- 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 8 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what process will be followed to agree the local action plans relating to the Change Fund.
Answer
We have asked partnerships to agree Change Plans through local community planning arrangements and submit them to us by 28 February 2011 to enable a national overview report to be considered by the Ministerial Strategic Group on 15 March 2011.
To enable allocations to be made within the current financial year, we will work closely with partnerships to put agreed plans in place by June 2011 at the latest.
- 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 8 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local action plans relating to the Change Fund have been submitted.
Answer
Change Plans have now been received from all 32 partnerships.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will provide health services in the Scottish Prison Service and where the funding will come from
Answer
Health boards already provide specialist services to prisoners. Responsibility for providing primary healthcare to prisoner''s healthcare will transfer from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to the health boards. The planned date for the transfer is the end of October 2011.
Funding for the provision of primary healthcare services will be transferred from SPS to the health boards.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the Audit Scotland report that notes a £400 million reduction in social care spending from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing wrote to you on 10 February 2011 pointing out that rather than a £400 million reduction in social care spending over this period there was in fact a £400 million increase.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether territorial health boards will be responsible for the funding of the minor ailments scheme
Answer
No changes to the current arrangements are proposed. Remuneration to community pharmacies for providing the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) will continue to be funded by the Community Pharmacy Global Sum. Reimbursement for products dispensed under MAS will continue to be met by territorial health boards'' drugs budgets.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of the minor ailments scheme has been in each year since its inception, also broken down by NHS board
Answer
Total remuneration and reimbursement costs relating to the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) are provided in the following table:
Total Cost for Minor Ailment Service, by Health Board and Financial Year (£)
| Dispensing NHS Board | 2006-071 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-112 |
| Scotland | 7,803,211 | 11,304,601 | 14,557,024 | 16,225,626 | 8,541,116 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 1,105,838 | 1,161,182 | 1,326,473 | 1,418,767 | 739,608 |
| Borders | 152,276 | 242,843 | 315,539 | 364,819 | 190,977 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 177,340 | 292,021 | 399,526 | 447,702 | 231,920 |
| Fife | 448,516 | 748,425 | 955,404 | 1,052,149 | 549,701 |
| Forth Valley | 342,490 | 592,706 | 827,669 | 922,780 | 472,771 |
| Grampian | 564,372 | 906,767 | 1,266,435 | 1,405,013 | 730,917 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 2,154,662 | 2,977,423 | 3,818,020 | 4,334,572 | 2,301,435 |
| Highland | 332,560 | 550,882 | 753,525 | 879,870 | 459,598 |
| Lanarkshire | 728,682 | 1,260,609 | 1,618,629 | 1,810,831 | 975,549 |
| Lothian | 952,904 | 1,565,825 | 2,084,246 | 2,350,818 | 1,260,164 |
| Orkney | 11,352 | 19,035 | 28,993 | 43,119 | 24,040 |
| Shetland | 13,354 | 22,861 | 29,143 | 35,211 | 19,806 |
| Tayside | 806,883 | 946,741 | 1,109,467 | 1,133,115 | 571,401 |
| Western Isles | 11,984 | 17,281 | 23,957 | 26,861 | 13,229 |
Notes:
1. Minor Ailment Service launched nationwide in July 2006 following pilot schemes in NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Tayside.
2. Financial Year 2010-11 data is to September 2010 only.
3. Total costs comprise the paid Gross Ingredient Cost (GIC) and Capitation Payments including adjustments.
4. Further information on the Minor Ailment Service can be found at the following address:
www.isdscotland.org/isd/5033.html.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have accessed the minor ailments scheme in each year since its inception, also broken down by NHS board
Answer
The number of people who access the Minor Ailment Service (MAS) is not available centrally, however, the number of registrations can be found in the following table.
Total Number of Minor Ailment Service Patients Registered by Health Board in March 2007 to 2010
| Dispensing NHS Board | March 20071 | March 2008 | March 2009 | March 2010 |
| Scotland | 726,058 | 586,336 | 657,418 | 722,209 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 88,806 | 58,246 | 62,818 | 69,742 |
| Borders | 17,315 | 11,564 | 15,672 | 16,221 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 16,649 | 14,110 | 20,443 | 21,462 |
| Fife | 52,393 | 42,065 | 45,101 | 49,754 |
| Forth Valley | 32,678 | 33,403 | 36,910 | 38,427 |
| Grampian | 47,501 | 39,771 | 46,745 | 48,854 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 187,602 | 161,717 | 182,759 | 205,569 |
| Highland | 30,363 | 24,796 | 27,038 | 34,661 |
| Lanarkshire | 82,440 | 78,048 | 78,340 | 87,577 |
| Lothian | 99,950 | 73,386 | 95,681 | 102,311 |
| Orkney | 868 | 892 | 1,863 | 2,014 |
| Shetland | 964 | 932 | 827 | 1,348 |
| Tayside | 67,709 | 46,964 | 42,831 | 43,812 |
| Western Isles | 820 | 442 | 390 | 457 |
Notes:
1. Minor Ailment Service launched nationwide in July 2006 following pilot schemes in NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Tayside.
2. Due to registration figures increasing and decreasing across months it is not possible to give an annual figure. Data given is for the month of March for 2007-10.
3. A patient being registered with a community pharmacy does not mean that they will use the service or measure how often.
Further information on the Minor Ailment Service can be found at the following address: www.isdscotland.org/isd/5033.html.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the heating has broken down at the surgical block of the Southern General Hospital in each year since May 2007.
Answer
The heating within the surgical block of the Southern General Hospital has broken down once in each of the following years: 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. I have been assured that on each of these occasions, efforts were made to restore supply as quickly as possible, and contingency measures were in place for the interim period such as the provision of stand alone heaters and additional blankets.
It should also be remembered that this Government is investing £842 million in the New Southern General Hospital. This entirely publicly-funded project, which is Scotland''s biggest ever new hospital development, will see a 1,109-bed adult hospital integrated with a 256-bed children''s hospital, providing maternity, paediatric, acute and support services on a single site.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require NHS boards to use nationally agreed nursing workforce and workload planning tools and produce detailed clinical assessment plans before plans are agreed and implemented
Answer
We will continue to encourage NHS boards to use workforce and workload planning tools when undertaking workforce planning to produce detailed clinical assessment plans. The boards then use this information to decide the service provision required to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable services to meet the needs of the population.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry will be concluded
Answer
Lord MacLean, Chairman of the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry, has written to me requesting an extension to the Inquiry as he considers that it will not be possible for him to produce a comprehensive and robust report within the current timescales.
I have not yet agreed this further extension and discussions with Lord MacLean continue. As soon as a date for publishing the final report has been agreed, I will inform the Parliament.
