- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which parties have underwritten any losses occurring through the default of any of the partners in the East Lothian public private partnership schools project consortium “Innovate East Lothian”.
Answer
This is entirely a matterfor the consortium.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #43 million East Lothian public private partnership schools contract has been paid to Ballast plc.
Answer
The normal procedure is fora council to make payments to the consortium with whom it has contracted.Payments made to parties or sub-contractors are matters for the consortium.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any party will incur compensation costs arising from any delay to the East Lothian public private partnership schools project.
Answer
Details of the contract,including any penalty provisions associated with delays in delivery, arematters for East Lothian Council and the consortium with whom it hascontracted.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications are for the East Lothian public private partnership schools project of Ballast plc being placed into administration and what the implications would be should the company go into receivership or liquidation.
Answer
In this public private partnershipproject, the private sector consortium has contracted to provide a service tostandards set out in the contract. If circumstances relating to one of theparties or sub-contractors change, it remains a matter for the consortium as awhole to determine how best to meet its contractual obligations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to proposals for workforce planning in the NHS for psychology services, what steps will be taken to introduce an integrated approach to strategic planning for psychology services within the NHS framework at local, regional and national levels and to review current experience of good practice in existing services.
Answer
Nationally the availabilityof psychological interventions services needs to be improved. NHS EducationScotland has commissioned a major expansion of training capacity for clinicalpsychologists while also working to develop greater flexibility in trainingpathways.
TheHealth Department Centre for Change and Innovation hosted a national conferencein September to review the strategic direction of psychology services includingconsideration of service redesign issues to deliver expanded psychological careacross the country. Psychology is also represented in the National Mental HealthWorkforce Group and in the steering group for the Doing Well by People withDepression initiative. These offer valuable opportunities to identify and sharegood practice.
The overall objective is toinform strategic workforceplanning and care approaches in order toraise the quality, quantity and effectiveness of psychological interventions acrossthe country.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has regarding the public private partnership contracts undertaken by East Lothian Council for schools refurbishment and build, given recent events regarding Ballast plc.
Answer
This is a matter betweenEast Lothian Council and the consortium with whom it has contracted. It is forthe consortium to determine how best to meet its contractual obligations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time has been for access to psychology services in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the proposals for workforce planning in the NHS for psychology services, what information it has on what progress has been made with the Leonardo da Vinci project to create a European diploma in psychology and what discussions will be held to include Scotland in the list of nations to take part in the piloting of the project.
Answer
We understand that theBritish Psychological Society (UK) has been involved in discussingharmonisation of training and the content of the proposed European diploma inpsychology. In respect of the pilot of this project, we understand that thispart of the process is at an early stage.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1500 by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 August 2003, whether the responses to the consultation paper on the reform of the NHS complaints procedure have now been published and, if so, whether they are publicly available and whether the minister's response to that consultation paper has been made and, if so, whether it is publicly available.
Answer
The responses to the consultationpaper on the reform of the NHS complaints procedure have now been published onthe Scottish Health on the Web site. The URL is as follows
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/complaints/.We have commissionedScottish Health Feedback to provide independent analysis of these responses andtheir document will be made available on this website.
My response to this analysisand the Scottish Health Feedback report will be available very shortly at theURL above.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available to enable doctors to return to practice after career breaks.
Answer
Funding is available underthe terms of the doctors retainer scheme which is aimed at re-introducing GPsback into general practice following a career break. Retainees receive a salaryfrom their employing practice who in turn are re-imbursed, currently at therate of 拢53.80 per half day. The retainee also receives an annual retainer feeof 拢300 to help meet the costs of educational courses and subscription tomedical journals.
The golden hello scheme isdesigned to attract newly qualified GPs into general practice and also GPsreturning to general practice by offering a package of incentive payments.Under the terms of the scheme GPs can receive a payment of 拢5,000 on taking upa new post. Further payments of between 拢2,500 and 拢7,500 are also available ifthe post is in a remote and rural are or a deprived area of Scotland.
For doctors in training ordoctors who are fully qualified, they would normally approach theirPostgraduate Dean or Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education whowould, subject to available funding through NHS Education for Scotland,arrange training or placements on an individual basis.
