- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what provision there is of diabetes specialist nurse-led services and clinics in prisons.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The health care management of prisoners is undertaken on an individual needs basis, informed by the presenting needs of each prisoner. Any prisoner with diabetes would be provided with appropriate care, dependent on their specific need. Establishments have well developed links with community partners to access specialist advice and treatment.
The appropriateness of providing specific diabetes clinics at each establishment is dependent on the number of prisoners requiring such services within each prison at any given time.
An audit undertaken in summer 2008 established that individual prisons held between zero and 12 prisoners with Insulin Dependent Diabetes Melitus at that time.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have (a) type 1 diabetes and (b) type 2 diabetes.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Information on the prevalence of diabetes in the prisoner population is contained in Prison Health in Scotland: A Health Care Needs Assessment (Dr Lesley Graham, December 2007). The following is an e-link to the report: http://www.sps.gov.uk/MultimediaGallery/363852d6-79d1-464c-9b65-857721c2a628.pdf.
An audit conducted in summer 2008 indicated there were 57 prisoners held in custody at the time of audit who were type 1 diabetics. Type 2 diabetes was not part of this audit.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were admitted to hospital as a result of their diabetes in the last 10 years.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what incidents of (a) hypoglycaemia, (b) hyperglycaemia and (c) diabetic ketoacidosis were recorded in prisons in the last 10 years.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many practitioner nurses working in the Scottish Prison Service are diabetes specialists.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
There are no diabetes specialist nurses working in the Scottish Prison Service, although some nurses have developed a special interest and have increased their knowledge and skills through accredited training.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that local authority licensing of animal boarding establishments should require that any animals admitted have a current veterinary certificate of vaccination against diseases such as parvo virus and kennel cough and what legislative steps, if any, would be required to introduce such a mandatory condition.
Answer
We have no plans to make it a requirement that animals have a current vaccination certificate again diseases such as parvo virus and kennel cough before being admitted to animal boarding establishments.
Most boarding establishments do require this and we recognise that this is good practice. However, to make it a mandatory condition would remove the discretion which boarding establishments currently have. This allows them to admit unvaccinated animals in exceptional circumstances, for example, where an animal''s owner is unexpectedly admitted to hospital. In such cases, the only option could be the destruction of the animal.
Powers do exist under section 26 of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 which would allow Scottish ministers to make it an offence to admit animals to animal boarding establishments without such a certificate.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider making representations to the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is providing a £1.6 million CT scanner to NHS Lothian, to ensure equal access for all patients.
Answer
This scanner will provide an additional 4,000 scans per year for NHS provision. Access to these scans will be on the same basis as all other NHS care, determined by the needs of the patient and available to all in Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when revised draft regulations on the licensing of dealers in puppies and kittens (a) will be laid and (b) are expected to come into force.
Answer
The revised draft regulations on the licensing of dealers in puppies and kittens is expected to be laid before the Parliament in November 2008 and are expected to come into force in February 2009.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 28 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, if Pringle of Scotland ceases manufacturing in Hawick, it will challenge the right of the company to continue to badge its products with the lion rampant and the Pringle of Scotland trading name by making a referral to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Fair Trading under Statutory Instrument 2008 No.1277 The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations of 2008.
Answer
The statutory instrument does not confer a function on Scottish ministers to make referrals to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The question of whether Pringle of Scotland is in breach of the terms of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs) is for the Trading Standards Services and the Office of Fair Trading as the enforcement authorities and, ultimately, the Crown Office for the purpose of establishing whether criminal proceedings should be brought.
It will be up to the local authority''s trading standards service to make a decision about investigations into possible breaches of the CPRs.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 25 August 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic accidents have involved uninsured drivers in each year since 2002, broken down by police force area.
Answer
Information on the number of road traffic accidents that have involved uninsured drivers is not held centrally. However information on the number of injury road accidents is available via the following National Statistics publication, Road Accidents Scotland 2006, a copy which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 44153).
