- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, how much work, in (a) person-days and (b) cash terms, is required to configure the common infrastructure to share data between the patient administration systems, the laboratory systems and the radiology systems of NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Greater Glasgow.
Answer
Decisions on specific options to share data have yet to be taken. No estimates of the work required have therefore yet been made, however the work is not expected to be onerous.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-19220 by Mr Andy Kerr on 26 September 2005, how many nurses are available at each NHS out-of-hours centre in Glasgow for the purpose of identifying and prioritising patients whose condition has worsened since they contacted NHS 24.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, how much work, in (a) person-days and (b) cash terms, is required to configure the common infrastructure to share data between the patient administration systems, the laboratory systems and the radiology systems of NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Highland.
Answer
Decisions on specific options to share data have yet to be taken. No estimates of the work required have therefore yet been made, however the work is not expected to be onerous.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, what the name is of the common infrastructure which allows data to be shared between NHS board systems.
Answer
Our Scottish Care Information (SCI) infrastructure enables information to be shared between NHS board systems. The key elements of this infrastructure are known as SCI Gateway and SCI Store.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, whether work to configure the common infrastructure to share data between the patient administration systems, the laboratory systems and the radiology systems of (a) NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Greater Glasgow and (b) NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Highland will be a one-off exercise or whether it will have to be carried out each time data is to be shared.
Answer
At the appropriate point when options are considered it is extremely likely that the decision will be to configure the common infrastructure as a one-off exercise and not repeat it each time data is shared.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, how old the common infrastructure that allows data to be shared is and on how many occasions the infrastructure has been used to share data between NHS boards.
Answer
The infrastructure has evolved over the past five years and is in daily use. It is used to share data between GPs and hospitals within single NHS board areas, and is also used for national data sets such as emergency care summary and diabetes.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, whether the Community Health Index number referred to is suitable for sharing confidential data.
Answer
The Community Health Index number is suitable for sharing confidential data. This has been confirmed by the Information Commissioner.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, whether all hospitals in each NHS board in Scotland are linked to the national Community Health Index number system.
Answer
Each NHS board and all hospitals requiring a link to the Community Health Index number system are linked. The Scottish Care Information infrastructure required to share information across health boards and hospitals also carries the CHI number.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 29 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of service was of volunteers for the children's panel system when they withdraw from the system in each of the last five years.
Answer
Table 1 shows the information requested in respect of member of children’s panels. Table 2 shows the information requested in respect of members of Children’s Panel Advisory Committees.
Over the last five years, the average length of service on resignation of Children’s panel members as a whole is 3.78 years and for Children’s Panel Advisory Committees is 4.98 years. The average current length of service on the Children’s Panel is around five years and on Children’s Panel Advisory Committee is around eight years.
Table 1 Length of Service of Children’s Panel Members
| Year | Number of Resignations | Average Length of Service (in years) |
| 2000 | 558 | 3.74 |
| 2001 | 446 | 4.03 |
| 2002 | 454 | 3.98 |
| 2003 | 471 | 3.49 |
| 2004 | 511 | 3.67 |
Table 2 Length of service of Children’s Panel Advisory Committee Members
| Year | Number of Resignations | Average Length of Service (in years) |
| 2000 | 17 | 4.59 |
| 2001 | 22 | 5.43 |
| 2002 | 25 | 6.24 |
| 2003 | 21 | 5.70 |
| 2004 | 19 | 2.95 |
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 27 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been seen at each Glasgow Emergency Medical Service centre on its busiest night in the last twelve months.
Answer
The following table shows thenumber of patients that have been seen at each Glasgow Emergency Medical Servicecentre on its busiest night (in terms of patient numbers) between 1 September 2004 and31 August 2005. These figures are supplied by the Greater Glasgow NHSBoard.
| Primary Care Emergency Centre | Date | Number of Patients |
| Cardonald | 3 January 2005 | 115 |
| Drumchapel | 3 January 2005 | 147 |
| Lightburn | 28 December 2004 | 153 |
| Stobhill | 3 January 2005 | 212 |
| Victoria | 27 December 2004 | 278 |
| Western | 2 January 2005 | 92 |
Out of hours services will continueto be provided at the new Stobhill and Victoria Hospitals. Around £190 million is being invested in these new builds.The new Hospitals will provide Minor Injury Units which are well placed to dealquickly and effectively with the problems out of hours patients present.
