Chamber and committees

The Scottish Executive does nothold information on the number of reports of suspected adverse drug reactions receivedvia the Yellow Card Scheme.

The MHRA publishes on its websiteanonymised aggregated reports of suspected adverse drug reactions broken down bydrug and by reporter type. Data which provide a greater level of detail and whichcould potentially lead to the identification of individual reporters or patientsrequire an application to the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee. Applicationforms can be found on their website www.mhra.gov.uk.

Acute Hospital (Non-Obstetric,Non-Psychiatric) In-Patient and Day Case Discharges with any Diagnosis of AdverseDrug Reactions^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}: by NHS Board of Residence – Years Ending31 March 1997 to 2005

Year of Discharge

Notes:

1. These statistics arederived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric andnon-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland

2. Up to six diagnoses (oneprincipal, five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns. All six diagnoseshave been used to select adverse drug reactions. All codes were selected fromthe International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Other HealthRelated Problems, tenth revision (ICD10):

3. Adverse drug reactionscan be the reason for admission to a hospital or can have occurred whilst inhospital as a result of medication.

4. Please note it is notpossible to distinguish between prescribed and non-prescribed drugs.

5. A patient will be countedonce in each year. Patients may be counted more than once across years.

Local authorities can onlybe expected to provide assistance with the preparation of food free of chargeif the individual concerned is assessed as requiring such assistance. If anindividual believes that they have been charged incorrectly for any servicecovered by free personal care, that is a matter which ought to be raiseddirectly with the local authority, who are responsible for providing theservice.

Health Department officialshave written to local authorities reminding them of the legal requirements setout in the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002, in respect of assistance with thepreparation of food.

The approval of RegenerationOutcome Agreements (ROAs) in October 2005 meets our Partnership Agreement commitmentto merge Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIPs) with Community PlanningPartnerships (CPPs).

The Community RegenerationFund (CRF), which replaced SIP funding from April 2005, is allocated toCommunity Planning Partnerships and targeted principally on the basis of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004.

Dundee CPP has five keyareas which it is targeting as follows:

CRA 1 – Menzieshill(part),Charleston,Lochee and Beechwood.

CRA 2 – St Mary’s, Ardlerand Kirkton.

CRA 3 – Hilltown, Stobswelland Fairmuir.

CRA 4 – Mill o Mains,Fintry(part) and Whitfield (part).

CRA 5 – Mid Craigie,Linlathen and Douglas.

In line with the guidance onROAs, Dundee CPP is also targeting on a thematic basis two communities ofinterest: vulnerable young people and young carers.

The provisional numbers ofroad accidents and casualties for 2005 will be published on Thursday 15th June 2006.

The Social InclusionPartnership Fund was replaced by the Community Regeneration Fund (CRF) fromApril 2005. The selection of actual projects is managed locally by CommunityPlanning Partnerships (CPPs). Based on the grant claims submitted by all 32CPPs, over 1,300 projects were supported from the new CRF in 2005-06.

This information is not heldcentrally.

The Social InclusionPartnership (SIP) funding allocated to Dundee since 1999 is as follows:

All of the funding wastargeted at regeneration.

The SIP fund has beenreplaced by the Community Regeneration Fund from April 2005.