- 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 Peter Peacock on 12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to centralise Learning and Teaching Scotland to its Glasgow office.
Answer
There are no plans to centraliseLearning and Teaching Scotland to its Glasgow office.
The current lease on the Dundee officefrom Dundee University expires in July 2005 and discussions are taking placewith the Scottish Executive Land and Property Division, Dundee City Council and developersto identify alternative suitable sites in Dundee.
- 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 consultant obstetricians within the NHS.
Answer
At 30 September 2003, there were10 whole-time equivalent consultant vacancies in obstetrics and gynaecology in NHSScotland. The vacancy rate, expressed as a percentage of the establishment, is 6.4%just under 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 Jim Wallace on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response was to the consultation which ended on 22 September 2004 on a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time and whether it will publish the response.
Answer
The Executive made no formalindividual response to the DTI consultation but has been fully involved in developingthe UK position on the Working Time Directive proposals.
- 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 Andy Kerr on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9898 by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 September 2004, how many locum consultants were working in the NHS in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) speciality and (b) NHS board area.
Answer
The question requires a considerablelevel of detail in the answer and a copy of the information (Bib. number 34107)has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- 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 Andy Kerr on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS locum medical staff there currently are, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) speciality.
Answer
The question requires a considerablelevel of detail in the answer and a copy of the information (Bib. number 34107)has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- 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 Peter Peacock on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are employed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in its Dundee office.
Answer
Sixty-two staff are currentlyemployed by Learning and Teaching Scotland in their Dundee office.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is that a patient with an availability status code has to wait for in-patient/daycase treatment, broken down by speciality.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many incidences patients have been given availability status code 9 on a waiting list, broken down by (a) NHS board area and (b) speciality affected.
Answer
The Executive must authorise any proposed use of availability status code 9 on a waiting list. In the last year, authorisation has been given once, in response to a request from NHS Greater Glasgow following a major accident at a warehouse in the city in May 2004.
Thirty-three patients had their planned in-patient/day case treatment, mainly in orthopaedics and plastic surgery, postponed and availability status code 9 applied. NHS Greater Glasgow report that all 33 patients have since been admitted for treatment.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive in which specialities availability status code 3 has been given in the last year.
Answer
The specific information required is not available centrally.
Information on the numbers of patients with availability status code 3, and the specialties in which they are waiting treatment, is however available from quarterly waiting list census data. On 30 June 2004, patients on the inpatient and day case waiting list with an availability status code 3 were awaiting treatment in the specialties of cardiology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology, general medicine, general surgery, gynaecology, ophthalmology, oral surgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, surgical paediatrics and urology.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is that a patient with an availability status code has to wait for in-patient/daycase treatment, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally because retrospective waiting times information does not separately identify patients with availability status codes.
Patients with availability status codes do not have a maximum waiting times guarantee. Patients on the inpatient/day case waiting list may have an availability status codes are applied if they cannot attend for personal or social reasons, did not attend their appointment, have a medical condition which prevents treatment, or are awaiting treatment deemed to be highly specialised or of low medical priority. Availability status codes can also be applied on occasions of exceptional strain on the NHS.
