- 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 Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people quit smoking in each year since 1999, broken down by deprivation category.
Answer
This information is not currentlyheld centrally. However, steps are being taken to establish a national data basefor Scottish smoking cessation services which will mean that information on uptakeof services and quit rates at national level and for different localities throughoutScotland with a breakdown of different sub-sections of the community (e.g. by gender,age, ethnicity, and socio-economic group) will be available from 2005.
- 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 Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community centres offer smoking cessation services, broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) deprivation category.
Answer
I refer the member to the questionS2W -11026 answered on 12 November 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon 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, 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: 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 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: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is that a patient with an availability status code has to wait for in-patient/daycase treatment, broken down by speciality.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many incidences patients have been given availability status code 9 on a waiting list, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) speciality affected.
Answer
The Executive must authorise any proposed use of availability status code 9 on a waiting list. In the last year, authorisation has been given once, in response to a request from NHS Greater Glasgow following a major accident at a warehouse in the city in May 2004.
Thirty-three patients had their planned in-patient/day case treatment, mainly in orthopaedics and plastic surgery, postponed and availability status code 9 applied. NHS Greater Glasgow report that all 33 patients have since been admitted for treatment.
