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This should enable us, over time, to establish a clearer picture of how many service users are being looked after by a voluntary carer, or indeed multiple carers, and the number of assessments being carried out for those carers.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were conveyed to out-patient hospital appointments by the Scottish Ambulance Service Non-Emergency Service in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it has made available to the voluntary sector to help it comply with the statutory requirement to register care workers. Social service workers whowill be required to register are expected to meet the criteria set by the Scottish Social Services Council.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has received (a) in total and (b) per capita for services for older people from (i) the National Lottery, (ii) central government and (iii) any other sources, in each of the last three years.
A recent consultation on merging voluntary sector funding for services for children and young people sought views on whether grants for marriage and relationship support should be included in an integrated fund.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people suffer from dementia; what early intervention services are available across Scotland; how much money has been allocated to dealing with diagnosis, treatment and research into dementia in each of the last three years, and how much has been allocated for each of the next two years.
This follows the commitment made by the Executive to modernising audiology services in response to the Public Health Institute Report NHS Audiology Services in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2002
There were 623 questions answered by the Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service in the 12 months to 12 November 2002, an increase of almost four-fold on the previous 12 months.