Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-02032

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have ceased providing NHS dental services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Theinformation requested is provided in the following table.

Numberof Practices that Ceased Providing NHS General Dental Services^1,2 inthe Years Ending 31 March 2000-2007

NHS Board Area	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Scotland	14	21	22	19	20	40	28	39
Argyll and Clyde	-	-	2	-	1	3	2	x
Ayrshire and Arran	2	2	3	-	-	5	2	7
Borders	-		-	-	-	1	-	1
Dumfries and Galloway	-	2	-	-	-	-	3	3
Fife	-	-	2	-	1	2	2	1
Forth Valley	-	1	-	3	-	3	2	9
Grampian	-	1	2	1	4	3	1	-
Greater Glasgow	2	3	4	4	2	4	4	x
Greater Glasgow and Clyde³	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	6
Highland	3	4	3	3	2	3	2	x
Highland³	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	1
Lanarkshire	1		1	1	-	2	1	3
Lothian	2	4	2	4	5	9	5	4
Orkney	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	2
Shetland	1	1	-	1	-	-	2	-
Tayside	2	3	1	2	5	4	2	1
Western Isles	1		1	-	-	1	-	1

Source: DAS (ManagementInformation & Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

- no data.

x notapplicable.

1.Some practices may cease providing NHS general dentalservices permanently, while some may do so only temporarily. Some practices mayclose and re-open in another location.

2.The number ofpractices with at least one dentist providing NHS general dental services on 1April of the year in question but not on the 31 March the following year.

3.The dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde tookeffect from 1 April 2006. From this date, dental practices from NHS Argyll andClyde are included in figures for NHS Highland and NHS Greater Glasgow andClyde.

Question reference: S3W-02046

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many clinical psychologists have been employed in child and adolescent mental health teams in each NHS board area in each year since 2002.

The information requested isnot available centrally. However information on clinical staff employed inChild and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in NHS Scotland in 2005 canbe found in Workforce Planning for Specialist Child and Adolescent MentalHealth Services in NHS Scotland, Characteristics of the Specialist CAMHSWorkforce at 31 May 2005 Report, which can be found at the following address: www.isdscotland.org\isd\files\CAMHS05.pdf.

Question reference: S3W-02031

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of computer misuse there have been in each of its departments since 1999, broken down by category of misuse, and how many of these cases resulted in disciplinary action.

Since 1999 and until May2007 there have been 178 recorded breaches of the Scottish Executive IT Code ofConduct in core departments by Scottish Executive staff. There have been nocases of misuse recorded since May 2007. The recorded breaches are broken downby department as follows:

Development	20
Education	15
Environment and Rural Affairs	39
Enterprise Tourism and Lifelong Learning	26
Finance and Central Services	17
Health	12
Justice	22
Office of the Permanent Secretary	27
Total	178

There is a range ofdisciplinary penalties which the Scottish Executive can impose depending uponthe seriousness of the breach. Disciplinary action was taken in each of thesecases.

Question reference: S3W-02036

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of GP practices in each NHS board prescribe methadone.

The table shows thepercentage of GP practices (by NHS board area) that prescribed methadonehydrochloride for the year ending 31 March 2007.

NHS Board	%
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	29.4%
NHS Borders	63.0%
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	64.1%
NHS Fife	81.8%
NHS Forth Valley	59.4%
NHS Grampian	75.0%
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	79.8%
NHS Highland	53.8%
NHS Lanarkshire	52.5%
NHS Lothian	87.1%
NHS Orkney	31.6%
NHS Shetland	30.8%
NHS Tayside	70.7%
NHS Western Isles	22.2%

Question reference: S3W-02030

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staffed hospital beds there have been in each category of care in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-02011

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of unemployment is, broken down by local authority area.

The Claimant Count gives thenumber of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by theOffice for National Statistics.

The following table showsthe number of unemployed people claiming unemployment related benefits in eachlocal authority in Scotland. The latest data available are for June 2007.

Table 1: Claimant Count Unemploymentby Local Authority, Scotland, June 2007

Local authority	Total Claimants
Aberdeen City	1,773
Aberdeenshire	1,189
Angus	1,463
Argyll and Bute	1,127
Clackmannanshire	855
Dumfries and Galloway	2,005
Dundee City	3,447
East Ayrshire	2,596
East Dunbartonshire	938
East Lothian	634
East Renfrewshire	606
Edinburgh, City of	5,759
Eilean Siar (Western Isles)	386
Falkirk	2,168
Fife	6,343
Glasgow City	14,232
Highland	2,161
Inverclyde	2,060
Midlothian	745
Moray	1,088
North Ayrshire	3,334
North Lanarkshire	5,348
Orkney Islands	104
Perth and Kinross	1,142
Renfrewshire	2,730
Scottish Borders	829
Shetland Islands	150
South Ayrshire	1,763
South Lanarkshire	3,937
Stirling	907
West Dunbartonshire	2,241
West Lothian	2,333
Scotland	76,393

Source:Office for National Statistics.

Question reference: S3W-02047

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) residential, (b) nursing and (c) mentally infirm elderly people’s care beds have been available in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area and showing the total annual cost of providing the beds in each category.

The number of beds availablein Care Homes for older people is given in the following table. Care Homes forolder people will cater for older people with varying levels of need includingnursing care and dementia. Beds are not categorised as (a) residential, (b)nursing and (c) mentally infirm and are therefore presented as a total.

Table: Number of Beds Availablein Care Homes for Older People, by Local Authority

Local Authority	Mar-02	Mar-03	Mar-04	Mar-05	Mar-06
Aberdeen City	1,697	1,613	1,606	1,586	1,553
Aberdeenshire	1,991	2,017	1,975	1,966	1,905
Angus	1,026	1,018	1,057	1,029	1,063
Argyll and Bute	777	802	776	745	734
Clackmannanshire	234	234	234	234	234
Dumfries and Galloway	1,226	1,226	1,209	1,224	1,186
Dundee City	1,021	996	998	986	957
East Ayrshire	889	844	840	804	854
East Dunbartonshire	597	601	601	527	532
East Lothian	724	696	690	701	712
East Renfrewshire	556	554	554	554	551
Edinburgh, City of	3,155	3,089	3,093	2,981	2,916
Eilean Siar	218	218	218	219	219
Falkirk	944	946	927	935	912
Fife	2,457	2,479	2,458	2,594	2,670
Glasgow City	4,637	4,620	4,569	4,541	4,526
Highland	2,021	1,993	1,981	1,996	1,956
Inverclyde	583	595	580	608	624
Midlothian	625	587	586	591	588
Moray	549	537	555	582	583
North Ayrshire	1,288	1,237	1,227	1,225	1,095
North Lanarkshire	1,708	1,788	1,830	1,960	2,100
Orkney	98	104	100	100	136
Perth and Kinross	1,444	1,446	1,419	1,408	1,412
Renfrewshire	1,157	1,167	1,208	1,270	1,273
Scottish Borders	840	854	826	835	804
Shetland Islands	142	142	142	143	144
South Ayrshire	900	901	966	938	913
South Lanarkshire	2,524	2,570	2,926	2,869	2,831
Stirling	693	637	638	690	639
West Dunbartonshire	563	557	557	623	605
West Lothian	844	856	897	852	872
Scotland	38,128	37,924	38,243	38,316	38,099

Source: Scottish Care HomeCensus (1).

Net expenditure on CareHomes for Older People was published in the Statistics Release FreePersonal and Nursing Care, Scotland 2002-03 to 2005-06 on the 26 June 2007 and can be accessed at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/06/22152540/13.

The expenditure figurescannot be compared with the bed numbers at local authority level as localauthorities will support residents in Care Homes outside of their councilboundary.

Question reference: S3W-01432

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-967 by Stewart Stevenson on 22 June 2007, whether it will commission research into the connection between weight and sleep disorders.

Question reference: S3W-01922

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual NHS staff costs were in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board, expressed also as a percentage of each board’s total budget and showing year-on-year changes.

We are committed toNHSScotland being an exemplar employer. Enhancements to staff terms andconditions provide benefits to staff by recognising their contribution throughfair pay, greater flexibility and improved development opportunities; they alsohelp deliver benefits to patients by creating a more motivated and betterskilled workforce, and a platform for new working practices that can drive moreresponsive patient-centred services.

The figures are given intable 1 of parliamentary question S3W-1922 – Annual NHS staff costs 2001-02 –2005-06 a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. reference 43219). The tableshows the annual NHS staff costs over the last five years for each NHS board,the costs expressed as a percentage of each Board’s total budget and year onyear changes:

Reason for Increase

A range of factors impactupon staff costs. These include increases in staff numbers (which have beensignificant in recent years), annual uplifts to staff pay, movement of staff uppay scales, temporary supplements to staff pay such a New Deal bandingsupplements for junior doctors, introduction of pay modernisation and thechange in employers’ superannuation contributions from 5.5% of totalpensionable salaries to 14% in April 2004.

Question reference: S3W-01917

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost increase to the NHS was between 1999-2000 and 2006-07 in respect of (a) medical secretaries, (b) record keepers, (c) health educators, (d) IT technicians, (e) financial managers, (f) caterers, (g) launderers, (h) cleaners and (i) all other staff and what proportion of the total NHS budget was spent on administrative staff in (i) 1999-2000 and (ii) 2006-07, broken down by NHS board.

The NHS is a team operation.Staff such as those listed above, play a vital role in keeping a hospitalrunning smoothly. Behind every nurse or doctor there is someone making sure theirequipment works, that test results are processed accurately, that appointmentsare scheduled and that patient records are up-to-date. These staff groups playa key role in planning better services for the future. Every member of staff inthe NHS, regardless of their specialism, plays a vital part in saving lives inthe modern NHS.

Information on expenditureby NHS boards on the specific groups of staff requested is not collectedcentrally; however information on the following groups of staff is available:

Group	Examples
Specialists	Consultant, Senior House Officer, Registrar
Medical and Dental	Medical Advisor
Nursing - Trained	Nurse Grades ‘C’ – ‘I’, Nurse Manager
Nursing - In Training	Student Nurse
Nursing - Other	Auxiliary
P & T "A" - Para-Med.	Dietician, Radiographer, Occupational Therapist
P & T "B" - Para-Med.	Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer, Medical Technician
P & T "B" - Works	Building Officer, Engineering Officer
Administrative & Clerical	Senior Manager, Medical Records, Medical Secretary
Domestic and Ancillary	Porter, Gardener, Kitchen
Tradesmen	Electrician, Plumber, Joiner
Other Staff	Pharmacist, Chaplain, Other

Informationon the costs of these groups of staff and the increase between 1999-2000 and2006-07 is given in table 1 of parliamentary question S3W-1917 - NHS StaffExpenditure 1999-2000 and 2006-07 (SFR 15), a copy of which has been placed inthe Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43216).

Thestaff figures are taken from Scottish Financial Return 15 which were completedby all boards and trusts and returned to the SEHD with their annual accounts.

Proportion of NHS Budget

It is not possible toidentify exactly what each NHS board spends on administrative staff as there isno definition of this with which to collate information. However expenditure onstaff on administration and clerical pay scales has been used as anapproximation, although this may include staff who might not be consideredadministrative and conversely may exclude those that are who are paid on adifferent pay scale, such as senior managers.

Health Board	Administration & Clerical Staff Costs
Health Board	1999-2000	% of total Expenditure	2006-07	% of total Expenditure
	£000s	% of total Expenditure	£000s	% of total Expenditure
Argyll and Clyde	22,966	6%	N/A
Ayrshire and Arran	19,015	6%	39,981	6%
Borders	6,814	7%	12,609	7%
Dumfries and Galloway	8,648	6%	15,930	6%
Fife	16,247	5%	28,812	5%
Forth Valley	13,790	6%	26,428	6%
Grampian	28,336	6%	48,205	6%
Greater Glasgow (and Clyde)	59,042	6%	162,047	7%
Highland	12,390	6%	33,167	6%
Lanarkshire	24,435	5%	43,157	5%
Lothian	45,884	7%	77,319	6%
Orkney	1,086	5%	2,689	6%
Shetland	1,524	6%	3,518	8%
Tayside	27,992	7%	49,870	7%
Western Isles	2,009	5%	4,651	7%
Totals	290,179		548,383

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