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Question reference: S1W-17577

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Health Technology Board for Scotland technology assessments are currently on-going.

Question reference: S1W-17576

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pieces of authoritative comment on National Institute for Clinical Excellence technology appraisal guidance the Health Technology Board for Scotland has published since 1 April 2000.

Since May 2001, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has released Technology Appraisal Guidance on four topics. The Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) has published a comment on one of these topics and will deliver the other three, currently in preparation, on schedule.HTBS has also provided a one-off retrospective comment on the NICE Guidance on treatments for Alzheimer's disease.

Question reference: S1W-17087

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any ICD-9 codes for which there is a target to reduce deaths by 2010 other than those for cancer and heart disease.

Question reference: S1W-17086

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive which ICD-9 codes are included within its targets to reduce deaths from (a) cancer by 20% and (b) heart disease by 50% by 2010.

The ICD-9 codes included within the Scottish Executive Health Department's target to reduce deaths from cancer by 20% between 1995 and 2010 are codes 140 - 208. The ICD-10 codes included within this target are codes C00 - C97.

The ICD-9 codes included within the Scottish Executive Health Department's target to reduce deaths from coronary heart disease by 50% between 1995 and 2010 are codes 410 - 414. The ICD-10 codes included within this target are codes I20 - I25.

Question reference: S1W-17095

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the rates of mortality from circulatory disease (ICD-9 codes 390-459 inclusive) were per 100,000 of the population, broken down by health board area, for people under 75 years of age in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

The mortality rates from circulatory disease per 100,000 population, by health board, of all persons under the age of 75 years, as defined by ICD-9 codes 390 - 459 for each of the years 1998 and 1999, and ICD-10 codes I00 - I99 for the year 2000, are:

Health Board	1998	1999	2000^*
Health Board	ICD-9	ICD-9	ICD-10
Argyll and Clyde	225	219	202
Ayrshire and Arran	206	204	196
Borders	164	165	141
Dumfries and Galloway	210	188	198
Fife	190	176	161
Forth Valley	168	170	164
Grampian	147	145	134
Greater Glasgow	224	204	192
Highland	192	167	190
Lanarkshire	213	203	182
Lothian	166	152	145
Orkney	188	171	144
Shetland	158	112	138
Tayside	187	191	169
Western Isles	192	203	190
SCOTLAND	193	183	172
* Figures for 2000 are not directly comparable with figures for previous years due to the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10

Question reference: S1W-16404

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 1 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail those research grants awarded by the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland (NRIS) in 2000 where the person conducting the research was a member of the NRIS.

Question reference: S1W-16662

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2001
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 23 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what each level one expenditure line in the Scottish budget represented as a percentage of Scotland's GDP in each year for which figures are available.

I refer you to the table which provides level one expenditure as a percentage of GDP and projected GDP.

Portfolio	%
	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Audit Scotland	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
Central Gov't Support for Local Authority Expenditure	8.26	7.92	8.87	8.27	7.90	7.91	7.83	8.09	8.22	8.26
Children and Central Government Education	0.08	0.08	0.10	0.20	0.26	0.29	0.36	0.38	0.45	0.49
Communities	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
Crown Office	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07
Enterprise and Lifelong Learning	2.87	2.74	2.72	2.66	2.55	2.49	2.55	2.73	2.61	2.57
Environment	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.10	0.08	0.54	0.70	0.63	0.64	0.65
EU Structural Funds	0.12	0.11	0.14	0.16	0.22	0.28	0.17	0.21	0.23	0.16
Executive Secretariat	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Food Standards Agency	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01
Forestry	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10
Health	7.13	6.89	6.91	6.94	6.94	7.00	7.14	7.57	7.77	7.90
Justice	0.73	0.70	0.72	0.71	0.76	0.84	0.78	0.83	0.83	0.82
New Deal	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Rural Affairs	0.76	0.81	0.91	0.75	0.83	0.83	0.76	0.77	0.75	0.71
SE Administration	0.26	0.25	0.26	0.22	0.22	0.25	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.25
SE Associated Departments	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.02
Scottish Parliament	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.13	0.12	0.13	0.09
Social Justice	0.99	1.05	0.92	0.84	0.86	0.73	0.86	0.89	0.91	0.97
Scottish Public Pensions Agency	0.32	0.42	0.35	0.42	0.49	0.31	0.38	0.35	0.33	0.37
Sport & Culture	0.20	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.18	0.19	0.17	0.18	0.18	0.18
Transport	0.50	0.47	0.46	0.47	0.99	0.96	1.01	1.22	1.22	1.28
Unallocated Capital Modernisation Fund	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
Reserve	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.14	0.14

Figures from 1998-99 onwards reflect the introduction of Resource Accounting and Budgeting. From 1999-2000 the Water Authorities form part of the Environment Group budget.

Question reference: S1W-15186

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 April 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting time is from GP referral to surgery for all forms of cancer and what the equivalent figures were for each of the last ten years, broken down by health board.

Question reference: S1W-15742

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 May 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 May 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will recommend that professional training for physiotherapists includes a module on hypermobility syndromes.

Question reference: S1W-15468

Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 May 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the statement by an Executive spokesperson that the number of qualified frontline NHS staff has risen since 1996, as reported on the BBC News website on 27 April 2001, what criteria are used to define staff as frontline; whether any nurses or midwives are not regarded as frontline staff and, if so, what term or terms are used to describe such staff.