- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive where meals served to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) are prepared.
Answer
The majority of meals served to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, are prepared at the Western Infirmary. Yorkhill locally prepares chilled patient and staff meal components and call-order children''s snack choices, which are alternative options to those offered within the standard menu.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to ensure that meals served to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) are tailored to the specific needs and tastes of children; what analysis has been carried out of the effectiveness of these measures, and what conclusions have been drawn.
Answer
Arrangements are in place at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) to ensure that all children on admission to hospital who have special dietary requirements are assessed by a dietician. Food suitable for children''s dietary needs is available during working hours, seven days a week and the children are able to select meals once they have seen what is on offer. Rotating menu plans are available so that parents are aware of the choices in advance. A special feeds unit also prepares special feeds and supplements for infants and children with complex nutritional problems where a child''s nutritional needs or requirements are altered by their disease or medical condition.
Food tasting audits were undertaken in 2009 which focused on children''s views of catering services, including popular choices. Feedback indicates the need for a very flexible catering provision for children given the patient age ranges, eating preferences and, in some cases, highly specialist dietary requirements being catered for. Catering services are continually adapting menu formats on the basis of patient and parent comments and are maintaining ongoing dialogue with patients, parents and carers.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 2010
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive what the procedure is for advising nurses working on an open rota in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde of their next rota; what feedback has been received on this procedure, and whether any feedback suggests the need for improvement.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to provide sufficient reserves of road salt for winter 2010-11 and what assurance it can give that these will be effective.
Answer
The responsibility for winter maintenance rests with individual roads authorities, in the case of trunk roads the Scottish Ministers, and on local roads the relevant local authority. The Scottish Salt Group chaired by Transport Scotland and including representatives from Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and COSLA have been collaborating on the resilience of Scotland and have jointly published a report which is available at:
http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/strategy-and-research/publications-and-consultations/j13001-00.htm.
As recommended in the report, monitoring of restocking has shown that Scottish roads authorities are on target to have sufficient salt before the worst weather starts. The report also recommended the development of a strategic salt stock of around 30,000 tonnes. Transport Scotland has started the process of procuring this.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tonnes of road salt have been held in reserve in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Responsibility for winter maintenance on local roads is a matter for individual local authorities and the Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many anaesthetists have been employed at the Vale of Leven Hospital in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is presented in the following table, as provided by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
| Financial Year | Number of Anaesthetists |
| 1999-2000 | 10 |
| 2000-01 | 10 |
| 2001-02 | 7 |
| 2002-03 | 10 |
| 2003-04 | 9* |
| 2004-05 | 11 |
| 2005-06 | 9 |
| 2006-07 | 10 |
| 2007-08 | 11 |
| 2008-09 | 10* |
| 2009-10 | 10 |
| 2010-11 | 9# |
Notes:
The table details the number of anesthetists across all grades. Registrars, although appointed to Vale posts, have had minimal input since locum consultants were appointed in 2005.
* the total includes an in-year retirement.
# reflects the position as at end of September 2010.
Source: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assurance it can give to staff and patients of the Vale of Leven Hospital that there are no plans to close the hospital.
Answer
I can give an absolute assurance to local staff and patients that there are no plans to close the Vale of Leven Hospital. Indeed, it was this Government that put an end to a decade of damaging uncertainty by delivering a viable future for the hospital through the agreement of the Vision for the Vale of Leven Hospital.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive where the new Alexandria Medical Centre is to be sited and when it will be open to the public.
Answer
The
Vision for the Vale of Leven Hospital, approved by the NHS board and I during 2009, set the site for the new health and care Centre within the grounds of the Vale of Leven Hospital and adjacent to the main entrance to the hospital site.
The outline business case for the new centre included a site options appraisal which considered all other sites in the locality, including the site at Mitchell Way, around which a possible expansion to the land available has most recently been considered. At the time of the site options appraisal it was not just the size of the site that resulted in it scoring lower than the preferred option at the hospital.
In taking the project forward, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has now selected Laing O''Rourke as the principal supply chain partner, who will work with the board, under the Framework Scotland procurement process, to develop the design for the new centre, establish the target price for the new centre and contribute to the preparation of the full business case (FBC). The FBC will be the process that establishes the timelines for the construction, and subsequent occupation, of the new centre.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assurance it can give that the services provided by the Christie ward at the Vale of Leven Hospital will remain at the hospital on a permanent basis.
Answer
No decisions have been made about the future of local inpatient mental health services. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Vale Monitoring Group are to consider demand for the inpatient service, as well as the provision of enhanced community services, over the next eight to 10 months, and will then submit a report to ministers.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to refurbish the Christie ward at the Vale of Leven Hospital following the damage caused by fire in July 2010, and when it expects this work to be completed.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will consider all the options, including representations from the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group, at their board meeting on 26 October 2010.
