had an availability status code indicating treatment of low clinical priority on 31 October 2007, 30 November 2007 and 31 December 2007 was 141, 112 and 34 respectively.
From 1 January 2008 where a patient is placed on a waiting list the patient is treated within the national maximum waiting time target, subject to any periods of unavailability. There is no category of low clinical priority.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients held an availability status code on 1 December 2007.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Prior to 1 January 2008 waiting list information was collected by a census undertaken on the last day of each month and published quarterly by ISD Scotland. The latest available information published on 26 February 2008 showed that 8,493 inpatient/day case patients held an availability status code on 31 December 2007.
As ASC''s were abolished on 31 December 2007, national waiting time targets now apply to all of these patients. Those that are available for treatment will require to be treated within 18 weeks.
- Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have had their availability status codes removed without having received any treatment since the introduction of the 18-week target for patient treatment, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The 18 weeks maximum waiting time guarantee for inpatient and day case treatment applies from 31 December 2007. Information published by ISD Scotland on 26 February 2008 shows that NHSScotland delivered the guarantee.
In preparation for the introduction of new ways of defining and measuring waiting times on I January 2008, NHS boards were required to review the cases of all patients holding an availability status code and to take action specified in published guidance. Patients with an availability status code who were available for treatment on 31 December 2007 will receive that treatment within 18 weeks, i.e. by 5 May 2008. Patients who were not available for treatment at the end of 2007 have either been transferred to the new waiting lists with their record noted as unavailable, in which case they will be reviewed regularly; or where clinically appropriate have been returned to the care of their GP “ again as provided in published guidance. As of 1 January 2008, no patient was still subject to an availability status code.
