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Dr Turner: Ind Committee

There is a typo in the first line of paragraph 104, which has "these" instead of "this".

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

It is not a subject about which the ordinary population would know. Unless you provide a little more information when you ask the question and allow people to think about it, many people will not think about the matter until they are stuck in the position of being off sick lon...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Have questions been asked about the difference between what happens in primary and secondary care? If someone is in hospital and suddenly finds that they need a liver or kidney transplant or cancer treatment, the prescription is usually dealt with in the primary care sector wh...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

You said that the new rate is £6.85, which is a fair amount of money for someone on a tight income. A person could have four prescriptions—four times £6.85 is a fair bit of money.I do not quite understand the provisions that enable people to pay for their prescriptions quarter...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Scotland Malawi Partnership

I thank Karen Gillon for managing to fit in the debate before the end of the session because the subject is important, as is keeping the connection and the partnership with Malawi.When I was nine, I visited the Livingstone memorial at Blantyre for the first time. At that time,...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Free Personal Care

You talked about food preparation, but what is important is how we get food into people. Usually, people like consistency, as Nanette Milne said. Continuity of care is important for elderly people. The workforce is important in that regard. We do not like to go into houses and...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Free Personal Care

Is the service to be national or local, where it can be all things to all people, depending on the money that the local authority has available? That was at the back of my mind.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Free Personal Care

The point is the difference in the figures. Some councils have the information and some do not.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Free Personal Care

Table A6.1 in Paolo Vestri's report shows the number of people who are waiting for community care assessments. The figures for the City of Edinburgh Council, Glasgow City Council and East Lothian Council, for example, are quite different. To what extent are those differences d...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Free Personal Care

Especially in the area that you have been talking about, the implications of upskilling the workforce are very important. If domestic care staff are to be upskilled to enable them to undertake personal care tasks such as handling clients and assisting with medication and treat...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Committee

Free Personal Care

My question is mainly on the workforce. I do not think that a council can run a service or implement a policy if it does not have the staff. You have highlighted the way in which social workers, care staff and so on go about delivering the service. Angus Council has said that ...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Multiple Sclerosis (Tysabri)

I congratulate Tricia Marwick on bringing an important subject to the chamber. I also congratulate the members who have spoken before me. They are certainly well versed in the subject. I am not an expert on MS. I treated people with MS, or tried to diagnose them. I want to giv...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

They work quite well in so far as we get different people around the table. Some folk are more inclined to argue than others. The round-table discussion on the drugs issue revealed some hidden problems between the different witnesses. It is fair enough to have round-table meet...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

No—all that we are saying is what has happened. Duncan McNeil wants to add that that is good.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

I assume that a patient who left hospital would not necessarily be housed in the area near the hospital. Could the person be housed anywhere on the west coast?

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Will patients be moved into the low-secure unit before being allowed out into the community? I thought that was the whole idea.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

I do not think that there is any controversy surrounding the need to rehouse people in medium-secure units, although there is controversy about Carstairs, which is, I gather, bulging at the seams.How many patients will be contained in the Rowanbank unit? What type of patients ...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Providers would need to notify you of that change.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Yes, something like that.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

There are responsible trained staff in all the establishments in question, and their hours could be cut so that they did not overlap at changeovers.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

This question is for Jacquie Roberts. If the hours of trained nursing staff were cut by half an hour so that they did not communicate with one another in the changeover from the morning to afternoon sessions, would that trigger an inspection?

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

If the minister guarantees that the frequency of inspections would never fall below that level, would the representatives of Fife Council still be concerned?

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

The minimum of one inspection in three years.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

If it could be proved that the frequency of inspections would not fall below one, would the witnesses be in agreement with the proposal and would they be in agreement if the inspections were unannounced?

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Age Concern supports you on that. It highlighted the problem in its evidence.

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Councillor Gunn's comments were sensible, but I remember that the care commission told us that it will inspect a service if it receives a complaint about it or if changes have been made. I was concerned about that, because staff are low paid and many establishments have high s...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill

I might have said already that the first time I read the bill, I found it very difficult and felt that many things in it ought to have been fixed before it came to the committee. I commend the minister on taking on board all the changes that we proposed.The bill today is nothi...

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

I accept what Scott Barrie said about previous experience, but we do not know what an individual's experience prior to becoming a social worker will be. We also do not yet know what the regulations will be. Therefore, I press amendment 4.

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Amendment 4 seeks to ensure that council officers who have the power to enter premises and remove an adult at risk of harm are social workers with at least 12 months' experience since qualifying. The Health Committee was concerned when it first received the bill that council o...

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

On most occasions when section 6 will be used, a medical problem will be present in the background, which could be solved quickly, kindly and sensitively by the presence of a GP. The bill is about adult support and protection and the least intervention that is required to help...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Amendment 1 seeks to ensure that when a council officer enters someone's house or place of residence—which could be anywhere, for example a nursing home or a hospital ward—to determine whether the person is an adult at risk of harm, they will be accompanied by a doctor, who, p...

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

First Minister's Question Time · Public Sector Workforce

That sounded good, but the First Minister and I must speak to different nurses. Many nurses have told me that they feel undervalued. If a nurse with 43 years' service can find that their pay has suddenly been docked by £200 a month, which can affect their pension, a message wi...

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

First Minister's Question Time · Public Sector Workforce

I would like to draw attention to the nurses in the health service whose experience is important considering all the changes that are taking place. Many think that the agenda for change has been an agenda for misery—nurses with 20 to 40 years' experience have found themselves ...

3. Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

First Minister's Question Time · Public Sector Workforce

To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Executive capitalises on the experience of, and rewards, the public sector workforce. (S2F-2721)

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

Coeliac Disease

I agree absolutely. It should not be left for GPs to diagnose coeliac disease. Nurses and whoever else comes into contact with the patient should also play a part but, eventually, we will come to the pharmacist. Cost will probably be at the back of the problem with diagnosis, ...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Coeliac Disease

I thank Margo MacDonald for bringing such an important subject for debate. I also thank everyone from Coeliac UK, especially Yvonne Murray, whose story was absolutely horrific. The health service nowadays seems to take a long time to make diagnoses. I have a good friend of abo...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Making the National Health Service Local

I worked in secondary care for 10 years and in primary care for 25 years and I always thought of primary and secondary care as a team that works to provide very much the same service. As we push more activity into primary care, we should praise the people who, for generations,...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Smoking Ban <br />(Public Health Impacts)

The smoking ban has worked well and everyone is proud of their involvement in it. However, there is still a small group of people who are difficult to deal with. Obviously, there will be on-going work by the Scottish Executive to put in money and people to try to help them. Ho...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Smoking Ban <br />(Public Health Impacts)

The report of the smoking prevention working group states:"Among 13 year olds, 48% of smokers had used other drugs in the past month compared with 1% of never smokers. Among current smokers at age 23, the majority have used other drugs in the last year."There is also a connect...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Smoking Ban <br />(Public Health Impacts)

We have heard a bit about the impact on bar staff. In the evidence that we took I was interested in the worry that cutting down on smoking in certain places might increase it at home, thereby exposing children to an environment in which they inhale more smoke. In addition, you...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Smoking Ban <br />(Public Health Impacts)

Will the data be similar to those that are being collected in New York and other places? Have people elsewhere split the data in the same way, so that you can make comparisons?

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Committee

Smoking Ban <br />(Public Health Impacts)

I know that you have not yet analysed the data for salivary cotinine, but will you divide them between bar staff who have never smoked and people who smoke but who might not be able to smoke at work and who may smoke more cigarettes when they are not working?

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

Cervical Cancer

Ken Macintosh is right, and I think that it was mentioned that familiarity sometimes breeds contempt. People can just come along and get their smear, but they often believe that, unless something horrible has happened to them, it is never going to happen to them.That is where ...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Cervical Cancer

I thank Ken Macintosh for securing such an important debate.A lot of good words have already been said, and from the practical point of view of having done cervical screening I want to emphasise that it is most important that screening continues for years to come. It is wonder...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Battle of Passchendaele<br />(90th Anniversary)

I thank Murdo Fraser for tonight's debate. I should explain how I got involved in the issue. Evelyn McKechnie, who is a great historian on the subject of the Somme, was working with me. She told me about the monument and I could not believe that no monument had been erected to...

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I agree. I do not think that there is anything wrong with CHPs on paper. However, it was difficult to get LHCCs up and running and there is a difficulty with CHPs and with ensuring public involvement.The minister talked about fragmentation. We have that at the moment. It is di...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I will not mention why I am here, but I congratulate Bill Butler on listening to the people and realising that there is still a gap out there. Although health boards have put in place many new processes to involve people in the decisions that they take, people still do not tru...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Treatment of Drug Users

Do you have figures for the number of people who have been through the system since you started to change the links between the community and prison?

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Treatment of Drug Users

My questions are along a similar line to Helen Eadie's. From the minister's answers, it sounds like things have not improved that much over the years. People can go into prison as alcoholics and come out as heroin addicts. What improvement has there been in provision of treatm...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Treatment of Drug Users

Those comparisons are important, but the discussion that we have had since I asked my first question has shown that everything is tied up together. The picture is complex and research is important.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Treatment of Drug Users

I was thinking about the differences in situation between England and Scotland. One thing that has been made clear by this afternoon's discussion is that research is definitely needed. Professor McKeganey's paper talks about the drug outcome research in Scotland study and says...

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Treatment of Drug Users

From my past job, I recognise much of what Mark Frankland said. When people come in for help, they need that help now. We are working against a professional criminal world that is trying to countermand everything that we do. I am interested in the differences between Scotland ...

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Committee

Treatment of Drug Users

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Community Care

As the minister will appreciate, it is essential to retain experienced nurses within primary care, particularly given that they may have to deal with more complex cases. Over recent weeks, many nurses have told me of their complete demoralisation because of their new banding u...

7. Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Community Care

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve the quality of the care provided in the community if primary care levels are increased above the current 98 per cent as a result of the planned reduction in hospital intervention. (S2O-11586)

Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

Accident and Emergency Units

The important factors that have emerged from the debate are that everyone is uncertain and that capacity is important. I have been going around the casualty and intensive care departments in Glasgow and the importance of capacity shines out. Staff in intensive care say that th...

Dr Turner: Ind Chamber

SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Ring 'n' Ride Service

I thought that the minister might say that, but I also thought that he ought to know that in Westerton in my constituency there are people who have lost their post office and the bus service and who depend on the ring 'n' ride service but sometimes cannot book a ride on it. Th...

6. Dr Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Ind): Ind Chamber

SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Ring 'n' Ride Service

To ask the Scottish Executive at what point the cost to the provider of a one-person journey negates the value of the ring 'n' ride service. (S2O-11489)

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

I accept the minister's comments and will seek leave to withdraw amendment 57. It is difficult to understand the difference between "may" and "must". If we can have more clarification at a later date, I am happy for the amendment to be withdrawn.

Dr Turner: Ind Committee

Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

The bill gives a "council officer" the power to enter premises, carry out visits, examine records and implement assessment orders. In our stage 1 report, the committee expressed the concern that the term "council officer" is broad and recommended that the definition of the per...

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Committee

Health Committee, 20 Mar 2007

20 Mar 2007 · S2 · Health Committee

Item of business

Legacy Paper

Turner, Dr Jean Ind Strathkelvin and Bearsden Watch on SPTV

There is a typo in the first line of paragraph 104, which has "these" instead of "this".

In the same item of business

The Convener: SNP

Item 5 is consideration of the draft legacy paper. Members will see that the paper is in track-change format, with all the changes to the text that members r...

Members indicated agreement.

The Convener: SNP

There is a small change in paragraph 19 because we finally know the correct number.

Euan Robson (Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (LD): LD

The Convener: SNP

When we first considered the matter, we knew that a great deal of subordinate legislation was coming but we did not know what the figure would amount to.Next...

Members indicated agreement.

The Convener: SNP

There is also a change to paragraph 23 and tiny changes to paragraphs 29 and 30.There is a new paragraph 33. I think we all feel that the on-going issue with...

Mr McNeil: Lab

Yes. You will hear me when I am not.

The Convener: SNP

Mr McNeil: Lab

Do not encourage me.

The Convener: SNP

There is an extra word in paragraph 45, and in paragraph 47 there is a slight expansion on round-table sessions. There is a slight change to paragraph 48. Ne...

Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con): Con

There is a minor typo in paragraph 57, which has "requires" instead of "required".

The Convener: SNP

Yes—it is a tiny typo.

Mrs Milne: Con

There is a similar typo in the second line of paragraph 60, which has "finding" instead of "findings".

The Convener: SNP

Okay.There are no further changes until the addition at the end of the phrase, "The Health Committee 2003-7", which expresses what we are. Are we happy with ...

Dr Turner: Ind

There is a typo in the first line of paragraph 104, which has "these" instead of "this".

The Convener: SNP

Yes. If members pick up further typos in their careful perusal of the paper subsequent to the meeting, can you flag them up to the clerks? I am sure that the...

Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): Lab

Can we just take a moment to say thank you, convener, to you as well? Our politics are obviously miles apart, but when someone convenes as professionally as ...

The Convener: SNP

Helen Eadie: Lab

It has been a privilege and a pleasure to serve on this committee. As you said, convener, none of us knows whether we will come back, although we all aspire ...

The Convener: SNP

Okay. I should have said that about the clerks. It should not go without saying and should always be said.That ends the public part of the business. We will ...

Meeting continued in private until 14:35.