- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the clinical or non-clinical mishaps or accidents in respect of which claims were made against NHS Trusts in the last five years the NHS Management Executive considers to have been avoidable; what type of interventions would have prevented these incidents, and what plans are in place to implement any such preventative measures.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the environment budget was not utilised in 1999-2000; how much of the end-year balance was originally allocated to water industry funding and how this end-year balance will be utilised in 2000-01.
Answer
A total of £4.685 million, excluding environment related expenditure by Local Authorities, was not utilised in 1999-2000. £4.4 million relates to the water industry funding and has been allocated in full to the water programme for the current year. Of the remaining £0.3 million, £0.2 million has been allocated to research and publicity and £0.1m to the reserve. The environment budget will, of course, be eligible to receive allocations from the reserve in the course of the year.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many claims there were against the NHS Trusts in each health board area in respect of (a) clinical mishaps or accidents, (b) non-clinical mishaps or accidents in each of the last five years and what the total cost of these types of claims in each health board area was in terms of (i) compensation paid out and (ii) investigating and defending claims.
Answer
Until 1 April 2000 health boards and Trusts were responsible for arranging their own cover for non-clinical incidents. As a result there is no central system that records non-clinical claims. This information can however be obtained directly from health boards and Trusts.The following tables provide details by health board area of the number of cases settled, the compensation paid and the claimant's legal costs in each of the last five years.All clinical cases are handled and defended by the Central Legal Office (CLO). The cost of defending each health board area's cases is not collected but can be requested directly from CLO.
| | | 1999-2000 | | | 1998-99 | |
| | No of claims | Compensation paid | Legal costs | No. of claims | Compensation paid | Legal costs |
Argyll & Clyde | 15 | 92,628 | 47,611 | 15 | 776,317 | 97,794 |
Ayrshire & Arran | 6 | 277,345 | 5,721 | 6 | 191,630 | 8,328 |
Dumfries&Galloway | 8 | 133,614 | 19,887 | 10 | 103,622 | 62,921 |
Fife | 8 | 45,900 | 13,075 | 8 | 71,588 | 14,659 |
Forth Valley | 6 | 27,865 | 5,964 | 10 | 27,300 | 18,716 |
Grampian | 10 | 405,383 | 8,957 | 9 | 59,281 | 20,626 |
Greater Glasgow | 45 | 498,733 | 166,494 | 50 | 327,700 | 206,466 |
Highland | 8 | 269,745 | 25,198 | 6 | 55,500 | 9,541 |
Lanarkshire | 8 | 99,698 | 20,610 | 13 | 84,300 | 32,178 |
Lothian | 34 | 919,160 | 204,452 | 27 | 1,412,009 | 118,972 |
Tayside | 16 | 251,000 | 29,165 | 12 | 147,782 | 53,081 |
Other Boards | 5 | 184,164 | 8,644 | 4 | 50,600 | 4,502 |
Total | 169 | 3,205,235 | 555,778 | 170 | 3,307,629 | 647,784 |
| | | 1997-98 | | | 1996-97 | |
| | No. of Claims | Compensation paid | Legal costs | No. of Claims | Compensation paid | Legal costs |
Argyll & Clyde | 16 | 681,945 | 59,817 | 30 | 435,908 | 74,366 |
Ayrshire & Arran | 9 | 25,000 | 105,642 | 16 | 306,200 | 20,126 |
Fife | 12 | 106,313 | 53,083 | 15 | 82,293 | 20,087 |
Forth Valley | 10 | 204,750 | 21,837 | 13 | 1,067,005 | 31,752 |
Grampian | 15 | 67,400 | 39,560 | 10 | 277,462 | 22,316 |
Greater Glasgow | 35 | 1,272,360 | 104,001 | 27 | 1,036,380 | 100,378 |
Highland | 10 | 415,200 | 8,564 | 6 | 9,600 | 39,368 |
Lanarkshire | 11 | 78,650 | 19,725 | 17 | 90,872 | 17,478 |
Lothian | 26 | 337,109 | 137,802 | 37 | 383,975 | 174,651 |
Tayside | 18 | 210,770 | 45,972 | 12 | 158,022 | 20,993 |
Other Boards | 5 | 121,702 | 27,933 | 7 | 212,166 | 14,106 |
Total | 167 | 3,521,199 | 623,936 | 190 | 4,059,883 | 535,621 |
| | | 1995-96 | |
| | No. of claims | Compensation paid | Legal costs |
Argyll & Clyde | 16 | 227,562 | 53,211 |
Ayrshire & Arran | 7 | 48,105 | 8,611 |
Dumfries&Galloway | 9 | 73,606 | 19,421 |
Fife | 8 | 66,766 | 15,019 |
Forth Valley | 7 | 155,713 | 4,533 |
Grampian | 11 | 55,244 | 17,749 |
Greater Glasgow | 46 | 1,287,877 | 171,627 |
Highland | 13 | 212,440 | 12,369 |
Lanarkshire | 10 | 77,550 | 46,345 |
Lothian | 30 | 1,244,027 | 174,000 |
Tayside | 12 | 54,540 | 43,158 |
Other Boards | 3 | 51,500 | 3,000 |
Total | 172 | 3,554,930 | 569,043 |
To protect patient confidentiality the information has been aggregated for some health boards, which have only a small number of claims.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the direct and indirect costs to the NHSiS of adverse healthcare events were in each of the last three years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of additional resources has been given towards the maintenance of the register of sex offenders, broken down by police force.
Answer
Funding for the police is provided annually through the Grant Aided Expenditure process, which, for the current year, was based on estimates supplied by police forces. Funding is allocated in its entirety and not on the basis of specific operational requirements or policing tasks. The deployment of resources and the setting of operational priorities are matters for the Chief Constable.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations that Scotland's proportionate share of Natural Environmental Research Council funding should be maintained following the decision to cease funding the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory.
Answer
Research Council funds are allocated on the basis of quality, underpinned by peer review, and not by a formula. The decision to disband the CCMS, of which Dunstaffnage represents one part, does not alter that position. We will be liaising closely with the Natural Environmental Research Council on how funding for marine research in Scotland will be delivered following the Council's decision.
Research Councils and their operations are reserved under the terms of the Scotland Act.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to introduce further conservation designation orders in Scottish waters for the purpose of protecting freshwater fish.
Answer
I announced a list of new proposed Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) on 14 June (
Official Report, 14 June 2000, S1W-7913). Among those sites, the following were proposed for the protection of freshwater fish:
Berriedale and Langwell Waters
Grimersta
Little Gruinard River
River Bladnoch
River Dee
River Moriston
River Naver and Mallart River
River Oykel
River South Esk
River Teith
River Thurso
River Tweed
I indicated when I made that announcement that I was open to consideration of scientific evidence about any exceptions to the completeness of the list. I am awaiting further advice from Scottish Natural Heritage on this matter.
I trust that the proposed SAC designation of some Scottish rivers will be viewed as a positive move, with local interests, including District Salmon Fisheries Boards, working together to manage the sites for their conservation interests - as is happening already on the River Spey.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make any representations to the Natural Environment Research Council in connection with its decision to withdraw funding from the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory.
Answer
Consistent with the terms of the Concordat agreed with the Natural Environmental Research Council in 1997, the Executive will continue to liaise with the Council on any issues and initiatives of mutual interest. This includes the implementation of the Council's recent decision to disband their Centre for Coastal and Marine Science, of which Dunstaffnage represented a part, and how funding for marine research in Scotland will be delivered by the Council in future
.Research Councils and their operations are reserved under the terms of the Scotland Act.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was consulted by the National Environment Research Council or any other authority in connection with the decision to cease funding to the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory and whether it is aware of any other bodies consulted in Scotland.
Answer
The Natural Environmental Research Council has not decided to cease funding Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, but to disband the Centre for Coastal and Marine Science (CCMS). We will be liaising closely with the Natural Environmental Research Council on how funding for marine research in Scotland, including Dunstaffnage, will be delivered following the Council's decision.
Research Councils and their operations are reserved under the terms of the Scotland Act.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to secure funding for the promotion of marine science and research at Dunstaffnage.
Answer
The Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (DML) is the shared responsibility of the Natural Environment Research Council and the Scottish Association for Marine Science. We will be liaising closely with the Natural Environmental Research Council on how funding for marine research in Scotland will be delivered following the Council's decision to disband the Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences (CCMS)
. We expect the role of DML in delivering core strategic and applied marine science for NERC and other customers should continue in different ways involving local and regional collaboration.Research Councils and their operations are reserved under the terms of the Scotland Act.
