- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly qualified nurses were recruited in NHS Highland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009 and (d) 2010 and how many have been recruited in 2011 to date.
Answer
The number of newly-qualified nurses employed in NHS Highland since 2007 is as follows:
2007 “ 30
2008 “ 54
2009 “ 35
2010 “ 22
2011 “ 21.
Recruitment of newly-qualified nurses and midwives in 2011 is on-going.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency staff were used by NHS Highland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been used in 2011 to date.
Answer
The information requested is not centrally held for 2007.
Information for 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as follows:
Year | Grampian WTE | Highland WTE | Orkney WTE | Shetland WTE | Western Isles WTE |
2008-09 | 74.5 | 62.7 | 5.9 | 22.0 | 11.0 |
2009-10 | 36.0 | 62.9 | 6.1 | 35.0 | 11.0 |
Source: Annual Accounts.
Note: The annual mean number of employees is calculated as the total whole-time equivalent (WTE) number of employees under contract of service in each week in the financial year, divided by the number of weeks in the financial year.
Information for 2010-11 will be available when NHS boards produce their annual accounts for 2010-11 at the end of June.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency staff were used by NHS Shetland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been used in 2011 to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39919 on 10 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly qualified nurses were recruited in NHS Grampian in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009 and (d) 2010 and how many have been recruited in 2011 to date.
Answer
The number of newly-qualified nurses employed in NHS Grampian since 2007 is as follows:
2007 “ 83
2008 “ 223
2009 “ 183
2010 “ 15
2011 “ 17.
Recruitment of newly-qualified nurses and midwives in 2011 is on-going.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many newly qualified nurses were recruited in NHS Shetland in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009 and (d) 2010 and how many have been recruited in 2011 to date.
Answer
The number of newly-qualified nurses employed by NHS Shetland since 2007 is as follows:
2007 - 3
2008 - 7
2009 - 10
2010 “ 2.
Recruitment of newly-qualified nurses and midwives in 2011 is on-going.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been for drugs prescribed for diabetes treatment in NHS Orkney in each of the last four years for which information is available.
Answer
The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community-by-community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Orkney. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.
Financial Year | Gross Ingredient Cost (£) |
2006-07 | 140,736 |
2007-08 | 145,558 |
2008-09 | 150,501 |
2009-10 | 156,756 |
Notes: The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.
The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists in the Highlands and Islands area received the £9,000 remote areas allowance in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Answer
The number of (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists in the Highland and Islands area who received the £9,000 remote areas allowance in each of the last three years for which information is available is shown in the following table:
Dentists | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 (to date) |
(a) independent | 19 | 24 | 27 |
(b) salaried | 30 | 34 | 41 |
The figures in the table do not include (a) independent and (b) salaried dentists who have received, in the last three years, the remote areas allowance payable at amounts of less than the full £9,000.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the expenditure on hospital drugs has been in NHS Shetland in each of the last four years for which information is available.
Answer
The hospital services drug expenditure for the last four years at NHS Shetland:
Year | Amount £(m) |
2009-10 | 0.6 |
2008-09 | 0.4 |
2007-08 | 0.4 |
2006-07 | 0.5 |
Source: ISD Scotland costs book.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency staff were used by NHS Western Isles in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009, (d) 2010 and how many have been used in 2011 to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39919 on 10 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been for drugs prescribed for diabetes treatment in NHS Western Isles in each of the last four years for which information is available.
Answer
The following table shows the gross ingredient cost for drugs defined by the British National Formulary as involved in the treatment of diabetes dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the financial years ended 31 March 2007 to 2010 for NHS Western Isles. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.
Financial Year | Gross Ingredient Cost (£) |
2006-07 | 253,548 |
2007-08 | 267,163 |
2008-09 | 269,452 |
2009-10 | 296,976 |
Notes:
The data are based on British National Formulary subsections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2.
Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.
The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.