- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive to where NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde patients are referred for inpatient mental health care if there is insufficient capacity within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have confirmed that the use of acute beds beyond its own boundaries is very low. Greater Glasgow and Clyde provides 1,510 beds for acute assessment, continuing care and specialist services (1,121 of these beds are provided by Greater Glasgow hospitals).
In the 12 month period to 31 April 2009, there were five admissions to a bed outwith the Glasgow area using a total of 16 bed days. This includes both unplanned requests to other boards and presentation at accident and emergency services whilst Greater Glasgow residents are temporarily away from the Glasgow area. The number of patients from other NHS boards using hospitals in Greater Glasgow and Clyde is significantly higher.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-22908 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009, when it will publish the responses to the consultation on the establishment of the Care Environment Inspectorate on the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland website.
Answer
The summary of responses to the consultation on the establishment of the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate will be published on the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland website by Friday 12 June 2009.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde inpatient mental health provision is used by patients from outwith that NHS board area.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde(NHSGGC) have confirmed that in the one year period to 31 April 2009, that there were 1,184 bed days of unplanned activity into Greater Glasgow beds from other boards which comprised of 114 admissions, using the equivalent of three beds per day.
NHSGGC have stated that around 60% of this unplanned bed use relates to the neighbouring boards of NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has published to inform and support local authorities in their plans to close or otherwise change day services for adults with learning disabilities.
Answer
In 2006 The same as you? Implementation Group published
Make my day! which reported on the progress made by local partnerships and shared good practice in the modernisation of day services for adults with learning disabilities. The report set out a number of things to guide the future development of day services.
Neither The same as you? nor Make my day! advocate the closure of day services but encourage day services to modernise and focus more on education, employment and personal fulfilment.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers have retired from Strathclyde Police since July 2008, broken down by division.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
Her Majesty''s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland collect and publish annual data on police retirements, the latest figures for which are available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/public-safety/Police/local/15403/Statistical.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA or other bodies with regard to a national eligibility framework for all community care services provided by local authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23994 on 21 May 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA or other bodies following Audit Scotland’s 2008 recommendation that the Scottish Government and local authorities should work together to agree a national eligibility framework that defines risks and priority levels to ensure transparency in access to care for older people.
Answer
We have reached agreement with COSLA that the £40 million in additional funding from 1 April will be spent on delivering a package of measures to stabilise the free personal and nursing care policy in the immediate term. Significant progress has been made in developing with COSLA and key stakeholders a consistent eligibility framework to be operated by all councils for access to adult social care services and which will be applied across Scotland. We will be in a position to formally consult on these proposals very shortly.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many beds were originally planned for the new mental health in-patient facility at Gartnavel Hospital.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow''s 1999
Modernising Mental Health strategy proposed the development of 117 acute short-stay beds in the new mental health hospital at Gartnavel Hospital. The profile of these beds is detailed in the table below.
| Adults | 60 |
| Elderly | 45 |
| Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit | 12 |
| Total | 117 |
In addition, the board planned for the retention of 30 long-stay non-acute beds (consisting of 10 intensive rehabilitation long-stay beds and 20 adult long-stay beds) in good quality ward accommodation from the existing mental health ward capacity elsewhere on the Gartnavel site.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive where the in-patient mental health capacity that was to be provided by the secure unit at Dykebar Hospital has been accommodated.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have confirmed that by retaining the low secure beds on the Leverndale site, the 30 planned beds for Dykebar were provided as part of a reconfigured 74-bed medium secure bed unit at Stobhill. The net effect is to leave the overall capacity for medium and low secure beds unchanged at 104 beds.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive where NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in-patient mental health facilities are located.
Answer
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has confirmed that its inpatient mental health facilities are currently located at the following hospitals (excluding learning disabilities and NHS nursing homes): Stobhill Hospital (including the Rowanbank Clinic); Leverndale Hospital; the Southern General Hospital; Parkhead Hospital; Gartnavel Hospital; Dykebar Hospital; the Royal Alexandra Hospital; Ravenscraig Hospital; Inverclyde Royal Hospital, and the Vale of Leven Hospital.
