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Mail Order Catalogues
Mr. McWilliam : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will introduce legislation requiring mail order companies to take all reasonable steps to ensure that persons applying for catalogues are over 18 years of age.
Trade Marks Office
Dr. Goodson-Wickes : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster when he expects to hear from the trade marks office committee of the EEC regarding the outcome of London's bids to host the European Community trade marks office.
Mr. Forth : The European Commission produced a short list of four possible locations (including London) for
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the Community trade marks office in 1987. The final choice will be made in the regulation setting up the Community trade marks system which rests with the Council of Ministers. The decision requires unanimity and it is not possible to say when it is likely to be reached.Business Shops Pilot Scheme
Mr. French : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the criteria used in deciding which towns and cities participate in the Government's business shops pilot scheme.
Mr. Maude : In choosing locations, we decided on a range particularly to cover urban areas, and to give wide experience of different areas with different new business profiles. We also included locations which would enable pilot studies to be undertaken in a variety of organisations which already provide services to business, in order to build, wherever possible, on existing provision and avoid potential duplication and confusion.
The locations chosen, with the host organisation in parenthesis, are as follows :
1. Glasgow (Scottish Development Agency)
2. Merthyr Tydfil/Aberdare (MADE--Merthyr-Aberdare Develop ment Enterprise)
3. Manchester (Small Firms Centre)
4. Newcastle (joint venture--ENTRUST and local city council) 5. Reading (Small Firms Centre)
6. Doncaster (DonBAC--Doncaster Business Advice Centre and Enterprise Agency)
Funerals
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will take steps to require funeral directors to make their price lists readily available and, in particular, to supply them to those who come into immediate contact with bereaved people so that bereaved families have ready access to comparative information ;
(2) what action he is taking about the recommendation of the Office of Fair Trading that there should be made generally available maximum information on what is or might be involved in arranging funerals ; (3) what action he is taking about the recommendation of the Office of Fair Trading that the National Association of Funeral Directors should indicate, within six months from the date of the report, the specific steps it proposes to take in order to achieve greater compliance with its code of practice ;
(4) if he will take steps to require all funeral directors to publicise the availability of a simple basic funeral ;
(5) what action he is taking about the recommendation of the Office of Fair Trading that the National Association of Funeral Directors should redefine the specifications of the basic simple funeral, and then publicise its availability ;
(6) if he will take steps to require all funeral directors to provide accounts which specify individual charges for the main services provided ;
(7) what action he is taking about the recommendation of the Office of Fair Trading that the code of practice of the National Association of Funeral Directors should require funeral accounts to specify the individual charges for the main services provided ;
(8) what action he is taking about the recommendation of the Office of Fair Trading that funeral directors should provide doctors, hospitals, registrars and others who come into immediate contact with bereaved people with a supply of their price lists.
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Mr. Forth : The right hon. Member refers to recommendations made in the recent report by the Office of Fair Trading on funerals. The recommendations are addressed primarily to the industry and the director general will be discussing their implementation with the National Association of Funeral Directors.
I look forward to learning the outcome of these discussions in due course.
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to what factors the Office of Fair Trading attributes its findings that people over 65 years arranging a funeral were offered a basic funeral less often than others, received less advice and were more likely to receive no price information at all, and that widows and widowers also received less advice and were less likely to be given written estimates.
Mr. Forth : This is a matter for the Director General of Fair Trading. I will ask him to write to the right hon. Member.
Company Records
Mr. Caborn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the particular grounds he uses to assess whether to agree to an application from a company to withhold information on any foreign subsidiaries from its public records, according to schedule 5(10) to the Companies Act 1985.
Mr. Maude : The criterion against which the Secretary of State considers application for exemption from disclosure is whether the disclosure of the information would be prejudicial to exports or to overseas earnings.
Mr. Caborn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many companies he has granted permission to withhold information from their public records on subsidiaries registered in South Africa or subsidiaries whose business is in South Africa in each year since the passage of the Companies Act 1985.
Mr. Maude : In order to protect the information for which the provisions for non-disclosure were made, and for reasons of commercial confidentiality, I do not consider it appropriate to provide a breakdown of the published statistics relating to these applications.
Mr. Caborn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many companies have applied to him for permission to withhold information from their public records on any of their foreign subsidiaries on the ground that presentation of this information would be harmful to the business of the company, according to the provision of schedule 5(10) to the Companies Act 1985, and how many companies have received such permission in each of the years since the passage of the Act.
Mr. Maude : Statistics of applications made under schedule 5 to the Companies Act 1985 are published annually in the report laid before Parliament in accordance with section 729 of the Act. Copies are available in the Library.
Cash Limits
Mr. Hanley : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether any changes will be made to his Department's cash limit and running costs limit for 1988-89.
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Mr. Newton : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates, the cash limit for class V, vote 3 (administration, regulation of domestic trade and industry, and consumer protection) will be increased by £2,169,000 from £189,436, 000 to £191,605,000. The increase will be offset by savings in class V, vote 2 (support for industry) of £2,128,000 and class IX, vote 2 (Department of the Environment : miscellaneous administration and housing grants) of £41,000. The increase in the cash limit for vote 3 has been partly offset by a decrease of £16,000 to reflect the transfer of costs for recruitment under the direct entry grade 7 Competition 1988 to the office of the Minister for the Civil Service (class XX, vote 1) and by £106,000 which has been made available to class VII, vote 2 (Department of Employment : administration) for a special employment service initiative in Sunderland. Overall, the cash limit for class V, vote 2 will be reduced by £2,128,000 from £568,256,000 to £566,128,000. The running costs limit for the Department has been reduced by £794,000 from £287,968,000 to £287,174,000.
In addition, the cash limit on class V, vote IX has been reduced from £2,417,000 to £1,000. Downward adjustments to the estimates of stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax payable on the sale of shares in Rolls-Royce plc mean that receipts appropriated in aid will be sufficient to cover expenditure incurred.
These changes will not add to the planned total of public expenditure.
Ministerial Advisers (Salaries)
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the total expenditure on salaries of ministerial advisers in his Department for each completed year since 1979 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth [holding answer 31 January 1989] : I have nothing to add to the information I gave in my reply to the hon. Member on 27 January 1989 at column 765-66.
Electricity Consumers Council
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what remuneration is made to the chair of the Electricity Consumers Council.
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Mr. Forth [holding answer 27 January 1989] : The chairman of the Electricity Consumers Council--the national body--receives a salary of £10,742 per annum. The chairmen of the 12 area electricity consultative councils in England and Wales are paid a salary of £10, 024 per annum.
HEALTH
Exhaust Fumes
Mr. Bidwell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has any figures of deaths due to inhaling exhaust fumes, other than suicides.
Mr. Freeman : The table shows the number of deaths registered in England and Wales which had an underlying cause of death assigned to the inhalation of exhaust fumes, for the latest year available.
Deaths due to inhaling exhaust fumes (excluding suicide), England
and Wales 1987
Numbers
Cause |Male |Female
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Accidental poisoning by motor-vehicle exhaust gas ICD E868.2<1> |24 |2
Motor-vehicle exhaust gas undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted ICD E982.0<1> |56 |7
<1> International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 9th Revision.
Doctors
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors by grade are employed (a) in the National Health Service exclusively, (b) in the private sector exclusively and (c) in both sectors (i) in Nottingham regional health authority, (ii) in Trent regional health authority and (iii) in the country as a whole.
Mr. Mellor : Information is not available about the number of doctors in practice in the private sector. Information about National Health Service medical staff is set out in the table.
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Table: NHS Paid Medical Staff by Grade and nature of contract at 30 September 1987: Numbers
England Trent Region Nottingham District
Grade |Wholetime |Maximum Part-time<1>|Other Part-time |Wholetime |Maximum Part-time<1>|Other Part-time |Wholetime |Maximum Part-time<1>|Other Part-time
(a) |(b) |(c) |(d) |(e) |(f) |(g) |(h) |(i) |(j)
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NHS Hospital Service
Consultant |6,616 |4,663 |1,254 |653 |387 |41 |90 |76 |13
Associate Specialist |513 |- |278 |48 |- |11 |3 |- |3
Senior Registrar<2> |2,333 |- |218 |211 |- |20 |- |- |-
Registrar |5,345 |- |166 |497 |- |14 |101 |- |3
Senior House Officer |9,279 |- |127 |916 |- |14 |174 |- |1
House Officer |2,770 |- |11 |269 |- |- |45 |- |-
Other Grades<3> |13 |- |78 |2 |- |2 |- |- |-
Hospital Practitioner |- |- |894 |- |- |63 |- |- |7
Appointment under Paragraph 94
(Clinical Assistant) |- |- |6,603 |- |- |516 |- |- |73
Community Health Services
Senior Clinical Medical Officer<4> |583 |- |549 |50 |- |43 |7 |- |8
Clinical Medical Officer<4> |623 |- |1,088 |41 |- |84 |1 |- |3
Other Medical Officer<4> |2 |- |2,688 |- |- |272 |- |- |31
<1> Maximum part-time contracts are available to NHS paid consultant staff only.
<2> Contracts of Senior Registrars are held only by regional health authorities and the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.
<3> Includes senior hospital medical officer.
<4> Figures for part-time staff include part-time sessional staff.
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NHS Staff (Discipline)
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what current procedures are in force concerning disciplinary action against National Health Service staff who pass information to hon. Members.
Mr. Mellor : This is a matter for the employing health authority.
Nurses' Pay
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the median level of earnings for nurses expressed as a proportion of average earnings in each year
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from 1983-84 to the most recent available date, laid out in the same form as that given in the answer to the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) on 18 December 1987, Official Report, column 833.Mr. Mellor : Information on the median level of earnings is not available centrally. Information on the mean level of earnings up to 1987- 88 is set out in the table. From this date the grades of staff nurse and ward sister became obsolete.
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NHS Employees<1> All Employees
|All Qualified Nurses<2> |Staff Nurses |Ward Sister |Average Gross Earnings<3>
|£ pa |£ pa |£ pa |£ pa
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1983-84 |7,368 |6,733 |8,812 |8,306
1984-85 |7,970 |7,422 |9,474 |8,916
1985-86 |8,555 |7,938 |10,175 |9,631
1986-87 |9,440 |8,981 |11,208 |10,371
1987-88 |10,625 |9,768 |12,855 |11,388
<1> Source: DHSS-Figures exclude London Weighting and London Supplements.
<2> Excludes Nursing Auxiliaries and Student/Pupils.
<3> Source: Department of Employment-New Earnings Survey (for April in each year). Figures relate to all full time employees on adult rates, excluding
those whose pay was affected by absence.
Midwives
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list those health authorities in England which anticipate a shortage of midwives over the next five years ; what is the estimated shortage ; and what measures he is proposing to overcome it.
Mr. Mellor : We do not collect the information in the form requested centrally. There are reported difficulties in some localities, but there is no evidence that there is a national problem. The results of the 1987 regional health authority chairman's survey undertaken for the nurses pay review body showed that at March 1987 about 4.2 per cent. of midwives' posts had been vacant for at least three months compared with the average of 3.5 per cent. for all nursing and midwifery staff.
Nationally the number of midwives has increased by 11.4 per cent. since 1981. Action is being taken centrally where appropriate to improve recruitment and retention of such staff. For example, the new clinical grading structure was designed to recognise and reward the skills and expertise of, and provide improved career opportunities for, both nurses and midwives. The results of the regrading exercise show that at both staff midwife and midwifery sister level much larger numbers have gone into the higher grades than has been the case with nurses. As a result, the average increases for midwives this year is over 20 per cent. and for staff midwives it is over 25 per cent. We are also discussing with the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting ways of stimulating more interest in direct entry midwifery courses. Health authorities have also been asked to organise campaigns to attract back nurses and midwives who have left the service and to provide more opportunities for flexible working and job sharing.
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Smoking
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the cost of treatment of smoking related diseases in the National Health Service in 1987-88.
Mr. Mellor : The annual cost to the National Health Service of treating smoking-related diseases is estimated at about £500 million.
Disabled People
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has received an application for funding from the International Disabled Travellers Club Ltd.
Mr. Mellor : We have no record of receiving an application for funding from this organisation, but we will follow this matter up with the organisation concerned.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Health Authority
Mr. Hunter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what census figures have been used in determining funding for the Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority for 1988-89.
Mr. Mellor : The 1985-based population projections for mid-1988 were used in determining regional health authorities' allocations for 1988-89. It is for regions to decide what data to employ in making allocations to district health authorities.
Mr. Hunter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many consultants have been employed in the Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority district in each year since the formation of that health authority.
Mr. Mellor : We do not hold centrally information in the form requested. The hon. Member may like to contact the chairman of the Wessex regional health authority for the information that he seeks.
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Mr. Hunter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement, supported by statistics, on waiting lists for out-patient appointments and surgery in the Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority district and at other hospitals in the Wessex region.
Mr. Mellor : The latest figures show that, at March 1988, there were 3,300 patients on the in-patient waiting list in Basingstoke and North Hampshire district and 43,700 for Wessex region as a whole. Provisional figures, currently being validated, indicate that these waiting lists reduced in the six months to September 1988. We do not collect information centrally about waiting times for out-patient appointments or individual hospitals.
Mr. Hunter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the level of recruitment of paramedical and clerical staff by the Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority.
Mr. Mellor : We do not hold this information centrally. My hon. Friend may like to contact the chairman of the Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority for the information that he seeks.
Mr. Hunter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the financial and managerial running of health centres in the Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority.
Mr. Mellor : The Basingstoke and North Hampshire health authority is responsible for the funding and management of health centres within its district. My hon. Friend may like to contact the chairman of the health authority for the information that he seeks.
Medical Physicists
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice he has given to health authorities about staffing levels appropriate for medical physics, radiation physics or other supporting disciplines to radiotherapy ; what steps he has taken to ensure any such advice has been acted upon ; and if he will place the text of such advice in the Library.
Mr. Mellor : I have placed in the Library a copy of circular HC(78)32, paragraphs 21 to 25 of which give guidance to health authorities on factors relevant to the staffing of radiotherapy departments. Specific staffing
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levels are a matter for individual authorities to determine. Reference to this advice is made wherever appropriate in the course of normal communications between authorities and the Department.Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many medical physicists have been employed within the National Health Service in each of the last five years ;
(2) how many physicists were working within the National Health Service in (a) 1983 and (b) 1988.
Mr. Mellor : The only relevant information which we hold centrally is for staff in post at 30 September as set out in the table ; figures for 1988 are not yet available.
Year |NHS physicists (whole time equivalent) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1983 |660 1984 |700 1985 |720 1986 |770 1987 |790 Source: Department of Health Annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower. Note: All figures are independently rounded to the nearest ten (10) whole-time equivalents.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what information he has requested from health authorities or the Whitley council about the problems of recruitment of medical physicists, and on what dates ;
(2) what information he has requested from health authorities or the Whitley council about the turnover of medical physicists, and on what dates.
Mr. Mellor : None. I understand that the management Side of the Scientific and Professional Staffs Council has requested information from health authorities to assist a working party which it set up to investigate recruitment and retention of physicists and other scientists.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the pay bands for each grade of medical physicist in 1986, 1987 and 1988.
Mr. Mellor : The information is set out in the table. April 1987 rates are under review and increases will take effect from 1 April 1988.
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Medical Physicists pay rates
1986 1987
Grade |Minimum £|Maximum £|Minimum £|Maximum £
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Basic Probationer |7,452 |9,360 |7,825 |9,828
Basic Post Probationer |7,716 |9,996 |8,102 |10,496
Senior |10,632 |13,896 |11,164 |14,591
Principal |13,704 |18,948 |14,389 |19,895
Top Grade |19,080 |22,836 |20,034 |23,978
Top Grade (with greater
responsibility) |21,588 |25,356 |22,667 |26,624
1983 1986
[NL] |number |WTE |number
England |182 |177.7 |181 |175.2
Northern RHA |9 |8.0 |10 |8.8
Newcastle upon Tyne DHA |6 |4.4 |6 |4.3
Yorkshire RHA |14 |10.4 |12 |9.4
Leeds Western DHA |8 |6.0 |8 |6.3
Leeds Eastern DHA |1 |0.2 |0 |0.0
Trent RHA |15 |14.5 |17 |15.4
Leicestershire DHA |3 |3.0 |3 |3.0
Nottingham DHA |4 |3.0 |4 |3.0
Sheffield DHA |5 |4.4 |6 |5.4
East Anglian RHA |8 |8.0 |10 |10.0
Cambridge DHA |4 |3.0 |5 |3.9
North West Thames RHA |15 |11.6 |11 |9.1
Paddington and North
Kensington DHA |3 |1.6 |1 |0.5
Riverside DHA |6 |5.0 |4 |3.8
North East Thames RHA |26 |22.9 |21 |19.4
Hampstead DHA |2 |1.8 |1 |0.5
Bloomsbury DHA |6 |3.5 |5 |3.7
City and Hackney DHA |4 |3.1 |3 |2.8
Tower Hamlets DHA |3 |2.8 |3 |2.9
South East Thames RHA |17 |15.1 |18 |17.1
West Lambeth DHA |4 |3.4 |3 |3.0
Camberwell DHA |2 |2.0 |2 |2.0
Lewisham and North
Southwark DHA |3 |2.1 |3 |2.3
South West Thames RHA |10 |6.5 |9 |6.5
Wandsworth DHA |4 |2.1 |3 |2.1
Wessex RHA |9 |8.6 |12 |9.9
Southampton and South West
Hants DHA |4 |4.0 |4 |4.0
Oxford RHA |12 |9.9 |12 |10.7
Oxfordshire DHA |4 |3.8 |5 |4.7
South Western RHA |16 |14.8 |16 |14.1
Bristol and Weston DHA |7 |5.7 |7 |5.1
West Midlands RHA |15 |14.0 |15 |13.9
Central Birmingham DHA |5 |3.9 |6 |4.7
Mersey RHA |8 |7.1 |7 |6.5
Liverpool Central DHA |8 |1.0 |7 |1.7
North Western RHA |17 |15.6 |17 |15.6
Central Manchester DHA |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0
South Manchester DHA |16 |15.4 |16 |15.5
Salford DHA |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0
Special Health Authorities (LPGTHs)
Hospital for Sick Children |0 |0.0 |1 |0.2
Hospitals for Nervous
Diseases |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0
Moorfields Eye Hospital |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0
Bethlem and Maudsley |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0
National Heart and Chest |1 |0.1 |1 |0.1
Royal Marsden |5 |3.9 |5 |4.0
Hammersmith and Queen
Charlottes |7 |5.4 |5 |3.9
Eastman Dental |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0
Notes:
1. Regional health authority figures include all consultant staff employed
within the region including the numbers for individual authorities cited.
2. For the England total, staff holding two or more appointments whether
with the same or different regions are counted once only. Differences in the
sum of numbers of staff for all regions are due to the duplication of staff
holding appointments in more than one region. Such are included in each
region. This duplication does not occur in the WTE component.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many posts were designated head of radiation physics within the National Health Service in (a) 1983 and (b) 1988.
Mr. Mellor : We do not hold this information centrally.
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Radiotherapy
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether he has asked the National Radiological Protection Board, or any other agency, to prepare scientific standards for the calibration of radiation machines ;
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(2) on what dates within the last five years his Department circulated health authorities with advice on the calibration and dose standards of radiation machines ; and if he will place the texts of such advice in the Library.Mr. Mellor : In December 1985 we issued to health authorities health circular HC(85)31 which informed them of their
responsibilities as employers for ensuring compliance with the Ionising Radiation Regulations 1985 (SI 1985 No. 1333). In May 1988 executive letter EL(88)P/64 was issued covering a more detailed and technical document ; "Guidance Notes for the Protection of Persons against Ionising Radiations arising from Medical and Dental Use", prepared under the joint auspices of the National Radiological Protection Board, the Health and Safety Executive and the health Departments. This replaces a code of practice first published in 1957 and most recently revised in 1972. Pages 29 and 30 of the guidance notes deal specifically with calibration and maintenance. The executive letter indicated that the guidance notes provided a guide to good practice and asked managers to bring them to the attention of all relevant staff. All these documents have been placed in the Library.
In December 1988 the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine (IPSM) issued to its members further advice augmenting that in the guidance notes. Having consulted relevant professional bodies on the content of the IPSM advice, we shall shortly include it in consolidated guidance to health authorities on the use of ionising radiations.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many consultant radiotherapist posts were funded within the National Health Service ; and in which hospitals these posts are or were located in (a) 1983 and (b) 1988.
Mr. Mellor : Information about medical staffing is collected by employing authority and not in relation to the hospital in which a doctor is working. The employing autorities for consultants are regional health authorities, district health authorities designated for teaching purposes and special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. The latest available informantion about consultant radiotherapists by employing authority is set out in the table.
Table file CW890201.031 not available
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken to ensure that each radiaion machines has (a) a calibration logbook, (b) a maintenance logbook and (c) a patient logbook ; and on what dates such steps were taken.
Mr. Mellor : This is for individual health authorities to decide. Recommendations for record keeping are given in "Guidance Notes for the Protection of Persons against Ionising Radiations arising from Medical and Dental Use", which we drew to the attention of all health authorities in executive letter EL(88)P/64 in May 1988. This replaced "Code of Practice for the Protection of
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Persons against Ionizing Radiations arising from Medical and Dental Use" which, originally printed in 1957, and subsequently revised in 1968 and 1972, similarly advised health authorities.Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the sources of guidance for the maintenance standards of radiation machines he expects health authorities to adopt ; on what dates such standards were drawn to the authorities' attention within the last five years ; and if he will place the text of letters drawing attention to such standards in the Library.
Mr. Mellor : Existing departmental guidance to health authorities, bearing on the safe use and maintenance of equipment delivering radiation doses, is in the form of :
(a) Health Circular HC(85)31, issued in December 1985, which informs authorities of their responsibilities as employers for ensuring compliance with the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985. (b) Health Equipment Information Booklet HE1 98, updated in August 1984, on management of equipment;
(c) Health Notice HN(87)22, issued in 1987, which sets out advice on decontamination procedures, where necessary for inspection or maintenance purposes;
(d) Executive Letter EL(88)P/64, issued in May 1988, covered issued of a detailed document, "Guidance Notes for the Protection of Persons Against Ionising Radiations Arising from Medical and Dental Use";
(e) Health Circular HC(88)29, issued in June 1988, which informed authorities of their responsibilities under the Ionising Radiation (Protection of Persons Undergoing Medical Examination or Treatment) Regulations 1988;
(f) Executive Letter EL(88)P/127, issued to Regional General Managers in December 1988, which reminded authorities of their responsibility to ensure that they and their staff observe their obligations to protect people against any harmful effect from ionising radiations and to ensure safe and effective operation of all their departments.
I have arranged for copies of the guidance specified to be placed in the Library.
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