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It is a matter for health boards and Trusts through their Health Improvement Programmes and Trust Implementation Plans to ensure appropriate high quality services are in place to meet the needs of their population.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the whole time establishment is of the Procurator Fiscal Service in the Glasgow area, broken down by grade and designation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2000
The Executive has put substantial extra investment into the NHS in Scotland, including targeted investment to help reduce waiting, and this will be coupled with new ways of working and delivering services to achieve sustained improvements.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has issued guidance on which relatives are liable in respect of the payment for the provision of care by social services departments to an individual. Circular SWSG1/97 gives guidance to local authorities on charging for non-residential care services.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 August 2000
The directions and guidance issued by the Scottish Executive to the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) for passenger rail services that start and end in Scotland will reflect the Executive's strategic priorities for the provision of passenger rail services throughout Scotland.
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:In 1998, the Scottish Prison Service published its Health Care Standards for Prisoners.
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in the collaborative review of child services in Glasgow between Yorkhill NHS Trust and the Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust.
Greater Glasgow Health Board is at present carrying out a public consultation exercise on its proposals to modernise acute hospital services across the city. The future of maternity and children's services form part of that process.
Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust has undertaken a review of its physiotherapy services with a view to improving services to patients and bringing private physiotherapy contracts into the NHS.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to remove dental general anaesthesia from the list of treatments available under general dental services or to transfer the administering of dental general anaesthesia to specialist centres.