Chamber and committees

Tables showing 30 daymortality have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39853). Therates have been adjusted for age, sex and deprivation categories of patients, buthave not been risk adjusted and do not take account of how ill or frail thepatients presenting for surgery had been. There is also no adjustment for thecomplexity of the operation performed. Some indicators with a narrower focuscan be found at: www.isdscotland.org/quality_improvement.

Table 1 details the numberof new clients aged 16 and under, who, when accessing drug treatment andrehabilitation services, reported that they had used cocaine in the last monthfor each of the last five years.

Table 1:

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Number of clients reporting cocaine use	7	4	10	12	22

Source: Scottish Drug MisuseDatabase.

Table 2 details the numberof people aged 16 years and under discharged from general acute Scottishhospitals with an explicit diagnosis related to cocaine misuse for each of thelast five years.

Table 2:

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05*
Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine	-	1	2	1	2
Finding of cocaine in blood	-	-	-	-	-
Cocaine poisoning	3	1	3	1	4

Note: *Provisional figures.

Source: SMR01.

The available information isgiven in the following table.

Persons AgedUnder 18 with a Charge Proved for Carrying Knives or Possession of an OffensiveWeapon¹ In Scottish Courts, 1990-91 to 2004-05.

Year	Having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or a Point2	Possession of an Offensive Weapon3	Total
1990-91	-	205	205
1991-92	-	205	205
1992-93	-	239	239
1993-94	25	162	187
1994-95	70	134	204
1995-96	123	137	260
1996-97	167	181	348
1997-98	151	157	308
1998-99	128	153	281
1999-2000	143	180	323
2000-01	138	179	317
2001-02	138	208	346
2002-03	141	198	339
2003-04	145	196	341
2004-05	161	266	427

Notes:

1. Wheremain offence.

2. Crimecategory introduced following implementation of the Carrying of Knives etc (Scotland) Act 1993. Previously such offenceswere included under “possession of an offensive weapon”.

3. Knivescannot be identified separately from other types of offensive weapon in thedata held for this crime category.

Information on reasons for leavingNHS Scotland is not collected centrally.

Table 1 shows the number (headcount)of nursing and midwifery staff leavers for the years 1999-2004.

Table 1

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Nursing and Midwifery Leavers	4,289	4,302	4,489	4,601	4,671	4,329

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: “Leavers from NHS Scotland”are defined as staff who were employed with NHS Scotland in a substantive post at30 September but who were not employed in any substantive post a year later.

Analysis of annual staff turnoverand retention trends can be used to estimate the number of staff leaving NHS Scotlandin 2006.

Table 2 shows the percentageof nurses and midwives who were in substantive posts at 30 September and who werestill in substantive posts in NHS Scotland a year later. It demonstrates an averageannual retention rate of 92.8% between 2001 and 2005. We expect this trend to continuein 2006-07.

Table 2

	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Stability Index 1 (%)	92.7	92.7	92.7	93.2

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: “Stability Index 1” isthe percentage of staff who were in substantive posts with NHS Scotland at 30 Septemberand who were sill in substantive posts in NHS Scotland a year later.

Table 3 shows the percentageof nurses and midwives who were in substantive posts at 30 September and who werestill in substantive posts in NHS Scotland two years later. It demonstrates an averageretention rate of 89% between 2001 and 2006. We expect this trend to continue in2006-07.

Table 3

	2001-03	2002-04	2003-05	2004-06
Stability Index 2 (%)	87.4	87.3	87.9	93.2

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: “Stability Index 2” isthe percentage of staff who were in substantive posts with NHS Scotland at 30 Septemberand who were still in substantive posts in NHS Scotland two years later.

This information is not heldcentrally.

It is not possible to answerthis question from the data held centrally. The Executive’s firm-level database(Inter-Departmental Business Register) contains data on the number of enterpriseslocated in Scotland, but does not record the number who have relocated.

I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-22233 on 20 January 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

In total, 2,375 Drug Treatmentand Testing Orders (DTTOs) have been imposed in Scotland and 829 of these ordershave been successfully completed to end March 2006.

The number of successful completionsis set in the context that many of the DTTO schemes have been established withinthe past two years and that DTTOs are imposed for an average period of 18 monthsto two years. A significant proportion of all orders imposed have not thereforeyet reached the stage where they could have been completed.

The term “cottage hospital” isnot a recognised data definition and consequently this information is not availablein the form requested. However, information is available about community hospitals,under which heading “cottage hospitals” would be expected to fall. The number ofcommunity hospitals which have closed since 1997 is four.

Name of Hospital	Date Closed
Eastbank Hospital – Largely services for the elderly: transferred in part to the Ninian Ward in the Balfour Hospital, Kirkwall, and in part to social services care.	02-04-2000
Daliburgh Hospital – Replaced by the Uists and Barra Hospital, Balivanich	09-03-2001
Lochmaddy Hospital – Replaced by the Uists and Barra Hospital, Balivanich	09-03-2001
Kincardine O’Neil War Memorial Hospital – Services provided from Aboyne and Glen O’Dee Hospitals at Banchory	01-05-2003

 

The exact number of districtnurse contacts in Scotland in each year since 1997, is not available centrally.However, national estimates of the number of district nurse contacts can be givenbased on data received from general practices participating in Practice Team Information(PTI).

PTIgathers information about face-to-face consultations between patients and membersof the general practice team (general medical practitioners (GPs), practice nurses,district nurses and health visitors) and has been collected since 1 April 2003. Priorto this date information was collected on GPs only; therefore district nurse contactsare not available before 1 April 2003 from this source.

Information on the estimatednumber of district nurse contacts in Scotland for the years ending 31 March 2004and 2005 is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under General Practicestatistics, at http://www.isdscotland.org/general_practice_info(click on “Contacts by staff discipline” under “Summary statistics”).