- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 25 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that older residents in care homes are not moved into poorer-quality accommodation if the home is closed.
Answer
The local authority has a duty to act in the best interests of the care home residents by ensuring that their care needs continue to be met in an appropriate setting.
Across Scotland, local authorities commission the majority of care places from the independent sector and in conjunction with the Care Inspectorate work closely with providers to improve the quality of care standards in all homes, local authority or independent.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 25 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Argyll and Bute Council's proposal to close the Struan Lodge care home in Dunoon and whether it considers that there should be a temporary suspension on admissions to the home until its future is confirmed.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-13643 on 25 March 2013. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 25 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what procedures must be followed by a local authority proposing to close a care home.
Answer
We would expect local authorities to follow national guidance, Good Practice Guidance on the Closure of a Care Home, which the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities issued on managing care home closures. This guidance was developed by the National Contingency Planning Group for Adult Care and includes protocols for the handling of care and support to individual residents and their carers throughout the process.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 25 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether local authority care homes should not be closed for financial reasons alone.
Answer
Alex Neil: The statutory responsibility for delivering or commissioning services at a local level, including care home provision, lies with local authorities and NHS boards. It is for each local authority to decide how their funding is allocated ensuring that local needs and statutory obligations have been fulfilled.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 25 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the mortality rate of older people who are moved from one care home to another and whether it considers that local authorities should take account of this before moving residents.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold any information on the mortality rate of older people who are moved from one care home to another.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Allan on 21 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what the condition rating was for each school in the (a) Moray and (b) Argyll and Bute Council area in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2012.
Answer
This information is published on the Scottish Government website as supplementary data to the Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland publication.
Data for 2012 is available in table 9 of the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/schoolestatestats/schestate2012
Data for 2011 is available in table 9 of the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/schestate2011.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 27 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to directly promote, sustain and develop the unique culture of the Highlands and Islands.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 27 March 2013
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to increase the number of people willing to be organ donors.
Answer
We have implemented a range of measures to increase the donation rate in Scotland.
We have improved the donation infrastructure across the country, removing some of the barriers to organ donation. We have appointed seven additional Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation and now have clinical leads in organ donation in every intensive care unit in Scotland. We continue to run high profile awareness raising campaigns every year and last year this included the launch of a new Organ Donation Scotland website, which made it easier for Scots to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register on line.
As a result of these and other efforts we have seen a 65% increase in the donation rate in Scotland since 2007/08, and a 26% increase in the number of transplants over the same period. 41% of the Scottish population are now on the NHS Organ Donor Register, the highest proportion in any UK country.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 15 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what factors it assessed to decide whether best value was achieved in the decision to award the lease to manage shooting and fishing on Raasay to a company from Ayrshire and what weighting it gave to each factor considered.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-13255 on 8 March 2013. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what arrangements are in place to factor its crofting estate and related assets on Raasay; when any such factoring arrangements were last put out to competitive tender, and what plans there are to put such work out to tender again.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s Rural Payments and Inspections Division does all the factoring of the Scottish Ministers’ crofting estate. This work has never been put out to tender and there are no plans to do so.