- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10002 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 September 2004, whether it now has a strategy for reducing the incidence of osteoporosis and, if not, whether it intends to develop such a strategy.
Answer
The Executive continues to promotehealthy living in Scotland and thereby impact upon modifiable risk factors for osteoporosissuch as poor diet, smoking and lack of exercise. The Executive does not have a strategyexclusive to osteoporosis and has no current plans to introduce such a strategy.
- 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 Tavish Scott on 24 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14229 by Nicol Stephen on 14 February 2005, when the findings of the feasibility study into the Glasgow Crossrail link, due to be published in mid-June 2005, will be published.
Answer
Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) commissioned Scott Wilson railway consultants to undertake a feasibility study of Glasgow Crossrail. I understand that Scott Wilson have now reported their findings to SPT for consideration. The report will then require the approval of SPT before submission to the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many people have visited Scotland from (a) Australia, (b) Belgium, (c) Canada, (d) Denmark, (e) Finland, (f) France, (g) Germany, (h) the Republic of Ireland, (i) Italy, (j) Japan, (k) the Netherlands, (l) New Zealand, (m) Norway, (n) Spain, (o) Sweden and (p) the United States of America in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on the numbers of overseas visitors to Scotland is available at
http://www.scotexchange.net/know_your_market/tourism_today/overseas_markets.htm.
No information is held specifically on the number of visitors from Finland and New Zealand.
- 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 Allan Wilson on 22 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the commitment in the Partnership Agreement to increase the apprenticeship programme to 30,000 places, how many places there have been on the apprenticeship programme in each of the last three years.
Answer
1. The Partnership Agreementcommitment of achieving 30,000 modern apprenticeship (MA) places by 2006, was achievedtwo years early and announced in May 2004.
2. The number of MAs in trainingat the end of March in the last three years was:
2003– 27,956
2004– 31,392
2005– 33,695.
3. Details of the day-to-daymanagement of the programme is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise andHighlands and Islands Enterprise. Although current information on the number of traineesis not held centrally, this would be available from the enterprise networks.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all NHS boards have now put in place a falls assessment service, as recommended in the report, Adding Life To Years, and, if not, which NHS boards have still to implement such a service.
Answer
We do not routinely collect informationabout falls assessment services operated by individual NHS boards.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dedicated osteoporosis nurses there are in each NHS board area.
Answer
At 10 February 2005, there were three osteoporosis specialist nurses in NHSScotland, all within NHS Greater Glasgow.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have set up an osteoporosis service.
Answer
The planning and provision of health care services is, in the first instance, a matter for NHS boards. All NHS boards are expected to provide suitable services for people with osteoporosis. To help them they are able to draw on a Scottish Needs Assessment Programme on osteoporosis, which was produced by the Public Health Institute of Scotland (PHIS) (now part of NHS Health Scotland), and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) good practice clinical guideline on the management of osteoporosis – SIGN Guideline 71.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-17065 by Mr Andy Kerr on 13 June 2005, whether all DEXA scans are reported and, if not, from which scanners are scans produced but not reported.
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, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many osteoporosis consultants there are in each NHS board area.
Answer
Centrally held information on consultants can provide a breakdown by specialty only and does not allow the identification of posts attached to specific diagnoses. Osteoporosis is a condition that may be treated by a number of medical specialties, including; rheumatology, orthopaedics, primary care, community gynaecology, trauma and, endocrinology. However, the majority of patients diagnosed with osteoporosis will be treated in the specialty of orthopaedics. Information on NHS Scotland consultants is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics,
www.isdscotland.org/workforce. Section B gives details of the consultant staff in post in NHS Scotland. In particular, table B8 and B9 shows consultants by time, specialty and NHS board. Latest available figures are at 31 March 2005.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have a physiotherapy programme in place for patients diagnosed with osteoporosis.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-18177 on 18 August 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
