- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on mental health in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1997-98.
Answer
Health boards and local authority Social Work Departments incur expenditure in relation to mental health.
In terms of NHS expenditure, mental illness is equated with the specialties of General Psychiatry, Adolescent Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry.
The figures for 1997-98 and 1998-99 are provided in the publication Scottish Health Service Costs for each of the years. Figures relating to expenditure by health boards are not yet available for 1999-2000.
The following table sets out the net revenue expenditure by local authority social work departments on services for people with mental health problems. The source of data for 1997-98 is different to that for 1998-99 and 1999-2000. Care should be taken when making comparisons as the categories in which expenditure data are collected are different for these two sources.
Local Authority Social Work Expenditure on Mental Health 1997-98 to 1999-00 (£ million) |
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
| | Provisional Outturn | Budget Estimate |
Net Expenditure | 30.1 | 33.5 | 36.8 |
Source: 1997-98 Figures as reported by local authorities on local financial returns (LFR3 Social Work). 1998-99 and 1999-2000 as reported by local authority on Provision Outturn Budget Estimate (POBE) returns.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans are in place to increase preventative action to help reduce the rising rates of cancer.
Answer
I refer to the answer I have given in response to question, S1W-3558.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require health boards to provide all the drugs and treatment therapies recommended by the Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre.
Answer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland will provide boards with advice on the clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing treatments. Boards will be expected to take account of that advice in the decisions they make about the availability of treatments. Boards will also be expected to justify any decision not to follow the advice of the new board; both in the public eye (the advice of the board will be public) and within clinical governance.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take action against health boards that do not provide all the drug and treatment therapies recommended by the Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre and, if so, what that action will be.
Answer
Health boards will take account of the advice of the Health Technology Board for Scotland in reaching their decisions. They will also be expected to justify any decision not to follow the advice of the new board; both in the public eye (the advice of the board will be public) and within the context of clinical governance.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre will contribute to equality of access to healthcare throughout Scotland.
Answer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland will be a single source of evidence-based advice on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of treatments and drugs. It will work closely with the NHS and patient representatives to ensure that effective innovations move quickly into mainstream practice, so ensuring that all the people of Scotland have access to the most effective treatment available.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre's advice on new and existing health technologies will be based on cost/benefit analysis and, if so, whether it will define the parameters of that analysis.
Answer
Among the first tasks of the new Health Technology Board for Scotland will be to establish and obtain wide agreement to the methodology it will use to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of new and existing health technologies.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what role health boards will have in the decisions made regarding the availability of medicines in the NHS given the input from the Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre and whether all boards will be obliged to adopt their recommendations.
Answer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland will be a single source of evidence-based advice to health service decision makers on the clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing health technologies. Health boards will take account of the new board's advice to ensure that the people they serve have access to the most effective healthcare and treatment available.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether new and existing drugs and treatments will be assessed by the Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre on the basis of affordability or cost-effectiveness.
Answer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland will assess new and existing drugs and treatments solely on the evidence of their clinical and cost-effectiveness.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times and on what dates the working group set up to review winter planning arrangements in relation to the recent flu crisis has met; who its members are and when its first proposals are expected.
Answer
In spite of unprecedented levels of activity in many parts of Scotland, the NHS acquitted itself extremely well in the light of recent winter pressures through a combination of sound planning and the sheer commitment and hard work of its staff.
However, there is no room for complacency. As part of its aim of continual improvement of services for patients, the NHS in Scotland will, with its planning partners, be reviewing winter planning arrangements. As part of these arrangements, I have already intimated that I am commissioning a group representing a wide range of interests to consider how those arrangements can be improved in future.I expect to be in a position to commission that group shortly so that its recommendations can inform planning for next winter.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 14 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent figure is for the number of blocked beds in Scotland.
Answer
On the basis of the latest available information, discharge arrangements for 2,391 patients have been delayed for more than two days.
From 1 April this year this information will be collected quarterly against agreed national definitions. The first national data will be available shortly after the first census on 30 June.
