- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 12 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether blood products are being tested for hepatitis G.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service does not screen blood donations for this virus because it is unaware of any evidence that it causes any illness in humans.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it has made available to NHS trusts for the implementation of Partnership Information Network guidelines.
Answer
NHSScotland Organisations receive a general allocation of funding each year and it is for them to decide how to allocate that funding in accordance with national and local priorities. Area partnership and local partnership forums should be involved in determining the funding process.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much having patients ready for, but still awaiting, discharge from an NHS hospital cost the NHS (a) in total and (b) per person in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally available. The available information on delayed discharges is published on a quarterly basis by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency and is available at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/Joint_futures/delayed_discharges/ready_for_discharges.htm.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the patients ready for discharge, as specified by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency on 15 October 2002, were 65 and over.
Answer
The information requested is contained in
Patients Ready for Discharge in NHSScotland - figures from 15 October 2002 census (Chart 5), published by ISD Scotland on 17 January 2003. This information is available at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/Joint_futures/delayed_discharges/ready_for_discharges.htm.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will appoint a special NHS board to manage the National Golden Jubilee Hospital and who it will appoint to this board.
Answer
The National Waiting Times Centre Board (Scotland) Order 2000 (2002 Number 305), which came into force on 27 June 2002, established the hospital as a Special Health Board.Substantive appointments to the board will be made in accordance with the procedures agreed with the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments. That process is under way.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were affected by delayed discharge in each of the last two years.
Answer
Information on the total number of all patients who experienced a delayed discharge over a period of time (for example, a year) is not centrally available. Information is only available on the number of patients experiencing a delayed discharge at given points in time, i.e. the quarterly census points. This information is published by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency on a quarterly basis, and is available at:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/Joint_futures/delayed_discharges/ready_for_discharges.htm.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 21 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what viruses and diseases haemophiliacs have been exposed to through blood transfusion products.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) screens blood donations for HIV, HTLV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C. SNBTS has no knowledge of any of these infections having been transmitted to any haemophiliacs by transfusion of plasma derivatives manufactured by SNBTS since April 1987. This is an area in which the science is very complex. I will write to you providing further information and will place copies of my letter in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 6 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria a company offering a Training for Work course in internet web design needs to meet to ensure that it is in a position to provide the course satisfactorily.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 6 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring Scottish Enterprise undertakes in order to ensure that companies contracted to provide Training for Work courses continue to fulfil specified criteria.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 6 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Netcon-X Enterprise Ltd receives each month per student from Scottish Enterprise for the provision of the Training for Work internet web design course.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
