- 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 2 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38740 by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2011, how many GP practices now have premium rate telephone numbers.
Answer
The answer was given in question S3W-38740, there are 40 GP practices with premium rate telephone numbers.
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.
- 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 John Swinney on 1 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how long it considers investigations of allegations of harassment or bullying should take.
Answer
It is for individual employers to decide how long they consider it is reasonable for investigations into bullying or harassment to take. The Scottish Government''s Fairness at Work policy states that it expects formal complaints made under the policy to be resolved within five weeks.
- 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 1 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards use private sector providers to deliver their occupational health services.
Answer
NHS Health Scotland is the only NHSScotland board to use a private sector provider to deliver their occupational health service.
- 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 1 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason NHS Health Scotland uses a private provider for its occupational health service rather than NHS Lothian.
Answer
NHS Health Scotland uses a private provider for its occupational health service because, having retendered for this service, as required by law, and having undertaken a procurement process in line with current legislation, this private provider was deemed to offer best value for money compared to other organisations which tendered for the contract.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 31 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will assess whether a local authority has breached the teacher-pupil ratio in primary 1 to 3 requirement.
Answer
Discussions are on going with local government as to how the commitment to maintain the 2010 P1 to P3 pupil-teacher ratio will be assessed.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the First Minister’s statement that the £30 million proceeds from the proposed large retail supplement could fund 1,000 nurses is accurate.
Answer
The First Minister''s statement was accurate. A newly qualified nurse would currently make £21,176 per annum in basic pay. In order to calculate total cost, it is necessary to add 33.6% to this figure to represent both employer on-costs and additional payments which nurses are eligible for such as unsocial hours supplements. This then gives a figure of £28,291 which divides into £30 million 1,060 times.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many band 7 hospital pharmacists were employed by each NHS board in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 and are employed in 2010
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally as data specifically for band 7 hospital pharmacist posts is not captured separately in the workforce statistics. NHS Service Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland publish data annually and trend information for headcount and whole time equivalent of combined hospital and community pharmacy staff by band and NHS board as at 30 September 2007 to 30 September 2010 is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Other_therapeutic_staff_and_personal_social_care%202010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many band 7 hospital pharmacist posts there were in each NHS board in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 and there are in 2010
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally as data specifically for band 7 hospital pharmacist posts is not captured separately in the workforce statistics. NHS Service Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland publish data annually and trend information for headcount and whole time equivalent of combined hospital and community pharmacy staff by band and NHS board as at 30 September 2007 to 30 September 2010 is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Other_therapeutic_staff_and_personal_social_care%202010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many band 7 hospital pharmacist vacancies there were in each NHS board in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 and there are in 2010
Answer
Data specifically for band 7 hospital pharmacist vacancies by NHS board for 2007, 2008 and 2009 are not centrally held.
The Scottish Government recognises the importance of monitoring pharmacy establishment over the longer term and have been working with Information Services Division (ISD) who have now put arrangements in place to collect specific pharmacy establishment and vacancy data as part of their ongoing statistical monitoring of NHS Scotland.
Information showing band 7 pharmacist vacancies by NHS board for acute and mental health hospitals as at 30 September 2010 can be found using the following link to workforce information published by ISD at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Pharmacy_Vacancies_Sep_2010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many band 6 hospital pharmacist posts there were in each NHS board in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009 and there are in 2010
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally as data specifically for band 6 hospital pharmacist posts is not captured separately in the workforce statistics. NHS Service Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland publish data annually and trend information for head count and whole-time equivalent of combined hospital and community pharmacy staff by band and NHS board as at 30 September 2007 to 30 September 2010 is available at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Other_therapeutic_staff_and_personal_social_care%202010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
