- 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 Nicol Stephen on 14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of schools have been involved in Enterprise in Education in each of the last three years.
Answer
The review of Education for Work and Enterprise (
Determined to Succeed, or DtS) published in December 2003 concluded, among other things, that young people’s access to enterprise in education across Scotland was limited and variable. In our subsequent DtS strategy, we undertook to ensure that all pupils in Scotland’s schools have the opportunity for enterprise activities on an annual basis. We began to deliver DtS in summer 2003 with 10 pathfinder local authorities, extending delivery across all local authorities from summer 2004.
While we do not have available the percentage of schools delivering enterprise in education over the last three years, we have set a target of delivering all the recommendations in DtS by summer next year. We are working closely with all local authorities to that end and shall make available the information sought when we report on delivery later in 2006.
- 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 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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 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: Thursday, 11 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which IT systems are used by each NHS board.
Answer
All NHS boards use national systems as follows: Payroll, SCI Store (clinical information repository), CHI (Community Health Index), National Screening Systems, SCI Gateway (clinical communication).
Full details of all other systems used by all health boards are not held centrally but the main IT systems used by each NHS board are listed in the table. Although these systems are not necessarily the same across NHS boards, where applicable they are required to be compatible and meet certain criteria. Common information standards are in place, they report on the same basis for national statistics and they are interfaced to a common infrastructure which can be configured to allow them to share data.
| NHS Board | Patient Administration System | Laboratory | Radiology* | Finance | HR |
| Argyll and Clyde | Compas | Apex Pinnacle LabCentre | Radwyse iSoft Amersham | Cedar | Empower |
| Ayrshire and Arran | Compas McKesson | Apex Telepath 2000 | McKesson Kodak | Cedar | Empower |
| Borders | iSoft | Labcentre | Amersham | Cedar | procuring |
| Dumfries and Galloway | Compas | Apex | Bull | Cedar | Vizual |
| Fife | Capula | Torex MasterLab | Kodak | Cedar | Centurion |
| Golden Jubilee | Capula | Labcentre | Kodak | Sage | None |
| Grampian | iSoft | Apex | Misys Sectra | Cedar | SWISS |
| Forth Valley | Compas | Apex | Mysis | Cedar | PWIS |
| Greater Glasgow | ISoft Meditech | Telepath | Meditech CRIS | Cedar | Empower PWA |
| Highland | iSoft | Pinnacle | procuring | Integra | None |
| Lanarkshire | iSoft | MasterLab | Amersham | Cedar | Empower |
| Lothian | iSoft | Labcenter iLAB | Inhouse TSS Radwise Radcentre | Cedar | PWA LOMIS |
| Orkney | Compas | Labcenter | Kodak | Resource | none |
| Shetland | Compas | Masterlab | None | Accpac | SDMS |
| Tayside | Compas Clinicom | Labcentre | In House | Cedar | In House |
| Western Isles | Compas | Medipath | Sapphire | Cedar | None |
Note: *Several NHS boards are in the process of reviewing their Radiology systems as part of preparing to introduce the national PACS – digital X-Ray – system.
