- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to introduce restrictions to the number of journeys per day that elderly or disabled people who qualify for free bus travel can make.
Answer
We don''t intend to introduce any restrictions to the number of journeys per day that those who currently benefit from the scheme can already make.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15227 by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008, when the steering group set up to review free bus travel for elderly and disabled people will report.
Answer
The Steering Group plans to report to ministers towards the end of this year.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing will discuss with the families involved in the C.diff Justice Group the chairing and remit of any public inquiry on the outbreak of Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
I fully appreciate the views expressed about a public inquiry. As I said in Parliament on 11 September, it is right to allow the investigation by the area procurator fiscal to conclude before any further decisions are taken by ministers. I will make a further statement to Parliament at the conclusion of these investigations. I am always happy to meet with the families of the deceased to discuss what happened at the Vale of Leven hospital.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15802 by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 September 2008, how many nurses attended the provided training on Clostridium difficile in May 2007, also expressed as a percentage of the total nursing staff.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that fifteen nurses from the Vale of Leven hospital attended the training on Clostridium difficile in May 2007. It is not appropriate to present this figure as a percentage of the total nursing population at the hospital as not all nurses perform duties or functions where Clostridium difficile training would be relevant to their position.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15607 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 September 2008, whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing will invite the independent review team to publish all the written material considered by them on Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
A decision on whether to publish the written evidence considered by the Independent Review Team is currently being considered under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2005.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15610 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 September 2008 and the intention to involve patients and relatives in the review process, why the independent review team only contacted the patients and relatives affected by Clostridium difficile one week prior to the completion date for the report.
Answer
As stated on page seven of the Independent Review Team''s report much consideration was given on how to appropriately and sensitively contact patients and relatives and it was decided that a newspaper advert would be the most appropriate means of contact. However, this meant that the review team were required to work to the publishing timetables set by the newspapers that were approached and this meant that there were unavoidable delays in getting the adverts published. The fundamental issue is, however, that the Independent Review Team met with a number of representatives of the families affected and took account of their comments when formulating the recommendations in their report.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 26 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action was taken to ensure that fuel retailers avoided increasing prices during the two day strike at the Grangemouth refinery in April 2008.
Answer
The matter of fuel prices is reserved. But throughout the INEOS strike and the subsequent Suckling/Hoyer dispute, Scottish ministers discouraged petrol retailers from putting up prices unnecessarily. In addition, Scottish ministers encouraged the public to report instances of suspected profiteering to the appropriate competition authorities.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 26 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence was gathered of fuel retailers increasing prices during the two day strike at the Grangemouth refinery in April 2008 and what action was taken on this evidence.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold data regarding fuel prices as this matter is reserved. Competition authorities, such as the Office of Fair Trading, routinely investigate allegations of price fixing, anti-competitive agreements and abuse of any dominant market position.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15802 by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 September 2008, how many of the 73 staff from the Vale of Leven Hospital who registered for cleanliness champion training have received that training and when.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that of the 73 staff who registered since May 2007 for the cleanliness champions programme, a total of 23 have now completed it. It is not possible to specify precisely when each member of staff completed their training as this will depend on when the staff member enrolled, but the programme takes approximately 20 hours to complete.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15799 by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 September 2008, who is responsible for agreeing the “upper levels to alert local staff of an excess of new cases over a period”.
Answer
It is for members of the local Infection Control Team to determine if a trigger point has been reached by using statistical process control methods. Trigger levels are based on norms calculated from historical data for each site under study, and are specific for each individual site.
