- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures NHS boards have in place to ensure the containment of norovirus.
Answer
To ensure best practice in the prevention and treatment of norovirus outbreaks in health boards, Health Protection Scotland published, on 1 December 2009, revised guidance on norovirus outbreak, control measures and practical considerations for optimal patient safety and service continuation in hospitals. The document is available on their website at:
http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/haiic/ic/publicationsdetail.aspx?id=43440.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were registered with dentists as at 1 March 2010, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not currently available. Information on patients registered under NHS arrangements for the period up to 31 March 2010 will form part of a National Statistics Release which is due to be published on 27 July 2010. We do not hold information on the number of patients who attend a dentist under private arrangements.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were on dental waiting lists as at 1 March 2010, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. As independent contractors dentists are not obliged under their NHS terms of service to advise NHS boards of any waiting lists they may hold. Individual NHS boards may hold information on those waiting to register with their salaried dental service.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 13 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were registered with dentists as NHS patients as at 1 March 2010, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not currently available. Patient registration information for the period up to 31 Mach 2010 will form part a National Statistics Release which is due to be published on 27 July 2010.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the initial revenue allocation was to NHS (a) Highland, (b) Orkney, (c) Shetland and (d) Western Isles in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10 and is for 2010-11, also expressed in real terms, and what the value would be expressed as an NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocation.
Answer
The initial revenue allocations to the four boards mentioned above were/are:
| NHS Board | Baseline Allocations |
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) |
| NHS Highland | 445.8 | 459.6 | 469.6 | 480.6 |
| NHS Orkney | 28.7 | 29.7 | 30.5 | 31.3 |
| NHS Shetland | 33.9 | 34.9 | 35.9 | 36.8 |
| NHS Western Isles | 53.6 | 55.2 | 56.6 | 58.1 |
Initial allocations expressed in real terms are:
| NHS Board | Baseline Allocations in Real Terms |
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) |
| NHS Highland | 476.7 | 479.4 | 480.1 | 480.6 |
| NHS Orkney | 30.7 | 30.9 | 31.2 | 31.3 |
| NHS Shetland | 36.2 | 36.4 | 36.7 | 36.8 |
| NHS Western Isles | 57.3 | 57.6 | 57.9 | 58.1 |
Note: The adjusted figures are shown at 2010-11 prices.
If allocations were made on the basis of the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation (NRAC) target, then they would have been:
| NHS Board | NRAC Target Allocations |
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) |
| NHS Highland | 447.3 | 459.9 | 455.1 | 470.0 |
| NHS Orkney | 29.1 | 30.2 | 30.3 | 31.6 |
| NHS Shetland | 31.6 | 32.9 | 31.8 | 33.3 |
| NHS Western Isles | 50.6 | 51.8 | 45.5 | 47.0 |
In real terms, the NRAC target would be:
| NHS Board | NRAC Target Allocations in Real Terms |
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) | (£ million) |
| NHS Highland | 478.3 | 479.7 | 465.3 | 470.0 |
| NHS Orkney | 31.1 | 31.5 | 31.0 | 31.6 |
| NHS Shetland | 33.8 | 34.3 | 32.5 | 33.3 |
| NHS Western Isles | 54.1 | 54.0 | 46.6 | 47.0 |
No board will receive less funding than it does at present and any changes will be phased in over a number of years as has been the practice under both the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage share of total initial revenue allocation to territorial NHS boards has been given to NHS (a) Highland, (b) Orkney, (c) Shetland and (d) Western Isles for 2010-11 and what the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target share was in each case.
Answer
The percentage share of total revenue allocations to territorial NHS boards for the four boards mentioned above and their NRAC target shares are:
| NHS Board | Actual | NRAC |
| NHS Highland | 6.46% | 6.32% |
| NHS Orkney | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| NHS Shetland | 0.49% | 0.45% |
| NHS Western Isles | 0.78% | 0.63% |
No board will receive less funding than it does at present and any changes will be phased in over a number of years as has been the practice under both the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to prevent prisoners from sending unwanted letters to their victims.
Answer
I have asked Willie Pretswell, Interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2006 enable the Governor to take steps to seek to prevent prisoners corresponding with individuals or institutions that have made this request in writing.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how measures to prevent prisoners from sending unwanted letters to their victims compare with those in England and Wales.
Answer
I have asked Willie Pretswell, Interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The Prison and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2006 enable governors to take steps to seek to prevent prisoners corresponding with persons or institutions that have made it known that they do not wish to receive correspondence.
The measures applied in Scotland are similar to those measures applied in England and Wales in so far as a recipient of correspondence from a prisoner in England and Wales may request in writing that no further letters should be sent.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether measures to prevent prisoners from sending unwanted letters to their victims could be circumvented by marking a letter as legal correspondence.
Answer
I have asked Willie Pretswell, Interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:
It is possible for prisoners to attempt to circumvent procedures put in place to prevent unwanted letters being sent out to victims. The SPS take their public protection responsibilities very seriously and will take whatever legal steps are available to uphold these responsibilities. The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2006 enable governors to intercept and open mail from and to prisoners where it is suspected, or reported to the establishment, that a prisoner is seeking to send mail to someone who has requested this not to happen.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 11 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S3O-8282 by Adam Ingram on 5 November 2009 (Official Report c. 20919), what progress has been made in bringing together a meeting of key local authority representatives to learn from those authorities that are delivering effective support for kinship carers.
Answer
Following the release of the latest Children Looked After Statistics on 24 February 2010, I now intend to consider with local authorities what further support, through meetings or otherwise, they would find useful in discharging their duties to looked after children, including those in kinship care.
