- 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 instruct NHS Quality Improvement Scotland to issue separate publications on National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidance that show clearly the implications to the NHS in Scotland of costs and recommendations for further research.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to S2W-7994 on 18 May 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- 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 how many retinal specialists there are who are expert in administrating photodynamic therapy for patients with age-related macular degeneration, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
There are eight such specialistsin Scotland who are employed by NHS Boards as below:
Argyll and Clyde, 1
Grampian, 2
Greater Glasgow, 2
Lanarkshire, 1
Lothian, 2.
- 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 any of the privately-funded photodynamic therapy treatment centres for age-related macular degeneration will carry out NHS work.
Answer
Information on privately – fundedtreatment centres is 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 the delay in implementing the National Institute of Clinical Excellence's Technology Appraisal No.68 in September 2003 on guidance on the use of photodynamic therapy for age-related macular degeneration will extend to Scotland.
Answer
Patients in Scotland forwhom treatment is recommended in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence(NICE) guidance have access to treatment now. Work is in hand at a Scotland levelto strengthen the current pattern of service and improve access and response times.
- 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 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 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.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pensioner households live on an annual income of (a) less than £10,000, (b) £10,001 to £15,000 and (c) 15,001 to £20,000 expressed also as a percentage of the total number of such households.
Answer
The following table presents the results from the 2002-03 Family Resources Survey on the proportion and number of pensioner households with annual net income in each income band.
Table: Annual Net Household Income1 for All Pensioner Households 2002-03
Column Percentages, Pensioner Households
| | Pensioner Households (Percentage) | Pensioner Households (Numbers) |
| Less than £10,000 | 44 | 280,000 |
| £10,001 to £15,000 | 28 | 180,000 |
| £15,001 to £20,000 | 14 | 90,000 |
| Over £20,000 | 14 | 90,000 |
| Total | 100 | 640,000 |
Source: Family Resources Survey
Note:
1. Includes wages and salaries, self employment income, pensions income, all state benefits, payable tax credits, and investment income, net of income tax, National Insurance, council tax, contributions to occupational pensions and maintenance payments.
