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Date answered:
24 May 2004
S2W-08133
In addition, three key senior appointments have been madeto the Pay Modernisation Team of NHS Scotland to focus on the new models of out-of-hourscare across Scotland.
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Date answered:
20 May 2004
S2O-02378
We are committed to providing sustained helpand recently, for example, I confirmed that the fast track recruitment ofsocial workers will be sustained for five years.The Minister for Education and Young People has announced a fundamental review of social work across Scotland and he will provide more detail about that before the summer recess.
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Date answered:
12 May 2004
S2W-07896
The Executive has launched anEye Care Review in order to improve services for blind and partially sighted peoplein Scotland and to promote better integration of services withinthe NHS, and between the NHS and other agencies.
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Date answered:
2 April 2004
S2W-06894
Service personnel, both fulltime and reservists, who live in Scotland, either alone or with a partner arenot entitled to remission of liability for council tax during their absenceabroad on duty.A Ministry of Defencefinancial package of assistance exists for reservists.
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Date answered:
31 March 2004
S2W-07009
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made on the implementation of personal health plans, referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland, in light of the recent global initiative for asthma report that indicated that Scotland has the highest prevalence of asthma in the world and recent evidence i...
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Date answered:
30 March 2004
S2W-06989
The published data is not considered robust enough to be issued by NHS employer and will be shown by Scotland; Acute Trust, Island boards and Scottish Ambulance Service; Primary Care Trust, State Hospital, and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service; and health boards and special health boards not providing healthcare.
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Date answered:
11 March 2004
S2W-06258
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it can take if a local authority does not deliver high quality and efficient local services Local authorities are nowunder a statutory obligation to make arrangements to improve the outcome oftheir performance of their functions under the provisions of the Local Governmentin Scotland Act 2003. From this year the Accounts Commission will be auditingthese arrangements and reporting publicly their assessment of the results.Scottish Ministers havepowers under the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 to issue directions tolocal authorities to take such action or accept such conditions that theMinisters specify if the Ministers are satisfied that the local authority is notcomplying with its duty to secure Best Value, which is continuous improvementin the exercise of its functions.Such directions may be givenin the following circumstances: In order to protect the public interest from substantial harm On the recommendation of the Accounts CommissionA direction cannot be givenwithout serving a preliminary notice on the authority which offers theopportunity to put its case to Ministers.There are also specificintervention powers relating to failures in specific statutory duties such asthe provision of education services.
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Date answered:
8 March 2004
S2W-06130
The report published in 2003by the expert group on financial and other support, chaired by Lord Ross, endorsed the recommendation made by the RoyalSociety of Edinburgh in their report Encouraging Resolution - Mediatingpatient/health service disputes in Scotland, that the Scottish Executive should, in conjunction withNHSScotland’s Central Legal Office, undertake a fully researched mediationproject mirroring that being undertaken by the National Health ServiceLitigation Authority in England.Aworking group with representatives from the Executive’s Health and Justice departments,Central Legal Office, a NHS medical director, an academic from the Universityof Edinburgh and the Medical and Dental Defence Union in Scotland has been setup to take this recommendation forward.Thegroup is currently working on the specification of a research project expectedto run for three years and therefore anticipates reporting on the outcome ofthat project sometime in 2007.
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Date answered:
4 March 2004
S2W-06699
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service continues to be committed to the robust prosecution of racially aggravated crime in Scotland. In the financial year 2002-03, the police reported 1,819 cases involving racially aggravated harassment and behaviour or separate statutory racial aggravations to Procurators Fiscal.
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Date answered:
9 February 2004
S2W-05456
Thebiggest diet-related risk to UK health is heart disease and oily fish, includingsalmon, contain fatty acids that help prevent this.Guidance on fish consumptionin schools is already set out within the document Hungry for Success: AWhole School Approach to School Meals in Scotland which was produced by theExpert Panel on School Meals in November 2002.Hospitals are expected tomeet the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Standards for the provision of food,fluid and nutritional care.
