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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it agrees with the view expressed by Shetland Health Board in recent evidence to the Health and Community Care Committee that there should be a new national policy on prescribing beta interferon and, if so, what plans it has to introduce such a policy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 1999
. £100 million for IT resources has been allocated over the next 3 years, supported by £23 million for training from the New Opportunities Fund. We will announce details soon of a scheme to help teachers buy computers.
. £100 million for IT resources has been allocated over the next 3 years, supported by £23 million for training from the New Opportunities Fund. We will announce details soon of a scheme to help teachers buy computers.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any subject areas will be discontinued by education authorities in order to make way for the new e-learning lesson modules operated by the Ministry of Defence, entitled “Defence Dynamics” and, if so, which ones.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the targets for delayed discharge apply to geriatric patients and units for the care of elderly people. The new targets apply to allpatients delayed unnecessarily for more than six weeks in any hospital setting.Additionally, no patient should be delayed at all in short-stay beds by April 2008.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact on wards for the care of elderly people of the targets for delayed discharge that apply to other areas or departments. We have set challenging new targetsin order to free up valuable hospital beds.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior advisers are being appointed to support its “Determined to Succeed” and “Schools of Ambition” strategies. We hope to appoint two new senioradvisers to help with delivery of Determined to Succeed and Schools of Ambition.