Footnotes
i The Scottish Executive was renamed The Scottish Government on 3 September 2007. For ease, the term Scottish Government has been used throughout the report even though in some cases it is referring to the period before the name change. Publications in the reference section and the list of documents in Annex 1 have retained the title of the original publisher.
ii http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc16/cgpg-00.asp
iii Now merged with the Public Health Institute of Scotland ( PHIS) to become NHS Health Scotland.
iv ASH Scotland Tobacco and Inequalities Project Needs Assessment Research Proposal, 2003.
v SCOTT was established in October 1999 as an alliance of ASH Scotland and leading cancer charities as a means to raise awareness about the links between smoking and cancer. It was SCOTT which took forward the establishment of the Cross Party Group ( CPG).
vi Total number = 12
vii As opposed to the constraints on the Scottish Executive, civil servants and officials and professional bodies such as the BMA ("in a different niche") with regard to their scope for lobbying and campaigning.
viii Interview with internal stakeholder.
ix For this analysis it has been necessary to rely on un-audited budget statements as the ASH Scotland Annual Accounts cover both the ASH Scotland Core activities as well as PATH.
x Deferred income is the balance of income that has accrued in the previous year for use in the current year.
xi The benchmark study looked at the whole organisations and did not disaggregate by projects/sources of funding.
xii Information provided by ASH Scotland and Scottish Drugs Forum.
xiii Based on average number of annual employees in each year, as published in annual accounts.
xiv Based on actual attendances as percentage of total potential working days not including annual leave and public holidays.
xv CIPD Annual Survey Report 2007.
xvi Table 6.1 shows ASH Scotland as receiving £364,869 of Scottish Government funding. In addition to the funds that they receive under S16B of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, they receive other income from the Scottish Government under separate funding streams.
xvii Interview with Scottish Government stakeholder.
xviii " If they have a figurehead who is feisty but is seen to be arguing at a level people can understand, organisations are more effective at getting their message across…[but] it wasn't all down to Maureen Moore, the staff are all effective communicators."
xix These are taken from the notes of the Board and Staff Workshop 7 March 2007. The workshop identified the "big issues" from longer lists and it is these big issues that are reproduced here.