- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SE4376/2001 of 19 November 2001, whether the matters considered by the expert panel on school meals will include making school meals free for all school children.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20232.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how the new Joint Management Board at the Beatson Oncology Unit will operate.
Answer
The joint management board will be multi-disciplinary in nature with members drawn from across the Beatson Oncology Centre, senior management representatives from the North Glasgow University Hospitals Trust and NHS Greater Glasgow. It will report to the Chief Executive of the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many nursing posts are vacant at the Beatson Oncology Unit.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking as a result of the report by the Greater Glasgow NHS Board into the situation at the Beatson Oncology Unit and the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20004.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how the #250,000 allocated by the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust in April to ease pressure on staff at the Beatson Oncology Unit in Glasgow has been spent.
Answer
I have been advised by the trust that this funding was invested to secure:five administrative staff to improve secretarial support;five additional nursing staff, one to improve bed management and the remainder to enhance chemotherapy services, andjunior doctor banding to facilitate the provision of additional specialist registrar support at the Beatson Oncology Centre.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the urgent measures are which have been put in place to deal with issues at the Beatson Oncology Unit.
Answer
A raft of measures are being set in place including:new management arrangements including a dedicated joint Management Board;a high level external clinical support team;an organisational development programme, and full-time senior management support for doctors and other professionals to help better develop west of Scotland cancer services based on managed clinical networks regionally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit and timescale is of the investigation into the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1O-4093 on 15 November 2001. I have asked the Chief Executive of Greater Glasgow NHS Board to complete the review by end of the current calendar year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-3993 by Sarah Boyack on 1 November 2001, whether it will ensure that Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority, as the promoting authority for the Partick Interchange project, will consult local residents and elected members as well as the groups it has already consulted.
Answer
Consultation on individual Public Transport Fund projects is a matter for the promoting authority, in this case Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority. However, I have been assured by the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority that a public consultation exercise is being planned once key legal and contractual issues have been resolved.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact there will be on patient services as a result of the current situation at the Beatson Oncology Unit and the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-19754 on 26 November 2001.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives are in place to encourage the development of swimming lessons for children.
Answer
As agreed at the debate on this issue on 24 May, an audit of current levels of swimming provision is under way. A questionnaire seeking a wide range of information has been sent to local authorities and will provide an up-to-date picture of opportunities available for school pupils. Responses are expected early this month. We will announce the findings of this survey and any subsequent action thereafter.
