Parliamentary questions
Stewart Maxwell
854 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
9 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any child under 14 has been held in prison in the last five years.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p> <p>No child aged under 14 has been held in prison in the last five years.</p>
9 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many 14-year-olds were held in prison in each of the last five years.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p> <p>The number of individuals aged 14 who were held in a Scottish penal establishment in each of the last five years is given in the following…
9 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many 15-year-olds were held in prison in each of the last five years.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p> <p>The number of individuals aged 15 who were held in a Scottish penal establishment in each of the last five years is given in the following…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18052 by Lewis Macdonald on 10 August 2005, whether it will also provide a breakdown by deprivation quintile of the figures for discharges with alcohol-related liver disease.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is published by ISD and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37961).</p> <p>Figures on discharges from general acute hospitals with a diagnosis of alcohol-related liver disease during 2000-0…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges there have been with alcohol-induced pancreatitis in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is published by ISD and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37960).</p> <p>Figures on discharges from general acute hospitals with a diagnosis of alcohol-induced pancreatitis during 2000-01…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges there have been with alcoholic gastritis in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is published by ISD and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37959).</p> <p>Figures on discharges from general acute hospitals with a diagnosis of alcoholic gastritis during 2000-01 to 2004-…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges there have been with alcoholic cardiomyopathy in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The Information requested is published and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37958).</p> <p>Figures on discharges from general acute hospitals with a diagnosis of alcoholic cardiomyopathy during 2000-01 to 2004-05…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges there have been with alcoholic polyneuropathy in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is published by ISD and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37957)</p> <p>Figures on discharges from general acute hospitals with a diagnosis of alcoholic polyneuropathy during 2000-01 to 2…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges there have been with degeneration of the nervous system due to alcohol in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is published by ISD and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37956).</p> <p>Figures on the number of discharges from general acute hospitals with a diagnosis of degeneration of the nervous s…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discharges there have been with mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board and deprivation quintile.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is published by ISD and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37955).</p> <p>Figures on discharges from general acute and psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of mental and behavioural diso…
3 Nov 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to run a public information campaign to encourage personal hygiene prior to the outbreak of any influenza pandemic, given the role of hand-washing in effectively limiting the spread of infection.
Answer · Andy Kerr: As outlined in the Influenza Pandemic Plan published on 19 October 2005, once a pandemic outbreak was identified a public information campaign would be run advising the public how to protect themselves against spread of infection, including through regular ha…
27 Oct 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the Kerr report’s conclusion that “Information and communications technology will give us the tools to fundamentally reshape how health care is delivered”, what targets have to be met by the national information management and technology strategy in healthcare.
Answer · Andy Kerr: A single electronic health record system accessible by patients and health care professionals will be procured over the period 2006-07 and rolled out across Scotland over the period 2007-10. The system will contain facilities for archiving and transmitting di…
27 Oct 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-5169 by Rhona Brankin on 3 February 2005, whether the Breast and Cervical Screening National Advisory Group has now made its recommendations to the Executive on two-view mammography and, if so, when these recommendations will be made public.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Following their meeting on 3 October 2005, theBreast and Cervical Screening National Advisory Group recommended that the Executive consider a change in policy to introduce two views at every round of the Scottish Breast Screening Programme (SBSP). A webpage t…
17 Oct 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19593 by Mr Andy Kerr on 14 October 2005, whether it will provide a list of all hospitals which are not linked to the Community Health Index number system, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The 42 major hospitals in Scotlandhave access to the Community Health Index. We do not hold information centrallyabout systems used by community hospitals.</p>
12 Oct 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18941 by Mr Andy Kerr on 14 September 2005, when the 270,000 doses of vaccine against H5N1 influenza will be delivered.
Answer · Andy Kerr: A delivery date has not beenarranged yet. The Department of Health, on behalf of the UK Health Departments istendering on the procurement of vaccine against H5N1. The Scottish Executive ispurchasing 270,000 doses of vaccine as part of this process.</p>
12 Oct 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19440 by Mr Andy Kerr on 30 September 2005, how many doses of Tamiflu there are in Scotland and how many doses will be available in (a) three, (b) six, (c) 12, (d) 18 and (e) 24 months time.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested isprovided in the following table. The 1.3 million courses referred to in the answerto question S2W-19440 will all have been delivered to Scotland within12 months. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the P…
10 Oct 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the uptake rate of the influenza vaccination has been in people over 65 in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area and expressed as a percentage of the over-65 population in each board area.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested is given in the table Flu Vaccination Uptake for the period 2000-05. A copy of the table has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37783).</p> <p>In order to increase the uptake of the annual flu vacc…
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, whether all hospitals in each NHS board in Scotland are linked to the national Community Health Index number system.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Each NHS board and all hospitals requiring a link to the Community Health Index number system are linked. The Scottish Care Information infrastructure required to share information across health boards and hospitals also carries the CHI number.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, whether the Community Health Index number referred to is suitable for sharing confidential data.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The Community Health Index number is suitable for sharing confidential data. This has been confirmed by the Information Commissioner.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, how old the common infrastructure that allows data to be shared is and on how many occasions the infrastructure has been used to share data between NHS boards.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The infrastructure has evolved over the past five years and is in daily use. It is used to share data between GPs and hospitals within single NHS board areas, and is also used for national data sets such as emergency care summary and diabetes.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, whether work to configure the common infrastructure to share data between the patient administration systems, the laboratory systems and the radiology systems of (a) NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Greater Glasgo…
Answer · Andy Kerr: At the appropriate point when options are considered it is extremely likely that the decision will be to configure the common infrastructure as a one-off exercise and not repeat it each time data is shared.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, how much work, in (a) person-days and (b) cash terms, is required to configure the common infrastructure to share data between the patient administration systems, the laboratory systems and the radiology syste…
Answer · Andy Kerr: Decisions on specific options to share data have yet to be taken. No estimates of the work required have therefore yet been made, however the work is not expected to be onerous.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, how much work, in (a) person-days and (b) cash terms, is required to configure the common infrastructure to share data between the patient administration systems, the laboratory systems and the radiology syste…
Answer · Andy Kerr: Decisions on specific options to share data have yet to be taken. No estimates of the work required have therefore yet been made, however the work is not expected to be onerous.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18397 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 August 2005, what the name is of the common infrastructure which allows data to be shared between NHS board systems.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Our Scottish Care Information (SCI) infrastructure enables information to be shared between NHS board systems. The key elements of this infrastructure are known as SCI Gateway and SCI Store.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-19220 by Mr Andy Kerr on 26 September 2005, how many nurses are available at each NHS out-of-hours centre in Glasgow for the purpose of identifying and prioritising patients whose condition has worsened since they contacted NHS 24.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested is not held centrally.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid to doctors working in the GP out-of-hours service since 1 April 2004, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not held centrally by the department.</p><p>Under the nGMS contract, NHSboards have the responsibility to provide out-of-hours care in the community andthis information is therefore held at NHS board level.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been treated by the GP out-of-hours service since 1 April 2004, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not held centrally by the department.</p><p> Under the nGMS contract, NHSboards have the responsibility to provide out-of-hours care in the community andthis information is therefore held at NHS board level.</p>
30 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of pay is per shift for doctors working in the GP out-of-hours service, broken down by NHS board.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The table represents the GP out-of-hours (OoH) payment rate per hour by NHS board, as at July 2005. The rates have been negotiated by NHS boards to cover out of hours service following opt out by GPs under new GMS contract from 1 April 2004.</p> <p>GP Out of …
14 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a full range of pain relief treatment is available to GPs at out-of-hours clinics.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Patients in Scotland who require medical attention or advice for painful conditions and/or symptoms during the out-of-hours period first contact NHS 24. The out-of-hours period are those hours between 18:30 to 08:00 Monday to Thursday, and at weekends 18:30 …
14 Sep 2005 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether patients waiting to see a GP at an out-of-hours clinic are triaged on arrival at the clinic.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Patients in Scotland who require medical attention or advice during the out of hours period first contact NHS 24. The out of hours period are those hours between 18:30 to 08:00 Monday to Thursday, and at the weekend 18:30 on Friday to 08:00 Monday and all day…