Chamber and committees

Information provided by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland advises there are 12 endoscopy clinics in primary care settings.

NHS Dumfries and Galloway	Galloway Community Hospital
NHS Fife	St Andrews Memorial Hospital
NHS Grampian	Inverurie Hospital and Huntly Community Chalmers Hospital and Turriff Hospital Kincardine Community Hospital and Aboyne Community Hospital Peterhead Community Hospital
NHS Highland	Caithness General Hospital Lawson Memorial Hospital MacKinnon Memorial Hospital (Skye) Lorne and Island District Hospital
NHS Lothian	Roodlands General Hospital Leith Community Treatment Centre

 

Leading Better Care sets out the senior charge nurse''s (SCNs) role and responsibilities with regard to managing the practice setting including the effective use of resources and contributing to the management of the ward/department budget. The SCNs role as an empowered clinical leader and guardian of care quality means that they have a key responsibility in relation to the best use of the resources under their control, including having direct access to budgets for urgent repairs and replacement of equipment as required under the healthcare associated infection national action plan.

Each NHS board has responsibility for the planning and provision of health services in its area, based on an assessment of need and in accordance with local and national priorities.

Leading Better Care identifies the senior charge nurse''s (SCN) role and responsibilities to promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols, including health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting and analysis.

SCNs are the guardians of quality and clinical standards in their areas of responsibility and have a key responsibility with regard to ensuring the cleanliness of their clinical areas.

Whilst research has been undertaken into light-induced fluorescence endoscopy, no such systems are currently available to patients in NHS Scotland.

Efficiency savings are a key component of financial plans contributing to the overall financial performance of NHS boards. All boards, including the Scottish Ambulance Service, have savings plans. The Scottish Ambulance Service is forecasting to deliver £6.9 million in-year efficiency savings (2009-10).

All women aged between 50-70 years of age are invited for breast screening every three years. Women aged 70 and over are able to request breast screening by contacting their local breast screening centre.

The Scottish Cancer Taskforce has discussed how awareness raising could be improved and further action will be considered at a workshop to be held early in 2010.

The most recently available data show that between 2000 and 2004, the five year survival rate for oesophageal cancer was 11% for men and 7.7% for women.

Further information on survival rates for oesophageal cancer is available on the NHS Information Services Division website http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1493.html. Data for other cancers can be found at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/183.html.

We are aware that survival rates for oesophageal cancer remain poor compared with some other cancers, although we are encouraged to see that mortality rates for both men and women are decreasing. Action is taking place to tackle alcohol consumption, poor diet and smoking, all of which are known risk factors for oesophageal cancer. Through earlier detection, more rapid diagnosis and treatment, survival after cancer continues to improve.

Data on the estimated survival rates for female breast cancer patients can be found at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=cancer_female_breast_surv.xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.

The most recent rates that have been calculated are for the period of diagnosis 2000-04.

The guidance on completing the HAI (healthcare associated infection) reporting template requires NHS boards to ensure that reports are considered as part of bi-monthly public board meetings. The reports on NHS board websites are updated to coincide with these bi-monthly public board meetings.