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Information on clinical nurse specialists employed in NHSScotland was collected for the first time at 30 September 2003. This pilot collection provided a baseline establishment figure of 1177 WTE Clinical Nurse Specialists as at 30 September 2003. Information on staff in post by NHS Board and clinical area of work is published in the Report from Pilot Data Collection report. Due to the small number of vacancies this information is not presented by NHS board andspecialty. This report is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Information on Clinical Nurse Specialists will now be collected annually at 30 September.

The Number of Nurse Consultants Posts are Shown in the Following Table.

Title/ Posts	NHS Board/ Division	When Established
Midwife Consultant - 1 WTE	NHS Greater Glasgow	2001
NC - Services for Older People - 1 WTE	NHS Forth Valley	2001
NC-Public Health - 1 WTE	NHS Greater Glasgow	2001
NC Epidemology – 1 WTE	SCIEH	2001
NC Paediatric Pain Management – 1 WTE	Yorkhill	2002
NC Perinatal Mental Illness – 1 WTE	NHS Greater Glasgow	2002
NC Acute Receiving - 1 WTE	NHS Tayside	2002
NC Cancer Care – 1 WTE	NHS Greater Glasgow	2002
NC Public Health – 1 WTE	NHS Tayside	2002
NC Family Planning & Sexual Health – 1 WTE	NHS Lothian	2002
NC People with Mental Health Difficulties – 1 WTE	NHS Lothian	2002
NC Services for Older People -= 1 WTE	NHS Highland	2002
NC Forensic Rehabilitation Resettlement – 1 WTE	State Hospital	2002
MC managed/midwife led care – 1 WTE	NHS Tayside	2003
NC Health Protection – 1 WTE	NHS Lothian	2003
NC Infection Control – 1 WTE	SCIEH	2003
NC Learning Disabilities - 1 WTE	NHS Lothian	2003
NC Macmillan Cancer Nurse Consultant - 1 WTE	NHS Tayside	2003
NC Child Health – 1 WTE	NHS Borders	2003
NC Infection Control – 1 WTE	SCIEH	2003
NC Cancer/Palliative Care – 1 WTE	NHS Argyll & Clyde	2004
NC Learning Disabilities – 1 WTE	NHS Greater Glasgow	2004
NC Public Health – 1 WTE	Western Isles	2004
NC Epidemiology – 1 WTE	SCIEH	2004
NC Child protection – 1 WTE	NHS Tayside	2004
NC Learning Disabilities – 1 WTE	NHS Highland	2004
Total (26 WTE)	��	26 Posts

Notes:

(SCIEH – Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.).

(NC – Nurse Consultant).

The question requires a considerable level of detail in the answer. I will write to the member separately and a copy of the correspondence (Bib. number 34203) will be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre in due course.

I refer the member to the answer to S2W-11035, on 21 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: .

Funding for continuing professional development will be included as part of the annual overall funding given to the NHS in the financial year and therefore there will be no requirement for additional monies made available for continuing professional development in the health service.

There is a commitment to increase consultant numbers by 600 and we are working hard to achieve this challenging target.

Additional interventions to improve consultant recruitment and retention are required against a backdrop of UK and, indeed global, shortages in some specialties.

An action plan has been developed to address these issues and includes a range of short, medium and longer term interventions, to help supplement and support ongoing initiatives on retention and recruitment of consultants. The Scottish Executive is working with NHS boards to achieve this.

The commitment to increase consultants by 600 may be influenced by the work being undertaken by the Advisory Group on Service Change (chaired by professor David Kerr) on the development of a national Framework for Service Change.

This information was published in Scottish Community Care Statistics 2002 and will be available from the Parliament’s Reference Centre. This information can also be found on the following web address:

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The information you require can be found in the following tables: (a) Tables 1.12 and 1.21; (b) Tables 4.7 and 4.15; (c) Tables 3.5 and 3.13; (d) Tables 2.5 and 2.13; and, (e) Tables 5.5 and 5.10. The first table for each client group gives data on Residential Care Homes and the second gives data on Private Nursing Homes.

Please note that, up until March 2003, information was not available on which Private Nursing Homes were registered for residents belonging to the various client groups. However, information was collected on the number of residents belonging to the various client groups who were in Private Nursing Homes during the census period.

This information was published in Scottish Community Care Statistics 2002 and will be available from the Parliament’s Reference Centre. This information can also be found on the following web address:

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The information you require can be found in the following tables: (a) Tables 1.12 and 1.21; (b) Tables 4.7 and 4.15; (c) Tables 3.5 and 3.13; (d) Tables 2.5 and 2.13; and, (e) Tables 5.5 and 5.10. The first table for each client group gives data on Residential Care Homes and the second gives data on Private Nursing Homes.

Please note that, up until March 2003, information was not available on which Private Nursing Homes were registered for residents belonging to the various client groups. However, information was collected on the number of residents belonging to the various client groups who were in Private Nursing Homes during the census period.

This information was published in Scottish Community Care Statistics 2002 and will be available from the Parliament’s Reference Centre. This information can also be found on the following web address:

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The information you require can be found in the following tables: (a) Tables 1.12 and 1.21; (b) Tables 4.7 and 4.15; (c) Tables 3.5 and 3.13; (d) Tables 2.5 and 2.13, and, (e) Tables 5.5 and 5.10. The first table for each client group gives data on Residential Care Homes and the second gives data on Private Nursing Homes.

Please note that, up until March 2003, information was not available on which Private Nursing Homes were registered for residents belonging to the various client groups. However, information was collected on the number of residents belonging to the various client groups who were in Private Nursing Homes during the census period.

Information on the number of radiologists within “Clinical Radiology’”and “Nuclear Medicine” is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website, under the Workforce Statistics section, at .

Information on the numbers of consultants is published in Table B8.

NHS boards are statutory bodies set up under the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978 to discharge ministers’ responsibilities for providing a comprehensive and integrated health service.

A power of guidance is implicit and the Health Department sets policy direction, aims and performance targets for the NHS in Scotland.

Ultimately, under section 2(5) of the 1978 act ministers have a power of direction over NHS boards, although it is currently not considered necessary to use this power to increase the number of medical posts.

NHS boards are responsible for engaging with people in the areas they serve on proposals to reorganise hospital services. It is for the boards to consider the most appropriate ways of doing this, including the role that public meetings might play in consulting and involving people. Information on the number of public meetings held since 1999 is not held centrally.