- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the national scrutiny group announced on 3 June 2010.
Answer
As I said on 3 June, the detailed remit and operation of the scrutiny group will be finalised in consultation with the stakeholders involved. Members of the group have been asked to submit their views on membership, remit and operation of the group. The first meeting of the group will take place on 4 August 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will collect and publish statistics on the number of hospital-acquired E. coli deaths.
Answer
The medical certificate of the cause of death, which is the information source for General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) statistics, describes the diseases or conditions leading or contributing to death. It does not detail whether the disease or condition was hospital acquired. On that basis, GROS has confirmed it cannot distinguish between deaths from hospital acquired E. coli and deaths from E. coli that was acquired elsewhere, in order to collect and publish such statistics.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that E. coli affects more patients than (a) MRSA and (b) Clostridium difficile.
Answer
The Health Protection Scotland (HPS) NHSScotland National HAI Prevalence Survey, dated July 2007, confirmed that E. coli accounted for 6.7% of infections and was predominantly associated with urinary tract infections. This same report also confirmed that both Clostridium difficile and MRSA accounted for more than 17% of infections.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will follow the lead of the UK Department of Health and publish weekly data on MRSA and Clostridium difficile on a hospital by hospital basis.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34752 on 5 July 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people contracted hospital-acquired E. coli in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.
Answer
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) has confirmed that until a better understanding can be established of what proportion of E. coli bacteraemias are healthcare associated, their epidemiology and what measures are available to prevent them, it would be difficult to separate out any healthcare associated subset from total case numbers.
HPS is currently reviewing possible options for surveillance but advise that in the interim E. coli bacteraemias will continue to be reported as part of annual antimicrobial resistance surveillance reporting arrangements. The first report, published in January 2010, is available through the HPS website using the following url:
http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/haiic/amr/publicationsdetail.aspx?id=43744.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds will be available for children at the new Southern General Hospital.
Answer
According to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, their bed model projects (on a like-for-like basis) that there will be 201 beds available at the new Children''s Hospital.
In addition to these, 12 neonatal beds will transfer to the new Maternity Hospital. Greater Glasgow and Clyde''s bed model reflects the continuing commitment to increased day care provision, reducing the need for a hospital stay which benefits all patients and, in particular, children.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds were available for children at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 and how many will be available in 2010-11.
Answer
The information is presented in the following table. It is important to note the context for the changes in bed numbers: increasingly, for both children and adults, clinical care and treatment is provided on a day care basis. This reduces the need for a stay in hospital which is better for patients and, in particular, children. Indeed, between 2006-07 and 2009-10, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde report that daycase attendances at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (excluding psychiatry) increased from 8,191 to 10,246: a rise of 25.1%. As such, the move towards increased usage of day care at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow has led to a reduced need for inpatient beds.
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow: Bed Numbers
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
Ward 1a | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
Ward 3a | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
Ward 4a | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
Ward 4b | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
Ward 5a | 18 | 18 | 18 | 24 |
Ward 6a | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Ward 6b | 24 | 24 | 24 | - |
Ward 7a | 24 | 24 | 18 | 18 |
Ward 7b | 24 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
High Dependency Unit | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | 23 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
Child Psychiatry | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
Institute of Neurosciences | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Total | 252 | 261 | 255 | 237 |
Source: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take to ensure that NHS boards adopt and implement the recommendations of the Audit Scotland report, Using locum doctors in hospitals, and in what timescale this will be carried out.
Answer
Arrangements for the use of temporary medical staff have been under consideration by a Scottish Government-led Short Life Working Group, established in February 2010. The group is consulting NHS boards on proposals for reducing demand for temporary medical staff and, where their use is necessary, ensuring that they provide high quality care at an affordable price. In addition to the Short Life Working Group, an overarching national group is being convened to support NHS boards in managing all temporary staff groups and ensure implementation of the recommendations from the Audit Scotland report.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) beds were removed and (b) wards were reconfigured at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) in 2009-10 and what the numbers will be in 2010-11.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-34590 on 1 July 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason there was a delay of over one year in establishing a national contract for agency locums to standardise pay rates and reduce costs.
Answer
NHSScotland had expected to use the new UK-wide NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) framework on the expiry of the 2009 Scottish agreement. Following a rise in NHS PASA''s framework charge rates the cost impact in Scotland would have been higher than elsewhere in the UK. Accordingly, following consultation with NHS boards in 2008, NHS National Services Scotland''s National Procurement division were tasked with putting in place a more affordable agreement for NHSScotland. This was a complex process, involving extensive consultation with stakeholders and negotiations with suppliers. The new agreement came into operation on 1 June 2010, and is the most competitively priced contract of its kind in the UK.