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These are the measures on which we judge our success in tackling child poverty in Scotland.Table 1 details the proportion of children below our range of low income household thresholds and cover the latest five years for which data are available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2001
The whole time equivalent of doctors working in NHSScotland is shown in the following table. The table contains the latest available data and should be read in conjunction with the notes.Whole Time Equivalent5 of doctors working in NHSScotland by Health Board areaAs at September/October 19992Hospital / Community ServicesGeneral Practitioners4TotalCareer Gra...
The following table shows public expenditure on health as a proportion of GDP in Scotland and in countries within the European Community in 1997 - the latest year for which comparable data are available.Public Expenditure on Health as Percentage of GDPCountry%Germany8.3Sweden7.2France7.1Belgium6.7Denmark6.7Luxembourg6.4Netherlands6.2Austria6.0United Kingdom...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives are currently employed broken down by health board and NHS Trust. The latest information available centrally on numbers of midwives employed in the NHS in Scotland by Health Board and Trust is shown in the table.NumberWTEScotland3 6262 962.8Ayrshire & Arran 263 217.4Ayrshire & Arran Acute Hospitals NH...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 1999
As far as mortality is concerned, the most recent figure for Scotland is that in 1998 there were 13,419 deaths from CHD. The latest year for which the information is available for England is 1997.
I have received the general impression that there can be changes in attitudes when immigrants are faced with a new set of cultural pressures. If you want to gather evidence from elsewhere, you might want to consider places with large immigrant populations that have faced the problems for longer than Scotland has, such as London or some of the Scandinavian c...
Following local government reorganisation, COSLA made many promises that nursery nurses would be regraded with the introduction of the new job evaluation scheme. That has still not been realised, despite the latest claim being lodged in 2001.