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Question reference: S2W-17880

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many mobile phones have been reported by ministers as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1999.

The numbers of mobile phones that have been reported by ministers as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1999 are as follows:

Mobile phones reported by Ministers as lost and stolen in each year
Financial Year:	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
(a) lost	0	0	0	0	0	1
(b) stolen	0	0	0	0	0	0

These figures relate only to those phones procured through Scottish Executive contracts.

Question reference: S2W-17942

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost of the crimes of (a) shoplifting, (b) domestic burglary, (c) non-domestic burglary, (d) theft from motor vehicle, (e) robbery, (f) fraud, (g) theft of motor vehicle, (h) stranger & acquaintance violence, (i) muggings, (j) murder, (k) culpable homicide and (l) death caused by driving that have taken place when motivated by drug use has been in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Question reference: S2W-17943

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the share of the estimated cost of crimes by drug users was of crimes committed by the most offending 10% of offenders in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Question reference: S2W-17660

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many calls to NHS 24 regarding access to an NHS dentist there have been in (a) total and (b) each NHS board in each month since 2002, broken down into (i) emergency, (ii) urgent, (iii) routine and (iv) other calls.

Question reference: S2W-17659

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the 10 most common reasons for calls to NHS 24 were in the last 12 months for which information is available.

Between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2005 the 10 most common reasons for calls to NHS 24, based on the use of algorithms, were:

	Reason
1	Abdominal Pain Adult
2	Vomiting
3	Chest Pain
4	Breathing Difficulty Adult
5	Sore Throat
6	Abdominal Pain
7	Fever Toddler (Age 1-4 years)
8	Headache Adult
9	Rash Toddler (Age 1-4 years)
10	Cough Adult

Question reference: S2W-17835

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions on mental health grounds in the last three years have resulted from the use of (a) pharmaceutical drugs, (b) heroin, (c) cocaine, (d) cannabis, (e) alcohol, (f) nicotine and (g) magic mushrooms

Admissions to mental illness hospitals and psychiatric units for the last three years where information is available and where substances are listed on hospital record summaries is shown in Table 1. In cases of multiple drug use, specific drugs are not always reported.

Table 1. Scottish Mental Illness Hospital and Psychiatric Unit^1,2 Discharge Records with an Explicit Diagnosis of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. Source SMR04.

Diagnosis³	Discharge Period
Mental and Behavioural Disorders Due to the Use of :	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01
Alcohol	5,121	5,269	4,789
Multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances	991	1,058	848
Opioids	460	522	520
Sedatives or Hypnotics	147	147	142
Cannabinoids	120	112	129
Hallucinogens	16	23	13
Cocaine	4	12	9
Tobacco	1	1	0

Notes:

1. Excludes acute hospitals and maternity hospitals.

2. Information on hospital discharges relates to episodes of care rather than individual patients. The same patient may account for several hospital admissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will be counted each time in the attached table.

3. Diagnostic information is defined by using the World health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases 10 revision (ICD10). The following ICD10 codes have been used; Mental & Behavioural Disorders Due to The Use of Alcohol F10, Multiple Drug Use & Use of Other Psychoactive Substances F19, Opioids F11, Sedatives or Hypnotics F13, Cannabinoids F12, Hallucinogens F16, Cocaine F14, Tobacco F17.

Question reference: S2W-17886

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive which drugs have been removed from the NHS prescription blacklist in each year since 1997.

Question reference: S2W-17827

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of testicular cancer per 1,000 men has been in each year since 1990, broken down by NHS board.

Cancer Scenarios Scottish Executive 2001 (updated in 2004)) projected that cancer incidence will continue to increase, due partly to an ageing population. However, as a result of raised awareness, earlier detection and improved treatment fewer people are dying from the disease.

The following tables show the incidence of male testicular cancer in health board areas from 1990-2001 and the crude rates per 100,000 population for Scotland. Adult cancer rates are conventionally presented per 100,000 population.

Male testicular cancer (ICD-10 C62), Scotland

Table (a) Number of Registrations by Health Board Area of Residence from 1990-2001

Health Board Area	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Argyll and Clyde	7	16	11	11	14	11	14	17	18	14	25	13
Ayrshire and Arran	12	12	11	11	12	11	14	12	11	15	21	13
Borders	2	1	2	3	0	5	2	4	3	2	5	3
Dumfries and Galloway	2	4	4	5	5	11	8	6	12	8	11	7
Fife	12	11	12	10	15	9	13	10	14	7	10	16
Forth Valley	5	2	3	10	16	6	13	13	7	14	8	10
Grampian	24	27	26	17	24	32	24	21	24	14	21	22
Greater Glasgow	29	37	22	33	33	23	23	29	34	33	29	40
Highland	11	10	7	11	10	5	8	13	17	6	6	15
Lanarkshire	28	20	23	13	14	18	22	21	19	19	19	26
Lothian	17	30	23	28	33	27	20	31	31	35	40	35
Orkney Islands	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	2
Shetland Islands	2	0	1	1	3	2	0	0	2	3	2	1
Tayside	12	5	13	14	15	7	8	9	16	18	17	14
Western Isles	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	1

Table (b) Crude Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population for Scotland

Year of Diagnosis	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Scotland¹	165	176	159	167	196	171	170	189	209	189	216	221
- crude rates per 100,000 population	6.8	7.2	6.5	6.8	8.0	7.0	6.9	7.7	8.6	7.8	8.9	9.1

Note: 1. Includes cases where the health board of residence was not known. Source: Scottish Cancer Registry, ISD.

Question reference: S2W-17580

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of the number of GPs to population was in each NHS board area in each of the last five years.

The table shows the average number of patients per whole-time-equivalent GP to in each of Scotland’s NHS boards.

Average Number of Patients Per Whole-Time-Equivalent General Practitioner¹ in Scotland by NHS Board Area; As At 1 October, 2000 - 2004

	Average Number of Patients per WTE² GP¹:
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Argyll and Clyde	1,411	1,408	1,388	1,394	1,396
Ayrshire and Arran	1,539	1,538	1,522	1,507	1,515
Borders	1,351	1,364	1,344	1,337	1,356
Dumfries and Galloway	1,254	1,250	1,248	1,238	1,247
Fife	1,528	1,539	1,535	1,535	1,565
Forth Valley	1,486	1,475	1,489	1,501	1,512
Grampian	1,543	1,520	1,508	1,500	1,517
Greater Glasgow	1,595	1,595	1,584	1,581	1,578
Highland	1,104	1,079	1,066	1,023	1,035
Lanarkshire	1,728	1,710	1,702	1,700	1,710
Lothian	1,586	1,561	1,538	1,539	1,557
Orkney	806	769	744	712	718
Shetland	1,179	1,156	1,156	1,215	1,207
Tayside	1,529	1,509	1,498	1,496	1,494
Western Isles	953	939	969	932	1,033

Notes:

1. These figures are for all GP performers in 2004 and all Principals prior to 2004. Vacated posts and the patients attached to these posts have been included in the calculations.

2. Whole Time Equivalent.

Question reference: S2W-17579

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people attending accident and emergency departments were not registered with a GP in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.