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Date answered:
11 September 2006
S2W-27899
The Scottish Medicines Consortium(SMC) provides advice to NHS boards and their Area Drug and Therapeutics Committees(ADTCs) across Scotland about the status of all newly licenced medicines, all newformulations of existing medicines and any major new indications for establishedproducts (licenced from January 2002).After careful consideration andevaluation of the evidence provided by the companies for bevacizumab and cetuximabrespectively SMC advised that,Bevacizumab (Avastin®) is notrecommended for use within NHS Scotland in combination with intravenous fluorouracil/folinicacid or intravenous fluorouracil/folinic acid/irinotecan for first line treatmentof patients with metastatic carcinoma of the colon or rectum.Cetuximab (Erbitux®) is not recommendedfor use within NHS Scotland in combination with irinotecan for the treatment ofpatients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) – expressing metastatic colorectalcancer after failure of irinotecan-including cytotoxic therapy.SMC’s recommendations do notoverride the clinical judgment of an individual doctor who must make appropriatedecisions on treatment in the circumstances of the individual patient.
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Date answered:
2 August 2006
S2W-27350
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to ensure that the legislative improvements made by the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 are effective in deterring wildlife crime.
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Date answered:
8 June 2006
S2W-26033
This included:£20,000 sponsorship from the Scottish Executive£12,318.80 for the audio visualequipment and technical operators at the event and production of high qualityDVD for future use to promote Scotland. £940 for international medialiaison.£5,000 for a table of 10which comprised two officials, two business partners, and the headteacher and fiveyoung people from Our Lady and St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton.The sponsorship securedclear identification, in all UK and international media, of Scotland as thelocation for this event, and promotion of the Scotland brand.The purchase of the tablesuccessfully promoted the Determined to Succeed strategy to key audiences, bothon the day and subsequently through media coverage.
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Date answered:
5 June 2006
S2W-26330
Thegroup will identify gaps and make recommendations for a quality assured NationalTraining Strategy for Scotland. We expect initial recommendations of the sub-group willbe presented to the NSHAC in October 2006.
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Date answered:
8 March 2006
S2W-23452
The review involved local authorities, Communities Scotland, Registered Social Landlords and Scottish Water.
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Date answered:
2 March 2006
S2W-23334
As part of this, data on healthcare-associated UTIs will be collected across Scotland. The prevalence surveyis due to report in 2007.A best practice statement onurinary catheterisation and catheter care, developed by the HAI Task Force, waspublished by Quality Improvement Scotland in June 2004.
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Date answered:
12 January 2006
S2W-21876
The Scottish steering group for London 2012, whose aim is to ensure the maximum benefits for Scotland, is meeting for the first time in January 2006.
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Date answered:
10 November 2005
S2W-20262
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-18125 and S2W-18859 by Mr Tom McCabe on 24 August and 26 September 2005 respectively regarding the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme visas, how many individuals have successfully applied for such a visa and, of these, how many are now resident in Scotland and how many were resident (a) in Scotland and (b) overseas at the time of application, broken down by month of operation of the scheme.
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Date answered:
6 October 2005
S2O-07756
In these circumstances the costsassociated with the development and maintenance of detailed measurement andmonitoring systems can outweigh any associated benefit.”I have told the committeethat I will not take us along the road of developing measuring and monitoringsystems that outweigh the benefits of the efficiency programme. We are indialogue with Audit Scotland to work out a means by which we can assert (withappropriate evidence) what we believe has been achieved in a year in terms thatwill allow Audit Scotland to review that assertion.
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Date answered:
15 June 2005
S2W-17170
Information on staff in post and vacancies in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section B gives vacancy information for consultants employed in NHS Scotland.
