- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of those graduating from dental courses in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland after graduation to undertake dental vocational training.
Answer
This information is not currently available in the form requested. The Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education is currently working with ISD Scotland to map the characteristics and supply dynamics for the dental workforce in Scotland. This is a particularly complex task, and involves detailed analysis of data for those undertaking dental vocational training in Scotland. It is expected that the project will report in the next three to six months.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of non-Scottish students graduating from dental degree courses in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland after graduation to undertake dental vocational training.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17961.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of dentists who completed their vocational training in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland working as dentists afterwards.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17961.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the students accepted on to dental degree courses at Glasgow and Dundee universities in each of the last three years were residing in Scotland when accepted for the course.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table, which should be read in conjunction with the notes below.
Percentage of Scottish Domiciled Entrants to Pre-Clinical Dentistry Courses
| 1999-2000 | 1998-99 | 1997-98 |
Dundee University | 53.33% | 68.00% | 83.02% |
Glasgow University | 63.89% | 63.77% | 67.14% |
Notes:1. Source: Further and Higher Education Statistics, ELLD.2. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places and show Scottish Domiciled entrants as a percentage of the total number of entrants to the individual university.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for assistance under the Scottish Land Fund have been received to date, broken down by (a) parliamentary region and (b) local authority area; how many have been successful; whether it will detail any successful applications, and what the total value is of successful bids so far.
Answer
Details of applications to, and awards made, under the New Opportunities Fund's Scottish Land Fund are a reserved matter for the Department of Culture Media and Sport. Can I invite the member to write to Stephen Dunmore, Chief Executive of the New Opportunities Fund.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for general dental practitioners exist in each health board area, expressed both numerically and as a percentage of the total number of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners in that area.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17949.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths of persons travelling on powered two-wheelers have occurred in each police force area in each of the last three years and to date in 2001.
Answer
Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. The following table gives the numbers of users of motorcycles (including motor scooters and motor cycle combinations) and mopeds who were reported by police forces as being fatally injured in accidents which occurred in each year. It is not possible to provide meaningful figures for 2001 to date, because the returns which the Executive has received so far relate to different numbers of months for different police forces.
Riders and passengers of motorcycles and mopeds who were fatally injured in road accidents |
Police force | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
Northern | 2 | 2 | 11 |
Grampian | 7 | 6 | 6 |
Tayside | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Fife | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Lothian & Borders | 5 | 4 | 6 |
Central | 5 | 2 | 2 |
Strathclyde | 6 | 12 | 10 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Scotland | 33 | 30 | 40 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to recruit dentists from either outwith Scotland or outwith the rest of the UK or Ireland to fill vacant general dental practitioner posts.
Answer
We currently have no plans to recruit dentists from overseas. A sub-group of the Scottish Advisory Committee on the Dental Workforce (SACDW) has been established to look at recruitment and retention issues within dentistry in Scotland and will report its findings to the main committee shortly.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners to population is in (a) each health board area and (b) each local authority area.
Answer
Information on the whole-time equivalent status for general dental practitioners is not collected centrally. The following tables show the ratio of GDP's to population in terms of headcount.Number of GDP's
1 and population per GDP
2 by Health BoardInformation as at 30 June 2001
3Health Board | Number of dentists | Population per GDP |
Ayrshire & Arran | 130 | 2,872 |
Borders | 37 | 2,889 |
Argyll & Clyde | 173 | 2,448 |
Fife | 131 | 2,675 |
Greater Glasgow | 403 | 2,244 |
Highland | 80 | 2,608 |
Lanarkshire | 195 | 2,882 |
Grampian | 161 | 3,251 |
Orkney | 8 | 2,435 |
Lothian | 352 | 2,226 |
Tayside | 161 | 2,394 |
Forth Valley | 95 | 2,926 |
Western Isles | 11 | 2,471 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 37 | 3,941 |
Shetland | 8 | 2,805 |
Scotland | 1,982 | 2,581 |
Notes:1. General Dental Practitioners may work in more than one Primary Care Trust (PCT)/health board. For the purpose of this analysis, General Dental Practitioners who have a contract with more than one PCT/health board are shown in all relevant areas. 2. Population figures at mid-year 2000.3. Excludes Private Dentistry.Number of GDP's1 and population per GDP2 by Local AuthorityInformation as at 30 June 20013Local Authority | Number of dentists | Population per GDP |
Aberdeen City | 81 | 2,608 |
Aberdeenshire | 58 | 3,917 |
Angus | 40 | 2,730 |
Argyll & Bute | 33 | 2,691 |
City of Edinburgh | 227 | 1,997 |
Clackmannanshire | 16 | 3,029 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 11 | 2,471 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 37 | 3,941 |
Dundee City | 67 | 2,130 |
East Ayrshire | 37 | 3,260 |
East Dunbartonshire | 46 | 2,408 |
East Lothian | 37 | 2,467 |
East Renfrewshire | 40 | 2,245 |
Falkirk | 47 | 3,071 |
Fife | 131 | 2,675 |
Glasgow City | 275 | 2,216 |
Highland | 79 | 2,641 |
Inverclyde | 31 | 2,729 |
Midlothian | 21 | 3,914 |
Moray | 22 | 3,861 |
North Ayrshire | 45 | 3,086 |
North Lanarkshire | 112 | 2,925 |
Orkney Islands | 8 | 2,435 |
Perth & Kinross | 54 | 2,474 |
Renfrewshire | 82 | 2,158 |
Scottish Borders | 37 | 2,889 |
Shetland Islands | 8 | 2,805 |
South Ayrshire | 48 | 2,373 |
South Lanarkshire | 117 | 2,627 |
Stirling | 32 | 2,663 |
West Dunbartonshire | 36 | 2,628 |
West Lothian | 67 | 2,339 |
Scotland | 1,982 | 2,581 |
Notes:1. General Dental Practitioners may work in more than one Primary Care Trust (PCT)/health board. For the purpose of this analysis General Dental Practitioners who have a contract with more than one PCT/health board are shown in all relevant areas.2. Population figures at mid-year 2000.3. Excludes Private Dentistry.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11828 by Susan Deacon on 8 January 2001, when it expects it to reach a final conclusion on the recommendations in connection with the closure of emergency control rooms submitted by the Scottish Ambulance Service in December 2000.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has now advised the Scottish Ambulance Service that it should prepare a full business case for the proposed changes to its emergency service control rooms following the recent review. The Executive expects to receive the full business case later this year, and will reach a final decision on the basis of this further information.