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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-15688

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital funding is allocated directly by (a) NHS Scotland and (b) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for the development of the Southern General Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-15682

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people from the catchment area for the Vale of Leven Hospital contacted (a) the 999 service for an ambulance and (b) NHS24 in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) the first quarter of 2008-09.

The Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS 24 have provided the following tables of information. It is not possible to give an absolute definition of the catchment area for the Vale of Leven Hospital as it relates to these organisations so the tables set out the postcode sectors that have been used to capture the information.

(a) Emergency Incidents Attended by the Scottish Ambulance Service

Postcode Sector	Area	2007-08	Quarter 1 2008-09
G60-5	Bowling	307	77
G82-1	Dumbarton	498	126
G82-2	Dumbarton	455	104
G82-3	Dumbarton	478	114
G82-4	Dumbarton	573	136
G82-5	Cardross	499	98
G83-0	Alexandria	1,210	276
G83-7	Arrochar	131	42
G83-8	Luss	611	181
G83-9	Arrochar	509	133
G84-0	Roseneath	276	72
G84-7	Helensburgh	512	120
G84-8	Helensburgh	602	166
G84-9	Helensburgh	171	46
PA248	Lochgoilhead	42	13
PA258	St Catherine''s	4	1
PA268	Cairndow	17	2
PA328	Inverary	135	30
Total		7,030	1,737

(b) Calls to NHS 24

Postcode Sector	Area	2007-08	Quarter 1 2008-09
G60-5	Bowling	1,401	311
G82-1	Dumbarton	1,021	191
G82-2	Dumbarton	1,573	314
G82-3	Dumbarton	1,391	309
G82-4	Dumbarton	1,569	408
G82-5	Cardross	1,358	341
G83-0	Alexandria	2,111	530
G83-7	Arrochar	193	47
G83-8	Luss	1,727	443
G83-9	Arrochar	2,387	574
G84-0	Roseneath	819	185
G84-7	Helensburgh	1,314	319
G84-8	Helensburgh	1,250	312
G84-9	Helensburgh	1,083	259
PA248	Lochgoilhead	103	39
PA258	St Catherine''s	4	3
PA268	Cairndow	15	0
PA328	Inverary	63	27
Total		19,382	4,612

Notes:

*Cowal Peninsula has not been included as it is assumed to be within the catchment for Inverclyde Royal.

**Areas north of Tarbert (on the Loch Lomond side) are not included as these are assumed to go to Glasgow or Stirling.

***Ambulance Service systems report incidents attended rather than numbers of calls. This is, for example, because there can be duplicate calls for one incident.

Question reference: S3W-15490

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14337 by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 July 2008, whether the identification of deaths from Clostridium difficile was entirely based on information from death certificates.

Question reference: S3W-15492

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14801 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2008, what specific statutory requirements are placed on NHS boards.

Question reference: S3W-15456

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it uses the information from the Rapid Review Panel to inform its own policy in relation to products that will help combat hospital-acquired infections such as Clostridium difficile.

Question reference: S3W-15457

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Vale of Leven Hospital was last inspected by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland; which areas of the hospital were inspected, and what were the conclusions and recommendations.

I am advised by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland that it''s predecessor body, the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland, visited NHS Argyll and Clyde in 2004-05 as part of the Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) standards peer review programme. The methodology used at that time meant that the board carried out a local self-assessment at board level rather than individual hospital site level. The external peer review team then assessed performance by considering the board''s self-assessment data and visited the board to validate and discuss the data provided.

Revised and updated HAI standards were published in March 2008 and NHS boards are now carrying out local self assessments against them.

Question reference: S3W-15454

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what key issues will be considered and measures taken in the (a) prevention, (b) containment and (c) transmission of Clostridium difficile.

Question reference: S3W-15453

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether guidance is issued to NHS boards and hospitals on containment measures to be used for patients suffering from Clostridium difficile.

Guidance to NHS boards is provided in the Standard Infection Control Precautions model policies produced by Health Protection Scotland (HPS). HPS is currently drafting new overarching national guidance on Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease (CDAD) which will set out the containment measures that should be used for patients with Clostridium difficile. As advised in previous answers, the Scottish Government''s HAI Task Force has been informed by HPS that the draft CDAD guidance will be provided to them in September 2008.

Question reference: S3W-15455

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has an equivalent to the Rapid Review Panel reporting to the Health Protection Agency in England.

Question reference: S3W-15687

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital funding is being allocated to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in (a) 2008-08 and (b) the next three financial years.