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(a) Information on waiting timesfrom diagnosis to treatment is only collected centrally for patients with breastcancer. The data presented in the following table therefore refer to breast cancerpatients only.

Number of Breast Cancer Patients with the Median Waitbetween Diagnosis and First Treatment by Period of Diagnosis

Period of Diagnosis	Number of Patients with Recorded Treatment Date	Median wait Between Diagnosis and First Treatment
1 January to 31 March 2004	866	18
1 April to 30 June 2004	868	20
1 July to 30 September 2004	808	20
1 October to 31 December 2004	938	21
1 January to 31 March 2005	871	20
1 April to 30 June 2005	959	20
1 July to 30 September 2005	899	20
1 October to 31 December 2005	934	21
1 January to 31 March 2006	966	20
1 April to 30 June 2006	925	20
1 July to 30 September 2006	937	21
1 October to 31 December 2006	954	20

Source: Information ServicesDivision, NHS National Services Scotland.

Exclusion categories are: diedprior to receiving treatment, refused treatment, patient induced non-clinical delay,co-morbidities, clinical reasons and initially referred to another non-cancer speciality.

(b) Information on the waitingtimes of cancer patients between referral and first treatment are collected centrally.These are collated to report performance against the target that “the maximum waitfrom urgent referral to treatment for all cancers will be two months”. Quarterlyperformance information against that target, broken down by NHS board and cancertype is available from the Scottish Executive website at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/health/cancer/waiting-times.

It should be noted that cancerwaiting times data are subject to continuous development and quality improvement.

These improvements need to betaken in to account when making comparisons on quarter on quarter performance.

All funding eligiblefor allocation to Scottish budgets by way of budget consequentials is held centrally.It is then allocated by the Scottish Government in light of all competing pressuresand the Government’s priorities.

The Scottish Governmentis fully committed to consulting families with disabled children, as well as representativeorganisations, before taking decisions on issues which affect them.

Information on median and longestwaits for urgent breast cancer referrals for the years and in the format requested,is available from in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under:

Table a: Number of urgently referred breast cancer patients withthe median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosis by year and hospital/institutionof diagnosis (2004)

Source: Information ServicesDivision, NHS National Services Scotland, Bib.  number 43179.

Table b: Number of urgently referredbreast cancer patients with the median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosisby year and hospital/institution of diagnosis (2005), Bib. number: 43180.

Table c: Number of urgently referredbreast cancer patients with the median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosisby year and hospital/institution of diagnosis (2006), Bib. number: 43181.

The information requested isavailable from several sources, but not necessarily for all of the specific agegroups or years requested.

The Scottish Health Survey gives estimates of theprevalence of obesity and overweight in children and adults. The most recent data available is for the year 2003.

Prevalence of obesity and overweightby age and sex (children aged 2 to 15 years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50271(See table 5.5 on page 123.)

Prevalence of obesity and overweightby age and sex (adults aged 16+ years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50261(See table 5.5 on page 175.)In addition, all NHS boards in Scotland provide a Child HealthSurveillance Programme where children are offered routine reviews at various stagesof their life. The majority of Boards record these reviews using the electronicchild health systems, CHSP-Pre-School and CHSP-School. The latest available informationfrom these systems on levels of obesity and overweight derived from height and weightmeasurements collected at routine health reviews is published for NHS boards participatingin CHSP-School and CHSP-Pre-School at http://www.isdscotland.org/child_obesity.(Click on “obesity statistics” to access a list of available tables and charts.)

 

Information on isolation facilities in NHS boards in Scotland was collated by Health Protection Scotland during February 2004 as part of a one off exercise to support Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) preparedness planning. Since that time no further national census or audit has been undertaken.

The information obtained during the February 2004 audit is shown in the following table.

Availability of Isolation Facilities Within Acute Hospitals in NHSScotland (2004)

Total Number of Isolation Rooms

NHS Board/Area
Argyll and Clyde	237
Ayrshire and Arran	204
Borders	65
Dumfries and Galloway	142
Fife	187
Forth Valley	150
Grampian	282
Greater Glasgow	586
Highland	137
Lanarkshire	323
Lothian	508
Orkney	13
Shetland	22
Tayside	245
Western Isles	66
Special Board (Golden Jubilee National Hospital)	175
Total	3,342

Note: Figures for Argyll and Clyde are shown in the table as the audit took place prior to the dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde.

 

The following is the original answer (published on 19 July 2007); see below:

 

The specific information requested is not available centrally.

The need to make additional specificresources available to local authorities to enforce tobacco sales will be consideredunder the current spending review.

NHS Smoking Cessation Serviceshave received additional funding of £2 million this year bringing total fundingto a record £11 million. Young people are already a priority group for cessationservices and I expect boards to use part of the additional funding to provide supportto young people wishing to quit. There are no plans to ring-fence funding specificallyfor underage smokers.

Funding for smoking cessationservices is not currently ring fenced for specific priority groups such as youngpeople. It is for NHS boards to assess needs locally and respond to the demand forcessation services for priority groups accordingly.

The allocation or smoking cessationservices in 2007-08 were as follows:

	£000
Ayrshire and Arran	542
Borders	170
Dumfries and Galloway	231
Fife	462
Forth Valley	373
Grampian	597
Greater Glasgow	2,569
Highland	455
Lanarkshire	1,147
Lothian	1,311
Orkney	53
Shetland	59
Tayside	949
Western Isles	82
Total	9,000

 

In addition £2 million has beenallocated in 2007-08 to the keep well projects in Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire,Lothian and Tayside health boards bringing the total available for smoking cessationsupport to £11 million in 2007-08.

(a) The information requestedin part (a) is not held centrally. In children it is difficult to establish trueintent. Therefore it may be incorrect to attempt to derive numbers of “attemptedsuicide”.

We have however provided datafor hospital discharges for children under 16, which have been coded as either deliberateself-harm or undetermined intent. These are shown in the following tables.

In-Patient and Day Case HospitalDischarges with a Diagnosis of Deliberate Self-Harm - Children Aged Under 16

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
No. of patients1	538	612	631	661	637	529	480
Number in most deprived decile in Scotland2	116	108	114	97	98	75	65
Proportion in most deprived decile	21.6	17.6	18.1	14.7	15.4	14.2	13.5

 

In-Patient andDay Case Hospital Discharges with a Diagnosis of UndeterminedIntent - Children Aged Under 16

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
No. of patients1	48	29	19	18	16	20	14
Number in most deprived decile in Scotland2	12	7	9	10	3	2	0
Proportion in most deprived decile	25.0	24.1	47.4	55.6	18.8	10.0	0.0

Source: SMR01.

Notes:

1. Hospital discharges -children aged 0 to 15.

2. Based on the ScottishIndex of Multiple Deprivation.

Up to six diagnosis (1 main,5 secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses have been used toselect discharges for deliberate self harm and undetermined intent.

The following codes wereused from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and OtherHealth Related Problems, tenth revision (ICD10):

Self Harm: X60-X84

Undetermined Intent: Y10-Y34

(b) In presenting statisticson suicides it is conventional to combine deaths classified as intentional self-harm(suicides) with those classified as events of undetermined intent. This is becausethe majority of the latter are likely to have been suicides. However, this assumptionis known to be less valid for children, particularly those aged under 10. For thisreason the following table shows the two categories separately and restricts theinformation on events of undetermined intent to deaths aged 10-15.

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Deaths aged under 16 from intentional self harm	4	8	6	3	4	3	4
Deaths aged 10-15 classified as events of undetermined intent	3	4	0	2	1	0	2

Note: 1. 1999: ICD9codes E950, E980. 2000-2005: ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y10-Y34, Y87.0, Y87.2

Deaths Caused by IntentionalSelf-Harm and Events of Undetermined Intent¹ Persons Resident inDatazones in the most Deprived Decile According to SIMD 2006, Selected Ages,Scotland, 1999-2005

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Deaths aged under 16 from intentional self-harm	3	2	0	1	1	1	1
Deaths aged 10-15 classified as events of undetermined intent	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Note: 1. 1999: ICD9codes E950, E980. 2000-2005: ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y10-Y34, Y87.0, Y87.2