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Date answered:
5 October 2000
S1W-10025
Enhanced capitation fees are also paid to dentists registering 3-5 year olds in the lowest deprivation categories.A number of local schemes are in place in Scotland, mainly involving health visitors, which seek to encourage mothers to register their babies and toddlers on the NHS with a dentist. Health education programmes with nurseries, playgroups and sch...
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Date answered:
20 September 2000
S1O-02257
Indeed, the Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland, published in 1997, which offers best practice in the organisation of care and preventative measures, already recognises the isolation that can lead to suicide attempts and encourages health boards and their partner care agencies to organise appropriate services to match needs, for example, programmes of assertive outreach that ensure continuing contact with those considered at risk.
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Date answered:
6 September 2000
S1W-09230
Information in the form requested is not held centrally.The Scottish Executive is committed to tackling cancer in the most effective ways possible, including screening programmes.The current advice from the UK National Screening Committee is that a national prostate screening programme with current techniques would not give benefits and might actually do ha...
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Date answered:
16 August 2000
S1W-08881
A summary of awards to small businesses in the Borders is given in the tables below:1998-1999Approved ApplicationsSE Borders FundingPrivate Funds LeveredStart-up 290£235,800£1,808,984Small Firms Development Programme93£64,400£64,400New Venture Development Programme29£132,000£264,000Total412£432,200£2,137,3841999-2000Applications/ApprovalsSE Borders FundingPrivate Funds LeveredStart-up 275£206,969£1,572,964Small Firms Development Programme154£102,800£102,800New Venture Development Programme64£199,000£398,000Total493£508,769£2,073,7642000-2001 (to 31 July)Applications/ApprovalsSE Borders FundingPrivate Funds LeveredStart-up112£66,500£505,400Small Firms Development Programme...
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Date answered:
14 August 2000
S1W-08826
As I announced when I presented the Mental Welfare Commission Report to Parliament on 30 March, the Chairman of the State Hospitals Board has been asked to establish a programme of change to address the Commission's findings and recommendations, and report to me in September on the progress that has been made.I know that when I met with the Mental Welfare C...
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Date answered:
25 July 2000
S1W-07058
The Scottish Executive is funding the research programme. The cost of implementing and constructing the Home Zones is being met by the four local authorities from within existing resources available to them.
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Date answered:
12 July 2000
S1W-08127
To that end, and in conjunction with a range of partners, the Scottish Executive is taking forward a wide programme of action to improve life circumstances, to address lifestyles and to target priority health topics, including mental health.
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Date answered:
26 June 2000
S1W-07151
The Public Health White Paper Towards a Healthier Scotland addresses some of the antecedent causes of low birth weight and prematurity including smoking.The Scottish Executive together with the Scottish Programme for Clinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health (SPCERH) the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives...
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Date answered:
23 June 2000
S1W-08211
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it proposes to introduce further rephasing of the Higher Still programme. Under a 1998 agreement, teachers could delay implementing the new "Higher Still" Higher courses, for one year only, if they met criteria laid down by the national Higher Still Liaison Group.
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Date answered:
13 June 2000
S1W-07270
These projects introduce young people to a range of jobs through employer visits to schools and project work and are designed to broaden perceptions of the range of careers available.Young people can also pursue careers in engineering through the Modern Apprenticeship programme. Scottish Engineering produces an annual newspaper advertising Modern Apprentice...
