Chamber and committees

This is a matter for NHSScotlandBodies. The information requested is not held centrally.

The funding of recyclinginitiatives is a matter of local NHS board policy and no central monitoring isundertaken on the way in which funds are allocated.

In recognition of the needto ensure NHSScotland Bodies comply with the ScottishExecutive’s principles and policies on sustainable development, the ScottishExecutive Health Department’s recently revised Environmental ManagementPolicy for NHSScotlandNHSHDL(2006)21requires NHSScotland Bodies to set year-on-year targets for increasing theamounts of waste designated for re-use, recycling or recovery. These targetsare required to be set by individual boards, in accordance with EU, UK andScottish Executive legislation, to contribute to the Executive’s National WastePlan which aims to achieve a national target of 25% recycling and composting ofmunicipal waste by 2006 and 55% by 2020.

Operational guidance on themanagement and disposal of clinical and domestic waste is provided to NHSScotlandby Health Facilities Scotland.

NHSScotland has long beenrecognised as a leader in the field on environmental management which has beenwidely recognised elsewhere in the UK and more recently by the European Health PropertyNetwork.

The information requested isgiven in a document entitled NHSScotland : number of day case and inpatient operationsby Health Board and hospital. A copy of this document has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39574).

Operationsare carried out within NHSScotland in a wide range of settings dependent on a numberof factors including the complexity of theoperation and the clinical and personal needs of the patient.

Thetable shows trend data on the number of principal procedures carried out on patientsadmitted as in-patients or day cases to Scottish hospitals.

Inaddition, some operations are performed in out-patient clinics. The ISD websiteprovides details of available national figures. Currently, it is difficult to describeand quantify accurately the level of operations carried out in out-patients. ISDhave been working with NHS boards to capture this information. Emerging findingsare published in ISD’s data developments web pages at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/data_development.

This information iscontained in a document entitled Consultants per 100,000 population by NHS Board1997-2005, a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 39584).

Parents of children with thiscondition do receive medical advice on diagnosis, as well as further informationabout the condition. We are currently in discussion with NHS Health Scotland witha view to developing an information leaflet for all new parents which will giveadvice about plagiocephaly. The leaflet will also advise parents where to go foradditional advice should their child develop this condition.

This is a matter for Dundee CityCouncil. The information requested is not held centrally.

The “new dental contract”which was introduced on 1 April 2006 is relevant to England and Wales only, and does not apply in Scotland, asNHS dentistry is a devolved matter.

The information requested iscontained in the following tables.

Singletons Born in Scotland andDetected with Congenital Anomalies at Birth or During Infancy; Numbers byAnomaly and Year 1995-2003

		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Neural Tube Defects*		39	44	30	35	34	22	22	23	24
	Anencephalus	3	2	2	5	4	2	1	6	3
	Spina bifida +/- hydrocephalus	27	35	21	23	26	17	16	15	17
	Encephalocoele	10	7	8	7	5	3	5	2	4
	Hydrocephalus (not counted in Neural Tube Defects total)	46	41	44	34	31	21	25	21	21
Anomalies of the heart and circulatory system*		500	504	504	458	506	529	492	402	478
	Heart	301	292	304	240	233	270	266	232	289
	Circulatory System	280	245	246	202	228	215	208	200	212
Cleft Palate		65	46	58	51	36	36	28	38	37
Cleft lip +/- cleft palate		54	38	60	47	41	43	39	36	43
Trisomy 13		6	5	5	4	7	8	3	6	6
Trisomy 18		20	18	12	15	8	10	19	9	16
Down’s Syndrome		73	63	88	59	63	64	53	35	49

 

Singletons Born in Scotland andDetected with Congenital Anomalies at Birth or During Infancy; Rates per 1,000 Birthsby Anomaly and Year 1995-2003

		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Neural Tube Defects*		0.67	0.78	0.52	0.63	0.64	0.43	0.44	0.47	0.49
	Anencephalus	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.09	0.08	0.04	0.02	0.12	0.06
	Spina bifida +/- hydrocephalus	0.46	0.62	0.37	0.42	0.49	0.33	0.32	0.30	0.34
	Encephalocoele	0.17	0.12	0.14	0.13	0.09	0.06	0.10	0.04	0.08
	Hydrocephalus (not counted in Neural Tube Defects total)	0.79	0.73	0.77	0.61	0.59	0.41	0.50	0.43	0.42
Anomalies of the heart and circulatory system*		8.59	8.97	8.80	8.28	9.57	10.31	9.84	8.17	9.67
	Heart	5.17	5.20	5.31	4.34	4.41	5.26	5.32	4.71	5.85
	Circulatory System	4.81	4.36	4.30	3.65	4.31	4.19	4.16	4.06	4.29
Cleft Palate		1.12	0.82	1.01	0.92	0.68	0.70	0.56	0.77	0.75
Cleft lip +/- cleft palate		0.93	0.68	1.05	0.85	0.78	0.84	0.78	0.73	0.87
Trisomy 13		0.10	0.09	0.09	0.07	0.13	0.16	0.06	0.12	0.12
Trisomy 18		0.34	0.32	0.21	0.27	0.15	0.19	0.38	0.18	0.32
Down’s Syndrome		1.25	1.12	1.54	1.07	1.19	1.25	1.06	0.71	0.99

Source: ISD Scottish Linked Congenital Anomaly Database; Tables 28and 29 on Scottish Health Statistics website. Congenital anomalies of the hearthave been identified using diagnosis codes ICD9 745-746 and ICD10 Q20-24.

Note: *Singletons with more thanone congenital anomaly are only counted once in the category total. For example,if an infant was born with Anencephalus and Spina bifida, the anomalies would berecorded separately in each category, but only once in the total figure for NeuralTube Defects.

The information requested isnot held centrally.