Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-04996

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 December 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4176 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2003, how many neonatal care cots there were in each hospital in the Highland NHS board area in each year from 1998-99 to 2001-02.

Question reference: S2W-05000

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 December 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4176 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2003, how many neonatal care cots there were in each hospital in the Tayside NHS board area in each year from 1998-99 to 2001-02.

Question reference: S2W-04992

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 December 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4176 by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2003, how many neonatal care cots there were in each hospital in the Greater Glasgow NHS board area in each year from 1998-99 to 2001-02.

Question reference: S2W-05323

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 January 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the population of each deprivation quintile is in each NHS board area, expressed as a percentage of total board area population, in each year since 1998-99.

Populations for eachdeprivation quintile based on the Carstairs Index of Deprivation are onlyavailable for Census years. Results relating to 2001 are provided in the followingtable. These results are provisional.

Census Populations by CarstairsDeprivation Quintile and Health Board

	Population
	Carstairs Deprivation Quintiles
Health Board	1 - Least Deprived	2	3	4	5 - Most Deprived	Total
Ayrshire and Arran	38,437	66,138	63,774	98,727	101,073	368,149
Borders	19,157	45,078	30,393	12,136	0	106,764
Argyll and Clyde	67,328	76,460	71,554	102,038	102,691	420,071
Fife	61,271	61,405	72,052	127,175	27,526	349,429
Greater Glasgow	152,486	86,014	80,939	125,853	423,805	869,097
Highland	19,569	82,176	69,761	36,846	562	208,914
Lanarkshire	29,244	99,347	124,455	172,168	126,078	551,292
Grampian	227,178	114,432	103,493	50,413	30,420	525,936
Orkney	0	19,245	0	0	0	19,245
Lothian	203,563	141,027	197,813	168,942	67,022	778,367
Tayside	109,789	105,050	42,467	45,354	86,352	389,012
Forth Valley	75,798	27,753	94,783	62,688	18,458	279,480
Western Isles	0	10,662	7,115	8,725	0	26,502
Dumfries and Galloway	12,892	54,194	50,353	2,432	27,894	147,765
Shetland	0	13,732	8,256	0	0	21,988
Scotland	1,016,712	1,002,713	1,017,208	1,013,497	1,011,881	5,062,011

Source: GRO Scotland, national census data.

Census Populations by CarstairsDeprivation Quintile and Health Board

Percentage Population in each Health Board
	Carstairs Deprivation Quintiles
Health Board	1 - Least Deprived	2	3	4	5 - Most Deprived	Total
Ayrshire and Arran	10.4%	18.0%	17.3%	26.8%	27.5%	100.0%
Borders	17.9%	42.2%	28.5%	11.4%	0.0%	100.0%
Argyll and Clyde	16.0%	18.2%	17.0%	24.3%	24.4%	100.0%
Fife	17.5%	17.6%	20.6%	36.4%	7.9%	100.0%
Greater Glasgow	17.5%	9.9%	9.3%	14.5%	48.8%	100.0%
Highland	9.4%	39.3%	33.4%	17.6%	0.3%	100.0%
Lanarkshire	5.3%	18.0%	22.6%	31.2%	22.9%	100.0%
Grampian	43.2%	21.8%	19.7%	9.6%	5.8%	100.0%
Orkney	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%
Lothian	26.2%	18.1%	25.4%	21.7%	8.6%	100.0%
Tayside	28.2%	27.0%	10.9%	11.7%	22.2%	100.0%
Forth Valley	27.1%	9.9%	33.9%	22.4%	6.6%	100.0%
Western Isles	0.0%	40.2%	26.8%	32.9%	0.0%	100.0%
Dumfries and Galloway	8.7%	36.7%	34.1%	1.6%	18.9%	100.0%
Shetland	0.0%	62.5%	37.5%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%
Scotland	20.1%	19.8%	20.1%	20.0%	20.0%	100.0%

Source: GRO Scotland,national census data.

Question reference: S2O-01014

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 December 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current annual level of GP registrars is adequate.

Question reference: S2W-04179

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many live, single, premature babies have been born in each NHS board area in each year since 1996-97, broken down by (a) social class and (b) home address postcode.

The table shows the numberof live, singleton, premature (<37 weeks gestation) babies born in hospitalby NHS board of residence¹ and deprivation quintile² for years ended 31 March 1997 to2002.

NHS Board	Depcat Group	Financial Year
		1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02^p
Argyll and Clyde	1 - most affluent	50	36	31	42	41	37
	2	44	46	42	49	51	36
	3	30	33	35	54	38	27
	4	75	82	78	96	90	66
	5 - most deprived	76	72	108	82	90	87
	Total	275	269	294	323	310	253
Ayrshire and Arran	1 - most affluent	25	17	25	24	23	24
	2	38	22	30	29	28	23
	3	57	63	54	52	60	56
	4	68	64	53	72	71	58
	5 - most deprived	59	52	55	57	54	50
	Total	247	218	217	234	236	211
Borders	1 - most affluent	12	14	13	12	12	11
	2	29	25	15	27	29	23
	3	14	14	10	9	12	5
	4	8	5	11	5	5	5
	5 - most deprived	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Total	63	58	49	53	58	44
Dumfries and Galloway	1 - most affluent	13	11	18	10	16	14
	2	28	32	20	39	30	36
	3	8	12	14	14	15	11
	4	21	22	14	23	22	22
	5 - most deprived	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Total	70	77	66	86	83	83
Fife	1 - most affluent	29	28	26	31	27	23
	2	38	29	36	38	30	19
	3	80	96	79	79	74	90
	4	70	41	55	41	41	42
	5 - most deprived	6	11	16	12	13	10
	Total	223	205	212	201	185	184
Forth Valley	1 - most affluent	18	19	28	29	28	28
	2	33	26	24	25	29	33
	3	52	48	64	67	49	67
	4	27	34	36	45	40	35
	5 - most deprived	7	10	16	17	14	15
	Total	137	137	168	183	160	178
Grampian	1 - most affluent	50	60	77	65	66	50
	2	56	81	68	50	62	47
	3	49	57	38	42	48	36
	4	18	9	14	12	10	12
	5 - most deprived	-	-	6	*	-	-
	Total	173	207	203	169	186	145
Greater Glasgow	1 - most affluent	54	80	70	74	77	60
	2	45	39	41	39	30	31
	3	56	65	49	52	40	46
	4	80	82	64	62	55	75
	5 - most deprived	420	409	404	389	362	329
	Total	655	675	628	616	564	541
Highland	1 - most affluent	8	10	18	17	19	9
	2	39	43	52	49	44	37
	3	47	41	40	43	44	34
	4	17	13	18	9	18	11
	5 - most deprived	-	-	*	*	-	*
	Total	111	107	128	118	125	91
Lanarkshire	1 - most affluent	81	63	64	59	53	38
	2	65	64	63	61	58	54
	3	103	88	104	83	78	97
	4	122	115	122	99	105	94
	5 - most deprived	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Total	371	330	353	302	294	283
Lothian	1 - most affluent	74	76	75	75	75	76
	2	93	85	86	74	62	69
	3	117	99	101	115	103	88
	4	180	179	142	150	171	163
	5 - most deprived	57	47	44	53	50	37
	Total	521	486	448	467	461	433
Tayside	1 - most affluent	64	49	45	39	39	56
	2	52	59	51	51	47	48
	3	29	41	38	24	35	39
	4	45	50	52	36	40	36
	5 - most deprived	52	68	65	62	53	49
	Total	242	267	251	212	214	228
Island³	1 - most affluent	*	-	-	*	-	-
	2	23	21	25	21	18	15
	3	8	*	8	8	6	12
	4	-	-	*	-	*	-
	5 - most deprived	-	*	-	*	*	-
	Total	31	21	33	29	24	27

Source:SMR11 (Ref: S2W-4179).

^PProvisional

* Inorder to protect patient confidentiality values between 1 and 4 have beensuppressed.

Inorder to protect patient confidentiality the home address postcode cannot besupplied.

Notes:

1. Excludesresidents out with Scotland and not known and home births.

2.Deprivation categories are based on data collected in the 1981 and 1991 census.A number of measures (over-crowding, male unemployment, low social class, nocar) are combined to give a composite score for postcode sectors. There arefive categories ranging from 1 (least deprived) to 5 (most deprived).

3. ComprisesOrkney, Shetland and Western Isles.

Question reference: S2W-04178

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 January 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many live, single, full-term babies with a low birth weight of under 2.5 kg have been born in each NHS board area in each year since 1996-97, broken down by (a) social class and (b) home address postcode.

The table shows the numberof live, singleton, low birth weight (<2500g), full-term babies born inhospital NHS board of residence¹ and deprivation quintile² for years ended 31March 1997 to 2002.

NHS Board of Residence

Depcat Group

Financial Year

1996-97

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02^p

Argyll and Clyde

1 - most affluent

12

10

13

10

6

7

2

11

9

10

8

13

8

3

18

16

15

16

9

19

4

34

28

24

30

26

31

5 - most deprived

33

36

30

Total

108

96

95

100

90

95

Ayrshire and Arran

1 - most affluent

7

9

6

*

11

2

9

10

9

5

7

3

19

18

13

20

28

18

4

20

25

23

29

17

22

5 - most deprived

11

23

11

22

18

19

Total

66

83

66

86

68

77

Borders

1 - most affluent

*

2

8

10

15

10

9

7

3

9

*

5

*

4

*

-

*

7

5 - most deprived

-

Total

21

17

21

16

20

23

Dumfries and Galloway

1 - most affluent

6

*

2

9

10

15

6

10

5

3

*

6

*

4

*

10

6

9

13

5 - most deprived

-

Total

23

24

33

18

29

24

Fife

1 - most affluent

*

7

11

10

*

2

14

*

13

3

31

34

36

27

31

23

4

20

18

27

26

17

18

5 - most deprived

*

Total

75

67

83

78

67

62

Forth Valley

1 - most affluent

12

10

6

12

*

2

12

18

9

*

15

3

20

28

27

18

28

19

4

11

14

23

11

12

19

5 - most deprived

12

11

5

6

*

Total

68

76

79

55

57

60

Grampian

1 - most affluent

46

38

26

43

41

43

2

29

23

18

17

15

13

3

25

21

26

18

24

4

16

17

18

17

9

19

5 - most deprived

5

11

6

5

*

Total

121

110

89

109

88

99

Greater Glasgow

1 - most affluent

13

29

25

15

18

25

2

15

19

12

11

15

8

3

21

23

19

18

4

27

21

35

24

29

25

5 - most deprived

208

211

214

179

176

189

Total

284

304

305

248

256

265

Highland

1 - most affluent

*

6

*

2

18

9

10

23

20

13

3

17

16

19

15

18

17

4

*

8

*

5 - most deprived

*

Total

41

32

38

44

48

35

Lanarkshire

1 - most affluent

*

5

8

*

5

2

16

17

26

20

21

27

3

28

29

25

20

17

23

4

41

38

29

54

44

43

5 - most deprived

50

52

69

57

56

49

Total

138

141

154

159

138

147

Lothian

1 - most affluent

37

16

31

25

24

23

2

29

36

22

31

18

24

3

36

33

43

39

29

4

78

72

58

76

77

71

5 - most deprived

14

24

19

14

28

15

Total

194

181

173

185

176

162

Tayside

1 - most affluent

10

12

6

11

13

12

2

11

13

14

18

6

10

3

11

13

12

14

15

10

4

20

18

21

10

13

20

5 - most deprived

27

25

23

25

29

Total

79

81

76

78

72

81

Island³

1 - most affluent

-

*

-

2

*

3

-

*

4

-

5 - most deprived

-

*

-

Total

*

7

6

7

Source:SMR02 (Ref: S2W-4178).

^Pprovisional

* Inorder to protect patient confidentiality values between 1 and 4 have beensuppressed.

Inorder to protect patient confidentiality home address postcodes cannot besupplied.

Notes:

1. Excludesresidents out with Scotland and not known and home births.

2.Deprivation categories are based on data collected in the 1981 and 1991 census.A number of measures (over-crowding,

maleunemployment, low social class, no car) are combined to give a composite scorefor postcode sectors. There are five categories ranging from 1 (least deprived)to 5 (most deprived).

3. ComprisesOrkney, Shetland and Western Isles.

Question reference: S2O-00963

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 December 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 December 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what its responsibilities are in respect of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).

Question reference: S2W-04693

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2003
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 December 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be spent on anti-smoking advertising campaigns and education initiatives this financial year.

Question reference: S2W-04176

Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many neonatal intensive care cots there have been in each NHS board area in each year since 1996-97.

The specific information requested is not held centrally.

Data is collected centrally on beds and activity for neonatal units. A neonatal unit is a facility which provides neonatal special care and/or neonatal intensive care for sick babies. It is not possible to separate the information into care types i.e. intensive and special care. The following table shows the average number of cots available in neonatal units for years ended 31 March 1997 to 2002 by NHS board area.

Average Staffed Beds in Neonatal Units by NHS Board and Financial Year

NHS Board	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Scotland	404	468	418	381	375	351
Ayrshire and Arran	25	25	25	25	25	25
Borders	-	-	-	-	8	8
Argyll and Clyde	28	28	28	27	27	28
Fife	20	20	20	20	20	20
Glasgow	94	*166	115	**79	77	78
Highland	20	20	20	20	20	18
Lanarkshire	44	44	44	44	43	***24
Grampian	41	44	44	44	42	41
Lothian	60	58	58	59	59	59
Tayside	34	34	34	34	25	22
Forth Valley	25	17	17	17	17	17
Dumfries and Galloway	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source:ISD Scotland (Form ISD(S)1).

Notes:

*Itappears that 43 beds in Rutherglen Maternity Hospital were wrongly classified in this year. The increasein beds and subsequent reduction is likely to be an artefact.

**Thereduction represents the closure of Rutherglen Maternity Hospital.

***Thisfigure represents the closure of Bellshill and Law Maternity Hospitals and theopening of Wishaw General Hospital.

Thegeneral fall in average available staffed beds in neonatal units is accountedfor by two reasons.

1.The closure of maternity hospitals due to the falling birth rate. The fallingbirth rate has also reduced the need for special care beds in neonatal units.

2. Developments intechnology and care mean that fewer sick babies need to be admitted to neonatalunits for special care.

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