- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is undertaking research into the mechanism of transmission of Clostridium difficile.
Answer
Research already undertaken has shown that direct (patient to patient) and indirect (via contaminated environment or third party) contact represents the main routes of transmission of Clostridium difficile.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what creditor-led petitions for bankruptcy were lodged in the last quarter for which information is available, broken down by creditor.
Answer
During October to December 2008, creditor-led petitions for bankruptcy were lodged by the following categories of creditors:
| Councils | HM Revenue and Customs | Businesses | Private Individuals1 | Money Lenders2 | Other | Total |
| 600 | 213 | 191 | 74 | 36 | 4 | 1,118 |
Notes:
1. May include creditors from other categories where a named individual has been cited as the pursuer in the Scottish Court Service''s electronic Case Management System.
2. Banks, building societies and credit card companies.
The information provided has been collected by the Scottish Court Service and cannot be searched electronically. A manual trawl of the 1,118 cases was undertaken in order to provide the figures quoted above, but more detailed information giving the names of individual creditors, where allowed under the Data Protection Act, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Not all petitions presented to the courts result in award of bankruptcy.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Accountant in Bankruptcy no longer reports statistics on creditor-led petitions for bankruptcy.
Answer
The Accountant in Bankruptcy has never reported on numbers of petitions for bankruptcy as she does not collate this information herself.
The Accountant in Bankruptcy does, however, collate and report on the number of awards of bankruptcy following both petitions to the court and debtor applications considered by the accountant herself. Information on awards of bankruptcy can be found on the website at www.aib.gov.uk in the annual report or in the quarterly Insolvency Statistics press release.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that it is on track to achieve the 2012 homelessness target.
Answer
The Scottish Government acknowledges that the 2012 target is a challenging one for some local authorities. Progress will be measured against the interim targets set for 2008-09 during the course of this year - this will include a qualitative analysis of factors affecting progress as well as statistical information.
The Scottish Government and COSLA have agreed a four-point plan for moving towards 2012 “ focussing on investing in new supply; access to existing stock; preventing homelessness occurring in the first place, and more effective joint working.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of homelessness was for the last quarter for which information is available and how this compares with the (a) previous quarter and (b) same quarter in 2008.
Answer
The last quarter for which published data is available is January to March 2008. There were 10,798 applications assessed as homelessness in Scotland during this quarter, compared to 9,580 in the previous quarter and 11,153 in the same quarter in 2007.
Data for the following two quarters (April to September 2008) is scheduled to be published on 17 March 2009.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20031 by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 January 2009, whether it will collect data on the (a) minimum, (b) maximum and (c) average turnaround time for medical laboratories testing samples from patients with suspected hospital-acquired infections.
Answer
This data is not collected and there are no plans to do so.
Turnaround times, set by local laboratories in conjunction with their clinical users, are usually between 24 and 48 hours and are dependent on the organism being cultural.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many urinary tract infections have occurred in hospital patients in each year since 2007.
Answer
This information is not collected centrally. The Healthcare Associated Infection Task Force has identified targeted incidence surveillance of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) as a priority area.
A protocol for CAUTI has been developed by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) for care of the elderly and for the long term care setting. This is being piloted in five boards during February to April 2009, and the findings will be used to inform the future approach taken for the surveillance of CAUTI.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20032 by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 January 2009, whether it will list those laboratories that test for hospital-acquired infections and specifically Clostridium difficile.
Answer
All of the laboratories listed in the answer to S3W-20032 test for both Clostridium difficile and Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemias.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what records are kept of the transmission of Clostridium difficile in patients being transferred between hospitals.
Answer
This information is not routinely collected and but would be considered in the context of an investigation into an incident/outbreak of Clostridium difficile.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned about the number of patients with catheters who contract urinary tract infections and what action it is taking to address this.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21375 on 6 March 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
