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Question reference: S3W-39641

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to address the uncertainty regarding the future of continuing care beds at St Margaret’s of Scotland Hospice before the dissolution of the Parliament.

It is right that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde “ which is responsible for providing healthcare services that meet the needs of local people, whilst being consistent with national policies, frameworks and guidance “ robustly review the provision of NHS continuing care in the West of Glasgow, in light of the recent developments around the Blawarthill project.

This will involve carefully considering whether the continuing care beds currently provided by St Margaret''s of Scotland Hospice should be maintained. To this end, the Chair of the NHS board wrote to the chair of St Margaret''s on 21 February to propose a meeting in the near future.

Question reference: S3W-39786

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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.

Question reference: S3W-39785

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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.

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.

Question reference: S3W-39784

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
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.

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.

Question reference: S3W-39510

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to suspend pay increments for NHS staff

Question reference: S3W-39787

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the next steps are for implementing the recommendations in the Cross Party Group on Muscular Dystrophy’s The Mackie Report following the meeting between the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Muscle Network on 8 February 2011.

Question reference: S3W-39741

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the local action plans relating to the Change Fund are due to be submitted.

Question reference: S3W-39501

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the social care spend has been in each year from 2007-08, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) NHS board

Question reference: S3W-39502

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the amount announced for the reshaping care Change Fund was reduced from the planned £140 million to £70 million

Question reference: S3W-39503

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled by the NHS in 2009-10 and have been cancelled in 2010-11, broken down by NHS board

The specific information requested is not available centrally.

Information, although limited, is available on the number of hospital stays where operation or procedures were not carried out following admission to hospital. The latest yearly published information on the number of cancelled operations or procedures is for 2009-10 and this data is provided in the following table.

Operations may be cancelled due a number of reasons such as a particularly high level of emergency admissions, staff sickness, the patient being unfit for treatment on admission or the patient having failed to follow pre-admission advice such as fasting before admission.

NHSScotland: Number of Hospital Stays where a Cancelled Operation or Procedure Not Being Carried out has been Recorded^1,2,3 in the Year Ending 31 March 2010

NHS Board of Treatment	Number
Ayrshire and Arran	1,444
Borders	147
Dumfries and Galloway	614
Fife	934
Forth Valley	145
Grampian	1,775
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	5,244
Highland	902
Lanarkshire	2,469
Lothian	1,606
Orkney	46
Shetland	76
Tayside	871
Western Isles	67

Notes:

1. Source ISD Scotland “ information derived from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals.

2. Up to six diagnoses (one principal and five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses positions have been used to identify cancelled operations. The following International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD -10) code has been used to identify cancelled operations/procedures “ Z53; person encountering health services for specific procedure not carried out.

3. Cases were an operation or procedure was cancelled prior to the patient being admitted to hospital are excluded.