- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will estimate the number of jobs that will be lost as a result of awarding the contract to build the new Southern General Hospital to a company or companies headquartered outwith Scotland.
Answer
The successful contractor will have to recruit a large number of people to deliver the contract.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards are not complying with national guidance on IVF treatment.
Answer
In response to the recent questionnaire from Infertility Network Scotland, the following NHS boards consider they are partially complying with national guidance on IVF treatment and are continuing to work towards full compliance:
NHS Fife,
NHS Forth Valley,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde,
NHS Lothian and
NHS Tayside.
The remainder of boards consider they are fully compliant with national guidance.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it is reviewing the lay membership of managed clinical networks.
Answer
Our
Long Term Conditions Action Plan, published in June this year, asks NHS boards and the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland to review the structure of each managed clinical network to ensure that people with long-term conditions, their carers and the voluntary sector are enabled to participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services, drawing on experience from the Hearty Voices and similar programmes.
The action is intended to underpin one of the core principles of all managed clinical networks: that they should include strong patient and voluntary sector participation. This represents a practical way of implementing our aim that improvements in the quality of healthcare services should draw directly on people''s own experience of service provision.
The Voices Scotland programme, run by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland and its third sector partners, provides training and support to lay people with heart disease, stroke, diabetes and respiratory conditions who wish to participate effectively in the work of their local managed clinical networks, as well as in wider initiatives relating to the NHS.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that future single outcome agreements include specific measures for carers.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-28882 on 19 November 2009. 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.
In relation to future single outcome agreements, it is a matter for each community planning partnership to derive its local outcomes from a profile of the social, economic and environmental conditions of the area.
Moreover, the Carers Strategy for Scotland, to be published in the first half of 2010, is being developed in partnership with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure lay representation at every level of the NHS.
Answer
There are no planned changes to the current arrangements. NHS boards will continue to plan on the basis of ensuring appropriate lay representation at every level.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated to local authorities for the provision of 10,000 additional respite weeks as referred to in its concordat with COSLA.
Answer
In addition to the concordat funding, as part of the overall local government settlement, the Scottish Government allocated an additional £1.37 million in 2009-10 and a further £2.82 million in 2010-11 to enable local authorities to deliver an extra 10,000 respite weeks by March 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was allocated to the development of carer information strategies and how that money has been spent.
Answer
Within the Scottish budget, a total of £9 million has been allocated to NHS boards and to the Scottish Ambulance Service over a three year period from 2008-09 to 2010-11. The breakdown of funding is £1 million in 2008-09, £3 million in 2009-10 and £5 million in 2010-11.
The funding is for the provision of information and training to help carers develop the knowledge and skills that they need to continue caring effectively, while looking after their own health. Boards must have regard to minimum standards set out in guidance. Reports from health boards on progress in 2008-09 are being considered with a view to holding a good practice/learning event in early 2010.
We have encouraged health boards to post their original Carer Information Strategy plans, as approved, on their websites.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how the additional 10,000 respite weeks contained in its concordat with COSLA have been allocated.
Answer
Under the terms of the concordat, the additional 10,000 respite weeks are to be provided Scotland-wide, with no specific allocation of weeks to each local authority.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it defines respite care.
Answer
For the purposes of the concordat commitment in relation to the additional 10,000 respite weeks, the Scottish Government, COSLA and ADSW agreed that local authorities would use the Audit Scotland definition of respite. This covers overnight respite in a care home, other overnight respite not in a care home, day centre respite and other daytime respite, by categories of children 0-17 with disabilities, adults aged 18 to 64 and older people aged 65+.
The Guidance on Short Breaks (Respite) issued jointly by the Scottish Government and COSLA provides a broad definition of short breaks (respite) including befriending schemes where volunteers provide short breaks.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it is reviewing the lay membership of the Scottish Health Council.
Answer
The Scottish Health Council is committed to developing and improving its volunteer and public participation structures and, following the independent review of its organisational functions and structure, is now in the process of reviewing these elements. The review, which is being led by the chairman of the Scottish Health Council, involves a wide range of stakeholders and individuals, including local advisory council members and will enable the Scottish Health Council to develop a new strategy for public involvement within the restructured organisation.