- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 24 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average response time is for calls to NHS 24, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
In October 2004, NHS 24 received 120,869 calls of which 79% were handled within 30 seconds. The information is not available broken down by NHS board area.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general surgeons were trained in each of the last five years.
Answer
The route to being able to apply for consultant posts within General Surgery is through attainment of the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) by Specialist Registrars (SpRs).
NHS Education for Scotland are responsible for overseeing the management of the training programmes. The table below provides a breakdown, by postgraduate deanery, of the number of SpRs who have completed their training.
Number of Trainees Completing Training in Scotland (i.e. Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) - 1 October 1999 - 30 September 2004
| Specialty | Date CCST awarded |
| 01.10.99 to 30.09.2000 | 01.10.2000 to 30.09.2001 | 01.10.2001 to 30.09.2002 | 01.10.2002 to 30.09.2003 | 01.10.2003 – 30.09.04 | Overall Total |
| General Surgery | | | | | |
| East | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| North | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| S East | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| West | 0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Total | 5 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 55 |
Source: NHSEducation for Scotland.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are for general surgeons in the NHS.
Answer
Information on staff in postin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Details on consultant vacanciesby specialty are given in tables B11 and B12 of section B.
At 30 September 2003, there were14 whole-time equivalent consultant vacancies in General Surgery in NHS Scotland.The vacancy rate, expressed as a percentage of the establishment, was 6.5% justunder the national equivalent average of 6.7%.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant vacancies there are within district general hospitals, broken down by hospital.
Answer
The specific information requestedis not centrally available.
ISD Scotland collects consultantvacancy information at NHS board level and this can be found at:
www.isdscotland/workforce.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultants are suspended across Scotland and for how long they have been suspended.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of patients in residential psychiatric care facilities are smokers.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people quit smoking in each year since 1999, broken down by deprivation category.
Answer
This information is not currentlyheld centrally. However, steps are being taken to establish a national data basefor Scottish smoking cessation services which will mean that information on uptakeof services and quit rates at national level and for different localities throughoutScotland with a breakdown of different sub-sections of the community (e.g. by gender,age, ethnicity, and socio-economic group) will be available from 2005.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community centres offer smoking cessation services, broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) deprivation category.
Answer
I refer the member to the questionS2W -11026 answered on 12 November 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility 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, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general surgeons are employed in the NHS.
Answer
Information on staff in postin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Details on consultants by specialtyare given in tables B6 and B7 of section B.
The latest available data iscorrect to 30 September 2003, when there were 202.7 whole-time equivalent consultantswithin General Surgery in post.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultant obstetricians are employed within the NHS.
Answer
Information on staff in postin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce. Detailson consultants by speciality are given in tables B6 and B7 of section B. Latestavailable figures are at 30 September 2003 when there were 147.3 whole-time equivalent consultantswithin Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
