- 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 Andy Kerr on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many doctors were on the register for working shifts in the Glasgow Emergency Medical Service in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table represents the number on the register of Greater Glasgow NHS Board for working shifts in Glasgow Emergency Medical Service centres in each of the last five years as supplied by the Greater Glasgow NHS Board.
No of GPs on register as at the 31 March Each Year (including locums):
| Year | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Number of GPs on register at 31 March | 448 | 462 | 479 | 524 | 509 |
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18180 by Lewis Macdonald on 22 August 2005, which developments referred to in Adding Life To Years are being monitored by the implementation group set up by its Health Department.
Answer
The Implementation Group concluded its work following the Adding Life to Years National Conference in June 2003.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the nurses who staff NHS 24 have access to details of the services available at each hospital in order that patients can be directed, not to their nearest hospital, but to the nearest hospital that has services to treat the condition which the nurse suspects the patient to be suffering from.
Answer
NHS 24 offers a triage and consultation service to patients. Nurse advisers come to NHS 24 with a wide range of nursing experience, gained over a substantial period of time. The nurse adviser asks a series of questions with the support of a clinical evidence based support tool. This structured approach allows the nurse adviser to gain relevant information so that they can ascertain the urgency of a patient’s symptoms and determine the most appropriate level of care.
The nurse advisers have access to information about hospital services that helps them decide which location is the most appropriate for the patient. For example, for accident and emergency departments, minor injury units and maternity units, this information includes whether the hospital provides treatment for eye injuries, fracture management, medical emergencies, paediatrics, stabilisation of serious conditions, trauma emergencies and x-ray facilities, early pregnancy or high risk pregnancy.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients in each NHS board area have been referred by NHS 24 to a hospital and have subsequently been referred on to another hospital due to the first hospital to which they were referred not having the facilities to treat their complaint.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1417 by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 July 2003, when the 2003 Scottish Health Survey will be published.
Answer
Results from the 2003 Scottish Health Survey will be published in November 2005 in the form of a summary report and four separate volumes focussing on cardiovascular disease, adults, children and a technical report. All of these will be available on the web as well as hard copy publications. There will also be separate tables of results for each NHS board available on the web only.
The revised timetable for the publication was required in order to ensure Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee clearance and to extend the survey period to December 2004 to ensure sufficient responses were achieved.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what studies have been conducted into the economic impact of an outbreak of avian influenza amongst poultry flocks.
Answer
There have been no recent outbreaks of avian influenza in the UK and as such no quantified assessments are available. The impact of any outbreak would depend on specific circumstances such as the type of birds infected, their location the scale of any outbreak and its duration.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to protect domestic fowl from avian influenza and when this information will be made public.
Answer
Whilst the threat of avian influenza to the UK is judged to be low a number of actions have been taken to protect the Scottish poultry industry. In particular the Scottish Executive has been working with other UK administrations to:
Provide stakeholders with biosecurity guidance to minimise the risk of disease incursion, eg through contact with wild birds, and minimise the risk of disease spread;
Undertake surveys into the presence of low pathogenic avian influenza in domestic poultry and migrating birds, and
Negotiate the terms of the new EU Avian influenza Directive, ensuring it provides an up to date and proportionate base to respond to any outbreak of avian influenza.
In addition, well developed contingency plans are held by the State Veterinary Service for responding to any suspect case of avian influenza.
It remains important that poultry keepers maintain good biosecurity levels and report any suspicion of disease to the State Veterinary Service
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers there have been in each of the last three years.
Answer
Information on the full-time equivalent number of teachers in the last three years in publicly funded schools can be found in Table 1.1 of Teachers in Scotland 2004 which can be accessed by the following link.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/25165316/53185.
Information on the number of teachers in pre-school in 2003-04 and 2004-05 can be found in Table 1.22 of Pre-school and Childcare Statistics 2005 which can be accessed at the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/07/27131643/17020.
Information on the number of teachers in pre-school in 2002-03 is not available.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18177 by Mr Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005, which NHS boards have provided an osteoporosis service using the PHIS and SIGN 71 guidelines.
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: Thursday, 11 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS boards currently carry out hearing tests on new-born babies and what the timetable is for introducing these tests in NHS boards that do not carry out such tests.
Answer
All health boards in Scotland currently carry out hearing tests for newborn babies. Twelve boards routinely offer universal newborn hearing screening to newborn babies and the other three boards offer targeted screening for babies who are at a high risk of hearing impairments.
By October 2005 all boards will have fully implemented routine hearing tests for all new-born babies.
