- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland has, as part of its remit, a duty to assess the impact of its research, or of the application of its research findings, on patient care in Scotland.
Answer
The remit of Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland is to carry out high quality research into direct patient care. As with all the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) research units, the impact of its activity is evaluated by the Unit Advisory Group and at the formal review of the unit carried out by a panel of independent experts chaired by the CSO.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what grant funding, and from which funding bodies, the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland received in 2000 and what funding it will receive in 2001.
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO, core funding for Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland (NRIS) in year to 31 March 2001 will be approximately £398,000. The budget for year to 31 March 2002 is £407,000. In addition to funding the NRIS, CSO funds specific research projects administered by the unit. £297,000 and £300,000 was awarded to them for projects in 2000-01 and 2001-02 respectively.Additionally NRIS received external funding from the following sources in 2000.
| Funding Body | £ |
| CRAG | 1,200 |
| Ethicon Ltd | 600 |
| Greater Glasgow NHS Trust | 32,000 |
And will receive external funding from the following sources in 2001.
| Funding Body | £ |
| Tyco Healthcare UK/RCN A&E Nursing Association | 3,250 ** |
| European Society & Contraception | 10,000 |
| Ethicon Ltd | 600 |
| Greater Glasgow NHS Trust | 32,000 |
| NBS | 3796 |
| NIH | 230,000 |
| European Society & Contraception | 10,000 * |
** New funding in 2001.* New funding 2000.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current objectives are of the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland.
Answer
The aim of the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland (NRIS) is to become the national centre for excellence for Scotland-wide research into direct patient care. Current objectives will focus on research into stroke (a health priority area where nurses and Professions Allied to Medicine have major impact), Practitioner Decision-Making, Practitioner Interventions and Patient Centred Outcomes.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the publications of the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland from its establishment to date.
Answer
Details of five publications by NRIS are listed below.
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Brannan E, Curzio J, Hunt J | Stress and quality of life among carers of the adult learning disabled: a review of the literature | A NRIS publication. January 1997 |
| O'Henley A, Curzio J, Hunt J | How to design a questionnaire | A NRIS publication. January 1997 |
| Hagen S, Hanley J, Capewell A, Miller V | An evaluation of outcome measures for use in urinary incontinence | Final report to CSO, September 1998 |
| Sinclair L | An evaluation of the impact of employing experienced mental health nurses in accident and emergency (A&E) departments without an on-site psychiatric service | CSO Progress report, December 1998 |
| Curzio J | Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland at the Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust: A report of activities from January 1996 to February 1997 | A NRIS publication.April 1997 |
A further 84 articles, reports and publications have been published in non-NRIS medical journals and publications.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what contracts it has with Eglinton Management Centre at present.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has two contracts with Eglinton Management Centre at present. The first is to undertake a development needs analysis of the senior executives in NHSScotland. The other is for a management and organisational review of the support structures to pre-school nursery education.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it collates centrally from health boards information on the number of cases reported of (a) hospital acquired infection and (b) methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; if so, how many cases of each were reported in each of the last five years and this year to date, broken down by health board and, if not, what the reasons are for its position and whether it has any plans to collate such information centrally in the future or whether anyone else collates the information requested centrally.
Answer
Plans to collect and collate information centrally on the number of cases of hospital-acquired infection are currently being finalised. For methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health monitors the number of laboratory isolates - which gives an indication of the scale of the problem and overall trends. This information for the last five years is set out in the following table, broken down by health board. The upward trend most probably reflects both an increase in the actual rate of infection, and in the proportion of infections reported, and is in line with those trends seen elsewhere in the UK and in Europe. In a few cases more than one isolate can be obtained from one patient.
| Report Year | AC | AA | BR | DG | FF | FV | GG | GR | HG | LN | LO | OR | SH | TY | WI | Sc |
| 1996 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 75 |
| 1997 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 17 | 52 | 15 | 1 | 36 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 206 |
| 1998 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 44 | 28 | 104 | 28 | 4 | 54 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 403 |
| 1999 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 62 | 28 | 171 | 51 | 7 | 65 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 576 |
| 2000* | 21 | 45 | 13 | 17 | 62 | 39 | 149 | 64 | 25 | 54 | 148 | 2 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 694 |
*Figures for 2000 are provisional.
Source: SCIEH.
Date: 29.01.2001Key: | AC | Argyll & Clyde | FV | Forth Valley | LO | Lothian |
| AA | Ayrshire & Arran | GG | Greater Glasgow | OR | Orkney |
| BR | Borders | GR | Grampian | SH | Shetland |
| DG | Dumfries & Galloway | HG | Highland | TY | Tayside |
| FF | Fife | LN | Lanarkshire | WI | Western Isles |
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it spent any money received from NHSiS Trusts in the last financial year under the 6% return on capital assets rule.
Answer
All health budget resources, whatever their source, are invested in NHSScotland or in other health-related activity.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it received from each NHSiS Trust in the last three financial years under the 6% return on capital assets rule.
Answer
The Scottish Executive provides funding to NHSScotland to allow NHS Trusts to meet the 6% return on capital. The whole health budget, whatever its source, is invested in NHSScotland or other health related activity.Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change signalled that the NHS financial regime is being reviewed to simplify processes, reduce bureaucracy and to give greater flexibility to NHS Boards to maximise the benefits to patients from the Scottish Executive's investment in the NHS.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been conducted to determine the causes of hospital acquired infection, including methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and whether it will make copies of that research available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research to improve both the health of the people in Scotland and the services provided by the NHS. CSO is aware of 160 on-going or recently completed research projects into the causes of hospital acquired infection in the UK, 17 of which are in Scotland. CSO itself is currently funding one research project on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), in addition to a number of research projects on drug resistant organisms. Details of all these projects are available from the National Research Register, a copy of which is in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on the purchase of private hospital beds to deal with pressure on the NHS.
Answer
Local NHS Boards and NHS Trusts may, as has always been the case, purchase services and capacity from independent providers to deal with pressures and peaks in demand.
