- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rates of (a) overweight and (b) obesity have been among (i) children under 11 years, (ii) children aged from 11 to 18 and (iii) adults in each year since 2003.
Answer
The information requested isavailable from several sources, but not necessarily for all of the specific agegroups or years requested.
The Scottish Health Survey gives estimates of theprevalence of obesity and overweight in children and adults. The most recent data available is for the year 2003.
Prevalence of obesity and overweightby age and sex (children aged 2 to 15 years):
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50271(See table 5.5 on page 123.)Prevalence of obesity and overweightby age and sex (adults aged 16+ years):
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50261(See table 5.5 on page 175.)In addition, all NHS boards in Scotland provide a Child HealthSurveillance Programme where children are offered routine reviews at various stagesof their life. The majority of Boards record these reviews using the electronicchild health systems, CHSP-Pre-School and CHSP-School. The latest available informationfrom these systems on levels of obesity and overweight derived from height and weightmeasurements collected at routine health reviews is published for NHS boards participatingin CHSP-School and CHSP-Pre-School at http://www.isdscotland.org/child_obesity.(Click on “obesity statistics” to access a list of available tables and charts.)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many isolation beds there have been in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.
Answer
Information on isolation facilities in NHS boards in Scotland was collated by Health Protection Scotland during February 2004 as part of a one off exercise to support Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) preparedness planning. Since that time no further national census or audit has been undertaken.
The information obtained during the February 2004 audit is shown in the following table.
Availability of Isolation Facilities Within Acute Hospitals in NHSScotland (2004)
Total Number of Isolation Rooms
| NHS Board/Area | |
| Argyll and Clyde | 237 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 204 |
| Borders | 65 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 142 |
| Fife | 187 |
| Forth Valley | 150 |
| Grampian | 282 |
| Greater Glasgow | 586 |
| Highland | 137 |
| Lanarkshire | 323 |
| Lothian | 508 |
| Orkney | 13 |
| Shetland | 22 |
| Tayside | 245 |
| Western Isles | 66 |
| Special Board (Golden Jubilee National Hospital) | 175 |
| Total | 3,342 |
Note: Figures for Argyll and Clyde are shown in the table as the audit took place prior to the dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde.
The following is the original answer (published on 19 July 2007); see below:
The specific information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional funding will be made available to local authorities for enforcement purposes when the legal age for purchase of cigarettes is raised from 16 to 18 and, if so, how much will be made available.
Answer
The need to make additional specificresources available to local authorities to enforce tobacco sales will be consideredunder the current spending review.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding will be put in place for smoking cessation services when the legal age for purchase of cigarettes is raised from 16 to 18 and whether this funding will be ring-fenced for underage smokers.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding allocated for smoking cessation services is ring-fenced for underage smokers.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated for smoking cessation services in the current financial year, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients had their operations cancelled (a) twice, (b) three times, (c) four times and (d) more than four times in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The specific information requestedis not available centrally.
Limited information is availablecentrally on the number of in-patient/day case episodes where operations/procedureswere not carried out following admission.
A table of information, and appropriatenotes on interpretation, are given in a document Table 1: Cancelled operationsby Health Board of treatment a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43167).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide comparative details of emergency admission rates to Borders General Hospital for the five-year period prior to the introduction of NHS 24 and in the years since its introduction.
Answer
NHS 24 was introduced to NHSBorders in April 2004.
The requested information ispresented in the following table.
Emergency Admissions to BordersGeneral Hospital and Crude Admission Rates by Year of Discharge, Years Ending 31March 2000-06
| Year | Emergency Admissions2 | Population for NHS Borders3 | Crude Emergency Admission Rates per 100,000 population4 |
| 2000 | 9,116 | 105,810 | 8,615 |
| 2001 | 9,394 | 106,250 | 8,841 |
| 2002 | 10,267 | 106,950 | 9,600 |
| 2003 | 10,124 | 107,400 | 9,426 |
| 2004 | 10,190 | 108,280 | 9,411 |
| 2005 | 11,045 | 109,270 | 10,108 |
| 2006 | 11,412 | 109,730 | 10,400 |
Source:SMR01 linked database, GRO population estimates.
Notes:
1.NHS 24 was introduced to NHS Borders residents in April 2004. Figures in italicsare for the years following introduction.
2.This is a count of all emergency episodes at Borders General Hospital; excludingtransfers.
3.Population is taken from GRO mid-year estimates of NHS Border Residents
4. Crude emergency admissionrates should be interpreted with caution. Episodes occurring at Borders General Hospital willinclude a small proportion of patients resident outside of NHS Borders health boardarea.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cyclist casualties have been treated by the NHS in each of the last five years in each NHS board area.
Answer
Cyclist casualties could be treatedin a number of health care settings e.g. GP practices; hospital accident and emergencydepartments or as hospital admissions.
It is not possible to identifycyclist casualties in GP practices or accident and emergency departments from centrallyheld data.
Details on the number of continuousstays in an acute general hospital where the diagnosis information indicates thatthe patient was a pedal cyclist, injured in a transport accident, is given in adocument Table 1: Hospital stays for injured pedal cyclists a copy of whichhas been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43168).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many women (a) were diagnosed with and (b) died from breast cancer in each of the last five years, broken down by (i) NHS board and (ii) parliamentary constituency.
Answer
Data on newly diagnosed cancersin Scotland are recorded on the Scottish Cancer Registry. The mostrecent year of data currently available is 2004.
Data on deaths in Scotland arerecorded by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The most recent yearof data currently available is 2005.
More comprehensive data on breastcancer can be found on the Scottish Health Statistics website at:
www.isdscotland.org/cancer.The following tables (which havebeen placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre) present the informationrequested.
Table a (i) Incidence (number of registrations) of female breastcancer (ICD-10 C50) by NHS Board Area of Residence, 2000-04. (Bib. number 43171).
Table a (ii) Incidence (numberof registrations) of female breast cancer (ICD-10 C50) by Scottish ParliamentaryConstituency, 2000-04. (Bib. number 43172).
Table b (i) Mortality (number of death registrations) from femalebreast cancer (ICD‑10 C50) by NHS Board Area of Residence, 2001-05. (Bib. number 43173).
Table b (ii) Mortality (numberof death registrations) from female breast cancer (ICD‑10 C50) by Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, 2001-05. (Bib.number 43174).
