- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2183 by Iain Gray on 16 November 1999, how many elderly people have attended day care centres, broken down by local authority, in the years 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-date.
Answer
The following table details the number of people attending day centres primarily intended for older people in 1997 and 1998. 1998 is the latest year for which data are available as this census is now conducted on a triennial basis. The methodology used in 1998 was different from that used in 1997 and therefore figures for the two years are not comparable.
People Attending1 Day Centres for Older People2 1997 and 1998
| Number Attending 1997 | Number Attending 1998 |
Aberdeen City | 684 | 594 |
Aberdeenshire | 865 | 700 |
Angus | 265 | 263 |
Argyll & Bute | 306 | 141 |
Clackmannanshire | 52 | 60 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 931 | 629 |
Dundee City | 217 | 178 |
East Ayrshire | 130 | 147 |
East Dunbartonshire | 20 | 20 |
East Lothian | 0 | 0 |
East Renfrewshire | 103 | 122 |
Edinburgh City | 1,663 | 962 |
Eilean Siar | 66 | 59 |
Falkirk | 108 | 300 |
Fife | 627 | 603 |
Glasgow City | 2,256 | 1,370 |
Highland | 1,302 | 1,261 |
Inverclyde | 58 | 188 |
Midlothian | 42 | 17 |
Moray | 120 | 116 |
North Ayrshire | 180 | 184 |
North Lanarkshire | 477 | 565 |
Orkney | 111 | 105 |
Perth & Kinross | 430 | 344 |
Renfrewshire | 705 | 727 |
Scottish Borders | 433 | 351 |
Shetland | 133 | 148 |
South Ayrshire | 714 | 694 |
South Lanarkshire | 914 | 721 |
Stirling | 38 | 48 |
West Dunbartonshire | 436 | 457 |
West Lothian | 473 | 288 |
Scotland | 14,859 | 12,362 |
Source: SEHD, Community Care Statistics, D1-B Return.
Notes:
1. Number attending is the number of people on the register of a centre during the census week in March, regardless of whether they actually attend the centre during that week.
2. Figures are for day centres primarily intended for older people, some people attending these centres may belong to other client groups; it is also possible that some older people may attend centres primarily intended for other client groups.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10377 by Susan Deacon on 1 November 2000, whether local authorities had to specify how any balance of resources which was not required to tackle delayed discharge problems would be spent and whether the details of any proposed redeployments of funding had to be authorised by the Executive.
Answer
Where local authorities have judged that they can resolve problems of delayed discharge without using all of the resources allocated, they have been asked to redeploy the balance to improve the level and extent of other services, for example those provided to older people.The department will consider changes made to proposals or revised proposals and will make adjustment to allocations if these are not found to be satisfactory.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10377 by Susan Deacon on 1 November 2000, whether it will undertake any independent monitoring of whether local authorities' proposals to address problems of delayed discharge are being implemented successfully.
Answer
Each local authority is required to provide confirmation in mid-January 2001 that its proposal (or revised proposal) is being acted upon successfully.In conjunction, the department will continue to monitor delayed discharge through a national census. These will supply an ongoing flow of information on numbers, reasons and causes of delayed discharge. Among other things, this information will show whether or not local plans are delivering on outcomes.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10377 by Susan Deacon on 1 November 2000, whether any balance of the resources allocated to each local authority to resolve problems of delayed discharge which is not required for this purpose is ring-fenced for the care of the elderly.
Answer
Where local authorities have judged that they can resolve problems of delayed discharge without using all the resources allocated, they have been asked to deploy the balance to improve the level and extent of other services, for example those provided to older people.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10377 by Susan Deacon on 1 November 2000, which local authorities indicated that they could resolve problems of delayed discharge without using all of the resources allocated for this purpose.
Answer
Shetland Islands Council is the only such authority.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10377 by Susan Deacon on 1 November 2000, what action it will take if local authorities which indicated that problems of delayed discharge could be tackled without using all of the resources allocated for this purpose are not successfully tackling the problem in mid-January and, in particular, whether it will then require any balance of resources deployed elsewhere to be transferred back to tackling delayed discharges.
Answer
That is a situation we would not expect to arise but, if it did, we would take appropriate action consistent with effective use of resources both centrally and locally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10377 by Susan Deacon on 1 November 2000, how it satisfied itself that any resources which local authorities are proposing to deploy elsewhere are not required in order to resolve problems of delayed discharge.
Answer
Local authorities were required to discuss and agree their proposals with the corresponding health board(s) and Trust(s). Similarly, proposals to use the resources for other purposes should show that senior health board staff have agreed that the resources are not required to tackle local issues relating to delayed discharge.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3125 by Susan Deacon on 17 December 1999, whether the recent report by Pat Grant, a consultant at Glasgow Western Infirmary's accident and emergency department, regarding age discrimination in accident and emergency units provides evidence that the availability of treatment in the NHS can depend on age.
Answer
The continuing allegations of discrimination within the NHS on grounds of age are a source of concern. The Scottish Executive is clear that clinical decisions must not be taken solely on the basis of an individual's chronological age. A range of mechanisms is in place for making sure this principle is adhered to.
We will continue to consider how NHS Scotland's management of older patients in general can be improved. To that end, I have asked the Chief Medical Officer to lead an Expert Group to address the care of older people in NHS acute and primary care services.
The report Better Critical Care, issued to NHS Scotland at the end of July, recommended that each NHS Trust should establish a Critical Care Delivery Group, and those groups should, where appropriate, take the findings on the management of elderly blunt trauma victims into account when assessing their critical care bed capacity.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the recommendation in the recent report into poverty in Scotland by the Scottish Affairs Select Committee that it should consider the appointment of a Minister for the Elderly in Scotland and whether it intends to act upon this recommendation.
Answer
The Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care has ministerial responsibility for older people in Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many elderly people currently attend day care centres in total and as a percentage of those aged over 65, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The table details the number of people attending day centres primarily intended for older people in 1998. 1998 is the latest year for which data are available as this census is now conducted on a triennial basis.
People Attending 1 Day Centres for Older People2 1998
| Local Authority | Number Attending | As a percentage of people aged 65 and over |
Aberdeen City | 594 | 1.87% |
Aberdeenshire | 700 | 2.30% |
Angus | 263 | 1.42% |
Argyll and Bute | 141 | 0.86% |
Clackmannanshire | 60 | 0.85% |
Dumfries and Galloway | 629 | 2.30% |
Dundee City | 178 | 0.70% |
East Ayrshire | 147 | 0.77% |
East Dunbartonshire | 20 | 0.13% |
East Lothian | - | - |
East Renfrewshire | 122 | 0.94% |
Edinburgh, City of | 962 | 1.40% |
Eilean Siar | 59 | 1.14% |
Falkirk | 300 | 1.41% |
Fife | 603 | 1.09% |
Glasgow, City of | 1,370 | 1.47% |
Highland | 1,261 | 3.83% |
Inverclyde | 188 | 1.37% |
Midlothian | 17 | 0.15% |
Moray | 116 | 0.86% |
North Ayrshire | 184 | 0.86% |
North Lanarkshire | 565 | 1.28% |
Orkney Islands | 105 | 3.31% |
Perth and Kinross | 344 | 1.42% |
Renfrewshire | 727 | 2.83% |
Scottish Borders | 351 | 1.75% |
Shetland Islands | 148 | 5.04% |
South Ayrshire | 694 | 3.33% |
South Lanarkshire | 721 | 1.68% |
Stirling | 48 | 0.38% |
West Dunbartonshire | 457 | 3.17% |
West Lothian | 288 | 1.71% |
Scotland | 12,362 | 1.58% |
Source: SEHD, Community Care Statistics, D1-B Return.
Notes:
1. Number attending is the number of people on the register of a centre during the census week in March, regardless of whether they actually attend the centre during that week.
2. Figures are for day centres primarily intended for older people, some people attending these centres may belong to other client groups; it is also possible that some older people may attend centres primarily intended for other client groups.
