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It is the role of NHS boards to ensure that there is a mechanism for providing independent advice to those who wish to make a complaint against the NHS in Scotland.We are working with Citizens Advice Scotland to develop arrangements to support NHS boards in delivering this role.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2005
However, the Scottish Criminal Record Office Criminal History System stores conviction information from Scottish courts including for traffic offences. This enables forces across Scotland to check conviction information for any individual stopped for a motoring offence.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many radiologists per 100,000 head of population there are in Scotland and what information it has on how this compares with (a) the rest of the United Kingdom and (b) elsewhere in Europe.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2004
We remain committed to encouraging the transfer of freight from road to rail and water and are in regular discussion with companies from across Scotland to promote the use of rail freight.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there will be no impact on the public sector under the Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Schedule 5) Order 2004, given that the discharge of the order’s provisions will lead to the transfer of staff from Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority and Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive to the c...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 November 2004
The composition of area medical committees is governed by Section 9 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. Under this section, a NHS boardis obliged to recognise a committee as the area medical committee if it is satisfied that such a committee is representative of the medical practitioners within the board area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 November 2004
The Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 requires boards of management of incorporated further education colleges to include in their membership a person nominated by the local enterprise company for the area in which the college is located.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 November 2004
The Social Work Services Inspectorate has commissioned research into kinship care in Scotland as part of a wider review of services for looked after children.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 November 2004
His response is as follows:The available information is in Statistical Bulletin No CrJ/2004/6: Prison Statistics Scotland, 2003 published in August 2004 (ISBN 0 7559 3785 6), tables 1, 2, 12A and 12B and in previous editions of the bulletin.