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In anticipation of this, the Social Work Services Inspectorate is undertaking a survey of local authority mental health officer service structures and activities to assess how best to meet these new demands. Existing training takes different forms.
The MCA in conjunction with the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) is responsible for monitoring the safety of all marketed medicines to ensure that medicines meet acceptable standards of safety and efficacy.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many linear accelerators (a) are needed to meet patient demands and (b) exist currently (i) in total and (ii) in each NHS board area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 April 2002
I would expect representatives of the groups to which the member refers to be invited to participate in the consultation process.Following this piece of work, the SAC will examine options - for all of its three campuses - about how it might restructure itself to be able to meet these objectives, prior to putting their conclusions to ministers for considerat...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 April 2002
As lead does not normally occur naturally in water, any areas of non-compliance detected are likely to be as a result of lead plumbing or lead supply pipes.To ensure compliance with the lead standard, the water authorities will be installing water treatment in areas identified as likely to fail to meet the new standard. In addition, where the water authorit...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2002
These recommendations were, in the main, detailed operational matters for NHS trusts.In compiling their Local Health Plans, NHS boards, in conjunction with NHS trusts, will assess the capacity needed to meet national and local health targets.
It is possible that membership of the ILT could be included as a field in the HESA collection in the future.As indicated in my reply to S1W-22288, officials from the Department would be happy to meet with you to discuss data collection and the information that is available.
However, in order to gauge the progress made by local authorities in meeting the Programme for Government commitment to reduce P1-P3 classes to 30 pupils or less, Scottish Executive officials have made enquiries of education authorities.