- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to monitor the implementation of the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
The Act states that each local authority is required to publish an annual report on its performance of its functions in relation to the Act. The first reports cover the period 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010 and are due to be published by 30 June 2011. The Act also requires the Scottish Government to publish a report on the local authorities. That report is due to be laid before the Parliament by 30 September 2011.
- 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 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it was told by the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry that there would be a further delay in reporting
Answer
Lord MacLean wrote to me on 10 December 2010 informing me that because hearings scheduled for December 2010 had to be cancelled, due to adverse weather, there would be an impact on the overall inquiry timetable and a delay in publishing the final report at the end of May 2011.
Lord MacLean also advised that, on further investigation of the commissioned witness statements and the evidence gathered, it had become apparent that for the experts to produce high quality and credible reports they would require additional time. It is extremely important that the final report and its recommendations are robust in order that the Scottish Government can consider how these recommendations can assist in continuing to raise the standard of care for patients in Scotland and that the lessons learned can be shared not just across NHS Scotland but worldwide.
However, I have not yet agreed this further extension. Discussions with Lord MacLean continue and as soon as a date for publishing the final report has been agreed, I will inform the Parliament.
- 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 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many readmissions to hospital there were in the NHS in 2009-10 and have been in 2010-11, broken down by NHS board
Answer
Table 1 shows the 28-day hospital emergency readmission rate in the financial years ending 31 March 2009 and 2010, broken down by NHS board of residence. Data for the financial year ending 31
March 2011 will be available in September 2011.
The period of 28 days is to some extent arbitrary, but has been widely adopted as maximising the trade off between including as many readmissions related to the initial admission as possible and excluding as many unrelated readmissions as possible. The figures include readmissions within 28 days whether or not the readmission was related to the previous hospital stay.
Table 1: Number of Discharges with a Subsequent Emergency Readmission within 28 days, and Hospital Emergency Readmission Rate as a Percentage of All Discharges, by NHS Board of Residence; Financial Years 2008-09 and 2009-10
| NHS Board | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| Number of Admissions | Number of Re-admissions | % Readmitted | Number of Admissions | Number of Re-admissions | % Readmitted |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 96,809 | 7,890 | 8.2% | 99,182 | 8,286 | 8.4% |
| NHS Borders | 24,750 | 2,229 | 9.0% | 24,226 | 2,135 | 8.8% |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 33,890 | 2,534 | 7.5% | 34,568 | 2,490 | 7.2% |
| NHS Fife | 75,829 | 5,657 | 7.5% | 75,902 | 5,501 | 7.2% |
| NHS Forth Valley | 46,618 | 4,069 | 8.7% | 47,004 | 4,296 | 9.1% |
| NHS Grampian | 103,144 | 7,612 | 7.4% | 105,322 | 7,967 | 7.6% |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 299,948 | 24,507 | 8.2% | 304,622 | 24,582 | 8.1% |
| NHS Highland | 74,866 | 5,571 | 7.4% | 75,108 | 5,564 | 7.4% |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 140,735 | 10,862 | 7.7% | 142,103 | 11,,106 | 7.8% |
| NHS Lothian | 149,002 | 13,422 | 9.0% | 149,048 | 12,587 | 8.4% |
| NHS Orkney Islands | 5,704 | 318 | 5.6% | 5,652 | 311 | 5.5% |
| NHS Shetland Islands | 5,065 | 315 | 6.2% | 5,251 | 305 | 5.8% |
| NHS Tayside | 77,019 | 6,933 | 9.0% | 71,884 | 6,835 | 9.5% |
| NHS Western Isles | 7,668 | 558 | 7.3% | 7,864 | 540 | 6.9% |
| All Scotland | 1,141,047 | 92,477 | 8.1% | 1,147,736 | 92,505 | 8.1% |
Source: ISD Scotland SMR01.
- 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 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding for the Choose Life programme has been distributed in each year since May 2007.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36286 on 28 September 2010. All answers to 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.
- 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 1 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be provided for the Choose Life programme in 2011-12.
Answer
Funding for Choose Life in 2011-12 is wrapped up within the total funding allocation to NHS Health Scotland of £1.4 million. Based on previous budget allocation, approximately 50% of this will be spent on Choose Life.
Under the concordat between the Scottish Government and COSLA, funding for local suicide prevention action is wrapped up in general allocations to local authorities.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27498 by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 September 2009, when the guidance to NHS boards on the use of premium rate telephone lines was issued.
Answer
We wrote to chief executives of NHS boards on 23 February 2011 reiterating the Scottish Government''s policy that patients should not incur charges above the normal telephone call rates. We have also requested that they encourage GP contractors to review their current telephone arrangements.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27498 by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 September 2009, how many GP practices have reopened negotiations with premium rate telephone line providers to drive down costs to callers.
Answer
We do not hold any information on how many GP practices have re-opened negotiations with premium telephone providers.
We have however written to chief executives of NHS boards on 23 February 2011 reiterating the Scottish Government''s policy that patients should not incur charges above the normal telephone call rates. We have also requested that they encourage GP contractors to review their current telephone arrangements.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-27498 and S3W-27499 by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 September 2009, how many GP practices have set up premium rate telephone lines since the Cabinet Secretary announced that guidance would be issued to NHS boards that would require them to press practices using premium rate numbers to reopen negotiations with service providers.
Answer
We are not aware of any additional GP practices using premium rate telephone numbers and we want to encourage those which do so to review their current telephone provider arrangements.
We have written to chief executives of NHS boards reiterating the Scottish Government''s policy that patients should not incur charges above the normal telephone call rates. I have also requested that they encourage GP contractors to review their current telephone arrangements.
- 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 24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is legal to charge VAT on the cost of social care services
Answer
The provision of what are termed welfare services is exempt from VAT when provided by designated organisations. These include public bodies such as government departments, local authorities and NHS boards.
In most cases social care services would be classified as welfare services and as NHS boards are a designated bodies for the purposes of these rules, it is likely that any such charges would be exempt from VAT.
- 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 23 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the number of people affected by Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven hospital has changed since originally reported
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39515 on 23 February 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.
