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Methadone prescribing is provided by individual GP practices, locality clinics, the Transitional Access Prescribing Service and the Community Drug Prescribing Service.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates out-of-hours primary medical services will cost after 1 April 2004, broken down by NHS board area, and whether it will allocate resources to ensure that service levels in other areas of healthcare are not compromised after this date.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 January 2004
The service provider is requiredto ensure that the service is not reliant on proprietary standards such as thetype of web-browser used.Applets are used in alimited number of situations.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 November 2003
In theperiod immediately after its introduction, there was a significant increase inthe number of out of hours calls assessed by NHS24 as requiring an emergencyresponse by the Scottish Ambulance Service, compared to the number requested bythe out-of-hours GP service over the same period in 2002.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact Japan's communication to the Council for Trade in Services would have on Scottish tertiary education institutions should the proposals be accepted and qualifications in the General Agreement on Trade in Services signatory countries become equivalised.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 September 2003
The importance which the Executive attaches to the development of the fire service, including the contribution by retained/auxiliary firefighters, was set out in our consultation paper, The Scottish Fire Service of the Future, published in April 2002.
To ask the Scottish Executive what priority it gives to improving the link between paediatric services and maternity care in the health service The Executive's vision for maternity services, set out in the report of the Expert Group on Acute Maternity Services, is of a woman and baby centred service, with a range of provision for care in childbirth including midwife-led care in local community maternity units and consultant-led units.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14176 by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 March 2001, how much of the additional #36 million to improve services for people with learning disabilities was allocated to specific services for families affected by autistic spectrum disorders.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 September 2002
These projects provide a range of support, including drop-in centres, day services, counselling services, information and advice, education and employment schemes, advocacy and befriending services.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 January 2002
The Remote and Rural Areas Initiative (RARARI) sub-group on maternity services is chaired by Mrs Brenda Thorpe, Head of Midwifery Services in Dumfries and Galloway.