- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of pelvic inflammatory disease have been caused by chlamydia in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GPs have undergone continual professional development to update their knowledge and skills with regard to contraception in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
General practitioners, likeother professionals, are expected to look at their own personal learning needsand the health needs of their patients and to seek training accordingly.Guidance and assistance is available to GPs from NHS Education for Scotland viathe Postgraduate Directors of General Practice Education.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tier 4 services, as referred to in the supporting papers to Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health Relationship Strategy, there are in each community health partnership area.
Answer
The establishment of communityhealth partnerships is subject to the passage of the National Health ServiceReform (Scotland) Bill. The geographical areas covered by community healthpartnerships have still to be defined.
Service provision will beone of the issues to be considered in the light of the current consultation onthe proposals for a national sexual health strategy.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) GPs and (b) other members of primary care teams would be needed to ensure adequate implementation of Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health Relationship Strategy at (i) tier 1 and (ii) tier 2 level.
Answer
Such issues will beconsidered in the light of the responses to the current consultation on theproposals for a national sexual health strategy.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will establish the scheme to compensate people who contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood products
Answer
The Executive hopes to be ina position to make a further announcement on the establishment of the schemesoon.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time has been for an initial appointment with a sexual health specialist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot available centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will provide to short-term pilot projects on anonymous bar coding and diagnostic test kits for sexually transmitted infections, as referred to in its sexual health strategy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4731. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s 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: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources have been provided to improve access to sexual health services for (a) lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, (b) ethnic minority groups, (c) commercial sex workers and (d) homeless people in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Executive has, under theInclusion Project, provided £260,000 over the two years from 2002, to fund aproject manager to conduct research and develop a mainstreamed approach to theeffective inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in healthplanning and services. It has also, to date, provided £5,000 to fund a seriesof open-space events to explore issues of information and sexual health foryoung people in this group.
We would expect NHS boardsto be addressing sexual health issues in their health and homelessness actionplans, and to have regard to the needs of other groups in their local needsassessments, where appropriate using the £8.119 million the Executive isproviding in the current year to facilitate measures to prevent HIV and otherbloodborne issues.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases of HIV the infection has been contracted (a) within and (b) outwith Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
Though it is likely thatmost cases diagnosed in Scotland acquired the infection in Scotland, somemay have become infected elsewhere in the UK. Distinguishing the specific region within the UK in whichinfection was contracted is therefore not possible.
Reports of HIV infectiondiagnosed in Scotland since 1999, and presumed to be infected within oroutwith the UK, are as follows:
| Year | Presumed infected within the UK | Presumed infected outwith the UK |
| 1999 | 105 | 51 |
| 2000 | 100 | 54 |
| 2001 | 103 | 68 |
| 2002 | 138 | 112 |
| 2003 (to 30/9) | 100 | 83 |
Notes: Where noevidence exists to the contrary, cases are presumed to have been infectedwithin the UK. Cases presumed infected outwith the UK may include some Scots or other UKnationals.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many looked after females became pregnant within 18 to 24 months of leaving care in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested isnot centrally available.
