- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Health Protection draft budget for 2010-11 has been reduced by £8.8 million, which is 24% less than the 2009-10 budget, as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document.
Answer
The Health Protection budget covers a range of activities relating to promoting and protecting public health in Scotland.
The reduction primarily represents efficiencies arising from utilising modern technologies in respect of key programmes reflecting an innovative and cost effective approach.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Healthy Start budget as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document, is distributed.
Answer
The Healthy Start programme in Scotland, is a statutory UK-wide demand-led scheme (formerly known as Welfare Foods). Pregnant women and families with children up to the age of four on certain benefits or tax credits can claim for the Healthy Start Scheme.
The Scottish Government reimburse the Department of Health for the Scottish costs of the scheme. We also reimburse health boards for the cost of the Healthy Start vitamins issued free of charge to beneficiaries and additionally the budget funds the nursery milk scheme.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Health Screening draft budget for 2010-11 has been reduced by almost £5.7 million, which is 40% less than the 2009-10 budget, as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document.
Answer
The downward trend was always planned and this is due to the initial set up costs being funded in years 2008-09 and 2009-10 for some of the screening programmes including the introduction of two views screening into the Breast Screening Service.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Access Support for the NHS budget as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document, is distributed.
Answer
The phasing of funding during any waiting time programme is to reflect the position of each NHS board in terms of (a) the number and length of patients waiting, (b) availability of key workforce, (c) the position of each board in terms of specialist (tertiary) work that it may perform for other boards and (d) proximity to facilities such as Golden Jubilee National Hospital and Stracathro.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Health Screening budget as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document, is distributed.
Answer
The breakdown is as follows:
| Programme | £ Million |
| Cancer Screening | 4.454 |
| Pregnancy and Newborn Screening | 2.346 |
| Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening | 1.700 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Access Support for the NHS draft budget for 2010 has been reduced by £48.5 million, which is 32% less than the 2009-10 budget, as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document.
Answer
The budget reduction of £48.5 million reflects a recurrent transfer to NHS boards of £28.5 million for waiting times support and savings of £20 million through efficiencies realised following a review of the processes and procedures underpinning the delivery of the access targets and taking account of progress achieved ahead of schedule.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reduction in the Mental Health Legislation and Services draft budget for 2010-11 is fully accounted for by a transfer of £9.5 million to the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland budget, as referred to on pages 36 and 50 respectively of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document.
Answer
The overall reduction is £9.7 million of which £9.5 million relates to the transfer to the Justice portfolio for the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland. The remaining £200,000 represents a contribution to local government in respect of the delivery of 10,000 additional respite weeks by 2010-11.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Improvement and Support of the NHS draft budget for 2010-11 has been reduced by £1.2 million, which is 6% less than the 2009-10 budget, as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document.
Answer
The budget for Improvement and Support of the NHS provides a range of programmes and resources designed to help NHS boards improve their performance through redesigning and streamlining processes. The budgets remain as previously planned. As a result of the improvement and support team transferring knowledge and skills in service improvement to NHS boards over the course of the spending review period a small reduction has been made in the latter years.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Healthy Start draft budget for 2010-11 has been reduced by £1 million, which is 10% less than the 2009-10 budget, as referred to on page 36 of Scotland’s Budget Documents 2010-11: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document.
Answer
Healthy Start is a UK reserved scheme and is part of the benefits system. The budget is demand led and has been amended to reflect the latest cost estimate.
- 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 when all children aged nought to five will have been offered the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination and what the uptake has been to date.
Answer
The second phase of the H1N1 vaccination programme, offering vaccination to all children over six months and under five years, has commenced and will continue over the coming weeks. We anticipate that this will be completed by mid-February with mop up activity continuing until the end of February.
Uptake figures for the second phase of the programme are not available at this early stage and will become available as the programme progresses.
