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The first phase of the campaign ran over Christmas and New Year. Posters were displayed in licensed premises across Scotland and leaflets were distributed in town and city centre pubs and clubs.An educational cd:rom, video and drink cover/straw holder have now been developed to take forward the campaign and these will be made available shortly through the K...
The Executive will shortly be publishing for consultation draft guidance to health boards on the preparation of these strategies.We are committed to monitoring the impact of our Carers Strategy, including the new legislative measures to support carers.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new co-ordinator posts, similar to the Food and Health Co-ordinator, have been created in each of the last five years, giving details of the post, the holder and salary in each case.
This compares with 74.8% for the same periodin 2003, and 74.4% for this period in 2002, when teething problems with a new computerisedfinancial system led to a drop in levels of performance.The Executive is taking a rangeof steps to improve performance.
Thereafter it is for NHSScotland bodies to decide locally how best to utilise these funds to meet the healthcare needs of the population served, taking into account both national and local priorities.No specific allowance is made in this formula for the level or trend of land and property prices in health board areas.When considering the re-provision of healthcare services it is for NHS boards to identify a wide range of options including different locations and to undertake a financial appraisal to demonstrate that the new...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2004
The number of passes issued is shown in the table below.Regular Visitor Passes - Issues Year New Renewals Total 2001 65 123 188 2002 106 168 274 2003 62 149 211 2004 - March 11 24 35 Regular visitor passes are issued to applicants ...
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Date answered:
20 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether travel times to road traffic accidents are not included in the new out-of-hours medical cover proposals and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-6332 by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2004, how it ensures that enough consultant hours are deployed in the NHS given that information on the hours they work is not available centrally and whether it has any plans to ask NHS boards to collate and produce such information. The new Consultan...
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Date answered:
16 March 2004
The Scottish Executive is provided with advice from the National Screening Committee (NSC) onthe introduction of new population screening programmes, the modification orwithdrawal of existing programmes and the quality and management of suchprogrammes.The Antenatal screening sub groupof the NSC has been fully informed about this Report and will be consideri...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 February 2004