Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-11435

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were treated at the Dumbarton Joint Hospital in each of the last three years, broken down by specialty.

Question reference: S2W-11730

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will monitor and report on the implementation of partnership in practice agreements submitted by local authorities.

Implementation is primarily a matter for local authorities, health boards and their planning partners, working in partnership with people with learning disabilities and their families.

It will be monitored through NHS Quality Improvement Scotland learning disability review visits, the NHS Performance Assessment Framework, and Community Care and learning disability statistical information collected and published by the Scottish Executive Analytical Services Division.

The Scottish Executive will respond to local authorities and their partners on new Partnership in Practice agreements being completed now for the years 2004-07. All agreements will be publicly available on the Scottish Executive website, with this feedback.

Question reference: S2W-11432

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what its timetable is for reform of the law of bankruptcy and diligence.

Question reference: S2W-11433

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS Argyll and Clyde patients were treated by NHS Greater Glasgow in each of the last three years, broken down by local health care co-operative and including (a) all day cases and inpatients, (b) elective inpatients, (c) emergency inpatients, (d) day cases and (e) GP outpatient referrals.

The information requested is provided in the table:

Year Ending	Local Health Care Co-operative (LHCC)	Total In-patient/Day Case Discharges	“Elective” In-patient Discharges	Emergency In-patient Discharges	Day Case Discharges	First Out-patient Appointments
31-Mar-02	Total	22,355	7,670	4,152	8,224	9,672
	Argyll and Bute Local Healthcare Co-Operative	3,896	1,913	771	769	1,713
	Inverclyde Local Healthcare Co-Operative	2,360	1,046	275	715	631
	Levern Valley Local Healthcare Co-Operative	1,145	333	243	434	596
	Lomond Primary Care Co-Operative	4,383	1,459	849	1,678	2,508
	Paisley Local Healthcare Co-Operative	4,028	1,172	591	1,930	1,441
	Renfrew Local Healthcare Co-Operative	2,402	504	695	913	931
	West Renfrew Local Healthcare Co-Operative	4,141	1,243	728	1,785	1,852
31-Mar-03	Total	22,131	7,398	3,949	8,796	11,106
	Argyll and Bute Local Healthcare Co-Operative	3,725	1,746	699	881	1,786
	Inverclyde Local Healthcare Co-Operative	2,404	1,035	270	806	750
	Levern Valley Local Healthcare Co-Operative	1,130	316	187	544	662
	Lomond Primary Care Co-Operative	4,050	1,351	812	1,548	2,612
	Paisley Local Healthcare Co-Operative	4,238	1,218	570	2,123	1,846
	Renfrew Local Healthcare Co-Operative	2,400	468	709	958	1,244
	West Renfrew Local Healthcare Co-Operative	4,184	1,264	702	1,936	2,206
31-Mar-04 (provisional)	Total	20,258	6,318	3,176	8,573	10,154
	Argyll and Bute Local Healthcare Co-Operative	3,484	1,533	567	948	1,632
	Inverclyde Local Healthcare Co-Operative	2,505	954	317	920	631
	Levern Valley Local Healthcare Co-Operative	1,074	254	168	546	533
	Lomond Primary Care Co-Operative	4,085	1,206	706	1,729	2,256
	Paisley Local Healthcare Co-Operative	3,539	991	438	1,763	1,561
	Renfrew Local Healthcare Co-Operative	1,584	340	453	586	1,396
	West Renfrew Local Healthcare Co-Operative	3,987	1,040	527	2,081	2,145

Source:SMR00, SMR01.

Notes:

1. Any GP practices, at any particular time, may not be a member of an LHCC.

2. Some Argyll and Clyde residents treated in Greater Glasgow may not belong to an LHCC or, if so, not to an Argyll and Clyde LHCC. Such cases are excluded are from the table.

Question reference: S2W-11434

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were treated at the Helensburgh Victoria Infirmary in each of the last three years, broken down by specialty.

Question reference: S2W-11436

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent action has been taken to encourage NHS Argyll and Clyde to work more effectively across boundaries with NHS Greater Glasgow and NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

NHS boards must be committed to meaningful co-operation with each other and their planning partners in order to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable health and health care services, irrespective of administrative boundaries.

The Executive has recently been in discussion with NHS Argyll and Clyde and neighbouring boards about the importance of the fullest possible joint planning and working between them to ensure that services for Argyll and Clyde residents are as good as they can be. The Executive will continue to pursue this issue with the relevant NHS boards.

Question reference: S2W-11728

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what performance indicators are in place to monitor the uptake of direct payments, broken down by eligible community care group.

Question reference: S2W-10162

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been treated by the Vale of Leven Hospital Minor Injury Unit since its inception.

Question reference: S2O-03868

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 November 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to encourage NHS Argyll and Clyde to work with NHS Greater Glasgow in the interests of patients.

NHS boards must be committed to meaningful co-operation with each other and their planning partners in order to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable health and health care services, irrespective of administrative boundaries.

The Executive has recently been in discussion with NHS Argyll and Clyde and neighbouring boards about the importance of the fullest possible joint planning and working between them to ensure that services for Argyll and Clyde residents are as good as they can be. The Executive will continue to pursue this issue with the relevant NHS boards.

Question reference: S2W-10628

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the year-on-year increase in the recruitment of (a) consultants, (b) doctors and (c) nurses has been in the NHS in each year since 1999.

The year on year recruitment figures for (a) consultants, (b) doctors and (c) qualified nurses and midwives are show in the following table.

Headcount	30th Sep 1999 to 30th Sep 2000	30th Sep 2000 to 30th Sep 2001	30th Sep 2001 to 30th Sep 2002	30th Sep 2002 to 30th Sep 2003
Consultants¹
All joiners²	203	269	249	245
Doctors³
All joiners⁴	1,932	1,950	2,217	1,951
Qualified Nurses and Midwives
All joiners⁵	2,906	3,493	3,626	4,120

Source: ISD Scotland.

Notes:

1. Consultants are defined as medical consultants including directors of public health.

2. In each period, consultant joiners are doctors employed as a consultant at the later date, and not employed as a consultant in a substantive post at the earlier date.

3. Doctors are defined as all medical staff employed in the hospital and community sectors of the NHS. This includes consultants, other career grade doctors and doctors in training, but excludes GPs.

4. In each period, doctor joiners are doctors employed in the hospital and community sectors in any grade at the later date, and not employed in the hospital and community sectors in any substantive grade at the earlier date.

5. In each period, nurse and midwife joiners are nurses and midwives employed in the hospital and community sectors in any grade at the later date, and not employed in the hospital and community sectors in any substantive grade at the earlier date.

The Scottish Executive is committed to increasing the capacity within the consultant, doctors and nursing and midwifery staff groups and have a number of recruitment and retention initiatives underway to support this.

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