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This information is not heldcentrally.

All applicants to postgraduatecourses of initial teacher education leading to secondary subject teaching qualificationsare required to have a university degree that includes an appropriate breadth anddepth of study in the subject of the teaching qualification sought.

Registration with the GeneralTeaching Council for Scotland, which is a pre‑requisite for employment as a teacherin a local authority school, is dependent upon holding an appropriate teaching qualification.

The Scottish Executive is contributingover £3 million of funding to the establishment of the European Marine Energy Centre(EMEC) in Orkney. This consists of £2.125 million paid between 2002 and 2004 towardsthe cost of the wave device testing facilities and £1.08 million being paid duringthe current financial year towards the tidal device testing facilities.

Funding for EMEC totalling £8.45million has also been provided by other public sector partners; Highlands andIslands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, the Carbon Trust, Orkney Islands Council,the Department of Trade and Industry and the European Regional Development Fund.In addition Highlands andIslands Enterprise and the Carbon Trust have made available working capital supportof £2.5 million to fund the operational aspects of EMEC.

This information is not heldcentrally. Scottish people may be given emergency treatment, or within the EuropeanEconomic Area any necessary treatment, abroad under the reciprocal health care agreementswhich the United Kingdom has with other countries, or individuals may be referredfor treatment in other European Economic Area countries under arrangements knownas the E112 system. The Executive has no plans to arrange for NHS patients to besent abroad for treatment in any other circumstances.

Reciprocal care treatments aremanaged and paid for in the country where they take place, in return for the UK giving nationalsof that country emergency or necessary treatment free of charge, and the Executivehas no information on the medical establishments involved. E112 referrals are madeby NHS boards or other UK health authorities on a case-by-case basis, usually forsome form of treatment which is not available in the UK, and are approvedby the English Department of Health, so again the Executive does not hold records.

This information is not heldcentrally. It is for education authorities to develop and implement anti-bullyingpolicies and decide how incidents of bullying should be monitored and recorded.There is no national data collection on school bullying.

The Scottish Executive takesanti-bullying work very seriously, and is currently establishing a leadership groupto look at the future development of anti-bullying services in Scotland. Theservice should develop the awareness and skills of professionals across the spectrumof children’s services, helping them to promote pro-social behaviour in childrenand young people, work effectively when bullying occurs and to support the victimsof bullying.

The information requested isnot held centrally.

The table shows thenumber of Consultant Neurologists and Specialist Registrars working in neurology,employed by NHSScotland at 30 September in each of the last five years. Figuresare presented as headcount and whole-time equivalent (WTE). WTE adjusts headcount staff figures to take account ofpart-time staff. Latest available figures are at 30 September 2004. An additional five WTE SpR places in neurology were allocated in August2005.

Year	Consultant Headcount	WTE	Registrar Headcount	WTE
2000	40	35.9	10	10
2001	41	36.3	16	15.2
2002	47	42.1	17	16.8
2003	45	39.8	25	24.2
2004	47	41.2	25	24.2

 

Information on leavers and joiners is not collected centrally. However, annual census of Hospital, Community and Public Health services (HCHS) staff at 30 September can be used to estimate the number of staff that have left and joined NHSScotland by comparing staff in post on a census in one year with those in post the previous year.

Information is available for the years 1999 to 2004. The following tables show the number of consultants in surgical specialties that have left and joined each NHS board during that time period. Figures include staff moving between NHS boards as well as those leaving and joining surgical specialties within NHSScotland.

Information for the years 1994 to 1998 would incur disproportionate cost to determine.

Health Board	1999-2000		2000-01
	Leavers	Joiners	Leavers	Joiners
NHS Scotland	39	40	39	59
NHS Argyll and Clyde	2	4	3	0
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	3	2	1	3
NHS Borders	0	2	0	1
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	2	2	0	1
NHS Fife	0	1	6	6
NHS Forth Valley	3	2	1	4
NHS Grampian	6	7	6	10
NHS Greater Glasgow	10	6	6	12
NHS Highland	1	2	1	2
NHS Lanarkshire	1	3	3	7
NHS Lothian	6	3	8	12
NHS Orkney	0	0	0	0
NHS Shetland	0	0	0	0
NHS Tayside	5	4	3	1
NHS Western Isles	0	1	1	0
Special Health Boards	0	1	0	0
Golden Jubilee	0	0	0	0

 

Health Board	2001-02		2002-03
	Leavers	Joiners	Leavers	Joiners
NHS Scotland	31	37	33	52
NHS Argyll and Clyde	3	2	1	4
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	1	5	0	1
NHS Borders	0	0	0	1
NHS Dumfriesand Galloway	0	0	0	2
NHS Fife	3	1	2	4
NHS Forth Valley	1	1	3	2
NHS Grampian	4	8	3	6
NHS Greater Glasgow	7	8	14	15
NHS Highland	2	2	0	4
NHS Lanarkshire	3	1	4	2
NHS Lothian	4	4	5	8
NHS Orkney	0	0	0	0
NHS Shetland	0	1	1	1
NHS Tayside	3	3	0	1
NHS Western Isles	0	0	0	0
Special Health Boards	0	0	0	0
Golden Jubilee	0	1	0	1

 

Health Board	2003-04
	Leavers	Joiners
NHS Scotland	29	49
NHS Argyll and Clyde	3	3
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	0	3
NHS Borders	2	2
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	1	0
NHS Fife	4	8
NHS Forth Valley	1	1
NHS Grampian	6	7
NHS Greater Glasgow	4	6
NHS Highland	1	4
NHS Lanarkshire	2	4
NHS Lothian	1	9
NHS Orkney	0	0
NHS Shetland	0	0
NHS Tayside	2	2
NHS Western Isles	1	0
Special Health Boards	0	0
Golden Jubilee	1	0

Source: ISD Scotland.

Notes:

Leavers: This is the numbersof consultants who were in substantive post at the 30 September Census thatyear but were not in post at the next census.

Joiners: This is the numbersof consultants who were in substantive post at the 30 September Census thatyear but were not in post the previous year.

Special Health Boardsincludes NHS Education Scotland, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and NHSHealth Scotland.

The following tables show emergency admissions within 28 days of discharge by NHS Board of Treatment for calendar years, 1997 to 2004.

Emergency admissions within 28 days will include cases that are readmissions for complications resulting from the original hospital stay but will also encompass cases completely unrelated to the previous discharge from hospital.  In addition, the emergency admissions within 28 days have been presented separately for medical and surgical specialty groupings as the readmission rates can differ quite markedly between these two groups.

Table 1 Emergency Admission Rate within 28 days of Discharge from a Surgical Specialty in a Scottish Hospital 1997-2004^P

NHS Board of Treatment		1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004P
Scotland	Discharges	550,942	559,396	550,538	536,038	523,634	494,863	483,614	477,115
	Emergency readmissions	26,735	26,726	27,006	27,597	27,754	26,863	26,501	25,981
	Rate	4.9	4.8	4.9	5.1	5.3	5.4	5.5	5.4
Argyll and Clyde	Discharges	36,877	38,861	39,008	37,779	37,711	36,186	37,348	37,791
	Emergency readmissions	1,901	1,989	2,019	1,991	1,934	1,829	2,017	1,990
	Rate	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.1	5.1	5.4	5.3
Ayrshire and Arran	Discharges	40,421	42,022	41,286	39,544	38,463	36,280	34,928	36,472
	Emergency readmissions	1,504	1,525	1,562	1,607	1,703	1,685	1,698	1,813
	Rate	3.7	3.6	3.8	4.1	4.4	4.6	4.9	5.0
Borders	Discharges	9,728	9,959	9,827	9,042	9,407	8,588	8,117	8,322
	Emergency readmissions	453	426	447	427	451	465	431	503
	Rate	4.7	4.3	4.5	4.7	4.8	5.4	5.3	6.0
Dumfries and Galloway	Discharges	14,753	15,586	16,107	16,644	16,720	13,423	12,707	11,474
	Emergency readmissions	677	654	719	678	737	736	624	533
	Rate	4.6	4.2	4.5	4.1	4.4	5.5	4.9	4.6
Fife	Discharges	29,304	30,226	29,750	29,123	29,066	26,535	27,122	27,118
	Emergency readmissions	1,210	1,228	1,217	1,375	1,348	1,336	1,321	1,310
	Rate	4.1	4.1	4.1	4.7	4.6	5.0	4.9	4.8
Forth Valley	Discharges	26,678	27,288	27,139	27,544	28,755	26,981	24,226	22,713
	Emergency readmissions	1,285	1,240	1,295	1,358	1,308	1,271	1,357	1,354
	Rate	4.8	4.5	4.8	4.9	4.5	4.7	5.6	6.0
Grampian	Discharges	51,279	51,932	53,513	50,718	49,880	43,728	43,181	42,533
	Emergency readmissions	2,370	2,273	2,526	2,534	2,398	2,340	2,553	2,375
	Rate	4.6	4.4	4.7	5.0	4.8	5.4	5.9	5.6
Greater Glasgow	Discharges	125,892	128,603	123,791	123,382	122,433	120,072	114,214	109,217
	Emergency readmissions	7,022	7,116	7,029	7,253	7,187	7,033	6,683	6,374
	Rate	5.6	5.5	5.7	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.8
Highland	Discharges	24,510	24,012	23,565	23,267	23,081	23,306	22,623	23,736
	Emergency readmissions	1,137	1,106	1,138	1,248	1,147	1,255	1,208	1,246
	Rate	4.6	4.6	4.8	5.4	5.0	5.4	5.3	5.2
Lanarkshire	Discharges	52,570	52,664	50,919	49,589	48,568	47,582	46,042	46,047
	Emergency readmissions	2,840	2,875	2,735	2,569	3,056	3,049	2,930	2,755
	Rate	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.2	6.3	6.4	6.4	6.0
Lothian	Discharges	82,542	81,633	78,118	77,165	72,143	68,468	66,444	64,698
	Emergency readmissions	3,948	3,988	3,800	4,026	4,015	3,450	3,093	3,227
	Rate	4.8	4.9	4.9	5.2	5.6	5.0	4.7	5.0
Orkney	Discharges	1,443	1,473	1,495	1,456	1,568	1,627	1,748	1,730
	Emergency readmissions	61	63	70	67	68	70	98	97
	Rate	4.2	4.3	4.7	4.6	4.3	4.3	5.6	5.6
Shetland	Discharges	2,016	2,068	2,002	1,995	2,323	2,343	2,181	2,416
	Emergency readmissions	73	85	81	78	118	139	95	107
	Rate	3.6	4.1	4.0	3.9	5.1	5.9	4.4	4.4
Tayside	Discharges	50,372	50,598	51,151	45,883	40,599	35,675	35,878	33,890
	Emergency readmissions	2,182	2,095	2,252	2,286	2,176	2,037	2,102	1,951
	Rate	4.3	4.1	4.4	5.0	5.4	5.7	5.9	5.8
Western Isles	Discharges	2,557	2,471	2,867	2,907	2,917	3,165	3,059	3,133
	Emergency readmissions	72	63	116	100	108	133	151	147
	Rate	2.8	2.5	4.0	3.4	3.7	4.2	4.9	4.7

 

Table 2 Emergency Admission Ratewithin 28 days of Discharge from a Medical Specialty in a Scottish Hospital1997-2004^P

NHS Board of Treatment		1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004P
Scotland	Discharges	429,608	446,562	461,265	469,775	473,280	468,842	466,381	465,794
	Emergency readmissions	41,686	43,527	44,733	46,362	48,539	48,611	48,276	48,760
	Rate	9.7	9.7	9.7	9.9	10.3	10.4	10.4	10.5
Argyll and Clyde	Discharges	30,525	31,666	32,269	33,058	32,645	33,110	32,971	33,074
	Emergency readmissions	3,244	3,361	3,461	3,526	3,519	3,800	3,673	3,846
	Rate	10.6	10.6	10.7	10.7	10.8	11.5	11.1	11.6
Ayrshire and Arran	Discharges	27,044	29,304	30,935	31,344	34,300	33,878	34,167	34,399
	Emergency readmissions	2,623	2,838	2,949	2,999	3,346	3,571	3,729	3,941
	Rate	9.7	9.7	9.5	9.6	9.8	10.5	10.9	11.5
Borders	Discharges	8,293	9,036	9,313	9,755	10,132	9,651	9,145	9,776
	Emergency readmissions	910	983	1,059	1,050	1,124	1,160	1,089	1,213
	Rate	11.0	10.9	11.4	10.8	11.1	12.0	11.9	12.4
Dumfries and Galloway	Discharges	10,288	11,186	11,380	11,659	11,508	11,449	10,314	9,819
	Emergency readmissions	1,093	1,119	1,206	1,236	1,241	1,278	1,054	992
	Rate	10.6	10.0	10.6	10.6	10.8	11.2	10.2	10.1
Fife	Discharges	24,718	25,794	24,986	24,694	25,060	24,414	24,586	24,951
	Emergency readmissions	1,977	2,093	2,182	2,281	2,243	2,245	2,325	2,272
	Rate	8.0	8.1	8.7	9.2	9.0	9.2	9.5	9.1
Forth Valley	Discharges	16,716	17,192	17,733	19,959	20,804	20,675	16,144	15,628
	Emergency readmissions	1,782	1,860	1,798	2,157	2,253	2,178	1,909	2,091
	Rate	10.7	10.8	10.1	10.8	10.8	10.5	11.8	13.4
Grampian	Discharges	40,895	41,757	43,157	45,197	43,822	44,243	45,003	43,772
	Emergency readmissions	4,178	4,274	4,500	4,672	4,567	4,530	4,687	4,785
	Rate	10.2	10.2	10.4	10.3	10.4	10.2	10.4	10.9
Greater Glasgow	Discharges	102,972	106,295	106,471	108,736	111,289	108,543	109,466	111,767
	Emergency readmissions	9,911	10,305	10,381	10,467	11,057	11,034	10,550	10,879
	Rate	9.6	9.7	9.8	9.6	9.9	10.2	9.6	9.7
Highland	Discharges	16,196	17,331	17,761	17,343	17,552	17,972	19,026	19,189
	Emergency readmissions	1,360	1,480	1,590	1,537	1,731	1,746	1,891	1,904
	Rate	8.4	8.5	9.0	8.9	9.9	9.7	9.9	9.9
Lanarkshire	Discharges	39,968	43,410	47,347	44,893	48,837	52,065	52,656	53,821
	Emergency readmissions	3,435	3,664	3,795	3,832	4,716	5,158	5,479	5,359
	Rate	8.6	8.4	8.0	8.5	9.7	9.9	10.4	10.0
Lothian	Discharges	74,965	74,678	76,725	78,611	73,794	68,770	66,626	62,901
	Emergency readmissions	7,322	7,197	7,146	7,754	7,755	7,049	6,549	6,045
	Rate	9.8	9.6	9.3	9.9	10.5	10.3	9.8	9.6
Orkney	Discharges	605	586	607	659	720	881	911	1,022
	Emergency readmissions	62	69	58	46	77	111	122	138
	Rate	10.2	11.8	9.6	7.0	10.7	12.6	13.4	13.5
Shetland	Discharges	814	900	897	1,086	1,098	1,014	1,003	1,117
	Emergency readmissions	80	111	95	164	148	145	138	113
	Rate	9.8	12.3	10.6	15.1	13.5	14.3	13.8	10.1
Tayside	Discharges	33,498	35,246	39,450	40,589	39,183	39,465	40,587	40,309
	Emergency readmissions	3,530	3,969	4,272	4,411	4,499	4,294	4,717	4,825
	Rate	10.5	11.3	10.8	10.9	11.5	10.9	11.6	12.0
Western Isles	Discharges	2,111	2,181	2,234	2,192	2,536	2,639	2,679	2,599
	Emergency readmissions	179	204	241	230	263	306	320	299
	Rate	8.5	9.4	10.8	10.5	10.4	11.6	11.9	11.5

^PData for 2004 are considered to be provisional.

Notes:

1. These figures are derivedfrom data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatrichospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. The basic unit of analysisfor these figures is a continuous stay in hospital.  Probability matchingmethods have been used to link together individual SMR01 hospitals episodes foreach patient, thereby creating “linked” patient histories. Within these patienthistories, SMR01 episodes are grouped according to whether they form part of acontinuous spell of treatment (whether or not this involves transfer betweenhospitals or even health boards).

3. Patients are counted asan emergency readmission if they are admitted as an emergency to anyNHSScotland hospital for any diagnosis within 28 days of discharge from anindex stay.

4. Cases are excluded wherethe patient has died in hospital or has died within 28 days of discharge.

5. The indicator presentedadopts a conventional approach that relies on the statistical circumstance thatthe distribution of the interval to emergency readmission forms a distinct peakin the days immediately following discharge. Readmissions fall away thereafterto approach the background level of admission. This suggests that there is astrong probability that readmissions in the period following discharge are infact related to that discharge. The period of 28 days is to some extentarbitrary, but has been widely adopted as maximising the trade off between includingas many related readmissions as possible and excluding as many unrelatedreadmissions as possible.

The available statistics are given in the following table.

The figures provided on the total number of persons fined for illegal possession of drugs are derived from the Scottish Executive Justice Department’s court proceedings database. This database does not currently hold information on the type of drug involved in all such convictions. However, it is possible to make use of separate data collected by the Home Office to estimate the proportion of these convictions which related to cannabis.

Persons Fined for Illegal Possession of Drugs, 1999-2003¹

Year	Number	Estimated % Relating to Cannabis3
1999	3,795	77
2000	3,247	78
2001	3,321	75
2002	3,363	75
20032	4,267	71

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

3. Estimated from Home Office data.

Median waiting times for firstout-patient appointments, following referral from a general medical or dentalpractitioner, are compiled from retrospective data which is collected at specialitylevel only and not at hospital department level. Due to technical difficulties withthe patient information management system at Glasgow Dental Hospital, informationprior to 1 May 2004 is not directly comparable with subsequent data. Consequently,median waiting times for a first out-patient appointment in the dental specialtiesat Glasgow Dental Hospital, for the quarters ending 30 June 2004 to 30 June 2005, are givenin table 1.

Information on waiting listsfor a first out-patient appointment in the dental specialities has been collectedcentrally only since 31 December 2004. The number of patients waiting for a first out-patientappointment, following referral, at Glasgow Dental Hospital, by department, on 31 December 2004, 31 March 2005 and 30 June 2005 is givenin table 2.

Like all NHS boards, NHS GreaterGlasgow is committed to achieving the Executive’s targets that, by 31 December 2005, nopatient will wait more than 26 weeks for a first out-patient appointment, followingreferral by a general medical or dental practitioner. To help deliver this commitment, Glasgow Dental Hospital arrangeda significant number of additional clinics in the specialty of oral medicine inearly 2005, as well as other actions. This activity was specifically focused onensuring long waiters were seen. As a consequence, the median waiting time rosesharply in the relevant quarters, but the number of patients waiting more than 26weeks for an appointment was reduced from 701 on 31 December 2004 to only 24 on30 June 2005 – a reduction of over 96%.

Table 1 – NHSScotland:Median Waiting Times in Weeks for a First Out-Patient Appointment, Following Referralby a General Medical or Dental Practitioner, at Glasgow Dental Hospital, by Dental Specialty. Quarters ending 30 June 2004 to 30 June 2005^P

Dental Specialties	30 June 2004	30 September 2004	31 December 2004	31 March 2005	30 June 2005P
All Specialties	18 weeks	23 weeks	30 weeks	31 weeks	26 weeks
Oral Medicine	9 weeks	8 weeks	7 weeks	30 weeks	9 weeks
Oral Surgery	15 weeks	20 weeks	31 weeks	32 weeks	22 weeks
Orthodontics	30 weeks	38 weeks	68 weeks	71 weeks	64 weeks
Paediatric	13 weeks	17 weeks	9 weeks	8 weeks	10 weeks
Restorative	52 weeks	54 weeks	53 weeks	47 weeks	46 weeks

Source: SMR00, ISD Scotland.

^PProvisional.

Table 2 – NHSScotland:Number of Patients Waiting for a First Out-Patient Appointment, FollowingReferral by a General Medical or Dental Practitioner, at Glasgow DentalHospital, by Department, on 31 December 2004, 31 March 2005 and 30 June 2005

Dental Departments	31 December 2005	31 March 2005	30 June 2005
All Departments	8,933	7,140	5,927
Paediatric Dentistry	1,069	1,056	793
Conservation	1,713	1,633	1,367
Oral Medicine	1,265	428	497
Oral Surgery	2,108	1,752	1,337
Orthodontics	1,263	1,025	654
Periodontology	1,007	886	875
Prosthodontics	432	332	381

Source: Scottish Out-PatientWaiting List (OPWL) Census, ISD Scotland. The OPWL is under data development and figures reportedmay change.