- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15691 by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008, how many inpatient beds will be available at the Vale of Leven Hospital if NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s vision for the hospital is implemented.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15681 on 10 September 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15681 by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 September 2008, what services are recommended for withdrawal or are otherwise reduced as a consequence of the proposed removal of anaesthetic services in the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
I have nothing further to add to my answer to question S3W-15681. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15590 by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008, whether it considers that guidance issued by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service should now contain a requirement to report deaths from Clostridium difficile.
Answer
The current version of this guidance, entitled Death and the Procurator Fiscal, was issued in 1998. The categories of death that require to be reported to the Procurator Fiscal in terms of this guidance are currently under review and revised guidance will be published in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15591 by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008, whether the report from the Outbreak Control Team will be published after it has been shared with the area procurator fiscal.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-16253 on 25 September 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15572 by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008, when annual reviews were last held in public by Scottish ministers with National Services Scotland and NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and what issues were discussed.
Answer
The 2008 annual review for NHS Quality Improvement Scotland was held on Tuesday 16 September 2008 and the 2008 Annual Review for National Services Scotland was held on 22 September 2008.
The agendas for reviews are structured around the board''s performance against key actions identified at the previous annual review and major strategic issues. They consider progress against key targets and reporting items as set out in local delivery plans.
Both reviews also addressed the roles of these boards in tackling healthcare associated infection.
Reviews take place openly and in public and the outcome letters are published by each NHS board within their annual report.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15571 by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008, whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde followed up on the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland inspection of May 2005 which showed that NHS Argyll and Clyde had not met 40 of the 69 criteria for hospital-acquired infections and, if so, what action was taken and when.
Answer
The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland arrangements existing at that time were commissioned by the previous administration.
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that the Argyll and Clyde area infection control committee progressed a number of the actions raised in the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland report through the action plan based on the NHS code of practice for the local management of hygiene and healthcare associated infection. The member will wish to approach NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for information on the specific actions that were taken.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be scrutinised against our revised NHS quality improvement healthcare associated infection standards which were published in March 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15613 by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008, when the Outbreak Control Team will report and whether the report will be published.
Answer
I am informed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that the draft of the report of the Outbreak Control Team is being finalised. It is not possible to confirm the publication date as yet.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to inspect hospitals to ensure compliance with healthcare associated infection standards.
Answer
I am committed to establishing rigorous, coherent and searching inspection arrangements without delay. These will provide open and transparent reporting that reaches down to ward level with stronger accountability and robust follow up. Detailed plans are being developed for consultation and I plan to make a further announcement in due course.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15497 by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 September 2008, whether it considers that the nine full ward terminal cleans carried out at Vale of Leven Hospital between 21 December 2007 and 25 April 2008 were for Clostridium difficile rather than norovirus outbreaks, based on the evidence which has since come to light.
Answer
No. I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that within this period, the Infection Control Team at the Vale of Leven Hospital specifically detected outbreaks of Norovirus on a number of occasions. On each of these occasions the wards concerned were closed and the outbreak managed in accordance with the national guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of Incident Control Teams. This included instruction to the hospital''s domestic services to undertake a terminal clean prior to the re-opening of the affected ward.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15579 by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 September 2008, whether the Infection Control Manager reported any problems at the Vale of Leven Hospital to the Chief Executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde between December 2007 to June 2008 and, if so, when.
Answer
I fully anticipate that full details of the procedures followed during this outbreak will be set out in the Outbreak Control Team''s report which will be produced in due course.
