- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of each NHS Scotland Primary Care and Acute Hospitals Trust's total budget was attributable to management costs in the financial years 1997-98 and 1998-99, and what the projected percentage is for the years 1999-2000 and 2000-01.
Answer
The percentage of total income attributable to management costs as reported by each NHS Trust for 1997-98 and 1998-99 is given in the table below. The data relates to NHS Trusts prior to reconfiguration at April 1999. The definition of management cost upon which the Trusts base their calculations was revised in April 1998. However, the 1997-98 figures have been rebased to the revised definition and the two sets of data are therefore comparable.
| NHS Trusts Prior to Reconfiguration at April 1999 | Management Cost % 1997/98 | Management Cost % 1998/99 |
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| Aberdeen Royal NHS Trust | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| Angus NHS Trust | 5.0 | 4.8 |
| Argyll & Bute NHS Trust | 4.9 | n/a |
| Ayrshire & Arran Community Healthcare NHS Trust | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Borders Community Health NHS Trust | 5.9 | 6.1 |
| Borders General Hospital NHS Trust | 5.5 | 5.1 |
| Caithness & Sutherland NHS Trust | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| Central Scotland Healthcare NHS Trust | 5.0 | 4.8 |
| Dumfries & Galloway Acute & Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| Dumfries & Galloway Community Health Services NHS Trust | 4.3 | 5.7 |
| Dundee Healthcare NHS Trust | 5.1 | 5.0 |
| Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| East & Midlothian NHS Trust | 4.9 | 5.1 |
| Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust | 5.6 | 5.6 |
| Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary NHS Trust | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| Fife Healthcare NHS Trust | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| Glasgow Dental Hospital & School NHS Trust | 9.4 | 9.2 |
| Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| Greater Glasgow Community & Mental Health NHS Trust | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Hairmyres & Stonehouse Hospitals NHS Trust | 4.9 | 4.3 |
| Highland Communities NHS Trust | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Inverclyde Royal NHS Trust | 6.0 | 5.7 |
| Kirkcaldy Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Lanarkshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| Law Hospital NHS Trust | 4.7 | 4.2 |
| Lomond Healthcare NHS Trust | 6.6 | 5.8 |
| Monklands & Bellshill Hospital NHS Trust | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Moray Health Services NHS Trust | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| North Ayrshire & Arran NHS Trust | 4.0 | 3.8 |
| Perth & Kinross NHS Trust | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| Queen Margaret Hospital NHS Trust | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust | 3.2 | 3.1 |
| South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust | 4.4 | 4.1 |
| Southern General Hospital NHS Trust | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| Stobhill NHS Trust | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| West Glasgow Hospitals NHS Trust | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| West Lothian NHS Trust | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| Western General Hospitals NHS Trust | 9.1 | 8.7 |
| Yorkhill NHS Trust | 5.5 | 5.4 |
Comparable information relating to the new Acute and Primary Care Trusts for 1999-2000 and 2000-01 is not currently available.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 20 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated to each Health Board in Scotland to relieve bed blocking in 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000.
Answer
No funding has been allocated to Health Boards specifically to relieve bed blocking. Health Boards are given an annual general allocation to meet the health care needs of their resident populations. It is for Health Boards to determine, within the funds available, how to manage and deliver local health care services to meet these needs. All Health Boards and NHS Trusts work with their local authority partners to explore avenues to reduce or remove delays in discharges from NHS care. This is reflected in each Health Board's Health Improvement Programme and in Trust Implementation Plans.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the average cost per patient per week to keep a patient in an NHS hospital bed when they are medically fit for discharge and how this compares with the average cost of a social work funded place in a nursing/residential home.
Answer
The cost per patient week for those awaiting discharge from NHS care varies by specialty, to a range of £700 to £1000.The cost per resident week of a social work funded place in a nursing/residential home varies by client group, type of home and area in the range of £220 to £360.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated by Health Boards to primary care and acute NHS Trusts to relieve bed blocking in 1997-1998, 1998-1999 and 1999-2000.
Answer
The information requested can not be identified separately. A wide range of expenditure and action by Health Boards and NHS Trusts contributes to relieving bed blocking. This includes effective discharge planning, improving rehabilitation services and other developments falling to the NHS acting alone or working together with local authorities and other partners. This is reflected in each Health Board's Health Improvement Programme and in Trust Implementation Plans.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive further to the answer to the question S1W-73 by Susan Deacon on 19 July 1999, what specific measures have been taken by Health Boards and NHS Trusts to address bed-blocking in the light of the anticipated increase in admissions over the Millennium period.
Answer
All Health Boards and NHS Trusts continue to work with their local authority partners in addressing all avenues, including financial, to reduce or remove delays in discharge from NHS Care. This is an ongoing in-year process and features as an integral part of each Health Board's Health Improvement Programme. This ongoing task takes account of planning for any additional pressures which may arise over the millennium period.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 17 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to utilise the criteria for the deprivation index in the allocation of NHS resources.
Answer
The conclusions of the National Review of Resource Allocation for the NHS in Scotland were published on 15 July, in the form of the report 'Fair Shares For All'. In order to give Members and the general public sufficient time to consider the Review's recommendations I have decided that the report should be subject to consultation for a period of four months from the date of publication. The Parliamentary Committee for Health and Community Care will be briefed on the Review and I look forward to hearing their views on some of the key issues. A copy of the Review's report has been sent to each member and has been laid in the Parliamentary Library. The Review's remit asked it to bring forward recommendations with the aim of promoting fair access to healthcare, based on the health needs of each area Health Board. This has involved the use of a wide range of relevant deprivation indicators in order to assess needs associated with deprivation. The full list of the indicators used by the Review are included in the report.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the Minister for Health and Community Care has to meet representatives from the British Dental Association (Scotland) to discuss dental decay in children under the age of 14.
Answer
I have written to the British Dental Association inviting them to a meeting to discuss oral health issues.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 July 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to reassure junior doctors of its commitment to the target of "56 actual hours worked" as set out in the "New Deal for Junior Doctors 1991".
Answer
A commitment to the achievement of the 56 hour target here in Scotland has already been given and I can restate our determination to see that fully implemented. We have announced joint plans with the British Medical Association (BMA) to support NHS Trusts' implementation of New Deal standards and I have written to the Chairman of the Junior Doctors Committee in Scotland to arrange a meeting to discuss this and other issues concerning junior doctors.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 July 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to take account of the potential combined impact on hospital services of "bed-blockers" and the anticipated increase in hospital admissions over the 1999-2000 New Year holiday period in its Milleniunm contingency planning.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is committed to ensuring that Health Boards and NHS Trusts continue work with other agencies, including local authorities, to cope with periods of peak demand as part of the process of managing effectively the services provided to patients. They have been asked to plan particularly for the additional demands that may arise over the 1999-2000 New Year holiday period.
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 July 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it intends to take to address public concern over the potential health risks in relation to mobile telephone telecommunication masts.
Answer
I am aware of current concerns about possible risks to health from mobile telephone telecommunication masts and the Executive will shortly be writing to all Members of the Scottish Parliament setting out in detail our position on this issue. Meanwhile, advice from the National Radiological Protection Board, which advises the Executive on matters of this kind, indicates that the field strengths of signals from mobile telephone masts at places to which the public have access are below recommended guideline levels and should present no health risk. The Board's advice is based on its own research and on assessments, by its Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation, of biological and epidemiological work world-wide. As a further measure, the Board have also been asked to set up an independent expert group to assess the current state of research into any health risks associated with the use of mobile phones and telephone communication masts. The group will be chaired by Sir William Stewart FRS FRSE and its detailed membership and terms of reference will be announced shortly.
