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This involves a range of activities including communications, the role of which is to prompt the general public to think about their drinking and to encourage a sense of personal responsibility for the negative cost of alcohol problems.The wider Healthy Living campaign aims to encourage and motivate everyone to take on the challenge of making daily health i...
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Date answered:
12 November 2004
Information from NHS boards onthe number of people with learning disabilities living in long-stay hospitals isin the following table (as at September 2004): NHS Board NHS Facility Number of Long-Stay Patients Ayrshire and Arran Strathlea Resource Centre (25); Arrol Park Resource Centre (43); Alisa Hospital (8) 76 ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 October 2004
The latest data available is the Scottish House Condition Survey 2002. At that time 286,000 households lived in fuel poverty, broken down by household type as shown in the table: Household type Numbers of households in fuel poverty Single adult (I adult of non-pensionable age and no children) 46,000 Small adult (2 adults of non...
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Date answered:
4 October 2004
Various initiatives being undertaken under our fresh talent policy to encourage people from outside Scotland to come here to live, work and study, such as our Relocation Advisory Service to be launchedin October, could potentially help doctors from other EU countries interested inmoving to Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-8488 and S2W-8489 by Tom McCabe and Malcolm Chisholm on 9 and 8 June 2004 respectively, how it intends to meet its commitment within Partnership for Care: Scotland's Health White Paper to ensure that, whatever the circumstances of people's lives, they have access to the right health ser...
To ask the Scottish Executive with reference to the article Screening Saves Lives in the May edition of Health Quarterly, Holyrood Policy Journal, what plans are in place to implement (a) a national colorectal screening programme following the successful pilot schemes in Grampian, Tayside and Fife and (b) a concerted drive to raise awareness of...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pensioner households live on an annual income of (a) less than £10,000, (b) £10,001 to £15,000 and (c) 15,001 to £20,000 expressed also as a percentage of the total number of such households.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2003
In addition, flags wereflown on Scottish Executive buildings on Remembrance Sunday.Each year Scottish Executive staff are encouraged to contribute to the poppy appeal and to wear apoppy as a mark of respect for those who gave their lives for our freedom. S2O-00747
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 March 2003
The Scottish Executive provided funding of £1.1 million over three years to establish an ethnic minority resource centre to support and monitor the local delivery of the "Fair for All" approach.In this European Year of Disabled People, the health white paper, Partnership for Care acknowledged the success of the "Fair for All" approach by extending to other potentially excluded groups the principle that mainstream services should recognise and respond sensitively to the distinctive individual needs, background and circumstances of people's lives...