- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated for providing information to the public on how to access sexual health services in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive would expect NHS boards to have regard to such issues in theirassessment of local needs. As such, the information requested is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tier 4 services, as referred to in the supporting papers to Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health Relationship Strategy, there are in each community health partnership area.
Answer
The establishment of communityhealth partnerships is subject to the passage of the National Health ServiceReform (Scotland) Bill. The geographical areas covered by community healthpartnerships have still to be defined.
Service provision will beone of the issues to be considered in the light of the current consultation onthe proposals for a national sexual health strategy.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons are for the increase in recurrence of genital warts since 1999.
Answer
In 1999-2000, there were 2,382cases of recurrence of genital warts compared with 2,208 in the preceding year.Based on these data, there is no evidence of any appreciable increase in therecurrence of genital warts, but the Executive will study any new figures withinterest.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting time for an initial consultation with a sexual health specialist (a) is currently and (b) has been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what services there are to support (a) women and (b) men in the event of termination of pregnancy, miscarriage or stillbirth in each NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4247 by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 December 2003, whether there were any technical difficulties with regard to links to the National Waiting Times Database that prevented such links being found on its website, its press release SEDH556/2003 or Scottish Health on the Web on the day the National Waiting Times Database was launched and, if so, what these difficulties were.
Answer
The Information andStatistics Division of the Common Services Agency, who are responsible for theNational Waiting Times Database, have advised that there were no technicaldifficulties experienced with the database on 30 October 2003 when it waslaunched on the world-wide web.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) are currently waiting for and (b) have received in each year since 1999 an initial consultation with a sexual dysfunction specialist, giving the median waiting time for each year.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many looked after females became pregnant within 18 to 24 months of leaving care in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot centrally available.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases of HIV the infection has been contracted (a) within and (b) outwith Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
Though it is likely thatmost cases diagnosed in Scotland acquired the infection in Scotland, somemay have become infected elsewhere in the UK. Distinguishing the specific region within the UK in whichinfection was contracted is therefore not possible.
Reports of HIV infectiondiagnosed in Scotland since 1999, and presumed to be infected within oroutwith the UK, are as follows:
| Year | Presumed infected within the UK | Presumed infected outwith the UK |
| 1999 | 105 | 51 |
| 2000 | 100 | 54 |
| 2001 | 103 | 68 |
| 2002 | 138 | 112 |
| 2003 (to 30/9) | 100 | 83 |
Notes: Where noevidence exists to the contrary, cases are presumed to have been infectedwithin the UK. Cases presumed infected outwith the UK may include some Scots or other UKnationals.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the prevalence of HIV has been per 10,000 pregnant women in each year since 1999 and whether data quality accounts for any changes in these figures.
Answer
The prevalence (per 10,000)of HIV infection in pregnant women in Scotland from 1999 to 2002 was as follows:
| Year | Number Tested | Positive | Prevalence |
| 1999 | 55,374 | 13 | 2.3 |
| 2000 | 53,347 | 25 | 4.7 |
| 2001 | 52,707 | 16 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 51,291 | 30 | 5.8 |
Note:Data quality has no bearing on any changes in prevalence.
