Chamber and committees

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40541 on 17 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

NHS Scotland health boards prepare annual local delivery plans supported by a balanced financial plan for discussion and agreement with Scottish Government. Financial plans include a rolling five-year programme of capital expenditure. Draft Plans for 2011-12 have been received and the process for reaching agreement on each health board''s capital programme and hence individual health projects in 2011-12 is currently underway.

a) In relation to capital projects which are legally committed could I please refer the member to my answer to question S3W-40462 on 22 March 2011.

b) There are no capital projects with approved final business cases which are not yet legally committed.

c) There are two capital projects for which have reached an Outline Business Case stage “ NHS Highland''s day surgery centre at Raigmore Hospital and NHS Lothian''s reprovision of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

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Data on the average number of available staffed beds for all acute specialities since the 1985-86 financial year is shown in table 1. Data on available staffed beds by NHS board is available from the 2000-01 financial year onwards. This information is shown in table 2. Information on the 2010-11 financial year will be published on 28 June 2011. Further information on the average number of available staffed beds is routinely published on the Acute Hospital Care section of the ISD website at the following link: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3426.html.

Table 1: Average Number of Available Staffed Beds in Scotland for all Acute Specialties; Financial year 1985-86 to 2009-10

Financial Year	Number of Beds
1985-86	23,002
1986-87	22,649
1987-88	22,322
1988-89	21,904
1989-90	21,578
1990-91	21,396
1991-92	20,724
1992-93	20,747
1993-94	20,308
1994-95	19,941
1995-96	19,678
1996-97	19,391
1997-98	19,058
1998-99	18,764
1999-00	18,456
2000-01	18,091
2001-02	18,029
2002-03	17,903
2003-04	17,710
2004-05	17,559
2005-06	17,537
2006-07	17,505
2007-08	17,344
2008-09	17,383
2009-10	17,099

Source: ISD(S)1.

Table 2: Average Number of Available Staffed Beds by NHS Board for all Acute Specialties; Financial Year 2000-01 to 2009-10

NHS Board	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Scotland	18,091	18,029	17,903	17,710	17,559
Ayrshire and Arran	1,200	1,226	1,230	1,234	1,238
Borders	387	392	380	389	378
Dumfries and Galloway	435	433	429	430	430
Fife	864	868	857	834	869
Forth Valley	742	750	741	722	713
Grampian	1,967	1,936	1,917	1,894	1,909
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	5,241	5,238	5,180	5,156	5,049
Highland	1,138	1,144	1,142	1,086	1,098
Lanarkshire	1,708	1,664	1,640	1,627	1,573
Lothian	2,584	2,628	2,589	2,536	2,516
Orkney	59	61	63	63	65
Shetland	58	58	58	58	58
Tayside	1,541	1,480	1,524	1,523	1,455
Western Isles	165	152	153	158	163

 

NHS Board	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Scotland	17,537	17,505	17,344	17,383	17,099
Ayrshire and Arran	1,236	1,214	1,204	1,209	1,171
Borders	391	400	400	387	362
Dumfries and Galloway	431	442	438	527	534
Fife	832	842	845	828	802
Forth Valley	672	653	672	688	609
Grampian	1,898	1,971	1,910	1,878	1,850
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	5,069	5,087	5,101	4,968	4,915
Highland	1,111	1,092	1,059	1,076	1,038
Lanarkshire	1,570	1,537	1,522	1,509	1,509
Lothian	2,533	2,518	2,530	2,538	2,518
Orkney	58	53	43	48	48
Shetland	58	57	46	48	50
Tayside	1,456	1,412	1,374	1,378	1,384
Western Isles	151	145	131	131	131

Source: ISD(S)1.

Note: The Scotland total also includes beds within the Golden Jubilee National Hospital.

NHS Scotland health boards have prepared draft Local Delivery Plans for 2011-12 supported by financial plans for discussion and agreement with Scottish Government. When finalised these documents will provide details of which capital projects will be taken forward in 2011-12 broken down by (a) NHS board

Financial plans include a rolling five-year programme of capital expenditure and the process for reaching agreement on each health board''s capital programme and hence individual health projects is currently underway. When finalised these documents will provide details matching capital projects being taken forward in 2011-12 with (b) amount allocated

Revised capital planning arrangements are in place from 1 April 2011 as a result of guidance issued via CEL32 (2010). The formula based allocation is now made to support routine statutory compliance and equipment replacement only, with specific funding allocated to boards/special boards to support existing legal commitments in excess of delegated limits. Formula allocations for territorial and special health boards are therefore not directly comparable with those for previous years. Project specific funding in health will be supported by either wholly public funding through capital allocations or revenue finance when carried out through the hub initiative or NPD model or through a mixture of both.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38130 on 13 December 2010 which explained the basis on which the Chair of the National Performance Management Committee is paid. The other members of the committee are not remunerated for their membership of the committee.

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As part of its 2010 Spending Review, the government made a commitment to achieve savings on the direct costs of external scrutiny over the next four years. These will be delivered through: a reduction in administration and management costs as a result of the reduced set of scrutiny bodies which will be in place from this year; efficiencies required of all public sector organisations; changes to scrutiny activities to make them more proportionate, risk-based and better targeted; and more joint-working, co-ordination and sharing of knowledge between scrutiny bodies.

Both SCSWIS and HIS will contribute to these savings and are taking account of the planned reductions in the development of their inspection plans, business plans for 2011-12 and corporate plans for the next three years. These plans will be published by the new bodies after they are established on 1 April 2011.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40433 on 16 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

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Yes, there is a continuing need for the National Performance Management Committee. The specific responsibilities for the committee, as set out in HDL 2006(54) and its formal Terms of Reference “ a copy has been placed in SPICe (Bib. number 52071) - require it to ensure NHSScotland has a fit for purposes performance management process in place, regardless of any link to pay. Six of the committee''s eight specific responsibilities are unrelated to pay.

I refer to the member to the answer to question S3W-37689 on 9 December 2010. The guidance referred to in that answer, which had been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52181) made clear that progress against the target will be monitored as part of each board''s annual workforce plans and projections. Boards'' workforce plans and projections for 2010-11 were already in place when the target was announced on 16 October 2010. I would therefore expect progress against the target to begin to feature in boards'' workforce plans and projections for 2011-12 which will be available later this year.

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