- 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 5 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether annual reports from the Healthcare Associated Infection Task Force to the Chief Medical Officer and the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing are published.
Answer
Yes. The summary report on the two previous Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) delivery plans (2002-05 and 2005-08) are available from the HAI Task Force website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/19529/2005.
- 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 Shona Robison on 4 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive why it reduced the national performance targets for the Scottish Ambulance Service for category A calls from 75% for each NHS board area to 75% across Scotland and whether it is concerned that rural areas will experience reduced response times.
Answer
It is important to ensure that performance targets are challenging but deliverable. On that basis, the national performance target for responding to category A calls was revised to be achieved across mainland Scotland by March 2009, rather than within each individual NHS board area.
We recognise that achievement at a Scotland-wide level will mean that there may be some communities where this target is not routinely being met. That is why the Scottish Government is looking for the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) to demonstrate that across all parts of Scotland it is working to secure continuous improvement, particularly in remote and rural areas.
The Scottish Government and the SAS are committed to ensuring safe, efficient and effective health services across all parts of Scotland, including remote and rural areas. The SAS will continue to work with local partners to achieve this.
- 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 Shona Robison on 4 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Ambulance Service plans to increase the staffing establishment at Arrochar station to better meet national targets for (a) category A, (b) category B and (c) urgent calls.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) have advised that they intend to take forward the recruitment of an additional member of staff for the Arrochar station. In addition, this additional crew member will support the elimination of single-rostered crewing in this area.
The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that the SAS continues to provide sage, efficient and effective services to patients across Scotland, including those in remote and rural area. It is also important that patients have confidence in the SAS''s ability to respond to emergencies.
While this presents particular challenges in remote and rural locations, the service seeks to improve performance for all patients and remains keen to seek local solutions that meet the needs of those communities. In addition, the SAS has appointed a first responder co-ordinator in this area to develop and support first responder schemes.
- 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 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will actively seek to learn lessons from the 32% drop in the number of cases of Clostridium difficile in England.
Answer
We are always willing to learn from other countries, and the Scottish Government has done so for many years. Our key stakeholders on the HAI Task Force are in regular contact with their counterparts around the world “ including the Department of Health “ so both they and we can learn from each other on the most effective approaches that are being taken towards tackling Clostridium difficile and other Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs). It is also the case that both the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Directorate and the Scottish Infection Research Network (SIRN) at Glasgow University encourage and support innovative research and projects into HAI to ensure that our approach continues to evolve.
- 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 Shona Robison on 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that scrutiny of hospitals should be conducted by a process similar to those of the Care Commission and HM Inspectorate of Education for care facilities and schools respectively.
Answer
NHS boards are accountable for the quality and safety of the NHS services they provide including those provided in hospitals. A range of scrutiny and performance management arrangements are in place including annual reviews by Scottish ministers held in public.
The future of scrutiny arrangements in the public sector, including the NHS, is being considered as part of the Scottish Government''s response to the Report of the Independent Review of Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Public Services in Scotland (The Crerar Review).
- 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 Shona Robison on 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Quality Improvement Scotland undertakes unannounced visits of hospitals to check standards.
Answer
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) does not undertake unannounced visits of hospitals to check standards. NHS QIS reviews the performance of NHS boards against its standards in accordance with its planned work programme. Further information regarding the work of NHS QIS is available from their website
www.nhshealthquality.org.
- 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 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive why guidance on Clostridium difficile is now to be issued in September 2008 and what the reasons are for the delay in issuing the guidance.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14683 on 21 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.
- 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 Shona Robison on 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will establish a robust independent inspection regime for all hospitals.
Answer
NHS boards are accountable for the quality and safety of the NHS services they provide including those provided in hospitals. A range of scrutiny and performance management arrangements are in place including annual reviews by Scottish ministers held in public.
The future of scrutiny arrangements in the public sector, including the NHS, is being considered as part of the Scottish Government''s response to the Report of the Independent Review of Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Public Services in Scotland (The Crerar Review).
- 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 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital funding is allocated directly by (a) NHS Scotland and (b) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for the development of the Southern General Hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12770 on 15 May 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.
- 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 Shona Robison on 3 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people from the catchment area for the Vale of Leven Hospital contacted (a) the 999 service for an ambulance and (b) NHS24 in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) the first quarter of 2008-09.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS 24 have provided the following tables of information. It is not possible to give an absolute definition of the catchment area for the Vale of Leven Hospital as it relates to these organisations so the tables set out the postcode sectors that have been used to capture the information.
(a) Emergency Incidents Attended by the Scottish Ambulance Service
| Postcode Sector | Area | 2007-08 | Quarter 1 2008-09 |
| G60-5 | Bowling | 307 | 77 |
| G82-1 | Dumbarton | 498 | 126 |
| G82-2 | Dumbarton | 455 | 104 |
| G82-3 | Dumbarton | 478 | 114 |
| G82-4 | Dumbarton | 573 | 136 |
| G82-5 | Cardross | 499 | 98 |
| G83-0 | Alexandria | 1,210 | 276 |
| G83-7 | Arrochar | 131 | 42 |
| G83-8 | Luss | 611 | 181 |
| G83-9 | Arrochar | 509 | 133 |
| G84-0 | Roseneath | 276 | 72 |
| G84-7 | Helensburgh | 512 | 120 |
| G84-8 | Helensburgh | 602 | 166 |
| G84-9 | Helensburgh | 171 | 46 |
| PA248 | Lochgoilhead | 42 | 13 |
| PA258 | St Catherine''s | 4 | 1 |
| PA268 | Cairndow | 17 | 2 |
| PA328 | Inverary | 135 | 30 |
| Total | | 7,030 | 1,737 |
(b) Calls to NHS 24
| Postcode Sector | Area | 2007-08 | Quarter 1 2008-09 |
| G60-5 | Bowling | 1,401 | 311 |
| G82-1 | Dumbarton | 1,021 | 191 |
| G82-2 | Dumbarton | 1,573 | 314 |
| G82-3 | Dumbarton | 1,391 | 309 |
| G82-4 | Dumbarton | 1,569 | 408 |
| G82-5 | Cardross | 1,358 | 341 |
| G83-0 | Alexandria | 2,111 | 530 |
| G83-7 | Arrochar | 193 | 47 |
| G83-8 | Luss | 1,727 | 443 |
| G83-9 | Arrochar | 2,387 | 574 |
| G84-0 | Roseneath | 819 | 185 |
| G84-7 | Helensburgh | 1,314 | 319 |
| G84-8 | Helensburgh | 1,250 | 312 |
| G84-9 | Helensburgh | 1,083 | 259 |
| PA248 | Lochgoilhead | 103 | 39 |
| PA258 | St Catherine''s | 4 | 3 |
| PA268 | Cairndow | 15 | 0 |
| PA328 | Inverary | 63 | 27 |
| Total | | 19,382 | 4,612 |
Notes:
*Cowal Peninsula has not been included as it is assumed to be within the catchment for Inverclyde Royal.
**Areas north of Tarbert (on the Loch Lomond side) are not included as these are assumed to go to Glasgow or Stirling.
***Ambulance Service systems report incidents attended rather than numbers of calls. This is, for example, because there can be duplicate calls for one incident.
