Written Question · S3W-01219 · Session 3
What plans it has to invest in ambulance services in Lanarkshire in the next four years and, in particular, how much will be spent on ambul…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to invest in ambulance services in Lanarkshire in the next four years and, in particular, how much will be spent on ambulance services, what this money will be spent on and what criteria it will use to determine how services have been improved over this period.
The answer
It is for the Scottish Ambulance Service to determine how and where to invest the resourcesit receives from the Scottish Government
- £177.8 million in 2007-08
- inproviding emergency and non-emergency patient transport services for the peopleof Scotland and to ensure value for money. The ambulance service may alsoreceive additional resources from a territorial NHS board where there isagreement that such investment is required as a consequence of re-configurationof hospital services within the local area.
For 2007-08 the Scottish Ambulance Service has budgeted £11.4 million in support of services tothe area of NHS Lanarkshire with £7.8 million going to the emergency serviceand £1.9 million to patient transport. The balance will be spent on items suchas fuel costs, vehicle maintenance, accommodation costs, heating, equipment,drugs and consumables. The Lanarkshire area benefited from targeted investmentin 2006-07 with an extra 43 staff (a mix of paramedics, technicians andambulance care assistants) being taken on bringing the total whole-time equivalentestablishment to 356.
The ScottishGovernment monitors the performance of the ambulance service’s emergency andpatient transport services on a regular basis. The Cabinet Secretary for Healthand Wellbeing will be discussing the ambulance service’s performance and how itplans to continue to improve its services to patients as part of its annualreview on 15 August.
- £177.8 million in 2007-08
- inproviding emergency and non-emergency patient transport services for the peopleof Scotland and to ensure value for money. The ambulance service may alsoreceive additional resources from a territorial NHS board where there isagreement that such investment is required as a consequence of re-configurationof hospital services within the local area.
For 2007-08 the Scottish Ambulance Service has budgeted £11.4 million in support of services tothe area of NHS Lanarkshire with £7.8 million going to the emergency serviceand £1.9 million to patient transport. The balance will be spent on items suchas fuel costs, vehicle maintenance, accommodation costs, heating, equipment,drugs and consumables. The Lanarkshire area benefited from targeted investmentin 2006-07 with an extra 43 staff (a mix of paramedics, technicians andambulance care assistants) being taken on bringing the total whole-time equivalentestablishment to 356.
The ScottishGovernment monitors the performance of the ambulance service’s emergency andpatient transport services on a regular basis. The Cabinet Secretary for Healthand Wellbeing will be discussing the ambulance service’s performance and how itplans to continue to improve its services to patients as part of its annualreview on 15 August.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-01219 by reference.