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The number of people dischargedfrom general acute hospitals and psychiatric hospitals in Scotland withan explicit diagnosis of drug dependency from 1999-2000 onwards is detailed in thefollowing table: Discharge Period Number Discharged from General Acute Hospitals Number Discharged from Psychiatric Hospitals 1999-2000...
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Date answered:
8 August 2006
Area Interim ASBOs granted 2004-05 Aberdeen City 3 Angus 2 Dundee City 3 Edinburgh, City of 1 Fife 1 Glasgow 9 Stirling 2 Orkney Islands 1 Total 22 SOURCE: The Use of Antisocial Behaviour Orders in Scotland:Results of the 2004-05 Survey (DTZ Pieda Consulting and Heriot-Watt University) andCommunities Scotland...
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Date answered:
4 August 2006
Decisions on investment in intensivecare and high dependency unit beds and the planning of the workforce to deliverfirst class health services, including specialist nurses, to patients in Scotland, areprimarily a matter for individual NHS boards.
The number of ambulance crewemployed to operate accident and emergency (A&E) ambulances in the city of Edinburgh asat 31 March each year is broken down in the following table: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Paramedics 34 34 35 34 41 45 53 56 Technicians 55 53 57 59 62 56 48 49 Total 89 87 92 93 103 101 101 105 Note: *These numbers relate toheadcount and not whole-time equivalents - information supplied by the ScottishAmbulance Service.As part of the introduction of the priority based dispatch system in 2002 and in order to meet its target of havingone paramedic on every front-line ambulance by March 2005, the Scottish AmbulanceService has been increasing its overall number of staff as well as altering thestaffing mix to increase the number of paramedics working across Scotland.Inthe last four years, the number of front-line staff (paramedics and technicians) workingon A&E ambulance across the whole of Scotland...
This information is not heldcentrally.NHS boards are responsible forthe revenue consequences of their capital developments.Where these centres involveeducation and training further support is available from NHS Education for Scotland. S2W-26261
To ask the Scottish Executive what services are entirely devoted to providing health care to homeless people in the West of Scotland parliamentary region, broken down by NHS board area.