- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 29 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what consultations it has held with employees of Caledonian MacBrayne ahead of the tendering of the next Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract and whether it plans to consult employees after the tender documents are published.
Answer
Transport Scotland has had previous engagement on ferries matters with the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the relevant trades unions, representing the employees of David MacBrayne Limited, and would expect that engagement to continue in future.
The Scottish Government has not yet consulted with them on the future tendering of the next Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract, but intend to do so in due course.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 29 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what consultations Caledonian MacBrayne has held with its employees ahead of the tendering of the next Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract and whether it plans to consult employees after the tender documents are published.
Answer
CalMac will engage with its staff as appropriate throughout the bid submission process. This is already underway through established internal communications channels.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 29 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what additional resources will be provided to each NHS (a) hospital and (b) board that will establish a specialist trauma centre.
Answer
NHS boards are currently scoping the work required to enhance major trauma services across Scotland, including the resource implications.
The National Planning Forum and board of Chief Executives will identify any additional resources required as part of this work, and will keep Scottish Ministers appraised of their plans to ensure that the major trauma quality framework is implemented.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 29 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what Caledonian MacBrayne's expenditure on external consultants has been in each year since 2009 and for which projects.
Answer
Expenditure on consultancy is published on the David MacBrayne Ltd website in accordance with the requirements of the Public Sector Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
http://www.david-macbrayne.co.uk/reports/
Any further breakdown of this information is considered commercially sensitive.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 29 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure the operational effectiveness of the new trauma centre at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and whether NHS Lothian will receive additional resources to help it ensure that all treatment time guarantees continue to be achieved.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-21247 on 29 May 2014. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s web site, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx
Implementation of the major trauma quality framework will help NHSScotland (including NHS Lothian), to ensure definitive trauma care is provided across Scotland and importantly, better outcomes for people who experience major trauma.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 29 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4T-00695 by Michael Matheson on 13 May 2014 (Official Report, c.30814), when it sent the request to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for a meeting; when it expects the meeting will take place, and who will attend.
Answer
An informal meeting with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has already taken place on 7 May 2014 and a more formal, larger meeting is being organised and will be attended by officials from the Health and Social Care Directorate in the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 28 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20994 by Alex Neil on 19 May 2014, what resources are available to people who are not in a workplace who would previously have received a service from the Life Begins at 40 programme.
Answer
Any individual with concerns about their health should, in the first instance, see their GP. There is a wide range of information and advice available on health and wellbeing from GP practices, community pharmacies and from websites such as NHS Inform and Take Life On.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 28 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, if Scotland was to leave the UK, how much it would cost it each year to arrange specialist cross-border healthcare.
Answer
These costs are driven by activity which is not possible to forecast.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 28 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20992 by Alex Neil on 19 May 2014, how much will be spent in 2014-15 on redeveloping the website and how much has been reallocated from the Life Begins at 40 programme.
Answer
Approximately £50-75k has been identified for developing a web-based service that will provide a more accessible service targeted at working age people in a collaboration between NHS24 and the Centre for Healthy Working Lives. This is expected to go live in 2015. The remainder of the £133k budget has been provided to programmes delivering targeted support for people in communities with high levels of inequalities in health.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 28 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20993 by Alex Neil on 19 May 2014, whether and, if so, when it decided not to deliver the 2007 SNP manifesto commitment to introduce “health checks and individual health plans for all men and women when they reach the age of 40 with the aim to extend this initiative to Scots reaching retirement age.”
Answer
Health checks for people reaching their 40th Birthday were introduced as a pilot in Grampian in May 2010 and rolled out across Scotland in February 2011. However, due to the poor level of take up and lack of evidence of improvements in health outcomes the programme was considered, on the basis of clinical advice, not to be delivering value for money and the programme was discontinued from the end of March 2013.