- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS Trusts currently provide continuous hyperfactionated accelerated radiotherapy and whether this treatment will be made more widely available.
Answer
Continuous hyper-fractionated accelerated radiotherapy (CHART) is not currently available in any of Scotland's five cancer centres.The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked to advise on the clinical and cost effectiveness of CHART for patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer. Their report should be available during 2002.The Scottish Cancer Plan will be published in the near future.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding has been provided to the Scottish Prison Service chaplaincy service in each of the last three years, broken down by prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
| Establishment | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| Aberdeen | 9,394.02 | 12,087.05 | 10,771.15 |
| Barlinnie | 50,681.94 | 53,650.88 | 52,436.95 |
| Castle Huntly | 5,072.28 | 7,559.12 | 5,555.77 |
| Cornton Vale | 18,327.56 | 13,739.71 | 13,967.30 |
| Dumfries | 5,427.20 | 5,830.43 | 4,580.72 |
| Dungavel (Now closed) | 8,937.63 | 13,473.31 | 3,838.06 |
| Edinburgh | 28,604.04 | 31,310.52 | 34,016.72 |
| Friarton (Now closed) | 1,353.60 | 1,552.35 | 0.00 |
| Glenochil | 25,400.95 | 35,369.38 | 34,220.34 |
| Greenock | 12,723.48 | 17,556.80 | 18,132.13 |
| Inverness | 10,060.19 | 14,005.77 | 10,133.14 |
| Longriggend (Now closed) | 13,499.46 | 13,417.51 | 200.46 |
| Low Moss | 20,746.94 | 21,173.28 | 19,201.88 |
| Noranside | 3,295.32 | 4,134.85 | 4,053.86 |
| Penninghame (Now closed) | 2,775.58 | 3,363.12 | 25.06 |
| Perth | 23,020.30 | 35,252.30 | 25,679.91 |
| Peterhead | 12,816.25 | 17,310.92 | 12,467.06 |
| Polmont | 20,392.66 | 25,736.35 | 20,425.82 |
| Shotts | 32,774.03 | 32,746.96 | 31,203.94 |
| Shotts IU | 1,415.89 | 3,642.38 | 0.00 |
| £306,720.00 | £362,913.00 | £300,911.00 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to include Ministry of Defence police officers within the calculation of police numbers at either a national or local constabulary level.
Answer
No. The Scottish Executive figures count only the number of police officers in forces maintained under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967. Ministry of Defence Police do not fall within that category.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13170 by Mr Jim Wallace on 21 February 2001, how many senior prison chaplains are currently employed within Scottish Prison Service, which prisons they serve, and which denominations they represent.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:No such posts exist within SPS.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 17 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for radiotherapy treatment for lung cancer in each NHS Trust.
Answer
Information is not available centrally in the form requested. Radiotherapy facilities are provided from five cancer centres in Scotland, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness.So far as waiting times are concerned I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-8087.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 12 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Health and Community Care will reply to the letter of 26 February 2001 from Mr S Taylor of Sheildhill, Falkirk.
Answer
A Health Department official replied to Mr Taylor on 30 March.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for surgery on lung cancer in each NHS Trust.
Answer
The median waiting times for admission to hospital from the inpatient and day case waiting list for lung cancer surgery, in the year ending 30 September 2000, by NHS Trust are given in the table.The Scottish Cancer Group is currently preparing a cancer plan for Scotland which will be published in the near future. The plan will include national targets for maximum waiting times.
NHSScotland: Median Waiting Times for Hospital Admission from the Inpatient and Day Case Waiting List for Lung Cancer1 Surgery: Year Ending 30 September 2000p
NHS Trust of Treatment | Median Wait (Days) |
| Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospitals | 8 |
| Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals | 5 |
| Borders Acute Hospitals | 12 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity | 12 |
| Fife Acute Hospitals | 3 |
| Forth Valley Acute Hospitals | 6 |
| Grampian Acute Hospitals | 8 |
| Highland Acute Hospitals | 3 |
| Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals | 5 |
| Lothian University Hospitals | 21 |
| North Glasgow University Hospitals | 20 |
| South Glasgow University Hospitals | 9 |
| Tayside University Hospitals | 13 |
| West Lothian | 1 |
Scotland | 13 |
p ProvisionalNotes:1. Patients are defined using diagnosis and operation codes taken from World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases 10
th Revision (ICD10) and the Office of Population and Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures 4
th Revision (OPCS4) respectively. Patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer have been selected on the basis of having a principal diagnosis code C33 and C34 and a principal operation code E39-E48, E50 or E52-E62.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans for a national strategy to tackle lung disease.
Answer
There are no current plans for a formal national strategy. The Executive's policies on healthy lifestyles, like smoking and diet, along with the measures being taken to improve life circumstances, will all help prevent many lung diseases. Our record investment in the NHS will help health boards and NHS Trusts to meet the health care needs of people with lung diseases.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 6 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to issue guidance to NHS Trusts on the provision of free nebulisers for patients with lung disease living in the community.
Answer
We have no plans to do so. The decision on whether a nebuliser should be issued rests with the patient's hospital consultant.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints were made to health boards against pharmacists and how many local resolutions there were as a result in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000.
Answer
These statistics are not held centrally.
