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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S4F-01120

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 January 2013

To ask the First Minister what assessment the Scottish Government has made of the impact of UK pension reforms in Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-01684

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to ensure that universities meet their obligations as proposed in the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Bill to widen access to higher education for children from deprived backgrounds.

Question reference: S4O-01649

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what scope there is for capital investment by Scottish Water to prevent flooding to properties that are not included on its internal flood register.

Question reference: S4O-01624

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 December 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with community pharmacy representatives on the future of pharmaceutical care.

Question reference: S4F-01049

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 December 2012

To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government is taking to ensure that the transport network is prepared for winter.

Question reference: S4W-11321

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 16 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 3 December 2012

To ask the Scottish Government in how many deaths idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was cited as the cause in each NHS board area in the last three years for which information is available.

The numbers of deaths for which idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was believed to be the underlying cause are given in the following table.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10), which is used to produce statistics of deaths, does not have a code which is used solely for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Instead, ICD-10 code "J84.1" (which is defined as "other interstitial pulmonary diseases with fibrosis") is used for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and also for a number of other medical terms or conditions, some (but not all) of which are regarded as synonymous with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The figures in the table were produced using an approach which is explained in the footnote, so could exclude a small number of deaths which were caused by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis but which were described in some other way in the death certificate.

Deaths registered in Scotland for which the underlying cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis*

NHS board	2009	2010	2011
Ayrshire and Arran	9	7	8
Borders	3	0	1
Dumfries and Galloway	1	0	1
Fife	6	12	9
Forth Valley	1	5	2
Grampian	13	14	16
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	9	8	17
Highland	4	3	5
Lanarkshire	2	5	6
Lothian	13	13	19
Orkney	0	0	0
Shetland	0	0	0
Tayside	3	5	6
Western Isles	0	0	0
All	64	72	90

* deaths for which ICD-10 code "J84.1" ("other interstitial pulmonary diseases with fibrosis") was used for the underlying cause of the death, and the description of the cause of death included one (or both) of the following terms

(i) "idiopathic" - which selects, for example, cases where the cause of death included the terms "idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis", "pulmonary fibrosis - idiopathic" and "idiopathic fibrosis alveolitis";

(ii) "fibrosing alveolitis" - which selects, for example, cases where the cause of death included the terms "fibrosing alveolitis" and "cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis", which are considered synonymous with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Question reference: S4W-11320

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 16 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 3 December 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many people were registered with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in each NHS board area in the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S4W-11322

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 16 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 3 December 2012

To ask the Scottish Government in how many deaths (a) bronchiectasis and (b) clinically significant bronchiectasis was cited as the cause in each NHS board area in the last three years for which information is available.

The numbers of deaths for which bronchiectasis was the underlying cause are given in the following table.

Figures for "clinically significant bronchiectasis" cannot be produced because the term is not one that is identified in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10), and does not appear to be used on death certificates.

Deaths registered in Scotland for which the underlying cause was bronchiectasis*

NHS board	2009	2010	2011
Ayrshire and Arran	12	7	4
Borders	3	2	4
Dumfries and Galloway	0	2	3
Fife	4	2	8
Forth Valley	4	4	5
Grampian	10	12	10
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	18	16	27
Highland	5	8	4
Lanarkshire	5	13	10
Lothian	22	21	27
Orkney	0	0	0
Shetland	0	1	1
Tayside	8	5	6
Western Isles	0	1	0
All	91	94	109

* one of the following ICD-10 codes was used for the underlying cause of the death:

(i) "J47 - bronchiectasis"

(ii) "Q33.4 - congenital bronchiectasis"

(iii) "A15, A16 - respiratory tuberculosis" and "bronchiectasis" was mentioned in the cause of death

Question reference: S4W-11172

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the British Thoracic Society's Quality Standards for Clinically Significant Bronchiectasis in Adults.

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) develops guidelines as a professional body, which are widely disseminated throughout the medical community. Although these guidelines have no formal standing in NHSScotland the Scottish Government expect clinicians to be aware of them through their ongoing professional development.

Our National Advisory Group for Respiratory Managed Clinical Networks is aware of the BTS standards for clinically significant bronchiectasis in adults and has circulated them to the members of the group.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland published Clinical Standards in March 2010 for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Services, which includes services for people living with bronchiectasis. The standards were launched with supporting materials to help NHS boards to review and evaluate their COPD services in relation to each of the criteria within the clinical standards.

Question reference: S4W-11171

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 November 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many people received home intravenous antibiotic therapy for clinically significant bronchiectasis in each NHS board area in the last three years for which information is available.