There are 210,028 results relating to "Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill"
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Date answered:
3 February 2004
S2W-05651
Tuitionfees have been abolished for Scottish domiciled and EU undergraduate studentsstudying full-time higher education courses in Scotland. This support is available to all eligible full-timestudents to undertake study up to degree level or equivalent, provided theyhave not previously undertaken such a course with assistance from public funds.A student who...
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Date answered:
26 January 2004
S2W-05493
The data are presented on a national basis in order not todisclose information that may relate to an individual patient.Donepezil (Aricept®) became available from April 1997, Rivastigmine(Exelon®) from July 1998, Galantamine (Reminyl®) from September 2000 and Memantine (Ebixa®) from October 2002.Number of Prescribed Items:All NHS Boards 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Donepezil 2,932 4,719 7,023 11,769 19,261 Rivastigmine 128 1,418 3,694 5,044 6,098 Galantamine 0 0 68 2,009 4,192 Memantine 0 0 0 0 100 The information in the tablehas been provided by ISD Scotland...
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Date answered:
12 January 2004
S2W-05242
That criterion isreflected strongly in ministers’ guidance to the Scottish Further EducationFunding Council, which has responsibility for funding Scotland’sfurther education colleges and for securing adequate and efficient furthereducation in Scotland. The guidance forms the basis of funding agreementsbetween the Funding Council and individual colleges.Mini...
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Date answered:
19 December 2003
S2O-00959
The lawalready allows for offenders to be given time to pay, for payment byinstalments, for deductions from benefits and for civil diligence, as ways ofencouraging payment and enforcing payment of fines.Inaddition, the Executive has made supervised attendance orders (SAOs) availableto courts across Scotland to deal with fine defaulters. Thesedisposals offer...
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Date answered:
16 December 2003
S2W-04707
Information about waiting times forcolposcopy investigation following a cervical smear is not collected centrally.One of the criteria in theNHS Quality Improvement Scotland report on cervical screening, which wasreleased on 24 November, is that a minimum of 90% of all referrals for anabnormal smear should be given an appointment within 40 working days and 9...
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Date answered:
5 December 2003
S2W-04260
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3845 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 November 2003, what the estimated timescale will be with regard to initiating research into the reasons for the level of suicide rates in Scotland. At present, there are twostages to the research process in support of the Choose Life Strategy andAction Plan....
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Date answered:
27 November 2003
S2W-04067
I have asked Angiolina Foster, the Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Herresponse is as follows:In the public sector we areon course to ensure that all local authority tenants who are without centralheating systems, and want a central heating system installed, will have themeasures by April 2004.
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Date answered:
17 November 2003
S2W-03862
The Executive is committedto developing and expanding respite provision across Scotland. Todo that we have provided authorities with additional funding of £22 million overthe last three years over and above the resources already available to them.That extra funding is now at the level of £11 million per annum.Authorities have theflexibility to decide how to...
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Date answered:
14 November 2003
S2W-02988
To ask the Scottish Executive how many elderly people are currently occupying NHS beds who have been assessed as requiring discharge to a care home and are awaiting placement to a care home in the West of Scotland region, broken down by NHS board area.
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Date answered:
11 November 2003
S2W-03063
In order to assist NHSemployers meet local health needs, we have invested record sums in healthA range of recruitment andretention measures have been introduced to help build capacity within thenursing and midwifery workforce.As part of our on-goingcommitment to this improvement agenda, we will increase our programme to train,recruit and retain nurses and midwives, bringing 12,000 into the NHS by 2007.Additional help in areas ofrecruitment will also be provided by Careers for Health with one of its aimsbeing to raise the profile of careers in the NHSScotland.Work is, therefore, under wayto re-energise recruitment to the health service workforce and redesign jobswhere new nursing roles are identified.In addition, Scotland’sCancer Strategy, Cancer in Scotland...
