- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS Orkney’s plans to reorganise GP cover will be subject to independent scrutiny.
Answer
No. After careful consideration we have concluded that NHS Orkney''s plans to reorganise GP cover will not be subject to independent scrutiny.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when NHS Orkney will be informed whether its plans to reorganise GP cover will be subject to independent scrutiny.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing wrote to the chair of NHS Orkney on 16 August 2008 regarding the matter of independent scrutiny for the reconfiguration of GP services.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria trigger independent scrutiny of an NHS board’s plans to reorganise GP cover.
Answer
Independent scrutiny will only be applied to cases of major service change and only where the benefits outweigh the costs. This will be judged on a case-by-case basis by Ministers and the bar will be set high.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what maximum response time is acceptable for ambulance call-outs (a) on the mainland and (b) in remote and island communities.
Answer
The objective of the Scottish Ambulance Service is to respond to emergency calls as promptly and safely as possible and within a response time that meets the clinical needs of the individual patient.
The time taken to respond is affected by a number of factors such as the condition and location of the patient, the nature of the emergency and the prevailing weather and road conditions. The ambulance service use recent data to predict where they are most likely to receive serious and life-threatening calls and to ensure resources are allocated in the most effective way to deliver a safe and efficient service across all parts of Scotland.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the grant allocation has been for the Affordable Housing Investment Programme at the beginning of each financial year since 2003-04 to (a) Highland Council, (b) Orkney Islands Council, (c) Shetland Islands Council, (d) Western Isles Council, (e) Moray Council and (f) Argyll and Bute Council, expressed also in real terms.
Answer
The grant allocation from the Affordable Housing Investment Programme for the areas requested is set out in the answer to question S3W-14092 on 24 June 2008. This question asked about constant terms, this is the same as real terms. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices stopped providing NHS general dental services in each of the last two years in (a) Argyll and Bute, (b) Mid Highland, (c) North Highland and (d) South East Highland community health partnerships.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table.
Number of Practices that Stopped Providing NHS General Dental Services in the Years Ending 31 March
| Community Health Partnerships | 2007 | 2008 |
| Argyll and Bute | | 11 |
| Mid Highland | | - |
| North Highland | | - |
| South East Highland | | 2 |
Source: NHS Highland.
Note: 1. This practice re-opened within a year.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists have provided NHS general dental services in each of the last two years in (a) Argyll and Bute, (b) Mid Highland, (c) North Highland and (d) South East Highland community health partnerships, also expressed per 10,000 of population.
Answer
The information is shown in the following table.
Number of Dentists1 who have Provided NHS General Dental Services, and Rates2 per 10,000 of Population; at 30 September
| | 2006 | 2007 |
| Community Health Partnership | Head Count | Rate | Head Count | Rate |
| Argyll and Bute | 50 | 5.5 | 49 | 5.4 |
| Mid Highland | 33 | 3.7 | 32 | 3.6 |
| North Highland | 19 | 5.0 | 17 | 4.5 |
| South East Highland | 64 | 7.3 | 77 | 8.8 |
Sources: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System) and GRO(S).
Notes:
1. The number (head count) of NHS non-salaried and salaried principals, assistants and vocational dental practitioners, based on the location of the dental practice.
2. Crude rates (all ages) for years 2006 and 2007 have been calculated per 10,000 persons, using 2006 mid-year population estimates from General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S).
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients had their registration status withdrawn in each of the last two years in (a) Argyll and Bute, (b) Mid Highland, (c) North Highland and (d) South East Highland community health partnerships.
Answer
The information requested is only available from March 2007. The table presents information for the quarters ending March, June, September and December 2007.
| Community Health Partnership | Quarter Ending |
| March 2007 | June 2007 | September 2007 | December 2007 |
| Argyll and Bute | 105 | 67 | 2 | 1 |
| Mid Highland | 221 | 120 | 73 | 39 |
| North Highland | 2 | 34 | 27 | 1 |
| South East Highland | 30 | 91 | 25 | 143 |
Notes:
1. Based on patients whose registration status indicated “withdrawn” between the dates considered. This occurs when there is a request for the registration record to be withdrawn (made usually by the dentist, and subsequently approved by the NHS board). The numbers also include withdrawals carried out where more than one active registration exists for the same patient as part of data cleansing. Some patients whose registration has been withdrawn may register with another dentist under NHS arrangements elsewhere. There may also be retrospective additions to these data.
2. If a patient has been withdrawn from more than one dental practice, they will be counted each time this happens. It is also possible for a patient to be counted in more than one NHS board if they have moved to a dentist in a different NHS board area and have been withdrawn from practices in each NHS board where they have received NHS general dental services.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices began offering NHS general dental services in each of the last two years in (a) Argyll and Bute, (b) Mid Highland, (c) North Highland and (d) South East Highland community health partnerships.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table:
Number of Practices that Started Providing NHS General Dental Services in the Years Ending 31 March
| Community Health Partnerships | 2007 | 2008 |
| Argyll and Bute | - | 11 |
| Mid Highland | - | - |
| North Highland | 1 | - |
| South East Highland | - | - |
Source: NHS Highland.
Note: 1. This practice closed and re-opened within the year.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) number and (b) percentage of patients have been registered with an NHS dentist in each of the last two years in (i) Argyll and Bute, (ii) Mid Highland, (iii) North Highland and (iv) South East Highland community health partnerships.
Answer
Information by community health partnership is published at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Reg_No3_Allregions_mar_jun_sep_dec07__.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.
The information requested is only available from March 2007. The tables present information as at March, June, September and December 2007. They do not represent the percentages of people in each community health partnership who are registered. Registrations (numerator) are based on the postcode of the practice where the patient has registered with a general dental practitioner. The population (denominator) is based on where the patient resides, in this case the community health partnership. In some cases, the number of registrations may exceed the actual number of “people” in the chosen population.
