- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde since the board area was increased in April 2006 to integrate (a) management structures and (b) infection control systems.
Answer
Since the formation of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in April 2006, the board has looked closely at how to best integrate services across the whole board area, including management and infection control systems, to bring about benefits such as unified procedures and structures, improved communications, and the sharing of best practice.
This work has culminated in the board merging its Clyde acute operational and administrative functions into the board''s Acute Services Division on 1 July 2008, and the establishment of new infection control arrangements across the whole board area, also on 1 July 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide the designations of the people listed as being interviewed by the independent review team in Annex A of Independent Review of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease at the Vale of Leven Hospital from December 2007 to June 2008.
Answer
We have no plans to do so. The structure and content of the report was determined by the independent review team.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the “further analysis of the death rate” outlined on page 12 of Independent Review of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease at the Vale of Leven Hospital from December 2007 to June 2008.
Answer
This information will be provided in the Outbreak Control Team report which is due to be submitted to me by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde around the end of September 2008. The content of that report will, in the first instance, be shared with the area Procurator Fiscal.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the people who died of Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital had the 027 strain.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15613 on 8 September 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it took in relation to Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital following (a) advice received from Health Protection Scotland on 21 May 2008, (b) contact from the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter on 6 June 2008, and (c) the meeting of the Outbreak Control Team on 10 June 2008.
Answer
I refer the member to the timeline of events in my statement to the Parliament on 18 June 2008 and to the answer to question S3W-14337 on 15 July 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
In response to the recommendations arising from the publication of the Health Protection Scotland Report on Review of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease Cases and Mortality in all Acute Hospitals in Scotland from December 2007 - May 2008 and the independent review Report on the Clostridium difficile Outbreaks at Vale of Leven Hospital, I announced on 7 August 2008 that a new National HAI Action Plan and Action Plan for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had been produced. Both plans are being led by our multi-agency HAI Task Force. The national action plan is available from the HAI Task Force website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/19529/2005/actionplans.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing is aware that the high dependency unit at the Vale of Leven Hospital had closed in the last 12 months.
Answer
The High Dependency Unit (HDU) at the Vale of Leven Hospital closed for four hours on 27 October 2007, and for 24 hours between 13 and 14 November 2007 due to no patients being in the unit. This is normal practice where no patient admissions are anticipated.
The board announced in November 2007 that the hospital''s two HDU beds would be integrated into the Coronary Care Unit to support both service delivery and clinical safety. The joint Critical Care Unit, as it is now known, has not been closed at any time since the merger in December 2007.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14362 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008, whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing will now comment on whether she considers (a) the employment of one infection control nurse covering all infection monitoring at the Vale of Leven Hospital to be sufficient and (b) that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde should increase the number of people in the infection control team based at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
The number of staff employed for the provision of services is a matter for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Guidance was issued to NHS boards under cover of HDL(2005)8 asking them to ensure that an appropriate and adequate level of resource for prevention and control of infection control and communicable disease was in place.
A letter reinforcing the accountability of chief executives, for ensuring that all the appropriate policy and procedures in relation to healthcare associated infection were in place, was issued on 28 June 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) new capital funding is available and (b) what capital funding has already been planned for (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11 for the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has almost £1.5 million of capital funds committed in 2008-09 for the Vale of Leven Hospital. This includes a general provision of £1 million which will be used specifically to fund capital schemes aimed at strengthening the hospital''s capacity to control the spread of hospital acquired infection. The remaining £500,000 is earmarked for minor capital schemes of a more routine nature, which are carried out on a year to year basis.
Beyond 2008-09, the capital plan includes provision for ongoing investment in minor schemes on a year to year basis. There are proposals for Alexandra Health Centre to be re-provided on the Vale of Leven campus in the next five years, and there is an expectation that a firm timescale for the project would emerge subject to forthcoming public consultation on the wider future of the Vale of Leven Hospital.
The provisional estimate of capital expenditure required in relation to Alexandra Health Centre re-provision is £17 million but the NHS board have still to complete a detailed business case following public consultation which will consider the costs and delivery arrangements for the project.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital funding has been committed to projects by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for (a) 2008-09 and (b) the next three financial years.
Answer
Capital funding has been set for the current spending review period being 2008-09 and the following two years only. The capital resources available to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in that period are detailed in the following table:
| | Firm 2008-09 (£ million) | Indicative 2009-10 (£ million) | Indicative 2010-11 (£ million) |
| Capital Formula | 97.417 | 98.920 | 100.423 |
| Medical Equipment | 7.874 | 7.874 | 7.874 |
| Primary Care Modernisation | 8.100 | 10.030 | 11.47 |
| Ophthalmic Practices | 1.631 | - | - |
| Renfrew/ Barrhead Scottish Government Capital Support | 5.000 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Scottish Government Support “ Southern General | - | 18.000 | 101.000 |
| Total | 120.022 | 139.824 | 225.767 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 7 August 2008 of her gratitude to the bereaved families for their open and constructive contribution to the work of the review team, whether she will now ensure that the 21 freedom of information requests relating to the outbreak of Clostridium difficile at Vale of Leven Hospital are fully answered.
Answer
The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act sets out the right of any applicant dissatisfied with a response to a request for information to require an authority to review its response. I suggest therefore that Ms Baillie follows the standard processes as set out in the act.
