- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders regarding the provision of court services in Peebles and the time taken to resolve the situation.
Answer
None. However, the Scottish CourtService, which has operational responsibility for courthouses, has kept the SheriffPrincipal of Lothian and Borders fully advised of its discussions with the ScottishBorders Council on providing court services from an alternative location in Peeblesand the reasons for the delay in concluding these.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received representations from Lothian and Borders Police regarding the funding of any development of a joint courthouse and police station in Peebles.
Answer
Lothian and Borders Police werein contact with the Executive in 2002 about the possibility of exceptional additionalfunding for a joint proposal.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Collegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) publications were issued within the NHS in each of the last four financial years; how many print runs were carried out for such publications; what the cost of these publications was in each of the last four financial years; whether any costings are made of the professional time involved in producing such publications; who receives SIGN publications, and how their effectiveness is monitored.
Answer
SIGN Guidelines Published
| | SIGN Budget |
| 1999-2000 | 5 | 拢457,000 |
| 2000-01 | 7 | 拢656,000 |
| 2001-02 | 7 | 拢817,000 |
| 2002-03 | 11 | 拢830,000 |
For the majority of these guidelinesonly one print run is carried out. If there is strong interest in a guideline anadditional print run is undertaken.
SIGN budgets for each of thelast four years are shown above. The cost of involving self-employed practitioners(general medical and dental practitioners) and practice nurses are met by the SIGNbudget. The costs associated with NHSScotland employees are currently met by theiremploying NHS boards.
聽SIGN guidelines and quick referenceguides are distributed free of charge to NHSScotland employees. In addition, allSIGN guidelines are available to download free of charge from their website (
www.sign.ac.uk).The effectiveness of SIGN guidelinesis generally monitored through clinical audit at local level. A report on the implementationof SIGN guidelines was published by Clinical Recourse and Audit Group (CRAG) in2002 (available from ).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place for the funding of (a) free personal care for patients registered with cross-border practices where the practice and the majority of patients are located in Scotland and (b) drugs for patients who live in England but are registered with a Scottish practice.
Answer
(a) The concept of free personal and nursing care only appliesto those who would normally pay for, or towards, such care in community settings.After a care needs assessment by the socialwork department in the area where the person lives, eligible people assessed asrequiring personal care at home are not charged for that care. A payment of either拢145 or 拢210 is provided towards the care costs of eligible people living in a carehome. The medical practice where a person is registered has no relevance here, and
(b) Unified budget allocations, which includeprescribing costs, take into account the number of patients registered with GP practicesin the area of the health board concerned, irrespective of the patient's countryof residence.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many practice pharmacists there are, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Information on NHS pharmacistsemployed at 30 September each year is published on the web pages of the Informationand Statistics Division of NHSScotland, in section A of Workforce Statistics atthe following address:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/NHSiS_resource/Workforce/workforce_statistics.htmSome pharmacists are employedby NHS trusts not for dispensing medicinebut to advise and support GP practices. The tables on these pages identify numbers of pharmacistsemployed by individual NHS trusts as well as by NHS board areas. However, they donot separately identify practice pharmacists within these overall numbers.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current average waiting time is for a first appointment with a paediatric occupational therapist, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures the Care Commission follows when it has made an inspection of a young people's residential unit.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-1901 today. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament鈥檚 website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive why the Care Commission report on Glenview Young People's Unit Galashiels, dated 29 May 2003, differs from the commission's report dated 3 March 2003.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1901 today. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament鈥檚 website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines are in place on the preparation, form and publication of Care Commission reports.
Answer
The inspection process includingthe preparation, form and publication of inspection reports and any associated guidelinesare an operational matter for the Care Commission.
An individual may raise any concernsthey have over the operation of a care service or with the way the Care Commissionhas conducted any part of the regulatory process through the Care Commission鈥檚 complaintsprocedure. Details can be found on its website at:
www.carecommission.com.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had sight of the Care Commission's inspection report on Glenview Young People's Unit, Galashiels.
Answer
Yes. The Care Commission hasa statutory duty to make inspection reports on registered care services availableto the public and as such we have asked for and received a copy.
