- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected future funding is for pain clinics.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. NHS boards are given unified budgets, increased every financial year,from which they would be expected to meet the costs of treatment for peoplewith chronic pain.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is to be treated in each pain clinic.
Answer
Most pain clinics provideservices to patients in an out-patient setting. Information about out-patient waiting times is collected centrally atspecialty level only and does not differentiate between different types ofclinic within the specialty. Consequently, the information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pain clinics there are in Scotland.
Answer
All NHS boards provide servicesfor chronic pain management and most offer regular pain management clinics. Thenumber and frequency of these clinics is for boards to determine on the basisof locally assessed need.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is takiung to assist pain clinics across Scotland.
Answer
NHS boards are expected tofund chronic pain services, including pain clinics, from the unified budgetsmade available to them by the Executive.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated to each pain clinic in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. NHS boards are given unified budgets, each financial year, fromwhich they would be expected to meet the costs of treatment for people withchronic pain.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local plans for the implementation of new stoma service arrangements have been received from all local implementation groups and, if not, what the reasons are for any delay.
Answer
Local implementation planshave been received and published on the appliance website (
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/appliance_contractors/) for all NHS Boards except for NHS Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles. HealthDepartment officials are working with those Boards to ensure that their plansare submitted and published as quickly as possible.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what specific measures are in place to ensure that all contracted stoma appliance and service providers comply with new service standards introduced in April 2006.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-26419 on 14 June 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent it has considered and provided guidance on any privacy and data protection issues which may arise as a result of changes which it is implementing in arrangements for the supply of stoma care appliances.
Answer
The new arrangements for thesupply of stoma products do not change the need for informed consent whenpatient data is shared. I understand that community pharmacists who are alsostoma service providers have already been reminded of this by their representativeorganisation, the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all members of the steering group overseeing the introduction of new arrangements for the supply of stoma appliances will be invited to participate in reviewing the arrangements in autumn 2006.
Answer
The membership of thenational review group is to be finalised. However, I can confirm that we intendto continue to involve patient groups and service provider representatives inaddition to NHS managers and clinicians.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any examples of pharmacists sending out patient identifiable information to third party contractors to cut and fit stoma care appliances without advising patients of this either directly or through a general notice displayed in the pharmacy; whether it considers that any such practice complies with the statutory and professional standards and the national service standards referred to in the answer to question S2W-26419 by Lewis Macdonald on 14 June 2006; and whether it will take action to ensure that any such practices cannot be employed.
Answer
Health Department officialsare not aware of any community pharmacy contractor not meeting their legal orcontractual duties in respect to the supply of stoma products. They are,however, aware that patient groups and competing stoma service providers haveraised concerns about this. Community pharmacists who are also stoma serviceproviders have already been reminded of their duties by their representativeorganisation, the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council.
The audit of the new supplyarrangements, currently being undertaken, provides an opportunity for any suchissues to be identified and addressed.
