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NHS Lanarkshire is committed to ensuring that it meets the Executive’s target of a maximum waiting time of 26 weeks for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant, following referral by a General Medical/Dental Practitioner from 31 December 2005.The National Waiting Times Unit has agreed local performance improvement targets and plans with individual...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its proposals regarding a beef national envelope were supported by the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers (SAMW), and/or Quality Meat Scotland (QMS); if so, whether the Executive asked SAMW and/or QMS whether their support followed any form of consultation of their members and, if it did not so ask, whether it wa...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2004
Otherwise, penalties are scaled according to the nature and severity of the non-compliance: a simple failure arising from negligence will result in a 3% penalty whereas a deliberate breach of the rules could mean a 20% reduction or in some cases exclusion from the scheme for the following year. S2W-10581
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2004
The number of patients whose discharge from Borders General Hospital was delayed, according to the quarterly census, is shown in the following table: Quarterly Census Total1 Outwith Six Week Discharge Planning Period2 January 2002 8 7 April 2002 12 7 July 2002 8 6 October 2...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2004
The information requested is provided in the following table.Number of People Registered with an NHS General Dental Practitioner; 30 June 2004 Health Board Area Children Adults Total Argyll and Clyde 58,298 162,278 220,576 Ayrshire and Arran 54,476 147,077 201,553 Borders ...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, following its recognition of carers as key partners in the provision of care, it will expand the provision of free flu vaccinations to carers.
ENTRUST, the regulator of the scheme, can provide information on grants awarded to Environmental Bodies registered under the scheme (www.entrust.org.uk, tel: (0161)972 0044).Following reform of the landfill tax credit scheme on 1 April 2003 the Executive established replacement grant schemes for both 2003-04 and 2004-05.
The information is provided inthe following tables. Dental practices that ceased providing NHS general dentalservices for a temporary period only may be included in these figures.
The current franchise agreement, with elements removed as set out in section 71(2) of the Railways Act 1993, can be viewed at the Strategic Rail Authority’s (SRA) offices in either London or Glasgow on application to the SRA Secretariat.The SRA Secretariat may be contacted at the following address:Strategic Rail Authority55 Victoria StreetLondonSW1H 0EUA co...