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In the UK, there is an alternative licensed product, OncoTICE, manufactured by MSD. Limited supplies of OncoTICE are now available directly from the manufacturer.

Scottish Medical trainees are recruited to a variety of training programmes including Foundation and GP training, entry to which is organised on a UK basis, and to specialty training which is organised in Scotland through NHS Education for Scotland (NES).

Trainees express preferences for placement in specialties in four Deanery regions in Scotland, the west, north, east and south east. they are then allocated to health boards who employ them (with the exception of GP trainees, who are employed by NES). It is therefore the case that, although employed by health boards, trainee doctors are not taken on by them.

The numbers of doctors in training in Scotland since 2007 are as shown in ISD statistics - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/publications/2012-08-28/M_and_D_staffinpost_J2012.xls?95792133.

This information is not held centrally.

In the UK, there is an alternative licensed product, OncoTICE, manufactured by MSD. Limited supplies of OncoTICE are now available directly from the manufacturer.

Public bodies listed in the act have a duty to comply fully with responsibilities set out for them in the act. It is, first and foremost, the responsibility of these listed public bodies to demonstrate publicly how they have complied with the various sections of the act which apply to them. However, compliance with the act is monitored as appropriate, including through the ongoing performance management arrangements the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament have with the bodies they each sponsor or support.

The number of specialist child and adolescent beds over the period 2007-11 is:

There are no beds allocated for children or adolescents in adult psychiatric wards.

However, there are times when it may not be possible for a young person to be admitted to a specialist child and adolescent bed – for example, a crisis admission out of hours where there are concerns for the young person’s safety, or where a specialist facility might be a considerable distance from family support that could help recovery.

If a young person has to be in an adult ward, we expect their care to be specially tailored to their needs with input from specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) staff, taking into account education, social work advocacy and recreation.

Further information on Child and Adolescent beds can be obtained from the ISD website http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Hospital-Care/Beds/.

The Scottish Government contracted TNS to carry out an evaluation of the field marketing activity in support of its wider 2012 smoking cessation campaign. This research was conducted amongst visitors to bespoke smoking cessation stands in 34 locations across Scotland. All interviews were conducted over the telephone with people aged over 16 who had agreed to be contacted for research purposes. In total, 282 interviews were completed from 26 January to 4 March 2012.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-07966 on 26 June 2012. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

The following table shows information on the number of patients undergoing gastric band and gastric bypass operations, where a main diagnosis of obesity has also been recorded, by age band for the financial year ending 31 March 2011.

The data may not include information on NHS patients whose operations were undertaken in independent sector hospitals.

Table 1. Number of Patients undergoing Gastric Band and Gastric Bypass operations by age band in 2010-11

Source: ISD Scotland SMR01.

Note: - denotes no cases.

The regulation of nursing and midwifery is reserved to the UK Government and Scottish Ministers have no statutory functions in setting registration fees for these professions. No discussion has been held with the Nursing and Midwifery Council on this subject.

All new medicines are considered by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) who operate independently from the Scottish Government. The SMC has robust arrangements in place which concentrate on the introduction of clinically and cost effective medicines to treat all conditions.

Where a medicine is “not recommended” for routine use within the NHS in Scotland by the SMC, NHS board Individual Patient Treatment Request arrangements allow for the clinically-led consideration of such medicines for individual patients in certain circumstances.