- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the number of older people who died in hospital while deemed medically fit for discharge and awaiting a care package in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010 and have died in 2011.
Answer
This information is not held centrally but from April 2011 a new dedicated information system will be fully operational.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the outcome of the review by the medical director of NHS Fife of the 93 patients who died in hospital after being deemed medically fit for discharge in 2010.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS Fife. The Medical Director has said that he will review the circumstances and his findings will be reported to the board through the Clinical Governance Committee.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how the voluntary sector is involved in determining the use of the £70 million Change Fund at a local level.
Answer
Guidance to local health, housing and social care partnerships on accessing the Reshaping Care Change Fund was issued on 23 December 2010. This set a clear expectation on partnerships to include Third and independent sector partners in preparing and agreeing their Change Plans.
All partnerships have now submitted local Change Plans to the Scottish Government. A report on these plans will be considered by the Ministerial Strategic Group (MSG) on Health and Community Care at its meeting on 15 March. The MSG will take into account the governance arrangements described by partnerships, and we will be in touch with all partnerships shortly thereafter.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all medical directors of NHS boards will review the circumstances of all older patients who died in their hospitals after being deemed medically fit for discharge in 2010.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing wrote to all NHS board chairs on 10 February 2011 asking them that, when a patient has been deemed fit for discharge and subsequently dies before the discharge can take place, the board medical director ensures the circumstances are reviewed and reported to boards as part of their clinical governance arrangements.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what companies were involved in the proposed development of a continuing care facility at Blawarthill Hospital.
Answer
J Walker (Leith) Limited were the developers contracted for the construction of the Blawarthill project.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the review of continuing care beds in the west of Glasgow announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on 10 February 2011.
Answer
The general purpose of the review will be to determine the ongoing need for NHS continuing care provision in the west of Glasgow, and to carefully consider the service options for providing this care, including maintaining the service currently provided by St Margaret''s of Scotland Hospice.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the announcement of £400 million for a new mental health strategy by the UK Government will have a Barnett consequential and, if so, (a) what this will be and (b) how it will allocate it.
Answer
This announcement does not generate any new Barnett consequentials. Scotland has already received the full consequentials on the Department of Health''s spending review settlement in England, and we have already confirmed that all of these resources will be invested in the health sector and frontline services.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding from the Choose Life programme has been spent by NHS Health Scotland in each year since May 2007.
Answer
Choose Life has been a programme of work at NHS Health Scotland since April 2008. Prior to this it formed part of the Scottish Government''s former National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing. Broad areas of spend by NHS Health Scotland on the Choose Life Programme since April 2008 are as follows:
| Key Activity Area | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| Stakeholder engagement | £21,000 | £13,000 | £17,555 |
| Awareness raising | £142,500 | £210,000 | £90,000 |
| Provision of education and training about suicidal behaviour | £315,000 | £395,000 | £216,000 |
| Capacity building and support to local areas | £11,000 | £60,000 | £60,200 |
| Provision of communication resources | £3,800 | £29,350 | £26,610 |
| Sub totals | £493,300 | £707,350 | £410,365 |
| Staff Costs, including on costs | £426,700 | £265,290 | £337,319 |
| Totals | £920,000 | £972,640 | £747,684 |
The reason why there is variation in spend between the three years is due to a number of factors. These are:
Choose Life is embedded within NHS Health Scotland - additional resources, corporate, staff and other input have contributed to the Choose Life programme through NHS Health Scotland''s Core Budget;
Choose Life events, cheaper daily delegate rates and publications online rather than paper printing, have been delivered at lower costs than was originally estimated.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring arrangements are in place for the Choose Life programme.
Answer
Revised proposals for monitoring Choose Life were made in the Report of the National Suicide Prevention Working Group,
Refreshing the National Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland, published 29 October 2010. Details are available at the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/10/26112102/13.
The monitoring proposals have been adopted and the group has already had its first meeting.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive who will be invited to participate in the review of continuing care beds in the west of Glasgow announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on 10 February 2011.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39637 on 10 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.
