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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-15663

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government in what percentage of cases a designated medical practitioner has disagreed with the responsible medical officer about the need to compel a patient to take unwanted medication in each year since 2003-04.

Question reference: S4W-15675

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-15083 by Alex Neil on 5 June 2013, for what reason NHS Lothian uses a recruitment and retention premium and the other NHS boards do not.

NHS Lothian is the only board in Scotland who have applied for a recruitment and retention premium for perfusionists. In order to put a recruitment and retention premium in place, an NHS board must apply through the agreed procedure, providing evidence to support the application. This is then considered by the Scottish Terms and Conditions Committee, the partnership body which oversees the Agenda for Change system in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-15666

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the stated view of the Swedish Medical Products Agency and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare that breast implants made by Poly Implant Prothèse should be removed for preventative reasons.

The Scottish Government has noted the Swedish report and remains in contact with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The advice remains that all patients should be offered a clinically appropriate package of care by their healthcare providers. The NHS will support removal of NHS PIP implants if, after clinical assessment, a woman with her doctor decide that it is medically necessary do so.

Question reference: S4W-15664

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of people subject to compulsory orders has died in each year since 2003-04.

Question reference: S4W-15665

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how the life expectancy of people subject to compulsory treatment compares with the national average.

Question reference: S4W-15674

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-15082 by Alex Neil on 5 June 2013, on what basis NHS boards hire locum perfusionists instead of taking on new staff.

Question reference: S4W-15659

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of people subject to compulsory orders has been involved in incidents of restraint in each year since 2003-04.

Question reference: S4W-15672

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-15081 by Alex Neil on 5 June 2013, how many trainee perfusionists will be needed in each of the next five years.

Question reference: S4W-15660

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many times Tasers have been used to restrain people subject to compulsory orders in each year since 2003-04.

Question reference: S4W-15525

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on private healthcare to meet waiting times guarantees.

Information obtained from NHS boards on the spend on the use of the independent healthcare sector to deliver acute hospital waiting times guarantee and standards in 2012-13 is provided in the following table.

NHS Board	2012-13 £’000
Ayrshire and Arran	1,079
Borders	168
Dumfries and Galloway	330
Fife	1,906
Forth Valley	1,607
Grampian	5,200
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	1,178
Highland	193
Lanarkshire	2,574
Lothian	12,097
Orkney	0
Shetland	0
Tayside	2,131
Western Isles	25
NHSScotland	28,488

The Scottish Government’s policy is that NHS boards should use NHS funding to build sustainable capacity. The use of the independent healthcare sector should only be used to deal with short-term capacity issues.