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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-00287

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that local authorities comply with the Equality Act 2010 and the disability equality duty when reducing services for disabled people.

Local authorities are subject to the Equality Act 2010 and the new public sector equality duty which it contains. This new duty came into force on 5 April 2011 and covers all of the relevant protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010. The duty requires public authorities to pay “due regard” to the need to eliminate discrimination, victimisation and harassment which are unlawful under the Act, to advance equality of opportunity and to foster good relations. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how they respond to the duty.

Question reference: S4W-00276

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Elsie Inglis Nursing Home was last inspected by Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS) or the Care Commission and what the result was.

Question reference: S4W-00352

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the closure of ward 66 at the Southern General Hospital in light of the SNP 2011 manifesto commitment to keep services local.

Whilst the government maintains its commitment to keeping services local, I have always been clear that patient safety and the quality of care remains my paramount concern.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s decision has been informed by a review of paediatric neurosurgery and craniofacial surgery at the Southern General and Yorkhill Hospitals carried out by the Royal College of Anaesthetists in November 2010. A key recommendation of the review was to consolidate the paediatric neurological service at Yorkhill as an interim move, ahead of the relocation of the children’s hospital to the new south Glasgow hospital site in 2015.

It was the unanimous view of the Royal College review team that this interim change is necessary to provide the safest and most clinically appropriate service for children until the new hospital opens in 2015.

Question reference: S4W-00347

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many failed (a) hip and (b) knee replacements there were in 2010-11.

In 2010, 163 patients required revision for an elective primary hip that had been replaced within the previous five years, and 184 patients required revision for an elective primary knee that had been replaced within the previous five years. A five-year timescale was chosen because revision of a hip or knee replacement within five years generally indicates some problem or failure of the implant ahead of the usual 10+ years lifespan of the implant. These figures exclude repeat revisions of an implant in the same joint.

As well as revision of failed implants, revision arthroplasty surgery also occurs in order to replace implants that have worn out over time (10+ years implant lifespan), and to revise implants that are already themselves revisions. In 2010 the total number of hip and knee arthroplasty revisions from all sources was 832 and 530 respectively.

Data for the financial year 2010-11 are not yet available.

Question reference: S4W-00335

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 June 2011

Question reference: S4W-00345

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of the Scottish Arthroplasty Project was in 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-00334

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to encourage increased employment in West Dunbartonshire.

Question reference: S4O-00030

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the budget and staffing for the Social Care and Social Work Improvement Service has been reduced.

Question reference: S4W-00281

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will deliver a single integrated system of health and social care.

Question reference: S4W-00280

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will deliver a single integrated system of health and social care.