- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurse practitioners currently practise in the NHS and in which areas they practise.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence it has of any increase in the quality of life resulting from effective foot health care provision to (a) children, (b) elderly people and (c) other adults in the last (i) five years and (ii) 10 years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not conducted a survey of the research in this area. The outcomes of research of this nature will be reported in the professional literature. Chiropody and podiatry services are part of the range of services provided by Primary Care NHS trusts. It is for local NHS management to ensure that the provision of services is, where possible evidence based, and in accordance with good professional practice to secure improvements in health.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been carried out into the need for chiropody and podiatry services.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not conducted a survey of the research in this area. The outcomes of research of this nature will be reported in the professional literature. Chiropody and podiatry services are part of the range of services provided by Primary Care NHS Trusts. It is for the NHS locally to make an assessment of the needs of the local population.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost currently is of a foot operation when undertaken by (a) an orthopaedic surgeon and (b) a podiatric surgeon.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost currently is of chiropody/podiatry treatment by (a) a GP, (b) a nurse, (c) a consultant, (d) a chiropodist/podiatrist.
Answer
The only information that is collected centrally on the cost of chiropody/podiatry services is the cost of an out-patient attendance at a clinic where the patient is seen by a chiropodist. The average cost of an attendance in 2000-01 was £19.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foot operations in the NHS in Scotland have been undertaken by (a) orthopaedic surgeons and (b) podiatric surgeons in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Information on the number of foot operations performed as in-patients or day cases in the speciality of orthopaedics since 1997-1998, by NHS board of residence, is provided in the following table. In that period, no surgical cases were recorded in the speciality Surgical Podiatry. Information on operations undertaken in an out-patient setting is not available centrally.The treatment of patients by a Podiatrist is generally undertaken in a primary care setting or at sessions at NHSScotland hospitals, clinics or other Health Service facilities staffed by Professions Allied to Medicine. Information on services provided by Professions Allied to Medicine is not collected centrally. NHSScotland: Number Of In-patient And Day Case Foot
1 Operations Performed By A Consultant In The Specialty Of Orthopaedics. Years Ending 31 March 1998-2001 And 6 Months to 30 September 2001
NHS Board | 31 March 1998 | 31 March 1999 | 31 March 2000 | 31 March 2001 | 6 Months to 30 September 2001P |
Argyll and Clyde | 162 | 204 | 149 | 155 | 87 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 193 | 187 | 160 | 189 | 58 |
Borders | 27 | 44 | 47 | 55 | 25 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 41 | 56 | 64 | 47 | 8 |
Fife | 167 | 204 | 133 | 139 | 67 |
Forth Valley | 105 | 108 | 93 | 116 | 45 |
Grampian | 232 | 287 | 290 | 222 | 102 |
Greater Glasgow | 303 | 305 | 325 | 272 | 117 |
Highland | 68 | 99 | 90 | 89 | 36 |
Lanarkshire | 195 | 214 | 186 | 166 | 68 |
Lothian | 296 | 330 | 285 | 380 | 221 |
Orkney | 5 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Shetland | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
Tayside | 258 | 233 | 209 | 170 | 85 |
Western Isles | 7 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 |
Scotland | 2,065 | 2,295 | 2,050 | 2,011 | 926 |
Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01.
p Provisional.Note:
1 Foot operations are defined as OPCS4 codes W03, W04 and W15 or any operation with a supplementary classification of 'site of operation' of Z79, Z80, and Z90.5.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the appropriate level of chiropody and podiatry services which should be commissioned by each Primary Care NHS Trust.
Answer
Chiropody and podiatry services are part of the range of services provided by Primary Care NHS Trusts. It is for the NHS locally to make an assessment of the needs of the local population.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it plans to provide regarding the appropriate level of chiropody and podiatry services which should be commissioned by each Primary Care NHS Trust.
Answer
There are no plans to publish guidance of this nature. It is for the NHS locally to determine the range and level of services to be provided.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people consulted a chiropodist and/or a podiatrist in each of the last five years for which figures are available, expressed also as a percentage of the population.
Answer
The following table shows the total number of patients treated by chiropodists and podiatrists over the five-year period 1996 to 2000. Number of Treatments by Chiropodists and Podiatrists in the NHS
Year | Number of Treatments |
1996 | 467,044 |
1997 | 472,820 |
1998 | 480,161 |
1999 | 494,133 |
2000 | 485,959 |
The figures need to be interpreted with some care. They are based on the number of courses of treatment provided to patients. Some patients will receive more than one course of treatment during the year, and therefore the number of people receiving chiropody or podiatry treatment will be less than the total number of treatments provided. It is not possible to identify the number of patients who receive more than one course of chiropody or podiatry treatment, and therefore we cannot estimate the number and percentage of people in the population who have seen a chiropodist or podiatrist.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence it has of any local and regional variations in the provision of chiropody and podiatry treatment by the NHS.
Answer
The Information and Statistics Division (ISD) of the Common Services Agency, NHSScotland has published a Health Briefing (2001): Community Chiropody Services which presents information on community chiropody and podiatry services in Scotland between 1990-99. The information relates to the number of patients treated, the number of treatments provided, place of treatment and chiropody staffing levels. Further statistical information on the provision of chiropody services is available from the ISD website.