- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general surgeons were trained in each of the last five years.
Answer
The route to being able to apply for consultant posts within General Surgery is through attainment of the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) by Specialist Registrars (SpRs).
NHS Education for Scotland are responsible for overseeing the management of the training programmes. The table below provides a breakdown, by postgraduate deanery, of the number of SpRs who have completed their training.
Number of Trainees Completing Training in Scotland (i.e. Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) - 1 October 1999 - 30 September 2004
| Specialty | Date CCST awarded |
| 01.10.99 to 30.09.2000 | 01.10.2000 to 30.09.2001 | 01.10.2001 to 30.09.2002 | 01.10.2002 to 30.09.2003 | 01.10.2003 – 30.09.04 | Overall Total |
| General Surgery | | | | | |
| East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| North | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| S East | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| West | 0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Total | 5 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 55 |
Source: NHSEducation for Scotland.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are for general surgeons in the NHS.
Answer
Information on staff in postin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Details on consultant vacanciesby specialty are given in tables B11 and B12 of section B.
At 30 September 2003, there were14 whole-time equivalent consultant vacancies in General Surgery in NHS Scotland.The vacancy rate, expressed as a percentage of the establishment, was 6.5% justunder the national equivalent average of 6.7%.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9898 by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 September 2004, how many locum consultants were working in the NHS in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) speciality and (b) NHS board area.
Answer
The question requires a considerablelevel of detail in the answer and a copy of the information (Bib. number 34107)has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS locum medical staff there currently are, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) speciality.
Answer
The question requires a considerablelevel of detail in the answer and a copy of the information (Bib. number 34107)has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response was to the consultation which ended on 22 September 2004 on a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time and whether it will publish the response.
Answer
The Executive made no formalindividual response to the DTI consultation but has been fully involved in developingthe UK position on the Working Time Directive proposals.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are employed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in its Dundee office.
Answer
Sixty-two staff are currentlyemployed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in their Dundee office.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average population size is that is served by a district general hospital.
Answer
The population size served by individual hospitals across Scotland cannot be precisely defined in order to allow an average to be calculated.
General acute hospitals provide a range of services to patients from various geographic areas which are not necessarily close to the hospital. Factors affecting the patients seen in a hospital setting include the specialist services provided and the availability of transport links.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the average population size served by a district general hospital has changed since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-11477 answered on 10 November 2004. 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: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11034 by Mr Andy Kerr on 25 October 2004, which agencies each NHS employer engages with to meet service needs at a local level.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS employers who are responsible for the planning and delivery of a range of services and for ensuring a competent workforce to deliver these.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response was to the European Commission’s consultation which ended on 31 March 2004 on the working time regulations in relation to the opt-out for doctors' on-call time, and whether it will publish the response.
Answer
The Executive made no formal individual response to the Commission consultation on the working time regulations but has been fully involved in contributing to the UK response.
