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Pressure Sores
Mr. Alfred Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 15 May, Official Report, column 479, if he will make it his policy (a) to collate statistics and (b) to establish estimated costs in respect of statistics in relation to the incidence of pressure sores among NHS hospital patients. [30212]
Mr. Bowis: The Department of Health is seeking to reduce the burden of data collection by the national health service and rationalise data flows within the NHS and between the NHS and the centre. The collection of additional information on pressure sores would not be in line with this policy.
Private Investigators
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what use his Department has made of private detective agencies or investigators during 1995-96 and 1994-95; which agencies have been employed; for what purposes; and at what cost to his Department. [30568]
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Pharmacists
Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the improvements in productivity of pharmacists in each of the last 10 years, together with the change in NHS payments to pharmacists for each of those years. [29577]
Mr. Malone [holding answer 20 May 1996]: The table shows that amount of national health service payments to pharmacists in cash terms for the years 1985-86 to 1994-95. There is no overall measure of pharmacists' productivity. The number of prescriptions dispensed over the period is shown as one indicator of their NHS activity.
| Pharmacists' NHS payments amount paid(6) | Prescriptions dispensed | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | £ millions | Year on year percentage change | Millions | Year on year percentage change |
| 1985-86 | 1,240.6 | -- | 337.4 | -- |
| 1986-87 | 1,401.8 | 13.0 | 350.8 | 4.0 |
| 1987-88 | 1,583.2 | 12.9 | 367.4 | 4.7 |
| 1988-89 | 1,743.5 | 10.1 | 370.3 | 0.8 |
| 1989-90 | 1,911.6 | 9.6 | 384.3 | 3.8 |
| 1990-91 | 2,068.8 | 8.2 | 391.5 | 1.9 |
| 1991-92 | 2,345.3 | 13.4 | 412.8 | 5.4 |
| 1992-93 | 2,634.1 | 12.3 | 429.4 | 4.0 |
| 1993-94 | 2,903.8 | 10.2 | 447.3 | 4.2 |
| 1994-95 | 3,148.9 | 8.4 | 462.2 | 3.3 |
(6) Amount includes net ingredient costs of drugs (i.e., excluding discount and including container allowance) and pharmacists' remuneration. Adjusted to account for payback and clawback of under/overpayment of pharmacists' remuneration in previous years.
Breast Screening Programme
Ms Lynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what amount the national health service breast screening programme spends on screening women aged 65 years or over; and what percentage of the total budget this is. [29676]
Mr. Horam: In 1994-95--the latest year for which figures are available--the national health service breast screening programme spent approximately £840,000 on screening women aged 65 years and over. This represents approximately 3.1 per cent. of the total expenditure of the NHS breast screening programme.
Ms Lynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will publish how many women were tested or screened under the national health service breast screening programme as a result of self or GP referral for each year since 1992-93 broken down by age bands (a) 50 to 54, (b) 55 to 59, (c) 60 to 64, (d) 65 to 69, (e) 70 to 74 and (f) 75 years and over; [29677]
- (2) how many women were tested or screened under the national health service breast screening programme as a result of first invitation or routine recall broken down by age bands (a) 50 to 54, (b) 55 to 59, (c) 60 to 64, (d) 65 to 69, (e) 70 to 74 and (f) 75 years and over in the last year for which figures are available. [29678]
Mr. Horam: The available information is shown in the table. Data for 1994-95 are provisional.
| Age | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of invitation | Years | 50-54 | 55-59 | 60-64 | 65-69 | 70-74 | 75+ |
| Self or GP referral | 1992-93 | 7.7 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 13.0 | 4.1 | 1.1 |
| 1993-94 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 5.7 | 13.4 | 4.9 | 1.2 | |
| 1994-95 | 9.0 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 19.3 | (7)(for age 65+) | ||
| First invitation or routine recall | 1992-93 | 317.3 | 312.4 | 283.4 | 29.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 |
| 1993-94 | 324.2 | 314.4 | 291.1 | 29.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
| 1994-95 | 337.5 | 320.8 | 280.7 | 10.4 | (7)(for age 65+) | ||
(7) Information not available by separate age bands for women over 65 for 1994-95.
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Ms Lynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average cost per woman screened on the national health service breast screening programme. [29679]
Mr. Horam: In 1994-95, the latest year for which figures are available, the approximate cost per woman screened on the national health service breast screening programme was £27.
ENVIRONMENT
Local Government Reorganisation
Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list (a) those non-unitary local authorities in England with populations over 90,000 and (b) those unitary authority local authorities with populations under 120,000 (i) at present and (ii) following completion of the local government reorganisation. [30000]
Sir Paul Beresford: All county councils have a population over 90,000. The following district councils which are currently non-unitary, have populations over 90,000--using Office of Population Censuses and Surveys figures as at mid-1994. For those districts marked with an asterisk, either orders establishing unitary authorities have been made or draft orders have been consulted upon.
Luton* 180,848
Mid Bedfordshire 114,853
Bedford 137,001
South Bedfordshire 110,389
Bracknell Forest* 104,635
Newbury* 141,581
Reading* 138,503
Slough* 104,945
Windsor and Maidenhead* 137,781
Wokingham* 141,735
Aylesbury Vale 152,033
Chiltern 91,432
Milton Keynes* 188,447
Wycombe 162,588
Cambridge 113,009
Huntingdonshire 149,869
Peterborough* 158,654
South Cambridgeshire 123,563
Chester 120,622
Crewe and Nantwich 111,422
Halton* 123,727
Macclesfield 151,503
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Vale Royal 114,695
Warrington* 186,749
Allerdale 96,125
Carlisle 103,335
South Lakeland 100,263
Amber Valley 114,451
Chesterfield 101,104
Derby* 230,473
Erewash 107,142
North East Derbyshire 99,180
East Devon 122,839
Exeter 104,537
Plymouth* 255,815
Teignbridge 114,088
Torbay* 122,990
Bournemouth* 160,139
Poole* 138,100
Darlington* 100,612
Easington 97,980
Sedgefield 91,405
Brighton* 154,942
Hove* 91,338
Wealden 134,936
Basildon 162,114
Braintree 123,648
Chelmsford 155,800
Colchester 149,621
Epping Forest 118,943
Southend-on-Sea* 169,948
Tendering 130,915
Thurrock* 131,368
Cheltenham 106,782
Gloucester 104,735
Stroud 106,271
Basingstoke and Deane 147,193
East Hampshire 108,209
Eastleigh 110,780
Fareham 101,764
Havant 119,430
New Forest 166,354
Portsmouth* 189,270
Southampton* 211,718
Test Valley 105,318
Winchester 101,848
Bromsgrove 93,968
Wychavon 104,577
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- Wyre Forest 97,239
Dacorum 134,231
East Hertfordshire 121,624
Hertmere 94,195
North Hertfordshire 114,303
St. Albans 128,739
Welwyn Hatfield 94,682
Ashford 94,765
Canterbury 133,859
Dover 106,938
Gillingham* 96,165
Gravesham 92,914
Maidstone 138,456
Rochester upon Medway* 145,463
Sevenoaks 109,919
Shepway 96,464
Swale 117,195
Thanet 125,301
Tonbridge and Malling 102,765
Tunbridge Wells 102,727
Blackburn* 140,147
Blackpool* 153,971
Burnley 90,530
Chorley 96,854
Lancaster 134,991
Preston 133,127
South Ribble 103,592
West Lancashire 110,226
Wyre 103,927
Charnwood 153,144
Hinckley and Bosworth 97,707
Leicester* 293,387
East Lindsey 121,431
South Kesteven 115,229
Breckland 112,171
Broadland 110,069
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 130,958
North Norfolk 94,300
Norwich 127,778
South Norfolk 104,467
Northampton 187,608
Harrogate 148,412
Scarborough 108,654
Ashfield 109,863
Bassetlaw 105,479
Broxtowe 112,170
Gedling 111,659
Mansfield 102,127
Newark and Sherwood 104,149
Nottingham* 282,440
Rushcliffe 102,967
Cherwell 127,456
Oxford 132,758
South Oxfordshire 121,823
Vale of White Horse 113,195
West Oxfordshire 94,981
Shrewsbury and Atcham 94,622
The Wrekin* 143,430
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- Mendip 98,017
Sedgemoor 101,443
South Somerset 148,298
Taunton Deane 98,158
Cannock Chase 90,789
East Staffordshire 98,972
Lichfield 93,619
Newcastle under Lyme 123,137
South Staffordshire 104,379
Stafford 122,458
Staffordshire Moorlands 95,072
Stoke on Trent* 254,197
Ipswich 114,065
St. Edmundsbury 92,840
Suffolk Coastal 113,163
Waveney 107,604
Elmbridge 119,717
Guildford 126,162
Reigate and Banstead 118,340
Spelthorne 91,448
Waverley 114,758
Nuneaton and Bedworth 119,142
Stratford on Avon 109,462
Warwick 119,758
Arun 134,328
Chichester 103,078
Horsham 114,324
Mid Sussex 125,109
Worthing 97,392
North Wiltshire 118,899
Salisbury 110,015
Thamesdown* 173,516
West Wiltshire 110,035
City of London* 5,222
Bracknell Forest 104,635
Slough 104,945
Hartlepool* 92,228
Darlington 100,612
Rutland 33,639
Isles of Scilly* 2,017
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