How it has secured the long-term future of the heart transplant unit in Glasgow and strengthened the service, as referred to by the former …

Answered Asked by Mary Scanlon Con Lodged 2 Dec 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how it has secured the long-term future of the heart transplant unit in Glasgow and strengthened the service, as referred to by the former Minister for Health and Community Care in the debate in the Parliament on the heart transplant unit on 24 May 2000 (Official Report, c 966).

The answer

Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 Dec 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

The staffing of the Scottish Heart Transplant Unit has been strengthened, in particular by the inclusion within the multi-disciplinary team of four consultant surgeons capable of performing heart transplants. The basis on which the unit was allowed to resume heart transplant operations in September 2001 was that its performance would be reviewed after two years.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-32160 by reference.