- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems it expects to install in 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Answer
The Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum is currently considering the long term future of the programme and is expected to report back in early autumn. Once the forum has provided its recommendations the necessary decisions on the future of the programme will be taken.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many inpatient beds are available at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
The average available staffed beds in all specialties for the Vale of Leven Hospital in year ending 31 March 2008 was 197.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executivewhen NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will have completed the integration of the former Greater Glasgow area with the former Clyde area.
Answer
Since the formation of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in April 2006, the board has looked closely at how to best integrate services across the whole board area. Full integration was completed in July 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline all services available at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
Information about services available at the Vale of Leven Hospital can be found in the Report of the Independent External Clinical Review of Anaesthetic Services at the Vale of Leven Hospital, published on 15 August 2008. The report is available to download at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0064627.pdf.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the central heating programme baseline budget is for 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Answer
The fuel poverty budget for 2008-09 and 2009-10 was set at £45.9 million as part of the Strategic Spending Review (2007) announced on 14 November 2007.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15494 by Kenny MacAskill on 25 August 2008, whether ministers routinely seek the approval of the Parliament when determining the remit and chairing of a public inquiry.
Answer
There is no requirement under the Inquiries Act 2005 for a minister to seek the approval of the Parliament when determining the remit and chairing of a public inquiry.
Under section 6 of the act, however, a minister who proposes to cause an inquiry to be held, or who has already done so, must as soon as is reasonably practicable make an oral or written statement to that effect to the relevant Parliament
The statement must state:
(a) who is to be, or has been, appointed as chairman of the inquiry;
(b) whether the Minister has appointed, or proposes to appoint, any other members to the inquiry panel, and if so how many;
(c) what are to be, or are, the inquiry''s terms of reference.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the “further analysis of the death rate” outlined on page 12 of Independent Review of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease at the Vale of Leven Hospital from December 2007 to June 2008.
Answer
This information will be provided in the Outbreak Control Team report which is due to be submitted to me by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde around the end of September 2008. The content of that report will, in the first instance, be shared with the area Procurator Fiscal.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde since the board area was increased in April 2006 to integrate (a) management structures and (b) infection control systems.
Answer
Since the formation of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in April 2006, the board has looked closely at how to best integrate services across the whole board area, including management and infection control systems, to bring about benefits such as unified procedures and structures, improved communications, and the sharing of best practice.
This work has culminated in the board merging its Clyde acute operational and administrative functions into the board''s Acute Services Division on 1 July 2008, and the establishment of new infection control arrangements across the whole board area, also on 1 July 2008.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing is aware that the high dependency unit at the Vale of Leven Hospital had closed in the last 12 months.
Answer
The High Dependency Unit (HDU) at the Vale of Leven Hospital closed for four hours on 27 October 2007, and for 24 hours between 13 and 14 November 2007 due to no patients being in the unit. This is normal practice where no patient admissions are anticipated.
The board announced in November 2007 that the hospital''s two HDU beds would be integrated into the Coronary Care Unit to support both service delivery and clinical safety. The joint Critical Care Unit, as it is now known, has not been closed at any time since the merger in December 2007.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will develop a national policy on faecal management in light of the findings in the independent review team report on Clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
Answer
National policy on faecal management is included in Health Protection Scotland model policies on Standard Infection Control Precautions and Transmission Based Precautions. Guidance is also included in the NHSScotland Code of Practice for the Local Management of Hygiene and Healthcare Associated Infection.
