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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-24052

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the new cleaning staff announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing at the SNP conference on 17 April 2009 will be allocated to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-24055

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the planned in-patient mental health capacity at Gartnavel Royal Hospital has been affected by the loss of capacity at the planned secure unit at Dykebar Hospital and, if so, how this has altered bed numbers.

Question reference: S3W-24014

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive where NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in-patient mental health facilities are located.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has confirmed that its inpatient mental health facilities are currently located at the following hospitals (excluding learning disabilities and NHS nursing homes): Stobhill Hospital (including the Rowanbank Clinic); Leverndale Hospital; the Southern General Hospital; Parkhead Hospital; Gartnavel Hospital; Dykebar Hospital; the Royal Alexandra Hospital; Ravenscraig Hospital; Inverclyde Royal Hospital, and the Vale of Leven Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-23995

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA or other bodies with regard to a national eligibility framework for all community care services provided by local authorities.

Question reference: S3W-23994

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA or other bodies following Audit Scotland’s 2008 recommendation that the Scottish Government and local authorities should work together to agree a national eligibility framework that defines risks and priority levels to ensure transparency in access to care for older people.

We have reached agreement with COSLA that the £40 million in additional funding from 1 April will be spent on delivering a package of measures to stabilise the free personal and nursing care policy in the immediate term. Significant progress has been made in developing with COSLA and key stakeholders a consistent eligibility framework to be operated by all councils for access to adult social care services and which will be applied across Scotland. We will be in a position to formally consult on these proposals very shortly.

Question reference: S3W-23877

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds are available at the new mental health in-patient facility at Gartnavel Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-23876

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds were originally planned for the new mental health in-patient facility at Gartnavel Hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow''s 1999 Modernising Mental Health strategy proposed the development of 117 acute short-stay beds in the new mental health hospital at Gartnavel Hospital. The profile of these beds is detailed in the table below.

Adults	60
Elderly	45
Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit	12
Total	117

In addition, the board planned for the retention of 30 long-stay non-acute beds (consisting of 10 intensive rehabilitation long-stay beds and 20 adult long-stay beds) in good quality ward accommodation from the existing mental health ward capacity elsewhere on the Gartnavel site.

Question reference: S3W-23823

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers have retired from Strathclyde Police since July 2008, broken down by division.

Question reference: S3W-23878

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the planning assumptions are for bed numbers at the new mental health in-patient facility at Gartnavel Hospital for (a) Greater Glasgow and (b) Clyde patients.

The relevant planning assumptions as set out in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde''s Vision for the Vale document assumed a total of 60 acute adult mental health beds at Gartnavel Hospital: 48 beds for the Greater Glasgow area, and 12 beds for the Clyde area (although the board''s proposals for adult mental health in the Vision for the Vale have not yet received Ministerial approval).

As confirmed in the answer to question S3W-23876 on 21 May 2009, NHS Greater Glasgow''s 1999 mental health strategy proposed that there should be a total of 60 acute adult mental health beds at Gartnavel Hospital. As I would expect, the board has revised its planning assumptions in line with national policy and operating experience since 1999. The development of appropriate crisis and assertive outreach services throughout the country over the last 10 years has seen a significant shift in the balance of care from management of adult acute mental health problems in inpatient settings to the management of a proportion of such problems through community-based crisis teams. This has seen comparable bed levels in England reduce by 10-20% over that period. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has confirmed that the average relevant bed use throughout 2008 at Gartnavel Hospital was 49 beds. As such, Gartnavel Hospital is already operating close to the revised 48-bed plan and can be expected to appropriately reduce its bed use level as community-based services are further consolidated.

In terms of the planning assumptions for the remaining categories of mental health beds at Gartnavel Hospital, the board have confirmed that the number of Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit beds are to remain at 12: 10 for the Greater Glasgow area and two for the Clyde area. As with adult acute mental health services, the board''s assumptions are based on historically low occupancy levels, meaning the Clyde area activity can be absorbed without constraining current levels of Greater Glasgow activity.

There are no changes in the assumptions around the older people''s contingent of 45 beds at Gartnavel as the Vision for the Vale proposes that the relevant patients from the Clyde area should be treated at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

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Question reference: S3W-23822

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the officer allocation was for each division in Strathclyde Police after the allocation model was recalculated in July 2008.