- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pulmonary nurses are employed by the NHS in each health board area.
Answer
The information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it provided for medical research in each of the last three financial years; which organisations benefited from this funding in each year and how much funding each organisation received.
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) within the Scottish Executive Health Department spends approximately £40 million per year on medical research. Of this, £30 million is allocated from the R&D Support Fund budget to NHS providers for research activities and related infrastructure costs. Table 1 details the allocation for the last three financial years for each NHS provider. Awards made to Trusts prior to 1 April 1999 have been allocated to their successor Trusts in the interests of comparability with later years.In addition, CSO provides approximately £2.8 million of funding annually for seven research units. Table 2 details the allocation to each unit for the last three financial years. CSO also awards a significant number of research grants to individual researchers which are administered by their respective research institution. Total expenditure in any financial year in respect of such grants is approximately £5.5 million. Details of the grants awarded in the last three financial years were provided in my answer to question S1W-13052.The remainder of the CSO research budget largely consists of a significant number of relatively small amounts. Summary information on payments made to the wide range organisations and individuals involved is not readily available.Table 1
Support Fund Recipient | | Year | |
| 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
Argyll & Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 21,275 | 49,467 | 76,875 |
Ayrshire & Arran Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 11,000 | 25,650 | |
Ayrshire & Arran Primary Care NHS Trust | 160,000 | 164,160 | 179,375 |
Borders General Hospital NHS Trust | 19,625 | | |
Borders Primary Care NHS Trust | | | 46,125 |
Fife Primary Care NHS Trust | | | 47,150 |
Forth Valley Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,200 | | |
Forth Valley Primary Care NHS Trust | 18,000 | 18,468 | 18,930 |
Grampian Primary Care NHS Trust | 700,000 | 497,713 | 487,003 |
Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust | 4,600,000 | 4,928,801 | 4,992,202 |
Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust | 250,000 | 410,400 | 420,660 |
North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,098,727 | 8,309,294 | 8,436,587 |
South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust | 1,081,013 | 1,109,119 | 1,136,847 |
Yorkhill NHS Trust | 1,589,168 | 1,630,486 | 1,654,536 |
Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 40,600 | 49,248 | 75,850 |
Lanarkshire Primary Care NHS Trust | | | 28,700 |
Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust | 860,000 | 882,360 | 922,500 |
Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust | 6,455,116 | 6,915,289 | 7,096,060 |
West Lothian Healthcare NHS Trust | 13,822 | | |
Tayside Research Consortium | 3,926,428 | 4,028,515 | 4,087,936 |
West of Scotland Primary Care R&D Network | 50,000 | 51,300 | 51,250 |
Ancrum Research Practice | 15,580 | 12,907 | 21,643 |
Forth Valley Primary Care Research Group | 72,000 | 73,872 | 75,719 |
Table 2
Research Units Budget | | | Year | |
| | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
Dental Health Services Research Unit | University of Dundee | 479,945 | 495,000 | 521,000 |
Social and Public Health Sciences Unit | University of Glasgow | 251,881 | 370,220 | 280,595 |
Health Services Research Unit | University of Aberdeen | 561,606 | 580,423 | 615,000 |
Health Economics Research Unit | University of Aberdeen | 387,508 | 415,803 | 434,000 |
Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland | Glasgow Caledonian University | 336,928 | 451,996 | 336,928 |
Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change | University of Edinburgh | 389,728 | 419,781 | 406,511 |
MRC Institute of Hearing Research | Glasgow Royal Infirmary | 231,305 | 247,676 | 262,172 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS Trusts provide free nebulisers for patients living within the community.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital chaplains are presently employed by the health service; which hospitals they serve and which church each represents.
Answer
There are currently 519 chaplains employed in the Health Service. The breakdown by denomination is as follows:Church of Scotland 287Roman Catholic 160Scottish Episcopal 71Chaplains directly employed by Trust 1 (There are 2 vacant posts at present)A breakdown of denomination by each hospital is not held centrally. More detailed information may be obtained from individual Trusts. The names and addresses of all Trusts are available on the Scottish Health on the Web website at www.show.scot.nhs.uk.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authorities are making adequate progress in developing services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
The same as you?, our review of services for people with learning disabilities, was well received when published last year.Local authorities are acting on many of the report's recommendations, using existing resources. I understand they are making progress with, for example:joint workingalternatives to traditional day opportunitiesemployment opportunitiesadvocacy schemesIn addition, resources of £36 million over three years are available from 1 April 2001 to support implementation of the review.Local authorities and their partners are required to submit their first Partnership in Practice agreements to the Executive by June this year. They will be closely monitored.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in implementing the recommendations in The Same As You? A Review of Services for People with Learning Disabilities.
Answer
Nationally, I am pleased to say that on 18 October we invited applications to establish the new Scottish Centre for Learning Disabilities. We are also analysing the responses to the consultation on the report, and will support implementation in whatever ways we feel are appropriate.Locally, agencies are acting on the report's suggestion that better outcomes are possible by making better use of existing resources.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the implementation of the recommendations contained in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities is proceeding according to schedule.
Answer
Yes. We have invited bids to operate new Scottish Centre for Learning Disabilities; we have announced a Change Fund of £36 million over three years; we are considering proposals from the National Autistic Society and the Scottish Society for Scotland to take forward establishment of a national service network for those with an autistic spectrum disorder, and the first Partnership in Practice agreements are to be submitted to the Executive by June this year.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans for the provision of Salbutamol or Ventolin inhalers to be exempt from prescription charges.
Answer
We have no plans to do so.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prison chaplains appointed under the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 there currently are, which prisons any such chaplains serve and which church each represents.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:There are currently 72 chaplains appointed under the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 serving in SPS Establishments. The breakdown is as follows:
HMP Aberdeen | 2 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
| 1 | Scottish Episcopal |
HMP Barlinnie | 5 | Church of Scotland |
| 3 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Castle Huntly | 2 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Cornton Vale | 1 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Dumfries | 1 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Edinburgh | 5 | Church of Scotland |
| 2 | Roman Catholic |
| 1 | Scottish Episcopal |
HMP Glenochil | 3 | Church of Scotland |
| 3 | Roman Catholic |
| 2 | Scottish Episcopal |
HMP Inverness | 2 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
| 1 | Scottish Episcopal |
HMP Low Moss | 1 | Church of Scotland |
| 2 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Noranside | 1 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Perth | 3 | Church of Scotland |
| 2 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Peterhead | 2 | Church of Scotland |
| 1 | Roman Catholic |
HMP Polmont | 4 | Church of Scotland |
| 2 | Roman Catholic |
| 1 | Scottish Episcopal |
HMP Shotts | 3 | Church of Scotland |
| 2 | Roman Catholic |
| 1 | Scottish Episcopal |
HMP Kilmarnock | 1 | Church of Scotland |
| 2 | Roman Catholic |
Chaplaincy teams facilitate the attendance of Ministers of other Christian denominations and representatives of other faiths at the request of prisoners.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Health and Community Care will reply to the letter dated 15 December 2000 from Mr R. Wilson of Bonnybridge.
Answer
Officials replied to Mr Wilson on 29 January 2001.