Chamber and committees

2014-15 funding allocations for alcohol and drug partnership (ADPs) have not yet been issued. However, indicative allocations for 2014-15 were shared with ADPs in their 2013-14 funding allocation letters issued in May 2013, and this information is provided in the following table.

Information about the percentage of the overall budget for ADPs that has been allocated for each ADP area for 2014-15 is not held centrally.

Under the national delivery framework for ADPs, NHS boards as well as being members of local partnerships have an additional role in receiving and accounting for Scottish Government funding for alcohol and drug prevention, treatment and support services on behalf of their local partners. These allocations represent the minimum amount that an ADP(s) will spend on these issues. All partners are free to supplement funds from their main budgets in order to meet the needs of the local population.

In NHS board areas where there is more than one ADP, the NHS board should agree with the partnerships how the funding should be distributed between ADPs within the board area:

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-20422 on 23 April 2014. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

National annual statistics for NHS Complaints are published by the Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland. The 2012-13 statistics were published on 24 September 2013 and are available at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Quality-indicators/Publications/index.asp#1143.

This publication includes a specific table that sets out the NHS 24 complaints, by issue, since 2003-04.

NHS 24 staff are employed under the terms of the UK wide Agenda for Change agreement. Agenda for Change allows for all staff working more than 6 hours to be allowed an unpaid rest break during their shift, this is in line with the European Working Time Directive.

NHS 24 advise that their staff will work a range of contracted hours and shifts to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and person centred care. The average number of hours worked across the service is 7.5 hours per day for full time staff and 6 hours per day for part time staff.

This is an operational matter for NHS 24, they have provided the following table which sets out their spend on IT systems in each financial year since 2007-08.

Information on the NHS24 staff complement for each year since 2007, broken down by profession, is available from September 2007 to December 2013, on a quarterly basis from September 2010, at whole time equivalent (WTE) and headcount level. The information is shown in Table 1 (WTE) and Table 2 (headcount).

Table 1 - Whole time equivalent of NHS 24 staff by profession September 2007 to December 2011:

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS), ISD Scotland

Table 1 (cont) - Whole time equivalent of NHS 24 staff by profession March 2012 to December 2013:

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS), ISD Scotland

Table 2 - Headcount of NHS 24 staff by profession September 2007 to December 2011

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS), ISD Scotland

Table 2 (cont)-Headcount of NHS 24 staff by profession March 2012 to December 2013:

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS), ISD Scotland

Note

1. HCHS is Hospital, community and public health services

Further information on NHS 24 staff in post can be found in the Overall Trend table on the workforce statistics website at http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2014-02-25/Overall_Trend_D2013.xls

Patient safety incidents can be generated from feedback from other parts of the healthcare system, patient feedback, complaint investigations or from staff completing adverse incident forms. NHS 24 has provided the following table which sets out the numbers of reported incidents in each year.

The Scottish Government values the independent advice of the NHS pay review body. We will take a view at the appropriate time as to whether to continue to access advice from the current body, or whether a Scottish specific body would best serve the needs of Scotland.

The civil service are the primary source of health and wellbeing policy advice provided to Scottish Ministers. The costs of the Scottish Administration are published in the Scottish Government’s accounts.

NHS 24 have provided the following table which sets out the total overtime hours worked by NHS 24 staff in each year since 2007, and the monthly average for each year:

* In 2009, NHS 24 were involved in the Scottish Government/NHS response to the H1N1 pandemic and operated the Scottish Flu Response Centre which required additional staffing resource.