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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-05207

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether attendance at an emergency call by a Rapid Response Unit counts as part of the target emergency response time.

Yes, the arrival on scene of a paramedic response unit (sometimes referred to as a rapid response unit) counts as part of the emergency response time. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33014 on 23 April 2010.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-05206

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) average and (b) longest wait has been for an ambulance after a call has been attended by a Rapid Response Unit in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S4W-05208

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a paramedic in every Scottish Ambulance Service ambulance crew.

Question reference: S4W-05216

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether each NHS board has completed its review of patient records to establish if PIP breast implants have been used and, if so, what the outcome was.

Question reference: S4W-05204

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times ambulances from (a) Clydebank and (b) Vale of Leven ambulance station have attended calls in Old Kilpatrick in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S4W-05181

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W–38402 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 January 2011, how many patients have been sent to pain management centres outside of Scotland since 15 September 2010; from which NHS board areas, and to which centres.

The following table sets out the number of people, by NHS Board, who were referred to pain management centres outside of Scotland between 15 September 2010 and 9 January 2012. In all cases people were referred to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Trust, in Bath.

Referrals to pain management centres outside Scotland

NHS Board	15 September 2010 to 9 January 2012
Ayrshire and Arran	3
Fife	2
Grampian	5
Greater Glasgow & Clyde	4
Shetland	1
Tayside	11
Total	26

Question reference: S4W-05183

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost to individual NHS boards of sending patients with chronic pain to pain management centres outside of Scotland was in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11 and has been since April 2011.

The cost of sending patients with chronic pain to pain management centre’s outside Scotland was:

(a) 2008-09 - £229,559

(b) 2009-10 - £201,347

(d) 2011-12 to 09-01-12 - 231,757.

These costs are shared across all NHS boards as part of the national risk share arrangements administered by National Services Division. Boards’ contribution is calculated on their percentage share of the baseline allocation.

As a result of late presentation and/or invoice queries, figures can be subject to change. The total cost for 2009-10 provided in the table updates the figure of £184,937 provided in answer to question S3W-37826 on 10 December 2010.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-05186

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W–38403 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 January 2011, whether the Chronic Pain Steering Group has considered establishing a residential pain management centre in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-05209

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a target for the number of paramedics in Scottish Ambulance Service ambulance crews; how this is monitored, and whether the target has been met in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S4W-05210

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of paramedics is on relief Scottish Ambulance Service rosters (a) in Scotland and (b) the Vale of Leven ambulance station.