- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Dietary Target to ensure that oily fish consumption doubles to 88 grams per week by 2005 has been met.
Answer
The information is not available as yet, however progress is being made as follows.
The Scottish Health Survey 2003, which will be published later this year, will contain qualitative information on the consumption of oily fish.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS) will be publishing a report this autumn reviewing the progress made by 2003 towards the Scottish Diet Action Plan targets. Due to the nature of survey methodology this will be the most up to date data available.
Regular monitoring will be put in place beyond this to provide data on on-going progress towards the targets.
In addition, FSAS is commissioning a study of the dietary intake of adults in Scotland, including the quantitative intake of oily fish. This survey will commence towards the end of this year and the results should be available in early 2007.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Dietary Target to double the average daily intake of fruit and vegetables to more than 400 grams per day by 2005 has been met.
Answer
The information is not available as yet, however, progress is being made as follows.
The Scottish Health Survey 2003, which will be published later this year, will contain some quantitative information on the consumption of fruit and vegetables.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS) will be publishing a report this autumn reviewing the progress made by 2003 towards the Scottish Diet Action Plan targets. Due to the nature of survey methodology this will be the most up to date data available.
Regular monitoring will be put in place beyond this to provide data on on-going progress towards the targets.
In addition, the FSAS is commissioning a study of the dietary intake of adults in Scotland, including the quantitative intake of fruit and vegetables. This survey will commence towards the end of this year and the results should be available in early 2007.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Dietary Target to reduce the average daily intake of saturated fat to 11% of food energy by 2005 has been met.
Answer
The information is not available as yet, however progress is being made as follows.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS) will be publishing a report this autumn reviewing the progress made by 2003 towards the Scottish Diet Action Plan targets. Due to the nature of survey methodology this will be the most up to date data available.
Regular monitoring will be put in place beyond this to provide data on ongoing progress towards the targets.
In addition, the FSAS is commissioning a study of the dietary intake of adults in Scotland, including the intake of saturated fat. This survey will commence towards the end of this year and the results should be available in early 2007.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Dietary Target to reduce the average daily intake of salt to 100mmol by 2005 has been met.
Answer
There is no reliable information available on the salt consumption of the Scottish population. Unfortunately salt consumption cannot be measured by the same methodology of other nutrients as the databases are too inaccurate.
Measurement of salt consumption must be measured by analysis of a 24 hour urine collection.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland is commissioning a study of the intake of salt in adults in Scotland using this methodology. This survey will commence in the last quarter of the year and the results should be available in 2006.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Dietary Target to ensure that the average intake of non-milk extrinsic sugars in adults did not increase by 2005 has been met.
Answer
The information is not available as yet, however progress is being made as follows.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS) will be publishing a report this autumn reviewing the progress made by 2003 towards the Scottish Diet Action Plan targets. Due to the nature of survey methodology this will be the most up to date data available.
Regular monitoring will be put in place beyond this to provide data on on-going progress towards the targets.
In addition, the FSAS is commissioning a study of the dietary intake of adults in Scotland, including the intake of non-milk extrinsic sugars. This survey will commence towards the end of this year and the results should be available in early 2007.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Dietary Target to increase the average non-sugar carbohydrate consumption by 25% by 2005 has been met.
Answer
The information is not available as yet, however, progress is being made as follows.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS) will be publishing a report this autumn reviewing the progress made by 2003 towards the Scottish Diet Action Plan targets. Due to the nature of survey methodology this will be the most up to date data available.
Regular monitoring will be put in place beyond this to provide data on on-going progress towards the targets.
In addition, the FSAS is commissioning a study of the dietary intake of adults in Scotland, including the intake of non-sugar carbohydrate. This survey will commence towards the end of this year and the results should be available in early 2007.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many active school clusters have been established to date.
Answer
The organisation of schools area matter for local authorities to determine. Information on cluster arrangementsis not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 14 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, following the successful pilot study and publication in November 2001 of Report on Nutrition in the Elderly Study, it intends to collect and publish statistics on the nutritional status of the patients in continuing and long-term care using the renamed Scottish Health Resource Utilisation Groups (SHRUGS) data, particularly in relation to the effect of feeding difficulties on body mass index.
Answer
The report showed that it was feasible to gather information on Body Mass Index (BMI) status from long-stay wards, alongside the SHRUGs interviews carried out by ISD once a year. The limitations inherent in using this annual snapshot approach to measure BMI, however, were such that the Scottish Executive concluded that the method proposed should not be supported.
The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland clinical standards for Food, Fluid and Nutritional Care require that when a person is admitted to hospital, a nutritional assessment is carried out; that screening including BMI for risk of under nutrition is undertaken, both on admission and on an on-going basis, and that a care plan which includes BMI measures is implemented.
They also state that the nurse with responsibility for the ward is responsible for having in place a protocol which ensures that staff assist and support patients as required. It is the charge nurse’s responsibility to monitor the patient’s intake of food and fluid, and to ensure that necessary action is taken if this is inadequate.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many DEXA scanners there are in each NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table. The Golden Jubilee also has access to a DEXA scanner two days a week. This facility is available to all NHS boards. It is for NHS boards to determine how to allocate resources to local services.
| NHS Board Area | Number of DEXA Scanners | Location | Where patients can access service if Board does not have DEXA Scanner |
| Argyll and Clyde | 0 | N/A | Greater Glasgow |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1 | Ayrshire Central Hospital | N/A |
| Borders | 0 | N/A | Lothian |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary | N/A |
| Fife | 1 | Victoria Hospital | N/A |
| Forth Valley | 0 | N/A | Greater Glasgow/ Edinburgh |
| Greater Glasgow | 4 | Southern General Stobhill Hospital Western Infirmary Glasgow Royal Infirmary | N/A |
| Grampian | 1 | Woolmanhill Hospital, Aberdeen | N/A |
| Highland | 2 | County Hospital, Nairn Ross Memorial Hospital, Dingwall | N/A |
| Lanarkshire | 1 | Wishaw General Hospital | N/A |
| Lothian | 1 | Western General Hospital | N/A |
| Orkney | 0 | N/A | Grampian |
| Shetland | 0 | N/A | Grampian |
| Tayside | 2 | Ninewells Hospital, Dundee Perth Royal Infirmary | N/A |
| Western Isles | 0 | N/A | Highland |
Source: NHS boards, June 2005.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 8 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to monitor the uptake of calcium and vitamin D supplementation, particularly among women living in residential care, in light of the recommendation of Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network 71 - Management of Osteoporosis: A National Clinical Guideline that frail elderly housebound women should be offered calcium and vitamin D supplementation.
Answer
The implementation of SIGN guidelines, which are good practice clinical guidelines rather than mandatory standards of care, is a matter for NHS boards and is not monitored directly by the Executive. NHS boards’ clinical governance committees are expected to take account of SIGN guidelines.
