- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 2 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13047 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2005, how much of the £28.889 million from the Health Improvement Fund retained by the Executive as at 1 October 2001 was allocated to each NHS board and how much was retained centrally.
Answer
The information requested is not available at this time. However, I shall write to the member as soon as the information has been collated and a copy of my letter shall be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital-acquired (a) urinary and (b) chest infections there have been and what the rate of infection has been in each NHS board since 1999.
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: Thursday, 20 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been for selling tobacco products to minors in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The table provides the available data for those police force areas and years where such convictions were recorded.
Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Selling Tobacco Products to Minors1, by Police Force Area, 1998-2002
| Police Force Area | 1998 | 1999 | 2001 |
| Grampian | 1 | 2 | - |
| Strathclyde | - | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 28 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available the Vital Events data, provided by the General Register Office for Scotland, broken down by calendar month and week.
Answer
The General Register Office for Scotland is currently reviewing the range of statistical information made available on its website. One outcome of this review is likely to be the inclusion of regularly updated provisional information on birth and death registrations. Though the precise details have yet to be finalised, it is expected that weekly and monthly counts will both be provided.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce two-view mammography as the standard breast-screening method.
Answer
The current practice within the Scottish Breast Screening Programme involves a two view mammography (two x-rays from different angles) at the first screening visit with a single view mammography every three years thereafter.
The Breast and Cervical Screening National Advisory Group are currently considering the impact of introducing two view screening at every screening visit and are expected to make a recommendation to ministers towards the end of 2005.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines are in place for nursing a patient who has MRSA.
Answer
Each NHS board has procedures and protocols for managing patients with infections and for preventing further spread to other patients, staff, or visitors. These would include guidance on hand hygiene, isolation procedures and the use ofprotective clothing (e.g. gloves and aprons). We would also expect patients tobe given written information on MRSA if they were infected. Implementation of, and compliance with these are required under the NHS Quality ImprovementScotland Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Infection Control Standards(2001), and will be reported on by NHS QIS in mid 2005.
The current national infection control guidance, the Scottish Infection Manual, will be superseded in 2005 by the production of model infection control policies and procedures as part of the work of the Ministerial HAI Task Force.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12789 by Rhona Brankin on 15 December 2004, how much of the Health Improvement Fund funding referred to was allocated to each NHS board.
Answer
Full details about the Health Improvement Fund allocations made to NHS boards was given in the 2002 publication
Putting the Pieces in Place, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 19606) or on the Scottish Executive website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/health/shif-00.asp.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to test each patient admitted to hospital for MRSA.
Answer
Many patients, particularly those being admitted for routine surgery, are already screened for MRSA prior to admission The Ministerial Taskforce on Healthcare Associated Infection will be considering our strategic approach to screening in the light of forthcoming professional guidance and review of the published evidence on effectiveness of a variety of interventions against MRSA.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures have been specified for testing areas in which patients with MRSA have been nursed once the patient has been moved and the area cleaned.
Answer
There is no nationally specified procedure for this. Any environmental testing would be for the local Infection control team or committee to agree and implement, based on local circumstances.
The National Cleaning Specification, which set out how hospitals and other healthcare premises should be cleaned and how frequently, along with a detailed code of practice (the first of its kind in the UK) on how hygiene and the prevention and control of infection are managed at local level were published in May this year.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the bed occupancy rate has been in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.
Answer
Information on bed occupancy rates for Scotland and in each NHS board area for the years ending 31 March 1999 to 2004 is shown in the following table.
NHSScotland - Percentage Bed Occupancy1; by NHS Board Area: Years Ending 31 March 1999-2004
| | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004P |
| Scotland | 80.5 | 80.7 | 80.8 | 81.4 | 81.5 | 80.4 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 85.5 | 85.3 | 83.1 | 82.7 | 81.3 | 81.0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 82.5 | 82.1 | 82.1 | 81.8 | 81.3 | 79.9 |
| Borders | 70.2 | 71.3 | 78.6 | 80.2 | 79.5 | 80.2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 70.0 | 74.2 | 71.3 | 72.4 | 76.1 | 69.2 |
| Fife | 81.7 | 80.3 | 79.9 | 81.1 | 80.9 | 77.8 |
| Forth Valley | 82.4 | 84.4 | 82.2 | 81.0 | 80.1 | 83.1 |
| Grampian | 78.6 | 79.9 | 80.5 | 81.2 | 81.8 | 80.5 |
| Greater Glasgow | 83.0 | 82.2 | 82.0 | 82.5 | 82.9 | 81.8 |
| Highland | 73.8 | 72.4 | 75.1 | 74.9 | 74.5 | 74.8 |
| Lanarkshire | 78.9 | 76.8 | 76.7 | 81.0 | 81.1 | 79.1 |
| Lothian | 81.3 | 83.7 | 84.8 | 82.4 | 83.8 | 84.0 |
| Orkney | 69.6 | 67.7 | 65.1 | 69.2 | 72.4 | 58.0 |
| Shetland | 71.5 | 66.7 | 72.5 | 77.9 | 72.4 | 65.9 |
| Tayside | 79.8 | 79.5 | 80.4 | 82.8 | 82.4 | 80.9 |
| Western Isles | 69.7 | 73.0 | 72.6 | 79.1 | 73.5 | 69.4 |
Source: ISD Scotland [Form ISD(S)1].
PProvisional, some information may be estimated.
Note: 1. Includes NHS and joint-user and contractual hospitals.
