- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to detail capital expenditure at Stracathro Hospital, Angus over the last ten years.
Answer
The table below presents capital expenditure at Stracathro Hospital for each year from 1990-91 to 1999-00. This expenditure was largely funded from a formula-based capital allocation that allows NHS Trusts to direct resources to a range of prioritised projects including health and safety, estate maintenance and refurbishment schemes.
Capital Expenditure at Stracathro Hospital :1990-1 to 1999-2000
Year | £000 | |
1990-91 | 286 | |
1991-92 | 258 | |
1992-93 | 48 | |
1993-94 | 20 | |
1994-95 | 861 | |
1995-96 | 982 | |
1996-97 | 815 | |
1997-98 | 987 | |
1998-99 | 556 | |
1999-2000* | 85 | *Forecast Only |
Total | 4,820 | |
Expenditure in the current financial year will be managed by Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital expenditure there has been at Brechin Infirmary, Arbroath Infirmary, Forfar Infirmary, and Montrose Royal Infirmary, Angus, over the past five years.
Answer
The table below presents capital expenditure at the identified sites for each of the years from 1995-96 to 1999-00. This expenditure was largely funded from a formula-based capital allocation that allows NHS Trusts to direct resources to a range of prioritised projects including health and safety, estate maintenance and refurbishment schemes.Capital Expenditure : 1995-96 to 1999-00
Year | Brechin Infirmary £000 | Arbroath Infirmary £000 | Forfar Infirmary £000 | Montrose Infirmary £000 | Total £000 | |
1995-96 | 0 | 119 | 0 | 181 | 300 | |
1996-97 | 24 | 60 | 6 | 17 | 107 | |
1997-98 | 0 | 277 | 58 | 8 | 343 | |
1998-99 | 149 | 175 | 213 | 5 | 542 | |
1999-00* | 11 | 703 | 20 | 37 | 771 | * Forecast Only |
Total | 184 | 1334 | 297 | 248 | 2063 | |
Expenditure in the current financial year will be managed by Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when the former Angus NHS Trust first discovered that 14 out of 16 hospital buildings had a high risk of legionella, whether staff and patients who were in areas of high legionella risk were made aware of this and, if not, why not.
Answer
I understand that the former Angus NHS Trust initiated a risk assessment of the effectiveness of legionella control arrangements and received a detailed Audit and Risk Assessment Report in March 1996. The Report indicated there were no management systems in place to oversee and/or monitor the control of legionellosis. As a result, the Trust introduced robust management systems and an external audit system. The Trust's management arrangements were subject to audit by The Health & Safety Executive in March/April 1998 who were satisfied with the result.
The risk assessment focused on management arrangements for overseeing and/or controlling legionellosis. Expert assessment concluded that operational management of the risk did not require the closure of any premises to which patients had access and therefore information was not generally made available to staff and patients.I understand there have been no instances of legionella in premises of the former Angus NHS Trust area.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 2 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the number and percentage of staffed beds currently classed as high technology beds at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Perth Royal Infirmary, and Stracathro Hospital, Angus.
Answer
The Intensive Care Unit (ITU) and High Dependency Unit (HDU) staffed beds in Tayside are as follows:
| | ITU | HDU | ITU as % of all beds | HDU as % of all beds |
Ninewells Hospital | 8 | 6 | 0.86 | 0.64 |
Perth Royal Infirmary | 3 | 2 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
Stracathro Hospital | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a |
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 28 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce legislation restricting the use of lead shot for shooting.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is considering whether to implement restrictions on the use of lead shot in Scotland.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 28 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce legislation restricting the use of lead shot for shooting.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is considering whether to implement restrictions on the use of lead shot in Scotland.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to detail the number of telecommunication masts installed in the past two years by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held by the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1053 by Susan Deacon on 6 September, whether it will seek a copy of the Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust working group report on the Stracathro Hospital Services and comment on it.
Answer
No. Tayside Health Board indicates that the report has been overtaken by the work in hand as part of the review of acute services which is currently underway in Tayside.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current waiting list is for small surgery at Stracathro Hospital, Angus, and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.
Answer
Waiting list information is collated by specialty. I understand from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust that there are 160 patients on the surgical day case waiting list at Stracathro Hospital and 186 patients at Ninewells.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current staffing levels are at Stracathro Hospital, Angus and what they were for each of the past five years.
Answer
I refer Mr Welsh to my answer to his question S1O-297 on 16 September 1999.
