- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of funds allocated to promote sexual health was specifically targeted at (a) females and (b) males in each year since 1999.
Answer
Precise figures are notavailable. In practice, many initiatives at both national and local levels willbe of relevance to both males and females.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated for providing information to the public on how to access sexual health services in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive would expect NHS boards to have regard to such issues in theirassessment of local needs. As such, the information requested is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what services there are to support (a) women and (b) men in the event of termination of pregnancy, miscarriage or stillbirth in each NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons are for the increase in recurrence of genital warts since 1999.
Answer
In 1999-2000, there were 2,382cases of recurrence of genital warts compared with 2,208 in the preceding year.Based on these data, there is no evidence of any appreciable increase in therecurrence of genital warts, but the Executive will study any new figures withinterest.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the prevalence of HIV has been per 10,000 pregnant women in each year since 1999 and whether data quality accounts for any changes in these figures.
Answer
The prevalence (per 10,000)of HIV infection in pregnant women in Scotland from 1999 to 2002 was as follows:
| Year | Number Tested | Positive | Prevalence |
| 1999 | 55,374 | 13 | 2.3 |
| 2000 | 53,347 | 25 | 4.7 |
| 2001 | 52,707 | 16 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 51,291 | 30 | 5.8 |
Note:Data quality has no bearing on any changes in prevalence.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) local and (b) national initiatives it has introduced to promote sexual health among (i) young women, (ii) men who have sex with men and (iii) ethnic minority groups in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The Executive providesfunding for a spectrum of initiatives aimed at promoting positive sexual healthacross a range of target groups. These include the Inclusion Project which aimsto develop a better understanding of issues specific to lesbian, gay, bisexualand transgender people, Walk the Talk, which has a focus on sexual healthservices for young people, and Caledonia Youth which provides a range of sexualhealth services in centres in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and, shortly, Falkirk.The promotion of sexual health is an important part of the work of NHS Health Scotland,including developing and making available SHARE materials and training forsecondary schools.
Specifically on theprevention of HIV, the Executive provides funding to a range of voluntaryorganisations which promote safer sexual health practices to prevent the spreadof HIV. This includes funding for the Healthy Gay Scotland project, which aimsto promote positive sexual health among gay and bisexual men. The Executivealso currently provides £8.119 million to NHS boards to assist them with theirwork to prevent the spread of blood borne viruses, including HIV.
The Executive has provided£3 million to the Lothian based Healthy Respect health demonstration project, whichincludes work with parents, and young women, preventing unwanted teenagepregnancies and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections.
At local level, NHS boardsand partner organisations, provide a range of services, responding to theirassessment of local needs. Details of all services so provided are not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting time for an initial consultation with a sexual health specialist (a) is currently and (b) has been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been made available to promote sexual health to (a) patients, (b) parents and (c) schools in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is notavailable centrally in the form requested.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) are currently waiting for and (b) have received in each year since 1999 an initial consultation with a sexual dysfunction specialist, giving the median waiting time for each year.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4247 by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 December 2003, whether there were any technical difficulties with regard to links to the National Waiting Times Database that prevented such links being found on its website, its press release SEDH556/2003 or Scottish Health on the Web on the day the National Waiting Times Database was launched and, if so, what these difficulties were.
Answer
The Information andStatistics Division of the Common Services Agency, who are responsible for theNational Waiting Times Database, have advised that there were no technicaldifficulties experienced with the database on 30 October 2003 when it waslaunched on the world-wide web.
