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Question reference: S3W-36384

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions of patients aged 60 and over there have been in each year since 2000, broken down by NHS board.

Table 1 shows the number of acute hospital inpatient and day case episodes for patients aged 60 and over for each year since 2000, broken down by NHS board of residence. Table 2 shows acute hospital inpatient and day case episodes for patients aged 60 and over as a percentage of all acute hospital episodes, broken down by NHS health board of residence.

A hospital episode is counted when a patient is discharged from hospital, but also when a patient is transferred between hospitals, is transferred to a different specialty, is moved to a different significant facility (e.g. moved from a standard ward to an intensive care unit) or is transferred to the care of a different consultant.

Table 1 - Number of Acute Hospital Episodes for Patients Aged 60 and Over by NHS Health Board of Residence, Calendar Years 2000-09

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Scotland	570,424	576,645	567,252	584,012	612,419	622,934	650,235	676,193	707,232	719,677
NHS Board of Residence
Ayrshire and Arran	43,809	45,826	45,101	46,387	50,356	51,891	53,730	54,915	58,176	61,031
Borders	13,096	13,033	12,335	12,523	13,463	14,683	15,591	15,837	16,141	16,246
Dumfries and Galloway	18,855	19,246	17,642	17,567	18,604	19,989	21,305	22,891	23,967	25,060
Fife	42,021	42,162	40,448	41,399	43,577	43,447	47,257	49,594	49,783	50,062
Forth Valley	27,517	28,036	27,491	24,911	25,915	26,447	28,251	28,177	27,758	28,683
Grampian	52,833	50,825	48,184	50,750	50,779	51,354	52,379	54,093	58,518	63,897
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	145,715	149,844	150,453	156,285	163,473	163,838	169,371	178,792	186,115	185,123
Highland	35,327	35,717	36,339	38,941	41,105	42,407	46,007	48,538	49,679	50,832
Lanarkshire	58,809	64,427	69,700	73,242	76,498	76,804	79,723	82,446	87,338	89,985
Lothian	79,176	76,775	70,164	70,576	76,567	79,226	82,441	85,289	91,286	90,966
Orkney Islands	1,747	1,864	2,267	2,357	2,396	2,635	3,018	3,794	3,616	3,739
Shetland Islands	1,911	2,108	2,089	2,147	2,425	2,472	2,514	2,373	2,476	2,333
Tayside	45,972	42,846	40,953	42,807	43,148	43,658	44,411	44,881	47,604	46,451
Western Isles	3,636	3,936	4,086	4,120	4,113	4,083	4,237	4,573	4,775	5,269

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01.

Table 2 - Acute Hospital Episodes for Patients Aged 60 and Over as a Percentage of all Acute Hospital Episodes by NHS Health Board of Residence, Calendar Years 2000-09

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Scotland	46.8	47.3	47.9	48.8	49.6	49.7	50.0	50.8	51.3	51.5
NHS Board of Residence
Ayrshire and Arran	46.6	47.6	48.2	48.7	50.4	51.0	51.0	51.0	52.0	52.8
Borders	51.0	50.7	49.8	51.7	52.2	53.9	54.4	54.3	54.0	54.9
Dumfries and Galloway	51.9	52.4	53.2	53.8	54.8	54.8	55.8	57.2	57.9	58.4
Fife	47.7	48.2	48.4	48.7	49.6	48.9	49.7	51.3	52.5	52.2
Forth Valley	44.6	43.9	44.9	45.4	47.3	48.0	49.8	49.5	49.5	50.3
Grampian	46.3	46.3	46.7	47.3	48.0	48.1	48.2	48.8	49.2	50.6
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	47.1	47.6	48.4	49.7	50.2	50.0	50.1	50.8	51.0	50.6
Highland	48.5	49.5	50.2	51.3	51.5	52.2	53.6	54.4	54.8	55.5
Lanarkshire	43.6	45.0	46.8	48.3	49.2	49.6	49.2	50.2	50.7	50.6
Lothian	46.0	46.4	46.1	46.6	47.5	47.4	47.6	48.4	49.3	49.3
Orkney Islands	45.3	48.6	50.7	49.4	50.2	51.6	55.5	59.6	56.9	58.2
Shetland Islands	39.4	39.9	40.8	42.5	44.6	43.4	43.4	44.0	45.5	40.7
Tayside	49.6	49.1	49.2	50.0	50.2	50.3	49.9	51.1	51.6	51.6
Western Isles	50.1	52.0	50.8	50.4	51.8	52.3	52.3	55.8	55.9	59.0

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01.

Question reference: S3W-36383

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost is of the Active Nation campaign.

Active Nation was launched on 1 March 2010 as the flagship Games Legacy public engagement programme to get Scots active in the run up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games and beyond. The spend for Active Nation for 2009-10 was £150,000 which covered the development of the Active Nation brand and guidelines, developed a stakeholder toolkit, and provided PR around the Active Nation launch - including the partnership with Sport Relief. The budget for Active Nation for 2010-11 is £205,000. The budget for future years will be determined as part of the 2010 Spending Review.

Question reference: S3W-36386

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 October 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the impact that free personal care has had in terms of reducing hospital admissions among older patients.

Question reference: S3W-36385

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost to the NHS has been of hospital inpatient care for patients aged 60 and over in each year since 2000, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-36378

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints were made about the Scottish Ambulance Service in 2009-10, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S3W-36382

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent estimate is of the annual cost to the NHS of cardiovascular disease.

Question reference: S3W-36377

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints were made about NHS family health services in 2009-10, broken down by NHS board.

In 2009-10 it was estimated that a total of 3,515 complaints were made about NHSScotland Family Health Services.

See table in S3W-36374 answered on 29 September 2010 to see a breakdown of this total by geographical health board area. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Question reference: S3W-36374

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints were made about the NHS in 2009-10, broken down by NHS board.

In 2009-10 a total of 11,644 complaints were made about NHS in Scotland. Please see breakdown of this total by geographical health board area in the following table.

NHSScotland Complaints- by Health Board, 2009-10^P

	Hospital and Community Health Services¹	Family Health Services^2,3,P	Special Boards	Total^P
All organisations	7,123	3,515	1,006	11,644
Ayrshire and Arran	418	224		642
Borders	137	104		241
Dumfries and Galloway	211	133		344
Fife	372	307		679
Forth Valley	356	160		516
Grampian	1,052	588		1 640
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	1,686	818		2 504
Highland4	339	169		508
Lanarkshire	672	81		753
Lothian	1,157	857		2 014
Orkney	18	13		31
Shetland	36	1		37
Tayside	626	38		664
Western Isles	43	22		65
NHS Special Boards, National & Support Organisations & the Scottish Health Council
The National Waiting Times Centre			55	55
The State Hospitals Board for Scotland			66	66
Scottish Ambulance Service			477	477
NHS24			112	112
NHS Education for Scotland (NES)			-	-
NHS Health Scotland			8	8
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS)			4	4
Scottish Health Council (QIS)			-	-
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS)			284	284
Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service - Blood Donors (NSS)			253	253

^PData is provisional.

Source: ISD(Scotland) NHS Complaints.

Notes:

1. Includes complaints where response date is not known.

2. Family Health Services figures for NHS Highland have been estimated based on the average for the last available two years.

3. Excludes pharmaceutical/ophthalmic complaints.

Question reference: S3W-36375

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints were made about NHS hospital and community services in 2009-10, broken down by NHS board.

In 2009-10 a total of 7,123 complaints were made about NHSScotland Hospital and Community Health Services. See table in S3W-36374 answered on 29 September 2010 to see a breakdown of this total by geographical health board. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Question reference: S3W-36381

Asked by: Ross Finnie, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent estimate is of the annual cost of community-based care for people with long-term conditions.