- 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 Andy Kerr on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13635 by Mr Andy Kerr on 31 January 2005 and following the publication of Health in Scotland 2004 in March 2005 which states that there is an HAI surveillance project to monitor catheter-associated urinary tract infections, whether it is now possible to provide an answer to the question in respect of the number of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections and the rate of infection in each NHS board.
Answer
Data on the number of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections (UTI) and the rate of infection in each NHS board are not yet available, as the catheter-associated UTI surveillance programme is still under development.
Data on healthcare-associated UTIs, however, will also be collected across Scotland as part of the national survey on the prevalence and burden of Healthcare Associated Infections that the Scottish Executive Health Department has commissioned Health Protection Scotland to conduct over the next two years.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether exercise therapy can be prescribed by GPs for patients diagnosed with osteoporosis.
Answer
Evidence suggests that exerciseis a useful intervention for people with osteoporosis and is recommended in theSIGN Guideline 71. GPs can refer patients diagnosed with osteoporosis for an appropriateexercise programme as suggested in the SIGN Guideline.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any mobile DEXA scanners currently in use in Scotland.
Answer
There are no mobile Dexa Scanners currently in use in Scotland.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for a DEXA scan has been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. This particular scan does not have a specific code which allows it to be identified from national data.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the operating costs were of the Strathclyde Safety Camera Partnership in 2003-04.
Answer
Audited figures for 2003-04 show that expenditure for the Strathclyde Safety Camera Partnership was £2,739,688.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-6584 by Cathy Jamieson on 4 May 2005 and given that the Prince2 methodology will have identified which resources were used and for how long, whether it is now in a position to state what the cost to date has been of the criminal history system replacement project.
Answer
The Scottish Police Information Strategy and the Scottish Criminal Record Office are working to identifying their respective costs to date on the replacement project. I will write to the member with the information once it is available.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16162 by Cathy Jamieson on 10 May 2005, what stages of the new project to replace the criminal history system database will be led by project managers hired from outwith the Scottish Police Information Strategy.
Answer
Additional input will be secured following a tendering exercise involving companies appointed to the Framework for IT Services Scotland contracts. The additional input will focus on performance testing, the development of a revised project initiation document and the delivery of the replacement criminal history system.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16163 by Cathy Jamieson on 10 May 2005, what the cost will be of the preparations undertaken for a procurement exercise to replace the criminal history system database.
Answer
The preparations for procurement have been carried out so far by Scottish Executive officials as part of their day-to-day work.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16033 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 April 2005, whether the purpose of the proposed conference on pain management is to establish a national strategy on pain management and, if not, what steps the Executive is taking to produce a national strategy on pain management and when the strategy will be published.
Answer
The conference will discuss the recent report by Professor James McEwen, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, on
Chronic Pain Services in Scotland. We hope to hold the conference in early July.
Service planning is, as far as possible, devolved to NHS boards and financed from board’s unified budgets, which have been increased in this financial year by an average of 7.6%, more than twice the rate of inflation.
i refer the member to the answer to question S2W-12866 on 16 December 2004, on action by GPs to manage chronic pain patients. 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.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16033 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 April 2005, what funding will be provided for comprehensive pain management services.
Answer
The Executive prefers to maximise the unified budgets made available to NHS boards for the treatment of all chronic conditions, rather than hold back funds for specific conditions. In the current financial year unified budgets have been increased by an average of 7.6%, more than twice the rate of inflation.
