- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11219 by Susan Deacon on 9 January 2001, whether it intends to penalise those health boards which had not complied with the terms of the New Deal for Junior Doctors by 1 August 2001.
Answer
I indicated in my answer to question S1W-11219 that incentives to secure compliance with the New Deal have been incorporated into the New Contract for Doctors in Training introduced on 1 December 2000. These take the form of incremental pay band multipliers which reward the most hard pressed junior doctors and financially penalise trusts that fail to take the necessary steps to reduce hours of work.I also refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17446 regarding the steps that are to be taken in respect of Pre-Registration House Officers (PRHO) posts deemed non-compliant in August 2001.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has set a new target date by which all health boards must comply with the terms of the New Deal for Junior Doctors.
Answer
No. The New Contract for Doctors in Training was introduced in December 2000. This requires that from 1 August 2001 all Pre-Registration House Officer (PRHO) posts and from 1 August 2003 all Senior House Officer (SHO) and Specialist Registrar (SpR) posts must fully comply with the hours limits of the New Deal. Trusts which fail to meet this requirement will be in breach of contract.The New Deal Implementation Support Group (ISG), formed as a partnership between the Scottish Executive Health Department and the Scottish Junior Doctors Committee of the British Medical Association, continues to provide support to trusts at local level in resolving issues of non-compliance.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which groups of NHS staff are routinely expected to work outwith the terms of their contracts.
Answer
The Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) expects all employers locally to work within current employment and health and safety legislation. Compliance with contracted hours is a matter for individual Trust employers and is not information that is held centrally by SEHD.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11220 by Susan Deacon on 9 January 2001, whether it will make additional funding available to health boards to ensure that the terms of the New Deal for Junior Doctors are complied with.
Answer
On 27 April 2001 I announced funding for an additional 375 junior doctors. This followed my announcement of 100 extra junior doctors on 28 June 2000. These will be targeted at areas with an identified need for additional resources.In 2001-02 health boards received an average increase in unified budgets of 6.5%, which represents a cash increase of over £270 million. In addition, boards are to receive average increases of 6.5% and 7.4% in 2002-03 and 2003-04 respectively. It is the responsibility of health boards to determine local priorities for the use of these funds including meeting the targets and standards of the New Deal for Junior Doctors.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Health Technology Board for Scotland technology assessments are currently on-going.
Answer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) is currently conducting three Health Technology Assessments.These are in the areas of organisation of services for diabetic retinopathy screening, PET imaging for cancer management and prevention of relapse in alcohol dependence.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pieces of authoritative comment on National Institute for Clinical Excellence technology appraisal guidance the Health Technology Board for Scotland has published since 1 April 2000.
Answer
Since May 2001, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has released Technology Appraisal Guidance on four topics. The Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) has published a comment on one of these topics and will deliver the other three, currently in preparation, on schedule.HTBS has also provided a one-off retrospective comment on the NICE Guidance on treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pieces of authoritative comment on National Institute for Clinical Excellence technology appraisal guidance the Health Technology Board for Scotland is currently preparing for publication.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S1W-17576.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 29 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many health technology assessments the Health Technology Board for Scotland has completed since 1 April 2000.
Answer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland has not yet completed a health technology assessment. It announced its first three assessment topics in January 2001 after wide consultation. Each assessment will take about one year to complete due to the large amount of evidence considered and the board's open and inclusive consultation process.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any ICD-9 codes for which there is a target to reduce deaths by 2010 other than those for cancer and heart disease.
Answer
The Scottish Executive Health Department has a target to reduce deaths from cerebrovascular disease by 50% between 1995 and 2010. The ICD-9 codes used for this target are codes 430 - 438. The ICD-10 codes that are used for this target are codes I60 - I69.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rates of mortality from circulatory disease (ICD-9 codes 390-459 inclusive) were per 100,000 of the population, broken down by health board area, for people under 75 years of age in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The mortality rates from circulatory disease per 100,000 population, by health board, of all persons under the age of 75 years, as defined by ICD-9 codes 390 - 459 for each of the years 1998 and 1999, and ICD-10 codes I00 - I99 for the year 2000, are:
Health Board | 1998 | 1999 | 2000* |
ICD-9 | ICD-9 | ICD-10 |
Argyll and Clyde | 225 | 219 | 202 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 206 | 204 | 196 |
Borders | 164 | 165 | 141 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 210 | 188 | 198 |
Fife | 190 | 176 | 161 |
Forth Valley | 168 | 170 | 164 |
Grampian | 147 | 145 | 134 |
Greater Glasgow | 224 | 204 | 192 |
Highland | 192 | 167 | 190 |
Lanarkshire | 213 | 203 | 182 |
Lothian | 166 | 152 | 145 |
Orkney | 188 | 171 | 144 |
Shetland | 158 | 112 | 138 |
Tayside | 187 | 191 | 169 |
Western Isles | 192 | 203 | 190 |
SCOTLAND | 193 | 183 | 172 |
| * Figures for 2000 are not directly comparable with figures for previous years due to the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 |
