Chamber and committees

Costs data for specific conditions such as alcohol-induced illnesses are not available centrally.

Costs data for specific conditions such as alcohol-induced illnesses are not available centrally.

The information requested is provided in the following tables.

Over the last four years, the annual number of hip and knee replacement operations undertaken by NHSScotland has increased by 8.5% and 26.8% respectively.

NHSScotland: Number of Total Hip Replacement¹ Procedures Undertaken During the Years Ending 31 March 2000 to 2004 Inclusive and the Number Of Patients on the In-Patient and Day Case Waiting List for a Total Hip Replacement¹ on 30 September 2004

NHS Board	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004P	Waiting List
Argyll and Clyde	355	377	373	439	471	298
Ayrshire and Arran	333	358	363	345	417	202
Borders	134	139	168	182	158	55
Dumfries and Galloway	150	160	157	176	168	144
Fife	407	445	427	390	399	245
Forth Valley	216	232	222	231	295	169
Grampian	619	594	597	585	663	431
Greater Glasgow	774	697	704	757	791	560
Highland	303	323	275	280	302	186
Lanarkshire	402	393	446	420	539	215
Lothian	743	784	706	826	666	495
Orkney	38	43	31	50	43	21
Shetland	31	27	26	21	40	18
Tayside	526	481	485	393	533	186
Western Isles	55	31	62	59	83	23
Scotland	5,129	5,127	5,067	5,182	5,567	3,256

 

NHSScotland: Number of Total Knee Replacement² Procedures Undertaken During the Years Ending 31 March 2000 to 2004 Inclusive and the Number of Patients on the In-Patient and Day Case Waiting List for a Total Knee Replacement² on 30 September 2004

NHS Board	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004P	Waiting List
Argyll and Clyde	184	241	257	274	371	335
Ayrshire and Arran	298	309	287	326	358	299
Borders	56	69	72	77	92	34
Dumfries and Galloway	71	77	93	90	91	100
Fife	238	299	301	291	301	233
Forth Valley	159	216	187	218	237	204
Grampian	292	299	325	378	416	259
Greater Glasgow	549	567	578	578	719	720
Highland	117	150	182	162	192	143
Lanarkshire	291	299	358	319	435	316
Lothian	515	532	500	623	413	572
Orkney	8	8	11	23	24	13
Shetland	16	19	19	22	31	17
Tayside	367	329	326	303	327	195
Western Isles	9	13	17	16	14	11
Scotland	3,182	3,439	3,525	3,720	4,036	3,455

^PProvisional.

Notes:

1. Hip replacement is defined in terms of the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys – Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures – 4th Revision (OPCS4) W37,W38 or W39.

2. Knee replacement is defined as (OPCS4) W40, W41 or W42.

Members of the public contacting NHS 24 do so at the cost of a local telephone call. The average cost incurred by NHS 24 in dealing with a call in the quarter ending 31 December 2004 was £25.35. This cost covers call handlers, nurse advisors, team leaders, IT operational and support personnel and management and administrative input.

NHS 24 became available to the whole of Scotland from mid November 2004. The figures for the fourth quarter (ending 31 March 2005) will for the first time show the fully rolled out operating costs for the national service.

The information requested is not held centrally. Those with Korsakoff’s psychosis will be cared for within mainstream services.

The current ISD Scotland data is correct to 30 September 2003. There has beena 7.8% increase in the number of Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeons between 1999 and2003.

The following table shows the headcount and whole-time equivalent (WTE) numbers of trauma and orthopaedic consultants as at 30 September for the years 1999 to 2003, broken down by NHS board.

	1999		2000		2001		2002		2003
NHS Board	Headcount	WTE1	Headcount	WTE1	Headcount	WTE1	Headcount	WTE1	Headcount	WTE1
Scotland	140	136.0	138	135.1	139	136.5	143	140.6	151	148.6
NHS Argyll and Clyde	8	8.0	8	8.0	7	7.0	8	8.0	10	10.0
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	9	9.0	9	9.0	9	9.0	10	10.0	11	11.0
NHS Borders	4	4.0	4	4.0	4	4.0	4	4.0	4	4.0
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	4	4.0	3	3.0	4	4.0	4	4.0	5	5.0
NHS Fife	6	6.0	6	6.0	7	7.0	7	7.0	7	7.0
NHS Forth Valley	8	7.8	8	8.0	8	8.0	8	8.0	8	8.0
NHS Grampian	15	13.9	14	13.3	13	12.6	16	15.8	17	16.8
NHS Greater Glasgow	30	29.3	30	29.6	32	31.6	32	31.6	31	30.6
NHS Highland	6	6.0	6	6.0	6	6.0	6	6.0	8	8.0
NHS Lanarkshire	11	11.0	12	12.0	12	12.0	11	11.0	11	11.0
NHS Lothian	21	19.7	20	18.9	21	19.9	21	19.9	23	21.9
NHS Orkney	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Shetland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Tayside	17	16.3	17	16.3	16	15.3	16	15.3	16	15.3
NHS Western Isles	1	1.0	1	1.0	-	-	-	-	-	-

Medical and Dental Workforce Census.

Notes:

1. WTE adjusts to take account of part-time working.

2. Latest available figures are at 30 September 2003.

ISD Scotland will be releasing the medical and dental census position, correct to 30 September 2004, on 10 February 2005.

Programmes to provide free toothbrushes and paste have been in place across Scotland since 2001. Initially these schemes provided free toothbrushes and paste to all children at eight months and to those aged one to three years in areas of need. The scheme has been kept under constant review and is being refocused to include children between the ages of three and five years. In addition, nurserytoothbrushing schemes are in place in health boards throughout Scotland. Theseare estimated to be in place in approximately 70%-80% of nurseries, subject to local variation.

The latest complete figures are as follows, for 1997 to 2001. Later information is incomplete. NHS National Services Scotland is working to correct this position.

Patients Diagnosed with Korsakoff's Psychosis in Scotland

New Occurrences by NHS Board of Residence and Year of Admission

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001*
Scotland	275	320	319	247	243
Argyll and Clyde	28	41	32	28	39
Ayrshire and Arran	17	12	22	16	20
Borders	*	*	5	*	*
Dumfries and Galloway	*	*	*	*	*
Fife	8	11	5	9	6
Forth Valley	*	11	12	9	6
Grampian	16	12	13	9	10
Greater Glasgow	109	139	135	76	86
Highland	13	*	8	11	7
Lanarkshire	24	40	41	28	24
Lothian	38	34	32	44	29
Orkney	0	0	0	0	0
Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0	*
Tayside	12	7	10	11	8
Western Isles	*	5	*	0	*

Source: ISD Scotland SMR01/SMR04 linked data set.

Notes:

*Numbers under 5 have been masked to preserve confidentiality.

2001 information for Forth Valley, Lanarkshire and Lothian is incomplete.

A national mandatory hospital infection surveillance system was introduced in 2001 to monitor blood infections with MRSA. The surveillance is operated by Health Protection Scotland and it produces quarterly reports. A first preliminary report on selected surgical site infections was published in October 2003 and a second in 2004.

Data for both schemes are available at http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/scieh/infectious/infhospital.html

No. The Breast and Cervical Screening National Advisory Group agreed at its first meeting in October 2004 to look at a number of issues that would impact on the future development of the breast screening service. This includes the need to address health inequalities, the potential of digital mammography, the screening age range, and the screening of high-risk women as well as the impact and effectiveness of introducing two-view mammography. The Breast and Cervical Screening National Advisory Group expect to consider a report on all these potential developments and will in turn make recommendations to ministerstowards the end of 2005.