- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are classified as drug addicts.
Answer
There is no central registerof problem drug misusers in Scotland.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many wards have been closed at weekends in each hospital due to staff shortages in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information on thenumber of ward closures at weekends due to staff shortages is not heldcentrally.
NHS boards are responsiblefor the provision of services in their local area to meet identified need. Thisincludes the configuration of hospital services.
There has been a continuedincrease in NHS staffing since 1999 are there are now an extra 456 consultants,3,781 qualified nurses and midwives and an extra 1,366 qualified associated healthcare professional staff working in NHS Scotland.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients from outside the NHS Greater Glasgow area were treated within the board area in each year since 1999.
Answer
Information on non-resident patients treated in NHS Greater Glasgow is shown in the following table.
Hospital In-Patient and Day Cases and New Out-Patient Attendances in NHS Greater Glasgow for Patients Resident Outside the Board Area1
| Year |
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004P |
Hospital In-Patient and Day Cases | | | | | | |
Acute Specialties | | | | | | |
Patients | 38,362 | 37,921 | 37,994 | 36,790 | 35,607 | 33,822 |
Discharges2 | 67,209 | 67,939 | 67,890 | 65,823 | 68,339 | 66,817 |
Mental Health Specialties | | | | | | |
Patients | 312 | 269 | 299 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Discharges2 | 350 | 309 | 352 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Maternity Specialties | | | | | | |
Deliveries3 | 1,774 | 1,785 | 1,667 | 1,976 | 2,595 | 2,468 |
Out-Patients | | | | | | |
New Attendances | 57,739 | 58,571 | 55,752 | 56,429 | 55,260 | 54,657 |
PProvisional.
Source: ISD Scotland,Scottish Morbidity Records (SMRs) 00, 01, 02 and 04, ISD Linked Database.
Notes:
n/a: Not available due toproblems extracting data from a new computer system. These issues are nowbeing resolved and data has begun being returned to ISD Scotland.
1. Includes residents from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and outside the U.K.
2. Discharges are a count ofepisodes of care rather than individual patients and include transfer episodes.A patient may have several discharges in any year or across years.
3. For maternity specialties,patients with more than one delivery in a calendar year are counted only once.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) nurses and midwives and (b) doctors were internationally recruited in each year since 1999, broken down by country.
Answer
1. Figures of nurses and midwives internationally recruited to the NHSScotland are not held centrally. The most recent figures known are those issued by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to September 2004 who identified almost 1,000 whole-time equivalent internationally qualified nurses (IQN’s) were employed in Scotland’s healthcare system. This represents 2% of the national nursing workforce, 80% of whom are employed in the independent sector. Targeted international recruitment of nurses by NHSScotland has been ethical and has been kept to a minimum with less that 200 nurses actively recruited from abroad since 2002.
2. There are many other IQN’s in Scotland, registered and non-registered, many of whom are domiciled here and have worked within the independent sector or elderly care homes for years. Similarly many IQN’s are self-funded and come to Scotland to do further education, improve their English or seek a career opportunity in NHSScotland. Such nurses cannot be construed as having been internationally recruited and are at liberty to improve their position in society.
3. Figures of doctors internationally recruited to NHSScotland are also not held centrally, although “country of qualification” i.e. where they obtained their qualification is held. This data would not reflect where they were internationally recruited from, if indeed they were. Many internationally qualified doctors, might have come to Scotland of their own volition or are here to further their training and development and would be perfectly within their rights to do so.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive when the A90 Hatton Bends realignment project will now commence, in light of the passing of the start date of September 2005 indicated in the letter from the previous Minister for Transport to Alex Salmond MP on 24 June 2005, and whether this delay has occurred due to a further repeat of the tendering process.
Answer
Tenders for the A90 Hatton Bendsimprovement scheme were received on 29 July 2005 and, following evaluation, thecontract was awarded on 11 October 2005. Construction is expected to commence inNovember 2005.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which members of the boards of Social Inclusion Partnerships are members of the Labour Party.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to reply.
Her response is as follows:
The former Social Inclusion Partnerships have now been integratedwith Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) and details of the political affiliationsof CPP members are not held centrally. This information may be obtainable from individualCPPs via the relevant local authority in their capacity as lead body for communityplanning.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms are in place to ensure that the number of new graduates in (a) medicine, (b) nursing, (c) midwifery and (d) physiotherapy is matched by the number of junior posts for each category.
Answer
The National Workforce Planning Framework, published in August 2005, sets out the action required at national, regional, and board levels to effectively plan for future staffing developments. The planning framework operates within the context of Building a Health Service for the Future and will provide bottom up evidence about demand that has not yet been captured. This will allow us to make decisions on training numbers which effectively align supply with future demand, and to join up and build on existing stand alone workforce planning systems such as the
Student Nurse Intake Planning Exercise.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average (a) value and (b) cost to the purchaser of a right-to-buy local authority property was after discount in (i) 1999 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.
Answer
The following table contains the mean market value and mean selling price of right to buy dwellings purchased in 1999 and 2004.
Year of Sale | Mean Market Value (£) | Mean Selling Price (£) |
1999 | 35,661 | 15,752 |
2004 | 49,304 | 22,227 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dwellings have been built (a) by local authorities, (b) by housing associations and (c) in total in each year since 1990, broken down by number of bedrooms.
Answer
The following table shows the number of new dwellings completed in each year from 1990 to 2004, built by the private sector, local authorities and housing associations. Information on the number of bedrooms is not collected centrally.
Dwellings Completed During Period
Period | Total | Private Sector1 | Housing Associations2,3 | Public authorities |
Total | Local Authority4 | New Towns | Scottish Homes |
1990 | 20,362 | 16,461 | 1,963 | 1,938 | 1,115 | 666 | 157 |
1991 | 19,529 | 15,533 | 2,264 | 1,732 | 1,016 | 550 | 166 |
1992 | 17,620 | 14,389 | 2,221 | 1,010 | 697 | 276 | 37 |
1993 | 21,221 | 17,711 | 2,552 | 958 | 502 | 456 | - |
1994 | 21,203 | 17,753 | 2,789 | 661 | 548 | 113 | - |
1995 | 24,325 | 18,310 | 4,854 | 1,161 | 487 | 674 | - |
1996 | 20,950 | 18,092 | 2,566 | 292 | 292 | - | - |
1997 | 22,523 | 17,839 | 4,507 | 177 | 177 | - | - |
1998 | 20,376 | 18,326 | 1,911 | 139 | 139 | - | - |
1999 | 24,390 | 19,398 | 4,911 | 81 | 81 | - | - |
2000 | 23,022 | 18,033 | 4,894 | 95 | 95 | - | - |
2001 | 23,303 | 17,729 | 5,502 | 72 | 72 | - | - |
2002 | 23,933 | 18,762 | 5,120 | 51 | 51 | - | - |
2003 | 23,773 | 19,781 | 3,939 | 53 | 53 | - | - |
2004 | 25,100 | 21,617 | 3,483 | - | - | | |
Source: New Build returns by local authorities to the Scottish Executive Development Department: Analytical Services Division (Housing Statistics), housing association data provided by Communities Scotland.
Notes:
1. Includes estimates for outstanding returns for Highland from 2004 Quarter 1 onwards.
2. Figures prior to 1999 will exclude those notified to Scottish Homes after the end of the relevant quarter - figures may differ from those in Scottish Homes' publications.
3. Excludes completions built for private use originally, but acquired by housing associations: these are included in the private sector figures.
4. 1991 Figure for local authorities contains dwellings built by Government Departments.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time was for an appointment to see a GP in each NHS board in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not collected at a national level; nor held centrally. The waiting time for patients to see a GP is dependent on a number of factors including clinical need.