- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations between it and the Department of Health regarding future access to plasma stored by Life Resources Incorporated have already taken place or are planned for the future.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32793 today. 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.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any contracts by or on behalf of the NHS have been entered into, or will now be entered into, with Life Resources Incorporated following the purchase of the company by the Department of Health.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) has its own independent sources of non-UK plasma and keeps these under constant review. Life Resources is one of a number of commercial US plasma supply organisations which would be treated no differently from other commercial suppliers which might compete to supply plasma.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many extra acute hospital beds will be provided through the allocation of the #12 million announced by the Chief Executive of the NHS on 27 November 2002 for additional funding for winter pressures, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
It is for each NHS board to decide, based on local circumstances and clinical needs over the winter period, how to allocate its additional funding for winter. For Scotland as a whole, this winter, there will be 400 extra beds available, if required, and 20 extra critical care beds.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the placing of automated external defibrillators in public places.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30646 on 29 October 2002. 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: Wednesday, 23 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on developing a code of practice to respond to situations in the NHS such as the failure of the free'er tanks holding sperm samples at Western General Hospital in July 2001.
Answer
The Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS in Scotland is being reviewed and the lessons of this incident are being considered as part of that review.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what support has been offered to the people affected by the failure of the free'er tanks holding sperm samples at the Western General Hospital in July 2001.
Answer
Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust established a telephone helpline, and those who asked for specialist appointments with fertility or genetic experts had these arranged quickly. Expert counselling from nurses specialising in oncology and in genetics was offered, and additional investigations were provided for those who requested them. All of this was undertaken quickly, and with the appropriate sensitivity.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP lists are currently closed, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The number of GP practices which have indicated to their Primary Care Trust/Island NHS Board that they are not currently accepting new patients is as set out within the following table:
| Primary Care Trust/Island NHS Board | No. of GP Practices with Closed Lists |
| Lomond and Argyll PCT | 0 |
| Renfrewshire and Inverclyde PCT | 0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran PCT | 5 |
| Borders PCT | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway PCT | 0 |
| Fife PCT | 3 |
| Forth Valley PCT | 6 |
| Grampian PCT | 0 |
| Greater Glasgow PCT | 0 |
| Highland PCT | 0 |
| Lanarkshire PCT | 3 |
| Lothian PCT | 2 |
| Tayside PCT | 0 |
| Orkney NHS Board | 0 |
| Shetland NHS Board | 0 |
| Western Isles NHS Board | 0 |
| West Lothian NHS Trust | 1 |
| Total | 20 |
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29330 by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 September 2002, why the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency has no plans to compile key health indicators using the same criteria as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Answer
The Information and Statistics Division (ISD) compiles and publishes a large number of key health indicators for Scotland and these are presented on ISD Online, SKIPPER and in the Performance Assessment Framework, for example. These publications have developed through time to meet the needs of key stakeholders for health information. Many of the OECD indicators are reflected in these outputs.The ISD contributes to the OECD compendium of statistics through the submission of data to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) for publication by the OECD as country level comparisons. The ISD also contributes to the regional breakdowns of health indicators which are published by the ONS in Regional Trends and periodically in UK Geographic Variations in Health.Requests to resource the development of major new statistical outputs for the home countries, such as a more extensive regional comparison similar to the OECD, can be made through the user/provider consultation process for national statistics.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many locum consultant doctors there currently are working in each NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table:Locum Consultants Directly Employed in NHSScotland at 30 September 2001 by Health Board
| Health Board | Headcount | Whole Time Equivalent |
| Total | 110 | 85.3 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 6 | 2.3 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 9 | 7.0 |
| Fife | 2 | 2.0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 30 | 24.6 |
| Highland | 3 | 3.0 |
| Lanarkshire | 16 | 14.2 |
| Grampian | 6 | 4.8 |
| Orkney | 1 | 1.0 |
| Lothian | 21 | 15.3 |
| Tayside | 4 | 1.8 |
| Forth Valley | 9 | 5.5 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1.0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 | 2.7 |
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28610 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 September 2002, how much money it actually made available to the National Review of Resource Allocation for the NHS in Scotland.
Answer
The information requested is currently being collated. Once complete, I will write to the member with a full response and place a copy in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
