- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to collect data by NHS board for chlamydia screening in 2008 and how regularly such data is expected to be collected in future years.
Answer
Data on chlamydia testing in NHS board areas is collected by Health Protection Scotland to answer the first population key clinical indicators. These were developed as part of the implementation of the sexual health strategy, Respect and Responsibility, the baseline report on the 2005 data was published in February 2006 and the 2006 data has just been published (February 2007). This has become an annual exercise and is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the success of the Ayrshire and Arran pilot of chlamydia screening through pharmacies.
Answer
There has as yet been no formal assessment of the chlamydia testing feasibility study in Ayrshire and Arran. This is due to the small number of community pharmacies and patients which took part.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran are now planning to increase the number of community pharmacies offering this service and to promote the service with local authority and other health care professionals.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what barriers exist to increasing chlamydia screening among men to at least the levels of screening among women and what action could be taken to overcome such barriers.
Answer
Generally, men do not access health services as often as women. The reasons for this may be embarrassment, a lack of awareness of the services which are available or not recognising when they may be at risk.
It is our aim to increase chlamydia testing in men. This can be achieved through a variety of interventions such as better partner notification, young people friendly services including drop-in services and testing initiatives targeted at men, provided in venues they regularly attend.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive who is prevented from donating blood; what the scientific justification is for each category of person prevented from donating blood, and what plans it has to reconsider who can and who cannot donate blood.
Answer
People prevented from donating blood can be placed broadly in two categories:
(1.) Those whose medical history, travel history, or behaviours put them at risk of passing on transfusion transmissible infections and
(2.) Those whose medical history suggests that giving blood could place them at risk of the adverse affects of donation.
Full details of the current UK donor selection guidelines, with explanatory notes, can be found at: www.transfusionguidelines.org.
The guidelines are reviewed on a regular basis at UK level through the Advisory Committee for the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs and the Joint Professional Advisory Committee for the four UK transfusion services, based on the latest epidemiological information from the Health Protection Agency, Health Protection Scotland and other experts in this field.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints have been registered against the Scottish Ambulance Service in each year since 1997, also broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Details of the number of complaints against the Scottish Ambulance Service from 1997-98 to 2007-08 are outlined in the following table. The information is only available broken down into complaints relating to Scottish Ambulance Service Divisional Areas and Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres (EMDCs).
| > | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Air Ambulance | Complaints Recorded Against Divisional Area |
| East Central | 23 | 21 | 101 | 141 | 104 | 128 |
| East EMDC | EMDC Established 2003-04 |
| North East | Not Provided | Not Provided | 57 | 51 | 49 | 48 |
| North EMDC | EMDC Established 2003-04 |
| North West | Not Provided | Not Provided | Not Provided | 22 | 5 | 5 |
| South East | Not Provided | 52 | 50 | 55 | 43 | 50 |
| South West | 144 | 137 | 69 | 74 | 61 | 32 |
| West Central | 240 | 135 | 89 | 131 | 92 | 103 |
| West EMDC | EMDC Established 2003-04 |
| Total | 407 | 345 | 366 | 474 | 354 | 366 |
| > | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007 to 28-02-08 |
| Air Ambulance | Complaints Recorded Against Divisional Area | 2 |
| East Central | 79 | 30 | 60 | 42 | 36 |
| East EMDC | 50 | 39 | 65 | 91 | 44 |
| North East | 65 | 19 | 34 | 27 | 10 |
| North EMDC | 34 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 7 |
| North West | 17 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 8 |
| South East | 61 | 21 | 44 | 32 | 42 |
| South West | 58 | 21 | 34 | 33 | 21 |
| West Central | 122 | 31 | 77 | 87 | 63 |
| West EMDC | 35 | 31 | 77 | 103 | 53 |
| Total | 521 | 198 | 399 | 440 | 286 |
Note: *Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to attract and retain volunteer drivers to take patients to and from health-related appointments.
Answer
Community transport organisations play a vital role in proving access to NHS facilities. Recent guidance to the NHS in Scotland sets out a three-year action plan aimed at increasing the focus on volunteering in Scotland''s NHS. The guidance is available at:
http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2008_10.pdf.
In addition, each division of the Scottish Ambulance Service places their own advertisements for volunteer drivers according to their recruitment needs.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total number of vehicles was in the Scottish Ambulance Service’s fleet in each year since 1997, also broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The total number of Scottish Ambulance Service fleet vehicles for the years 2001-02 to 2007-08 is outlined in the table. The information is provided in terms of Scottish Ambulance Service division areas and is not available broken down into NHS board areas. This information is not available for the years 1997 to 2001.
| Total Number of Vehicles By Division | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| East Central | 228 | 235 | 235 | 247 | 252 | 242 | 244 |
| North East | 133 | 136 | 137 | 148 | 153 | 138 | 140 |
| North West | 108 | 109 | 111 | 119 | 123 | 122 | 125 |
| South East | 208 | 211 | 211 | 222 | 223 | 211 | 218 |
| South West | 280 | 281 | 283 | 315 | 316 | 293 | 293 |
| West Central | 272 | 287 | 289 | 319 | 322 | 331 | 329 |
| Total Number of Vehicles for Scottish Ambulance Service | 1,245 | 1,276 | 1,283 | 1,386 | 1,406 | 1,354 | 1,354 |
Note: *Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many volunteer drivers there have been to take patients to health-related appointments in each year since 1997, also broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The following table details the number of volunteer ambulance car drivers since 2004, broken down by NHS board area. Information is not held for the years previous to 2003-04.
| NHS Board | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 15 | 16 | 14 | 11 |
| Borders | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 25 | 25 | 21 | 21 |
| Fife | 11 | 13 | 14 | 12 |
| Forth Valley | 29 | 34 | 35 | 35 |
| Grampian | 19 | 21 | 20 | 19 |
| Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 47 | 46 | 45 | 38 |
| Highland | 57 | 58 | 64 | 64 |
| Lanarkshire | 28 | 30 | 32 | 26 |
| Lothian | 13 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| Orkney | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Shetland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tayside | 28 | 25 | 24 | 24 |
| Western Isles | 12 | 13 | 14 | 9 |
| Scotland | 315 | 324 | 305 | 280 |
Notes: * Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service
# Dissolution of NHS Argyll and Clyde “ figures for 2005-06 and 2006-07 included in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Highland
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 7 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9255 by Shona Robison on 19 February 2008, what steps NHS boards are taking to ensure that diabetic patients on rosiglitazone who suffer from ischaemic heart disease or peripheral arterial disease are no longer prescribed this medicine, as it is no longer recommended by the European Medicines Agency for these patients.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-9255 on 19 February 2008. Health care professionals were informed about the advice from the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use in the February 2008 edition of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Drug Safety Update bulletin. This information can be accessed at:
www.mhra.gov.uk.
In addition, product information for rosiglitazone has been updated to include the new advice. Medicines should be prescribed by clinicians taking account of the approved advice provided in the Summary of Product Characteristics which provides full information about the product, including its side effects and its use.
NHS boards can reinforce this advice through a variety of methods. These may include articles in prescribing newsletters and information included in local formularies.
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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking, and what targets it has, to reduce the number of documents that it publishes in hard copy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-8934 on 28 January 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
