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In presenting statistics on suicidesit is conventional to combine deaths classified as intentional self-harm (suicides)with those classified as events of undetermined intent. This is because the majorityof the latter are likely to have been suicides. The following tables provide informationon this basis.

Deaths Caused by IntentionalSelf Harm and Events of Undetermined Intent¹ Persons Aged 60 yearsand Over Scotland 1999-2005

(a) by Gender	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
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Number of deaths	162	146	148	157	138	138	140
Percentage of all ages	18.5%	16.6%	16.7%	17.5%	17.4%	16.5%	18.3%
Males
Number of deaths	114	107	94	101	96	90	96
Percentage of all ages	17.2%	15.9%	14.6%	14.9%	16.6%	14.8%	17.5%
Females
Number of deaths	48	39	54	56	42	48	44
Percentage of all ages	22.7%	19.1%	22.4%	25.1%	19.4%	21.2%	20.6%

Note: 1. 1999: ICD9codes E950, E980. 2000-2005: ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y10-Y34, Y87.0, Y87.2.

Deaths Caused by IntentionalSelf Harm and Events of Undetermined Intent¹ Persons Aged 60 Yearsand Over Scotland 1999-2005

(b) by NHS Board area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Number of deaths	��	��	��	��	��	��	��
Scotland	162	146	148	157	138	138	140
Ayrshire and Arran	16	7	11	9	8	11	12
Borders	2	4	1	5	7	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	8	6	5	9	4	2	8
Fife	9	6	11	15	8	6	11
Forth Valley	8	4	8	2	5	2	4
Grampian	19	19	10	20	17	16	18
Greater Glasgow and Clyde2	43	42	37	46	33	36	28
Highland2	14	10	17	12	12	11	13
Lanarkshire	13	14	15	12	14	11	17
Lothian	14	15	21	23	15	24	15
Orkney	1	3	1	1	1	0	2
Shetland	0	1	0	1	1	1	0
Tayside	14	14	9	2	13	14	8
Western Isles	1	1	2	0	0	1	1
Percentage of All Ages
Scotland	18.5%	16.6%	16.7%	17.5%	17.4%	16.5%	18.3%
Ayrshire and Arran	21.3%	12.3%	12.6%	14.3%	18.2%	22.0%	22.2%
Borders	10.5%	23.5%	6.3%	23.8%	35.0%	18.8%	37.5%
Dumfries and Galloway	22.2%	22.2%	26.3%	32.1%	19.0%	9.1%	28.6%
Fife	20.9%	10.9%	22.0%	22.1%	20.0%	12.0%	20.0%
Forth Valley	15.4%	14.3%	16.3%	4.3%	13.9%	4.8%	15.4%
Grampian	21.1%	22.6%	12.8%	23.8%	21.0%	15.8%	24.0%
Greater Glasgow and Clyde2	18.9%	16.5%	16.4%	19.4%	15.5%	17.1%	14.0%
Highland2	22.6%	14.9%	25.8%	20.7%	20.3%	13.4%	26.5%
Lanarkshire	16.5%	17.7%	18.8%	12.0%	16.5%	13.4%	20.7%
Lothian	12.4%	12.3%	15.7%	17.8%	14.6%	21.8%	12.9%
Orkney	33.3%	75.0%	100.0%	33.3%	16.7%	0.0%	50.0%
Shetland	0.0%	20.0%	0.0%	16.7%	14.3%	25.0%	0.0%
Tayside	20.9%	20.3%	13.0%	3.7%	17.8%	23.0%	14.0%
Western Isles	20.0%	11.1%	25.0%	0.0%	0.0%	33.3%	14.3%

Notes:

1.1999: ICD9 codes E950, E980.2000-2005: ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y10-Y34, Y87.0, Y87.2.

2. Incorporating part of theformer NHS Argyll and Clyde area.

 

Funding for smoking cessationservices is not currently ring fenced for specific priority groups such as youngpeople. It is for NHS boards to assess needs locally and respond to the demand forcessation services for priority groups accordingly.

The information requested isnot available. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation has not been producedat ward level.

All funding eligiblefor allocation to Scottish budgets by way of budget consequentials is held centrally.It is then allocated by the Scottish Government in light of all competing pressuresand the Government’s priorities.

The Scottish Governmentis fully committed to consulting families with disabled children, as well as representativeorganisations, before taking decisions on issues which affect them.

The need to make additional specificresources available to local authorities to enforce tobacco sales will be consideredunder the current spending review.

The allocation or smoking cessationservices in 2007-08 were as follows:

	£000
Ayrshire and Arran	542
Borders	170
Dumfries and Galloway	231
Fife	462
Forth Valley	373
Grampian	597
Greater Glasgow	2,569
Highland	455
Lanarkshire	1,147
Lothian	1,311
Orkney	53
Shetland	59
Tayside	949
Western Isles	82
Total	9,000

 

In addition £2 million has beenallocated in 2007-08 to the keep well projects in Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire,Lothian and Tayside health boards bringing the total available for smoking cessationsupport to £11 million in 2007-08.

NHS Smoking Cessation Serviceshave received additional funding of £2 million this year bringing total fundingto a record £11 million. Young people are already a priority group for cessationservices and I expect boards to use part of the additional funding to provide supportto young people wishing to quit. There are no plans to ring-fence funding specificallyfor underage smokers.

Information on median and longestwaits for urgent breast cancer referrals for the years and in the format requested,is available from in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under:

Table a: Number of urgently referred breast cancer patients withthe median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosis by year and hospital/institutionof diagnosis (2004)

Source: Information ServicesDivision, NHS National Services Scotland, Bib. ��number 43179.

Table b: Number of urgently referredbreast cancer patients with the median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosisby year and hospital/institution of diagnosis (2005), Bib. number: 43180.

Table c: Number of urgently referredbreast cancer patients with the median and maximum wait between referral and diagnosisby year and hospital/institution of diagnosis (2006), Bib. number: 43181.

The information requested isnot available for each year since 2004.

The Scottish Health Survey gives average Body MassIndex (BMI) for children and adults. The most recent data available is for the year2003. NHS board level results are only available for adult BMI data.

NHS Board Level: Mean BMI byGender and NHS Board (ADULTS Aged 16+ Years)

	Mean BMI			Sample Base (Unweighted)
	Males	Females	All Adults	All Adults
Argyll and Clyde	27.4	27.2	27.3	379
Ayrshire and Arran	27.4	27.2	27.3	484
Borders	27.2	26.9	27.1	285
Dumfries and Galloway	27.7	27.6	27.6	464
Fife	26.9	27.3	27.1	452
Forth Valley	26.4	27.3	26.8	330
Grampian	26.7	27.2	26.9	615
Greater Glasgow	26.8	26.6	26.7	1027
Highland	27.2	27.6	27.4	610
Lanarkshire	27.5	27.4	27.5	593
Lothian	27.2	26.8	27.0	860
Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles	[27.8]	[27.6]	27.7	195
Tayside	26.4	27.8	27.2	406
Scotland	27.0	27.2	27.1	6700

Source: Scottish Health Survey2003.

Notes:

1. Orkney, Shetland and the WesternIsles have been combined due to the small sample sizes within each of these threeNHS boards.

2. Estimates based on an effectivesample size below 100 have been presented in square brackets to draw users’ attentionto the small sample size.

3. A separate set of tables presentsthe standard errors, design factors and 95% confidence intervals for a selectionof these health board estimates in order to help users assess the precision of theestimates:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50264.

Scotland level: Mean BMI by age and sex (children aged 2-15 years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50271.

(See table 5.4 on page 123.)

Scotland level: Mean BMI by age and sex (adults aged 16+ years):

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50261.

(See table 5.5 on page 175.)

Note: The relationship betweenBMI and definition of overweight and obesity is straightforward for adults, butmore complex for children. See background notes for further information.

(a) Information on waiting timesfrom diagnosis to treatment is only collected centrally for patients with breastcancer. The data presented in the following table therefore refer to breast cancerpatients only.

Number of Breast Cancer Patients with the Median Waitbetween Diagnosis and First Treatment by Period of Diagnosis

Period of Diagnosis	Number of Patients with Recorded Treatment Date	Median wait Between Diagnosis and First Treatment
1 January to 31 March 2004	866	18
1 April to 30 June 2004	868	20
1 July to 30 September 2004	808	20
1 October to 31 December 2004	938	21
1 January to 31 March 2005	871	20
1 April to 30 June 2005	959	20
1 July to 30 September 2005	899	20
1 October to 31 December 2005	934	21
1 January to 31 March 2006	966	20
1 April to 30 June 2006	925	20
1 July to 30 September 2006	937	21
1 October to 31 December 2006	954	20

Source: Information ServicesDivision, NHS National Services Scotland.

Exclusion categories are: diedprior to receiving treatment, refused treatment, patient induced non-clinical delay,co-morbidities, clinical reasons and initially referred to another non-cancer speciality.

(b) Information on the waitingtimes of cancer patients between referral and first treatment are collected centrally.These are collated to report performance against the target that “the maximum waitfrom urgent referral to treatment for all cancers will be two months”. Quarterlyperformance information against that target, broken down by NHS board and cancertype is available from the Scottish Executive website at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/health/cancer/waiting-times.

It should be noted that cancerwaiting times data are subject to continuous development and quality improvement.

These improvements need to betaken in to account when making comparisons on quarter on quarter performance.