- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which operating divisions of NHS Argyll and Clyde met the budget they were set for 2003-04.
Answer
Further to the dissolution of NHS trusts, the Scottish Executive monitors the financial performance of NHSScotland on a board wide basis. It is a local matter for NHS boards to monitor the financial performance of operating divisions.
The information requested above is not held centrally by the Executive.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which operating divisions of NHS Argyll and Clyde did not meet the budget they were set for 2003-04 and what the level of overspend was in each case.
Answer
Further to the dissolution of NHS trusts, the Scottish Executive monitors the financial performance of NHSScotland on a board wide basis. It is a local matter for NHS boards to monitor the financial performance of operating divisions.
The information requested above is not held centrally by the Executive.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what savings have been identified by NHS Argyll and Clyde for 2004-05, broken down also into individual operating divisions and (a) indicating monetary value, (b) shown as a percentage of (i) NHS Argyll and Clyde’s total budget and (ii) the operating division’s budget and (c) shown as a proportion of the population for each division.
Answer
NHS Argyll and Clyde have set a savings target of £14 million for 2004-05. These are “real” savings and are in addition to withdrawing all discretionary “developments” from the Local Health Plan.
The savings per division as a percentage of the board’s unified budget allocation are as follows:
| | Total Savings (£000) | Budget (%) |
| Greater Renfrewshire | 4,400 | 0.8 |
| Lomond and Argyll | 4,200 | 0.8 |
| Inverclyde | 5,400 | 1.0 |
| Total | 14,000 | 2.6 |
The total savings per division cannot be shown as a percentage of each operating division’s budget or as a proportion of the population for each division as this information is not held centrally by the department.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estate revenue costs are for the (a) Dumbarton Joint Hospital and (b) Helensburgh Victoria Infirmary.
Answer
The estate revenue costs for Dumbarton Joint Hospital and Helensburgh Victoria Infirmary are £647,000 and £436,000 respectively. These are the latest published figures and relate to financial year 2002-03.
Estate revenue costs are taken to be property costs, and include costs such as property maintenance, cleaning, utilities, rent and rates, rental/repair of furniture and capital charges.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to reduce the waiting list for audiology treatment in the Lomond Division of NHS Argyll and Clyde.
Answer
Whilst local action is a matter for NHS Argyll and Clyde, the Executive is committed to modernising and improving audiology services across NHSScotland. We are investing almost £20 million over the five-year period 2002-03 to 2006-07 to ensure NHS boards are equipped with the necessary facilities, equipment, staff and hearing aids to provide a modernised service.
Each NHS board has its own action plan for modernisation and has therefore reached different stages in the modernisation process.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive in which clinical areas there are consultant shortages and what the scale of such shortages is.
Answer
Vacancies in any staff group are a normal part of staff turnover. One indication of shortage areas can be derived from hard to fill posts which have been vacant for six months or more.
Table B11 on the ISD Scotland website (www.isdscotland.org/workforce)contains such information by each specialty. It is currently correct to 30 September 2003.
The Scottish Executive has a Partnership Agreement commitment to increase the number of NHS consultants by 600 by 2006.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been transferred from the Vale of Leven, Dumbarton and Helensburgh to receive emergency treatment at a hospital outwith NHS Argyll and Clyde boundaries in the last year.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been transferred from the Vale of Leven, Dumbarton and Helensburgh to receive emergency treatment at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in the last year.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been treated by the Vale of Leven Hospital Accident and Emergency Department in the last year of its operation.
Answer
There were 18,928 attendances at the Vale of Leven Hospital Accident and Emergency Department in the year ending 31 December 2003.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is in discussion with the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority on the use of jet skis on the loch.
Answer
This is a matter for the National Park Authority in the first instance. However, we are aware that the authority is reviewing the adequacy of the current byelaws with a view to a public consultation exercise next year.
