- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards prescribe Subutex.
Answer
Analysis of NHS prescriptiondata for the year ended 31 December 2003 shows that Subutex has been dispensed in all NHS boardareas except Borders, Orkney and Western Isles. These data cover itemsdispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors, butdo not take into account items dispensed by hospitals or hospital basedclinics.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many carers' assessments there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally at present but I would refer the member to the answer given toquestion S2W-6151 on 17 March 2004 which sets out what the Executive is doing tocollect this information.
All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the parliament website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people continued to be intravenous drug users whilst receiving methadone treatment in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally, although there is research evidence to show that treatment,including methadone, can lead to reduced levels of illicit drug use andinjecting.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take to reduce negative attitudes towards older people and increase their expectations of the effectiveness of their involvement in planning public services.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-6693 on 17 March 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for can found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any “safe injecting rooms” exist for intravenous drug users and what plans it has to expand or provide this service.
Answer
We are not aware of anysupervised injecting rooms in Scotland, and we have no plans to support such facilities.
Although injecting rooms areavailable in some other countries, current evaluation evidence is notparticularly robust. Before such facilities could be contemplated for Scotland,complex issues of legality, safety and security of staff and clients, andcommunity reactions would have to be addressed.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been allocated to reducing negative attitudes towards older people and increasing their expectations of the effectiveness of their involvement in planning public services in each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-6693 on 17 March 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_waIt is not possible todisaggregate resources in the way requested.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the National Clinical Assessment Authority regarding the consultation paper “Safer for Patients, Supportive for Professionals”.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is involved in ongoing discussion with the National Clinical AssessmentAuthority in support of work on the consultation paper “Safer for Patients,Supportive for Professionals”.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that a more strategic approach is taken to involving older people in shaping public services, given the findings set out in Involving Older People: Lessons for Community Planning.
Answer
A Partnership for a BetterScotland makes clear the Executive’s commitment to ensuring public services aredesigned around the needs of individuals.
Community engagement is akey part of the community planning process. Communities Scotland aredeveloping national standards to improve the way communities, including olderpeople, can influence the planning and delivery of services. The standards arebeing developed from a series of focus groups, which include one aimedspecifically at older people. One of the principles underpinning the standardsis that fairness, equalityand inclusion must underpin all aspects of community engagement. This shouldhelp ensure that older people are effectively engaged. The detail of howengagement is taken forward is a matter for community planning partnershipsdepending on local circumstances.
The findings of the researchInvolving Older People: Lessons for Community Planning have been widelycirculated to service planners and providers and were the focus of a conferenceorganised by COSLA on 1 December 2003. This was designed to raise awareness anddisseminate good practice supplementing the guidance referred to above.
The Health WhitePaper, Partnership for Care, is explicit that looking at services from apatient’s point of view should be a key driver of change in the Health Service.Patient Focus and Public Involvement (PFPI) aims to ensure all patient and public groups are considered in NHSservice planning as appropriate, taking full account of equality and diversityissues such as age, religion/faith, race/ethnicity, sexuality, disability andgender. Draft guidance to ensure that the public are informed, engaged andconsulted on all policies and services developed by the Health Department andNHSScotland has recently been distributed to NHS board chief executives andother key stakeholders for final comment. This guidance takes account of equalityissues, including age.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many cases of poor performance by community pharmacists who work in Scotland have been identified by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain investigations and the action taken in each case.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost would be to it of improving the management of suspected or actual poor performance by NHS health professionals and teams through (a) extending the remit of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland to include such management, (b) extending the remit of the National Clinical Assessment Authority, (c) creating a new special NHS board to deal with such management issues, (d) extending the remit of an existing NHS board to deal with such management issues and (e) contracting a private sector provider to deal with such management issues.
Answer
The costs are not availableand will be considered in due course on completion of the consultation document“Safer for Patients, Supportive for Professionals”. The consultation is due toend on the 28 May 2004.
