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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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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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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.
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19 January 2004
S2W-05383
The publication details thewhole of public spending in Scotland and is, therefore, not directly comparable with the Scottish Executive accounts.
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16 December 2003
S2W-04618
The PrincipalReporter would have to decide whether any of the grounds for referral under theChildren (Scotland) Act 1995 existed, and whether compulsory measures ofsupervision appeared to be necessary in the child’s interests.
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17 November 2003
S2W-03643
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government on the social inclusion implications for those in Scotland who do not receive a good analogue signal and who have recently had ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 free-to-view services withdrawn from their digital service; whether it has made representations to BBC Scotland about this issue, and whether it will take any steps to protect the interests of those viewers, mostly in remote rural locations, who do not have access to an analogue signal, rely for television viewing on a digital signal and who have been disadvantaged following the withdrawal by the BBC from them of these free-to-view services.
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5 November 2003
S2W-03348
The latest gross domestic productfigures available for Scotland are presented in the Office of National Statistics regionalaccounts.
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5 November 2003
S2W-03381
TheUK Blanket Bog Habitat Action Plan target is to restore 75% of the total extentof restorable blanket bog in the UK by 2015. Scotland’s contribution to this target is being monitoredthrough a series of interim targets, the first of which is to bring the totalarea of blanket bog in or near favourable condition to 340,000 hectares by2005.
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Date answered:
9 September 2003
S2W-02104
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1537 by Mr Tom McCabe on 12 August 2003, whether any local authorities are not adhering to its guidance circular CCD 4/2002, Free Personal and Nursing Care in Scotland, by not offering individual care and nursing home residents the choice of contracting directly with the local authority u...
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2 September 2003
S2W-01915
The guidance on MCNs can be found at:http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/mels/HDL2002_69.pdf.In June 2003 the Executivepublished a draft bill, the NHS Reform (Scotland) Bill, which proposes that NHS boards should begiven a new statutory duty to co-operate with each other, and with the SpecialHealth Boards, to secure and advance the health of the people of Scotland.
