- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds.
Answer
An assessment of the costs of providing universal health checks to 40 to 70 year olds will be one of the outputs from the research on the health checks pilots from 2011.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place with Community Pharmacy Scotland regarding the introduction of universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds.
Answer
Community Pharmacy Scotland have been invited to join a new steering group led by Scottish Government overseeing the implementation of primary prevention.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place with the British Medical Association regarding the introduction of universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds.
Answer
The BMA have been invited to join a new steering group led by Scottish Government overseeing the implementation of primary prevention.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people will be entitled to Life Begins at 40 health checks.
Answer
Current population figures suggest around 72,000 people each year across Scotland will be entitled to Life Begins at 40 health checks.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with what regularity Life Begins at 40 health checks will take place.
Answer
Currently the Life Begins at 40 checks are for each person on reaching their 40th year.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing Life Begins at 40 health checks.
Answer
An assessment of the costs of the Life Begins at 40 checks will be made towards the end of the pilot phase later this year.
The budget allocated to NHS 24 for piloting the Life Begins at 40 project was set for 2009-10 at £224,742 and for 2010-11 at £444,558.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with what regularity Keep Well health checks will take place.
Answer
Currently Keep Well health checks are not repeated.
There is an option in the current mainstreaming primary prevention consultation paper for these checks to be five yearly.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing Keep Well health checks.
Answer
The current consultation paper on mainstreaming the Keep Well primary prevention programme from April 2012 indicates a budget of £8.5 million for NHS board checks plus further support for the whole Keep Well programme.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with what regularity universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds will take place.
Answer
The pilot of universal health checks will explore the potential benefits of checks conducted at five yearly intervals.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will bring in new planning procedures in relation to the decision-making process for onshore wind farms.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34572 on 24 June 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.