- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tested for any allergy to E-numbers before being prescribed any medication.
Answer
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) Guideline 52 on “Attention Deficit and Hyperkinetic Disorders in Children and Young People” provides clinicians with advice on the diagnostic criteria and assessments for ADHD. It is for clinicians to determine the most appropriate tests for individual patients.
The guideline can be accessed at www.sign.ac.uk.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 19 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted any surveys into the causes, including (a) allergies to E-numbers and (b) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, of behavioural problems in schools.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is undertaking a range of research initiatives to inform policy making onbehaviour in schools. The Scottish Executive Education Department and Health Departments also work closely together tolearn from the findings of research and assess its relevance in different contexts.
The Chief Scientist’s Officeis currently funding one research project on attention deficit hyperactivitydisorder (ADHD) through the NHS Programme Support Grant, which will investigatewhether chronic treatment with methylphenidate in boys with ADHD leads to sensitisationor tolerance. The National Research Register, a UK wide research database, recordsthat there are 11 on-going research projects in the UK on ADHD and two completed research projects on whether food additivescause hyperactivity in children.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 19 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any records are kept of children who have been excluded from school because of behaviour problems that may be linked to an allergy to E-numbers.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not keep records of children who are excluded because of behaviourproblems linked to food additive allergies.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 19 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how much of the profits from vending machines in schools is being used to make up any shortfall in the funding of schools.
Answer
As Scottish education authoritieshave responsibility for the provision of vending machines in schools, informationon the uses to which any potential profits may be put is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are allergic to, or affected adversely by, E-numbers in food and drink.
Answer
The specific information requestedis not available centrally.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all primary care trusts are able to implement the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland guidance on photodynamic therapy for patients with age-related macular degeneration.
Answer
All NHS boards have been instructedto make this service available to meet clinical need.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will recruit retinal specialist staff trained in the administering of the new photodynamic therapy treatment for patients with age-related macular degeneration.
Answer
Scotland has played a key role in developing photodynamic therapyfor patients with age-related macular degeneration and, there are already trainedretinal specialist staff in Grampian, Lanarkshire, Argyll and Clyde, Lothianand Glasgow.
A planning exercise for the servicesand specialised workforce needed for a Scotland-wide service is under way. As partof this, an assessment will be made of whether any additional retinal specialiststaff are required.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in implementing the commitment of its Health Department to explore, with the Common Services Agency (CSA), the creation of a combined community and hospital medicines utilisation database, as referred to in The Right Medicine: A Strategy for Pharmaceutical Care in Scotland.
Answer
The CSA are at an early stagein developing the structure to enable the collection of hospital data in preparationfor a combined community-hospital database.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost per year is of treating eligible patients with photodynamic therapy who have wet age-related macular degeneration with pure classic or predominately classic lesions.
Answer
Planning work has recently beeninitiated to assess patient needs in Scotland and the costs of treatment.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have not made budget allocations for the treatment of photodynamic therapy for patients with age-related macular degeneration.
Answer
All NHS boards have now beenrequested to make resources available to fund treatment as required in order tomeet clinical need.
