- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28811 by Shona Robison on 19 November 2009, whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has now introduced school-based dental services.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are committed to starting a school based preventive dental service from April 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28777 by Shona Robison on 19 November 2009, when the expert group examining infertility services was set up and what its membership is.
Answer
The NHS boards chief executives'' group is in the process of nominating a Chair for the National Infertility Group. Final membership of the group will be agreed with the chair.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 1 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the Carstairs deprivation category is.
Answer
The Carstairs Index is an area based measure of deprivation, which was developed by Vera Carstairs and Russell Morris, at Edinburgh University using data from the 1981 Census.
The original Carstairs index was subdivided into seven categories with category 1 = most affluent and category 7 = the most deprived.
The Carstairs index is generally not used by the NHS or by the Scottish Government to measure deprivation and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is used instead.
Further information is available here:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD.
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/3211.html.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 29 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider water affordability in future as part of the Scottish House Condition Survey.
Answer
The Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) collects data on the cost of water rates and household income. Therefore statistics on water affordability, for example the percentage of income spent on water rates, can be produced by Scottish Government SHCS staff if requested. There are no plans to remove these indicators from the SHCS in the future.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled by the NHS in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) from 1 April to 31 December 2009 and for what reasons.
Answer
The specific information requested is not available centrally.
Information, although limited, is available on the number of hospital stays where operation or procedure were not carried out following admission to hospital. The number of cancelled operations or procedures by NHSScotland in 2007-08 and 2008-09 and for the period 1 April to 30 September 2009, the latest available data is provided in the following table.
It is not possible from centrally held data to identify specific reasons for the cancellations. Operations may be cancelled due a number of reasons such as a particularly high level of emergency admissions, staff sickness, patient is unfit for treatment on admission or the patient has failed to follow pre-admission advice such as fasting before admission.
NHSScotland: Number of Cancelled Operations/Procedures1,2
| Date | |
| 2007-08 | 14,455 |
| 2008-09 | 15,932 |
| 1 April to 30 September 2009 | 7,922 |
Source: ISD Scotland - information derived from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals.
Notes:
1. Up to six diagnoses (one principal and five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoses positions have been used to identify cancelled operations. The following International Statistical Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD -10) code has been used to identify cancelled operations/procedures “ Z53; person encountering health services for specific procedure not carried out.
2. Cases were an operation or procedure was cancelled prior to the patient being admitted to hospital are excluded.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to improve the uptake of the Scottish Breast Screening Programme by the most deprived women, as defined by the Carstairs deprivation category, whose attendance is below 60%.
Answer
There are several Scotland-wide projects to help improve uptake including distribution of leaflets. For example NHS Fife produced a DVD targeted at women with learning difficulties and this has now been shared with all NHS boards. In addition to national activities all NHS boards undertake local awareness raising in the areas where the mobile units are planning to visit. GP practices also actively engage women when their patient list is to be screened.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether oncology services were suspended at Raigmore Hospital in December 2009 and, if so, for what reason.
Answer
NHS Highland has advised that chemotherapy and radiotherapy services were open throughout the entire period at Raigmore Hospital.
The only exception was the routine planned closure of the Macmillan outpatient chemotherapy unit and radiotherapy department on Christmas Day and New Year''s Day. The board has assured us that these closures are planned well in advance. Staff at the unit discuss treatment plans with the patients and can arrange for anyone still requiring chemotherapy on Christmas Day or New Year''s Day, to attend the Oncology/Haematology Ward for their treatment, as the ward is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, following the announcement by HM Government of £20 million for the Thalidomide Trust to support survivors of the effects of the drug, thalidomide, whether it plans to provide an equivalent contribution for survivors in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government will make proportionate funding available to contribute to the package of assistance being provided by the UK Government. I am happy to confirm that I am meeting with representatives of the Thalidomide Trust in February to open discussions on the best way to allocation these additional funds.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether pregnant women presenting for the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination can have the mercury-free cevlapan vaccine.
Answer
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has given clear recommendation that both Celvapan and Pandemrix vaccines are safe for use in pregnant women at any stage of pregnancy. Both vaccines have been licensed for use in pregnant women by the European Commission and the European Medicines agency (EMEA).
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommend that pregnant women should be given Pandemrix as it provides adequate levels of antibodies following administration of one dose, thereby conferring more rapid protection than Celvapan which requires two doses a minimum of three weeks apart.
Supplies of the Celvapan vaccine are limited therefore these are being reserved primarily for at-risk people with severe allergic reaction to egg products. Pandemrix is manufactured in hens eggs therefore is unsuitable for people with egg allergies, Celvapan does not contain egg products therefore is suitable for people with egg allergies.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing’s statement that she expected all 1.3 million people in the priority groups to have been offered influenza A (H1N1) vaccination by Christmas 2009 (Official Report c. 20608), for what reason there are patients in the at-risk groups still to be invited for vaccination by their GP.
Answer
Health boards have indicated that vaccination has been offered to all those in the initial priority groups however a mop up exercise will continue to take place to the end of January to ensure that everyone in the initial priority groups has been invited for vaccination.
