Chamber and committees

A national screening programme for abdominal aortic aneurysms, for men aged 65, will be implemented in Scotland. The programme is currently being planned and it is envisaged that it will begin in 2011.

Maintenance work, and other building-related revenue expenditure, including security projects, relating to the complex, is summarised for the 2005-06 to 2009-10 financial years in Tables A and B respectively.

Separate accounting for projects was introduced from April 2007 and project expenditure relating to the complex is summarised for the 2007-08 to 2009-10 financial years in Table B.

Projected costs for the remainder of the 2009-10 financial year will be published in the chief executive''s report. The chief executive''s report is presented to the SPCB and contains financial information. These are published regularly.

The projected cost and details of forthcoming work for 2010-11 financial year will be included in the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body''s budget submission for that year, which will be considered by the Finance Committee in November 2009.

Due to the iconic nature of Holyrood, long-term maintenance planning is undertaken to ensure assets are appropriately maintained to meet business needs. The maintenance plan identifies individual maintenance tasks which budgets are derived from and facilitates the forecasting of maintenance budgets over future years.

Table A: Maintenance Expenditure (Excluding Projects)

Note: Information has been provided in respect of the financial years of the SPCB, which run from 1 April to 31 March.

Table B: Other Building Related Revenue Expenditure (Projects)

Note: Information has been provided in respect of the financial years of the SPCB, which run from 1 April to 31 March.

For children, the nine beds are provided on a national basis at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill). For young people requiring inpatient care, there are currently 24 beds available in the West of Scotland, 12 beds in the East of Scotland and six beds in the North of Scotland, with ongoing consideration to increase this to 12 beds.

This potential figure of 48 beds, though less than that previously announced, reflects the significant additional investment in intensive community services intended to reduce the need for admission to inpatient care. To support this, we have made £2 million available to NHS boards on a recurring basis to accelerate the development of specialist child and adolescent mental health community services.

The numbers of men aged over 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for AAA and who were alive at least 30 days after their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999 are presented in table 1.

The numbers of men aged over 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999 are presented in table 2.

Table 1. Numbers of men aged over 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for an abdominal aortic aneurysm and who were alive at least 30 days of their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Death Data and SMR01 (ISD Scotland) Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric NHS hospitals in Scotland. Date extracted: October 2009.

Table 2. Numbers of men aged over 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). Date extracted: October 2009.

The numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for AAA and who were alive at least 30 days after their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999 are presented in Table 1.

The numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999 are presented in table 2.

Table 1. Numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who were diagnosed with and operated on for an abdominal aortic aneurysm and who were alive at least 30 days of their last AAA-related operation in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Death Data and SMR01 (ISD Scotland) Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric NHS hospitals in Scotland. Date extracted: October 2009.

Table 2. Numbers of men aged between 50 and 65 who died as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in each year since 1999:

Source: General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). Date extracted: October 2009.

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant.

NHS boards in Scotland report their sickness absence rates based on contracted hours lost rather than days lost, due to different shift patterns in the NHS Scotland workforce. The latest available information is given in the following table. As can be seen, the rate of sickness absence has fallen from a high of 5.55% in 2007 to 4.95% in 2009 and this represents over 1 million more hours being available to NHSScotland.

Further information on the statistics, including information on how the data is collected and notes to aid interpretation, is given in the Background section of the Workforce Statistics website at:

www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Hours Lost Due to Sickness Absence by NHS Board

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant.