- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any contracts by or on behalf of the NHS have been entered into, or will now be entered into, with Life Resources Incorporated following the purchase of the company by the Department of Health.
Answer
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) has its own independent sources of non-UK plasma and keeps these under constant review. Life Resources is one of a number of commercial US plasma supply organisations which would be treated no differently from other commercial suppliers which might compete to supply plasma.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations were undertaken with it regarding the purchase of Life Resources Incorporated by the Department of Health and what representations it made in response.
Answer
Neither the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) nor the Scottish Executive was involved at any level in the decision by the Department of Health in England to purchase Life Resources Incorporated.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many extra acute hospital beds will be provided through the allocation of the #12 million announced by the Chief Executive of the NHS on 27 November 2002 for additional funding for winter pressures, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
It is for each NHS board to decide, based on local circumstances and clinical needs over the winter period, how to allocate its additional funding for winter. For Scotland as a whole, this winter, there will be 400 extra beds available, if required, and 20 extra critical care beds.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the placing of automated external defibrillators in public places.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30646 on 29 October 2002. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on developing a code of practice to respond to situations in the NHS such as the failure of the free'er tanks holding sperm samples at Western General Hospital in July 2001.
Answer
The Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS in Scotland is being reviewed and the lessons of this incident are being considered as part of that review.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what support has been offered to the people affected by the failure of the free'er tanks holding sperm samples at the Western General Hospital in July 2001.
Answer
Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust established a telephone helpline, and those who asked for specialist appointments with fertility or genetic experts had these arranged quickly. Expert counselling from nurses specialising in oncology and in genetics was offered, and additional investigations were provided for those who requested them. All of this was undertaken quickly, and with the appropriate sensitivity.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP lists are currently closed, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The number of GP practices which have indicated to their Primary Care Trust/Island NHS Board that they are not currently accepting new patients is as set out within the following table:
| Primary Care Trust/Island NHS Board | No. of GP Practices with Closed Lists |
| Lomond and Argyll PCT | 0 |
| Renfrewshire and Inverclyde PCT | 0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran PCT | 5 |
| Borders PCT | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway PCT | 0 |
| Fife PCT | 3 |
| Forth Valley PCT | 6 |
| Grampian PCT | 0 |
| Greater Glasgow PCT | 0 |
| Highland PCT | 0 |
| Lanarkshire PCT | 3 |
| Lothian PCT | 2 |
| Tayside PCT | 0 |
| Orkney NHS Board | 0 |
| Shetland NHS Board | 0 |
| Western Isles NHS Board | 0 |
| West Lothian NHS Trust | 1 |
| Total | 20 |
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many locum consultant doctors there currently are working in each NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table:Locum Consultants Directly Employed in NHSScotland at 30 September 2001 by Health Board
| Health Board | Headcount | Whole Time Equivalent |
| Total | 110 | 85.3 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 6 | 2.3 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 9 | 7.0 |
| Fife | 2 | 2.0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 30 | 24.6 |
| Highland | 3 | 3.0 |
| Lanarkshire | 16 | 14.2 |
| Grampian | 6 | 4.8 |
| Orkney | 1 | 1.0 |
| Lothian | 21 | 15.3 |
| Tayside | 4 | 1.8 |
| Forth Valley | 9 | 5.5 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1.0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 | 2.7 |
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28610 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 September 2002, how much money it actually made available to the National Review of Resource Allocation for the NHS in Scotland.
Answer
The information requested is currently being collated. Once complete, I will write to the member with a full response and place a copy in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number of days lost due to ill health was in each of the last five years for NHS (a) medical and (b) nursing staff.
Answer
Occupational Health and Safety Minimum Dataset information was collected nationally for the first time during September to December 2001 and covers the period 2000-01. Sickness absence levels form part of the data. Collection of the 2001-02 data is currently on-going. Quality assurance of the 2000-01 data has started and once completed will be made available through the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency.
