Parliamentary questions

Jackie Baillie

9,397 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.

8 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when the NHS will become a living wage employer.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish Government Public Sector Pay Policy for Staff Pay Remits 2011-12 announced the introduction of a Scottish living wage currently set at £7.15 per hour. As pay for NHS staff in Scotland is aligned to the policy, the Scottish living wage wil…

4 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection there have been in 2010-11, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) hospital.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40291 on 16 March 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2…

4 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection there have been in each year since 2007.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Health Protection Scotland have advised the number of infections due to Enterococcus species cannot be determined by using data derived from the laboratory reports, as it is not possible to distinguish between infections and instances which migh…

4 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what action NHS Tayside is taking in relation to the outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus infection.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: An Incident Management Team has been established and is meeting regularly to review progress; standard and contact infection prevention and control precautions have been reinforced to all staff; and surveillance screening has been introduced for all patients …

4 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be Barnett consequentials arising from the service pupil premium proposed by the UK Government and, if so, how much.

Answer · Michael Russell: The pupil premium scheme is being funded by reallocating existing funding provided through the CSR settlement and as such any consequentials arising from the scheme were included in the Scottish settlement. If however, any additional funding was to be provide…

4 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the service pupil premium proposed by the UK Government will apply in Scotland.

Answer · Michael Russell: The pupil premium scheme proposed by the UK Government will not apply in Scotland. The distribution formula used to allocate the Scottish Government''s funding to local authorities has been developed over a number of years and is based on the re…

4 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what review it has undertaken on Recommendation 11 of The Mackie Report: Access to specialist neuromuscular care and social care in Scotland by the Cross Party Group on Muscular Dystrophy.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease, Myozyme, has been appraised by the Scottish Medicines Consortium, but was not recommended for routine use within NHS Scotland. In such circumstances, NHS boards have arrangements in place to cons…

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, in view of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde promising to treat children with chronic pain up to ages 16 or 18 from 2015, whether it will be in breach of (a) patients’, (b) children’s or (c) human rights if it limits inpatient services to new chronic pain patients over 13.

Answer · Shona Robison: All health boards must comply with all relevant law when delivering services.

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how long waiting lists are for adult chronic pain services in the (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Highlands and Islands area.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Most pain clinics provide services to patients in an outpatient setting. Information about outpatient waiting times is collected centrally at speciality level only and does not differentiate between different types of clinics within the specialty. Consequentl…

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will provide inpatient services for children over 13 from the Highlands and Islands with chronic pain in the next four years until the new children's hospital opens at the Southern General Hospital.

Answer · Shona Robison: The health boards in this region have procedures in place to treat children over 13 with chronic pain on a case by case basis.

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers it appropriate for children over 13 with chronic pain requiring inpatient services at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children to be referred to adult pain services until such time as the new children’s hospital opens at the Southern General Hospital in 2015.

Answer · Shona Robison: Children over 13 with chronic pain referred for new admission at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow are considered on a case by case basis. Children over 13 will be admitted to paediatric services if it is clinically appropriate, however, this is a…

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to investigate the shortage of specialist facilities for children with chronic pain.

Answer · Shona Robison: We are aware that service provision is not uniform across Scotland. Following the recruitment of the new National Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (QIS) will undertake a scoping exercise with NHS boards to assess the service l…

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is improving nutritional standards in the NHS.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: A comprehensive programme for improving nutritional care in hospitals, including the quality of meals, was established in 2008 backed by £1.5 million to support the implementation of the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Clinical Standards for Food, Fluid and …

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what companies supply pre-cooked or fresh food to the NHS and what the value is of each contract, broken down by NHS board.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally.

3 Mar 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS board spends on hospital food per patient per day.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not held centrally, however Scottish Health Service Costs publishes information on catering costs per patient consumer week: <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=576 > <thead> <tr > <td width=252 nowrap rowspan=2 …

28 Feb 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what companies were involved in the proposed development of a continuing care facility at Blawarthill Hospital.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: J Walker (Leith) Limited were the developers contracted for the construction of the Blawarthill project.

23 Feb 2011 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the next steps are for implementing the recommendations in the Cross Party Group on Muscular Dystrophy’s The Mackie Report following the meeting between the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Muscle Network on 8 February 2011.

Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: We intend to issue a statement in the very near future on implementing the recommendations in the Scottish Muscle Network''s review of neuromuscular services and in the Mackie Report.