- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to recommend that independent research be carried out to establish how Isotretinoin functions in the human body and to determine what chemically-induced changes in the brain and in other parts of the body arise from ingesting the drug.
Answer
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health services and patient care within the NHS in Scotland. The CSO has no plans for research into Isotretinoin but would be pleased to consider research proposals, which would be subject to the usual peer and committee review.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to authorise prescribing nurses to use practice computer systems for producing prescriptions and, if so, when this will be introduced.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has made a substantial investment in GP systems and in community nurse access to IT.The Scottish Executive has set up a steering group to take forward the extension of nurse prescribing. Infrastructure to support the extension of nurse prescribing is one of the issues being considered by the group. This will include consideration of the potential for computer generated prescriptions where appropriate.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is monitoring any effect of prescribing by nurses on the maintenance of comprehensive patient records.
Answer
The guidance issued to all nurse prescribers states very clearly the requirement to enter nurse prescribing information into the GP patient record and that the timescales for doing this need to be agreed with the GP. The detailed content of the patient record held by GPs is a matter for the GPs themselves.The Scottish Executive has set up a steering group to take forward the extension of nurse prescribing. One of the members of that group is a GP. Infrastructure to support the extension of nurse prescribing is one of the issues being considered by the group.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has given to general practitioners regarding systems of documentation to support prescribing by nurses.
Answer
The guidance issued to all nurse prescribers states very clearly the requirement to enter nurse prescribing information into the GP patient record, and that the timescales for doing this need to be agreed with the GP.The Scottish Executive has set up a steering group to take forward the extension of nurse prescribing. One of the members of that group is a general practitioner. Infrastructure to support the extension of nurse prescribing is one of the issues being considered by the group.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what explicit responsibility it or any of its non-departmental public bodies or executive agencies have for monitoring accidental and non-accidental major injury statistics and, if no body has this responsibility, what plans it has to start monitoring such statistics.
Answer
The Scottish Executive Health Department has this responsibility in the context of monitoring statistical returns from the NHS generally in order to detect major trends. Other departments and bodies also have an interest, for example, the Health and Safety Executive, the Scottish Trauma Audit Group and NHS Boards.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to make the monitoring of accidental and non-accidental major injury statistics a responsibility of (a) NHS Trusts or (b) the proposed unified NHS Boards.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-19814.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS Trusts have brought cleaning and catering services back in-house since the publication of Our National Health, a plan for action a plan for change.
Answer
Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change made clear that NHSScotland must achieve the best value in domestic services and that contracting out, while often appropriate, should no longer be seen as the norm.The vast majority of NHS Trusts already provide all or part of their cleaning and catering services in-house. Those Trusts which have outsourced their domestic services are reviewing these arrangements as the contract break points are reached. Since December 2000, one Trust has decided to take services back in-house.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether guidance will be issued to local authorities about considering the impact on TV reception of applications for planning permission before planning consent is granted.
Answer
Planning Advice Note 62: Radio Telecommunications (Bib. number 16043) contains advice on development proposals causing interference with radio telecommunications services, which includes television signals.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Health Technology Board for Scotland will reach a decision on the introduction of liquid-based cytology for cervical screening programmes and, if not, whose decision it will be.
Answer
Any advice on the introduction of liquid based cytology into the cervical screening programme from either the Health Technology Board for Scotland or the National Institute of Clinical Excellence or the national Advisory Group on Cervical Screening, will be considered by the Scottish Executive. Relevant guidance will issue to NHSScotland when appropriate.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive why the Health Technology Board for Scotland has not carried out a Health Technology Assessment on the cost effectiveness of introducing liquid-based cytology for cervical screening programmes throughout Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-19038.
