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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-14284

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12971 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether it is aware of the decision of the Scottish Ambulance Service not to publish the report of the investigation and, if so, what its position is on this matter.

Question reference: S4W-14286

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13201 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether Health Protection Scotland has produced board, hospitals and ward prevalence information on norovirus.

Question reference: S4W-14285

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12975 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has decided whether further action will be taken in relation to the Elsie Inglis Care Home.

Question reference: S4W-14283

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12972 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether it considers that the Scottish Ambulance Service should publish the report into the investigation of claims of bullying and intimidation at the Scottish Ambulance Academy.

Question reference: S4W-14350

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has received complaints about the Director of Delivery of NHS Health Scotland and, if so, how many.

Question reference: S4W-14273

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether access to child and adolescent mental health services is available for children in kinship care on the same priority basis as for those in foster care.

Question reference: S4W-14351

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 30 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many voluntary redundancy packages have been agreed with NHS Health Scotland staff in the last two years.

Question reference: S4W-14355

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 30 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13803 by Alex Neil on 15 April 2013, how many of the 14 advertised roles were for inspectors and when the vacancies arose.

Question reference: S4W-14354

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 30 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13802 by Alex Neil on 15 April 2013, how many inspectors in the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate have the Regulation of Care Award.

There are no inspectors in the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate with the Regulation of Care Award. The Regulation of Care Award is a qualification required by inspectors regulating social care services. This qualification is not required for inspectors working in healthcare services.

All Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspectors are appropriately qualified. Inspectors in the programme of inspections for the care for older people all have a clinical qualification and inspectors working with the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) are required to have qualifications in health, public health and environmental health.

Question reference: S4W-14353

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 30 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13804 by Alex Neil on 15 April 2013, whether recommendations in reports have been amended prior to publication following input from NHS boards in the areas inspected.

All inspection reports produced by the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate may have requirements and recommendations. NHS boards are invited to review draft inspection reports to check for factual accuracy. Any factual accuracy amendments that are accepted will lead Healthcare Improvement Scotland to correct the report. If necessary, they may reflect the correction in the requirements and recommendations.