- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people aged 50 or over suffering a hip fracture receive an assessment in respect of the prevention of falls and the risk of osteoporosis in order to prevent a further fracture.
Answer
These figures are not heldcentrally.
A six month audit by the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit of rehabilitation services in 11 hospitals, whichstarted in April 2006, will include data on whether or not falls assessmentsand osteoporosis assessments are carried out within the patient’s initialperiod of acute or rehabilitative care.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9274 by Euan Robson on 26 July 2004, what percentage of children left primary school having failed to attain level D or above of the 5 to 14 attainment levels in (a) arithmetic, (b) reading and (c) writing in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information requested for 2000-01 and 2001-02 can befound in tables 9, 10 and 11 of the Statistical Publication Notice
5-14Attainment in Publicly Funded Schools 2001-02 (by June 2002)published by the Scottish Executive on 4 December 2002. This publication isavailable from the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00211-00.asp.The information requested for 2002-03 and 2003-04 can befound in Tables 10, 11 and 12 of the Statistical Publication Notice 5-14Attainment in Publicly Funded Schools 2003-04 (by June 2004)published by the Scottish Executive on 6 December 2004. This publications isavailable from the Scottish Executive website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00379-00.asp.The data inthese publications was taken from the National Survey of 5-14 Attainment Levelswhich was conducted each year by the Education and Children Statistics Unit of the Scottish Executive Education Department since 1998-99. However, as a resultof the Assessment, Testing and Reporting 3-14 (2003) consultation thissurvey has been discontinued, and the 2003-04 publication is the last in theseries.
In May 2005 thenew Scottish Survey of Achievement was introduced to provide an overview ofattainment levels based on a sample of pupils rather than on the whole pupilpopulation. The results of the 2005 survey are not yet available.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent per child on (a) primary education and (b) secondary education in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is published in
Expenditure On School Education InScotland,
2006 which is available on the Executive’s website thoughthe following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00470.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people aged 50 or over presenting at accident and emergency departments having had a fall resulting in injury go on to receive a falls prevention intervention to reduce the risk of further falls.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards provide strength and balance exercise training for people aged 80 or over who are deemed to be at high risk of falls.
Answer
This information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the titles and dates of all reports produced by the Sterile Services Provision Review Group.
Answer
To date two reports havebeen produced and issued by the Sterile Services Provision Review Group. Theseare:
NHSScotland: Sterile Services Provision Review Group: 1stReport – published in August 2001,and
NHSScotland: Sterile Services Provision Review Group:Survey of Decontamination in General Dental Practice – published in November 2004.
Both of these Reports havebeen published on the Scottish Executive website and can be found at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/health/sspr-00.aspand:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/11/20093/45208respectively.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all hospital respiratory departments offer pulmonary rehabilitation and, if not, which do not, broken down into NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder in each of the last five years.
Answer
The exact number of people newlydiagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Scotland is notavailable centrally.
However, national estimates of the numbers of people consulting for chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder since1999 are given in the table, based on the number of patients seen for the conditionin general medical practices participating in Practice Team Information (PTI).
Estimated Annual Number of Patientswith a First GP Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
| Calendar Year | Estimated Number of First GP Diagnoses |
| 1999 | 34,200 |
| 2000 | 34,000 |
| 2001 | 32,300 |
| 2002 | 28,400 |
| 2003 | 28,400 |
Source: ISD. PTI data are obtainedfrom a sample of Scottish general practices whose population is broadly nationallyrepresentative of the Scottish population in terms of age, sex, deprivation categoryand rural/urban mix.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder have been discharged from hospital in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer
The number of patients with chronicobstructive pulmonary disease, discharged from hospital in each of the last fiveyears, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile is in a table lodged inthe Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39444).
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals for speech and language therapy there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Information on the total numberof referrals for speech and language therapy is not held centrally.
Some information on the numberof cases that speech and language therapists are involved in is available. New andtotal patient attendances in 2004-05, covering only the activity provided by hospital-basedstaff, is published in the Data Developments area of ISD’s website:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/collect2.jsp?pContentID=1358&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.This data is part of anon-going development of a national dataset of patient numbers treated by AlliedHealth Professionals. No information is collected on activity in the community sector.
