- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children aged 0 to 5 have contracted the influenza A (H1N1) virus and how many of them have been hospitalised.
Answer
An estimated 7,991 children aged 0 to four years in Scotland contracted H1N1, experienced symptoms and were taken to see a GP. An estimated 21,036 children aged five to 14 years in Scotland also contracted H1N1, experienced symptoms and were taken to see a GP.
A total of 1,482 H1N1 laboratory confirmed individuals have been admitted to hospital. Where the age had been specified or was known, 255 (17.2%) were aged under five years.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination programme for children aged 0 to 5 will be completed.
Answer
It is anticipated that the vaccination of young children will be completed by the end of January, with some mop up activity into mid-February, to ensure all children aged over six months and under six years are invited for vaccination.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many health and social care workers have been (a) invited to have the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination and (b) vaccinated.
Answer
Health boards have indicated that vaccination has been offered to all those in the initial priority groups, including health and social care workers. A mop up exercise continues to take place to the end of January however, to ensure that everyone in the initial priority groups has been invited for vaccination.
To date, 50.8% of eligible frontline health care staff have received the vaccination and 32.1% of eligible frontline social care staff have been vaccinated.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28625 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2009, how many of the 1.3 million people in the priority groups for the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination programme have been vaccinated.
Answer
Health boards have indicated that vaccination has been offered to all those in the initial priority groups. Data for patients in the clinical priority groups estimate that the uptake rate for vaccination to date equates to 45.6% for all clinical at risk groups.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when the influenza A (H1N1) vaccination programme for children aged 0 to 5 will commence.
Answer
Phase two of the vaccination programme to offer vaccination to children aged over six months and under five years has now commenced and will continue over the next few weeks. We anticipate that this will be completed by the end of January with some mop up activity into mid-February.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28625 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2009, how many doses of the influenza A (H1N1) vaccine have been delivered to (a) NHS boards and (b) GP practices in each week since 21 October 2009.
Answer
NHS Scotland has now received 100% of the vaccine supply required to vaccinate all those in the initial priority groups and all children aged over six months and under five years. This means that 1,716,500 doses of pandemrix and 167,800 doses of celvapan have been delivered to health boards and GP practices across Scotland.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on employing bank nurses in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 and will be spent in 2009-10, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The cost of employing NHS Scotland bank nurses by NHS board in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 can be found on the ISD website
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5685.html. Information on NHS Scotland Bank nurse spend in 2009-10; broken down by NHS board will be published in June 2010.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28892 by Shona Robison on 25 November 2009, how it monitors the impact of the £19 million in improving maternal nutrition.
Answer
The £19 million has been allocated to health boards under a number of broad criteria. That is to give heath boards flexibility to implement strategies and interventions appropriate to their local areas. It is expected that health boards will monitor and evaluate interventions locally and we will also be asking health boards to provide us with information on action taken.
We will be able to monitor the impact nationally through the annual breastfeeding rate statistics, the numbers of maternity units attaining Baby Friendly status, and the number of beneficiaries claiming Healthy Start benefit.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28778 by Shona Robison on 23 November 2009, in what respects NHS (a) Fife, (b) Forth Valley, (c) Greater Glasgow and Clyde, (d) Lothian and (e) Tayside do not fully comply with national guidance on IVF treatment.
Answer
NHS (e) Tayside has implemented some of the updated criteria but patients are returned to the waiting list after each unsuccessful cycle of infertility treatment. NHS (c) Greater Glasgow and Clyde offers two cycles of treatment, instead of the recommended three. However, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde include suitable frozen embryos within a cycle of treatment, whilst many other NHS boards do not.
NHS (a) Fife, (b) Forth Valley and (d) Lothian have still to implement the updated criteria from the 2007 Review of Infertility Services.
Infertility Network Scotland is working directly with NHS boards to ensure that the voices of patients are heard at a local level in the planning of infertility services in Scotland. The charity will concentrate their initial work on NHS boards not compliant with national guidance.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28892 by Shona Robison on 25 November 2009, whether all pregnant woman qualify for vouchers under the healthy start scheme.
Answer
No. Healthy start is open to pregnant women and families with children under the age of four who are on income support, income-based jobseekers'' allowance or child tax credit (but not working tax credit unless their family is receiving working tax credit run-only) with an income of £16,040 a year or less.
All pregnant women under the age of 18 also qualify for the scheme, whether or not they are on benefits.
