- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15591 by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008, whether the report from the Outbreak Control Team will be published after it has been shared with the area procurator fiscal.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-16253 on 25 September 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15571 by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008, whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde followed up on the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland inspection of May 2005 which showed that NHS Argyll and Clyde had not met 40 of the 69 criteria for hospital-acquired infections and, if so, what action was taken and when.
Answer
The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland arrangements existing at that time were commissioned by the previous administration.
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that the Argyll and Clyde area infection control committee progressed a number of the actions raised in the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland report through the action plan based on the NHS code of practice for the local management of hygiene and healthcare associated infection. The member will wish to approach NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for information on the specific actions that were taken.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be scrutinised against our revised NHS quality improvement healthcare associated infection standards which were published in March 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15613 by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008, when the Outbreak Control Team will report and whether the report will be published.
Answer
I am informed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that the draft of the report of the Outbreak Control Team is being finalised. It is not possible to confirm the publication date as yet.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15579 by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008, whether the Infection Control Manager reported any problems at the Vale of Leven Hospital to the Chief Executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde between December 2007 to June 2008 and, if so, when.
Answer
I fully anticipate that full details of the procedures followed during this outbreak will be set out in the Outbreak Control Team''s report which will be produced in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15497 by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 September 2008, whether it considers that the nine full ward terminal cleans carried out at Vale of Leven Hospital between 21 December 2007 and 25 April 2008 were for Clostridium difficile rather than norovirus outbreaks, based on the evidence which has since come to light.
Answer
No. I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that within this period, the Infection Control Team at the Vale of Leven Hospital specifically detected outbreaks of Norovirus on a number of occasions. On each of these occasions the wards concerned were closed and the outbreak managed in accordance with the national guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of Incident Control Teams. This included instruction to the hospital''s domestic services to undertake a terminal clean prior to the re-opening of the affected ward.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how the “bug busters” teams that are to inspect hospitals for cleanliness, as reported in Scotland on Sunday on 14 September 2008, will interface with the current self assessment of healthcare associated infection standards by NHS boards.
Answer
The Scottish Government is developing detailed plans for inspections of hospitals and reporting arrangements for consultation. An announcement will be made in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing intends to announce to the Parliament that she is establishing “bug busters” teams that are to inspect hospitals for cleanliness, as reported in Scotland on Sunday on 14 September 2008.
Answer
The Scottish Government is developing detailed plans for inspections of hospitals and reporting arrangements for consultation. An announcement will be made in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the “bug busters” teams that are to inspect hospitals for cleanliness, as reported in Scotland on Sunday on 14 September 2008, will be independent of the Scottish Government.
Answer
The Scottish Government is developing detailed plans for inspections of hospitals and reporting arrangements for consultation. An announcement will be made in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive to whom the “bug busters” teams that are to inspect hospitals for cleanliness, as reported in Scotland on Sunday on 14 September 2008, will report.
Answer
The Scottish Government is developing detailed plans for inspections of hospitals and reporting arrangements for consultation. An announcement will be made in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the specific responsibilities of the “bug busters” teams that are to inspect hospitals for cleanliness, as reported in Scotland on Sunday on 14 September 2008.
Answer
The Scottish Government is developing detailed plans for inspections of hospitals and reporting arrangements for consultation. An announcement will be made in due course.
