- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been for drugs prescribed for diabetes treatment in NHS Orkney in each of the last four years for which information is available.
Answer
The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community-by-community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Orkney. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.
| Financial Year | Gross Ingredient Cost (£) |
| 2006-07 | 140,736 |
| 2007-08 | 145,558 |
| 2008-09 | 150,501 |
| 2009-10 | 156,756 |
Notes: The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.
The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly qualified doctors were recruited by NHS Shetland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been recruited in 2011 to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39914 on 10 March 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.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly qualified doctors were recruited in NHS Orkney in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been recruited in 2011 to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39914 on 10 March 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.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency staff were used by NHS Grampian in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been used in 2011 to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39919 on 10 March 2011. All the 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: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been for drugs prescribed for diabetes treatment in NHS Highland in each of the last four years for which information is available.
Answer
The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Highland. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.
| Financial Year | Gross Ingredient Cost (£) |
| 2006-07 | 2,735,807 |
| 2007-08 | 2,898,461 |
| 2008-09 | 2,868,970 |
| 2009-10 | 3,144,538 |
Notes: The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.
The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been for drugs prescribed for diabetes treatment in NHS Western Isles in each of the last four years for which information is available.
Answer
The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Western Isles. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.
| Financial Year | Gross Ingredient Cost (£) |
| 2006-07 | 253,548 |
| 2007-08 | 267,163 |
| 2008-09 | 269,452 |
| 2009-10 | 296,976 |
Notes:
The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.
The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency staff were used by NHS Highland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been used in 2011 to date.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally held for 2007.
Information for 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as follows:
| Year | Grampian WTE | Highland WTE | Orkney WTE | Shetland WTE | Western Isles WTE |
| 2008-09 | 74.5 | 62.7 | 5.9 | 22.0 | 11.0 |
| 2009-10 | 36.0 | 62.9 | 6.1 | 35.0 | 11.0 |
Source: Annual Accounts.
Note: The annual mean number of employees is calculated as the total whole-time equivalent (WTE) number of employees under contract of service in each week in the financial year, divided by the number of weeks in the financial year.
Information for 2010-11 will be available when NHS boards produce their annual accounts for 2010-11 at the end of June.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists in the Highlands and Islands area received the £9,000 remote areas allowance in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Answer
The number of (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists in the Highland and Islands area who received the £9,000 remote areas allowance in each of the last three years for which information is available is shown in the following table:
| Dentists | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 (to date) |
| (a) independent | 19 | 24 | 27 |
| (b) salaried | 30 | 34 | 41 |
The figures in the table do not include (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists who have received, in the last three years, the remote areas allowance payable at amounts of less than the full £9,000.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage rate in the uptake of women aged 20 to 24 attending cervical screening has been in NHS Orkney in each of the last four years for which information is available and how these figures compare with the overall average of all age groups attending.
Answer
The percentage uptake¹ of females who had a record of a previous screening test taken within the last 3.5 years, by five year age group is in the following table.
NHS Orkney, 1 January 2006 to 31 March 2010
| Age Group | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| % Uptake | % Uptake | % Uptake | % Uptake |
| 20-24 | 60.5 | 53.8 | 59.9 | 61.5 |
| 25-29 | 80.6 | 69.3 | 72.0 | 74.3 |
| 30-34 | 84.8 | 72.0 | 77.5 | 76.2 |
| 35-39 | 83.5 | 76.1 | 82.8 | 82.4 |
| 40-44 | 86.0 | 79.1 | 82.6 | 83.3 |
| 45-49 | 90.0 | 80.9 | 83.7 | 84.2 |
| 50-54 | 87.3 | 82.0 | 82.5 | 81.8 |
| 55-59 | 83.8 | 81.0 | 81.4 | 81.9 |
| 60-64 | 63.7 | 74.6 | 72.7 | 60.7 |
| 20-60 | 83.4 | 75.7 | 79.0 | 79.3 |
| Total (All Ages) | 46.9 | 75.3 | 78.1 | 77.3 |
The percentage uptake¹ of females who had a record of a previous screening test taken within the last 5.5 years, by five year age group is in the following table.
| Age Group | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| % Uptake | % Uptake | % Uptake | % Uptake |
| 20-24 | 60.8 | 57.5 | 61.5 | 63.0 |
| 25-29 | 86.0 | 79.5 | 80.1 | 77.5 |
| 30-34 | 89.9 | 81.3 | 82.6 | 82.0 |
| 35-39 | 89.2 | 84.3 | 86.8 | 86.3 |
| 40-44 | 90.7 | 85.8 | 86.5 | 87.2 |
| 45-49 | 93.3 | 87.0 | 88.7 | 88.4 |
| 50-54 | 92.6 | 88.1 | 86.7 | 86.6 |
| 55-59 | 89.8 | 86.6 | 86.4 | 86.2 |
| 60-64 | 80.6 | 83.3 | 84.3 | 81.7 |
| 20-60 | 88.0 | 82.6 | 83.6 | 83.4 |
| Total (All Ages) | 51.1 | 82.4 | 83.3 | 82.9 |
Source: ISD(D)4 Legacy application for 2006-07 data.
Source: ISD(D)4 Scottish Cervical Call-Recall System (SCCRS) for 2007-08 data onwards.
Ref: IR2011-00573.
Notes:
1. Based on adjusted Community Health Index (CHI) population denominator (excluding medically ineligible women) for 2006-07. Based on SCCRS population denominator (excluding medically ineligible women) for years 2007-08 to 2009-10.
Cervical Screening year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly qualified midwives were recruited in NHS Shetland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009 and (d) 2010 and how many have been recruited in 2011 to date.
Answer
Since 2007, NHS Shetland has employed one newly qualified midwife and that was in 2008.
