- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether doctors will have a right of access to information regarding their own practice or performance in cases of professional misconduct.
Answer
The General Medical Council (GMC) is responsible for considering allegations of professional misconduct against doctors.
Doctors at present have the right and will continue to have the right of access to information regarding their own practice or performance in such cases.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any new plans are in place to support people diagnosed with diabetes in Scotland, given the increasing numbers of diabetes sufferers.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to PQ S1W-7461.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it has for early identification of people with diabetes.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-7457.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the 5% of Additional Cost of Teaching money allocated is adequate to fund the 10-12% of undergraduate teaching now conducted in general practice.
Answer
The level of funding provided for general practice under-graduate teaching is for negotiation between the relevant health board, NHS Trusts and University.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it has to direct NHS resources to the prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes in order to avoid the life threatening complications which can result from diabetes.
Answer
There are a substantial number of diabetes-related Scottish Executive projects in hand. In addition to the Working Group on Information Technology to Support Shared Care in Diabetes and the Priorities and Planning Guidance which I mentioned in my reply to S1W-7459.
Committed expenditure of £25,000 to pilot a Scottish Diabetes Survey
Committed expenditure of more than £200,000 to fund three Diabetes IT System Demonstrator Sites in Tayside, Grampian and Lanarkshire, which will show how IT can support clinicians and improve care to diabetic patients.Given a grant of £214,000 to a two-year project which started in January 1999 extending the Diabetes Audit and Research in Tayside Scotland (DARTS) project - "The clinical effectiveness of diabetes care in Scotland: Use of innovative IT designed to implement the SIGN guidelines and St Vincent Declaration".
Funded a three-year Royal College of General Practitioners programme to promote quality and clinical effectiveness in practice-based primary care. Funded a Clinical Network involving diabetes services in Tayside, Forth Valley and Fife, under the Children's Innovation Fund.
Are funding five projects connected with diabetes at a total cost of some £571,000, through SEHD's Chief Scientist Office.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what recommendations it will make to acute hospitals about how to achieve efficiency savings whilst also aiming to achieve government targets.
Answer
The Executive expects all NHS Trusts to achieve national targets while taking account of local circumstances. The additional resources made available by the Executive, together with local efficiency improvements, are sufficient for the NHS to meet the costs of service developments and pay and price increases.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what support is given in NHS hospital maternity units to mothers experiencing difficulties in breastfeeding.
Answer
29 out of Scotland's 32 Maternity Hospitals participate in the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative with a further two planning to do so in the future. The initiative requires participating hospitals to implement 10 steps to successful breastfeeding. The ten steps are evidence based good practice standards and are part of a global initiative to enable mothers to breastfeed successfully. The initiative requires hospitals to have a written policy to ensure that staff receive training to enable them to implement that policy.
Six of these hospitals have received the Baby Friendly Initiative UK Award and a number of other units have been awarded the Certificate of Commitment that acknowledges the units' progress in implementing some of the steps and also commits the hospital to working towards full assessment within two years.
In addition the remit of the national breastfeeding advisor is to assist towards achieving breastfeeding targets, provide advice, training resources and support to NHS personnel and lay workers, to act as a facilitator to local Joint Breastfeeding Initiatives and to report and make recommendations to the Scottish Breastfeeding Group.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will identify the estimated 87,000 Scottish people currently living undiagnosed with diabetes.
Answer
The UK National Screening Committee, an expert advisory body to all the UK Health Departments, is currently developing a programme of screening for diabetic retinopathy. The committee is considering actively how it might be possible to identify "at risk" groups for further targeted screening.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it has to ensure that diabetes services are co-ordinated at health board level.
Answer
It is for health boards to plan and deliver services which meet the needs of their local population, within the resources allocated to them, taking account of national and local priorities. Priorities and Planning Guidance for the period 1999-2002, issued by the Scottish Executive Health Department to health boards, asked health boards and NHS Trusts to review their diabetes services to ensure that the NHS in Scotland meets the targets set out in the WHO St Vincent Declaration.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 12 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local health care co-operatives will be given responsibility for commissioning secondary health care, as with English Primary Care Trusts.
Answer
No. LHCCs are part of Primary Care Trusts. Their influence on the provision of secondary care is exercised through their involvement in the development of the health board's Health Improvement Programme which is the key health service planning document for the area.
