- 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: 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: 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.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have well-being alliances.
Answer
The following local authorities are known to have well-being alliances:
| Angus | East Dunbartonshire | Highland |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | Fife | North Ayrshire |
| Dundee City | Glasgow | Perth and Kinross |
COSLA's Public Health Improvement Team have indicated that they intend to undertake a dialogue and audit of local authorities development as health improvement organisations and expect to identify partnership and alliance working from this exercise. Other local authorities may also have these alliances but information on this is not held centrally.Most local authorities have, within the community planning process, set up joint working groups to produce Joint Health Improvement Plans for their areas.
- 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 28 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to increase the number of nurses that have access to a workplace nursery and what resources have been made available to ensure that further action will be taken to increase the number of nurses with such access.
Answer
Guidance on Family Friendly Policies was prepared in partnership with the service, trade unions and the professions, and published in January 2000. This document contains a section on child care, and lists the provision of workplace nurseries as an option that employers should consider. The guidance underpins the Staff Governance Standard and all NHS Scotland Employers are required to meet or exceed it. Employers' progress towards meeting the guidance will be part of the annual Staff Governance Standard audit process.NHS Organisations receive Scottish Executive funding each year, and the decision of how much of this money to allocate to provision of child care is made locally based on local priorities and circumstances. Some help with start up costs for nurseries may be available from local Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.
- 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 24 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that NHS trusts implement Partnership Information Network guidelines and what penalties will be faced by trusts that fail to implement them in the future.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33183 on 23 January 2003. 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: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have health improvement officers.
Answer
All NHS boards have Health Promotion Departments which employ staff whose aim is to build the capacity of the public, business and voluntary sectors to promote the health of communities and individuals. These staff have various responsibilities of which health improvement is one. In addition NHS boards, local authorities and the Scottish Executive are jointly funding health improvement posts based in each local authority area. 31 of these posts are currently filled. The responsibilities of these postholders are to support and contribute to the development of joint local Health Improvement Plans, facilitate their implementation through service planning and delivery in each local authority area, work with council services to develop and support their contribution to the health improvement agenda and to facilitate partnership working between local authorities and others, particularly NHS boards, in ways which will contribute to the joint health improvement agenda.
