- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many rotas covering junior doctors in NHS Argyll and Clyde are not compliant with the EU Working Time Directive, broken down by speciality.
Answer
We do not hold rota information for doctors in training. However, the following table provides details of NHS Aygyll and Clyde’s assessment of the number of doctors, broken down by specialities who are non-compliant with the requirements of the Working Time Regulations (WTR), as at 1 August 2004. I hope you find this information useful.
Analysis by Speciality – Argyll and Clyde
| Specialty | Number of Doctors in Training1 |
| WTR Non-Compliant at 16-06-044 | Expected to be WTR Non-Compliant at 01-08-042,4 | Total |
| AandE | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Anaesthetics | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| General Medicine | 7 | 5 | 55 |
| Geriatrics | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Paediatrics | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| General Psychiatry | 17 | 0 | 26 |
| ENT Surgery | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| General Surgery | 21 | 4 | 46 |
| Ophthalmology | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery | 14 | 6 | 14 |
| Unknown3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Totals | 74 | 15 | 235 |
| Percentages | 31.5% | 6.4% | 100% |
Notes:
1. These figures do not include GP Registrars.
2. Figures are board predictions for the number of doctors in training expected to be WTR non-compliant at 1 August 2004.
3. An unknown rota occurs where the return has provided insufficient information to distinguish which of the above specialties apply.
4. Compliance with the European Working Time Regulations includes working no longer than 58 hours per week, taking a minimum 11 hours rest in a 24 hour period, and receiving four weeks' paid annual leave.
- 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: Tuesday, 14 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9983 by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 September 2004, what (a) national and (b) local cost pressures have been identified by NHS Argyll and Clyde that are not covered by its allocations from the Executive for 2003-04 and 2004-05.
Answer
The Executive issues an overall allocation to NHS boards which aims to give each board its fair share of the resources available nationally. Allocations are not made in relation to specific local or national cost pressures. Instead NHS boards are expected to manage within the overall allocations available supplemented by any other sources of funding.
Given this position, it is not possible to identify specific national or local cost pressures which are not covered by allocations from the Executive. However, as stated in the answer given to question S2W-9983 the basic uplift provided to NHS boards in 2003-04 and 2004-05 is expected to cover all national cost pressures.
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/search_wa.
- 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, 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: 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.
