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Beta Blocking Drugs
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 15 July, Official Report, column 386, about the cost per patient per month of beta blocking drugs, in what form the information is available. [40989]
Mr. Malone: The net ingredient cost per prescription item dispensed for beta blockers in England for 1995 was £5.81. Most repeat prescriptions will be for one to three months.
GP Fundholding
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the current percentage of patients in the Doncaster health authority who are covered by general practitioner fundholders. [40855]
Mr. Malone: Some 64 per cent. of the population of Doncaster health authority is currently served by a general practitioner fundholding practice.
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by the Doncaster health authority in (a) 1995-96 and (b) 1994-95 on (i) tendering for services
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and (ii) administering the general practitioner fundholding scheme; and what were the comparable figures for the previous financial year. [40925]
Mr. Malone: Information is not collected centrally in the form requested.
Waiting Times
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the median waiting periods (a) currently and (b) in each of the last two years for patients needing (i) hip replacements and (ii) cataract treatment at each hospital in the Trent region where the operation is provided. [40924]
Mr. Horam: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), on 23 July, Official Report, column 225.
Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on hospital waiting times in Leeds. [41287]
Mr. Horam: Waiting times for in-patient and day case treatment in Leeds have improved considerably over the last year. Latest published figures show that only 51 patients out of 16,268 were waiting more than a year for treatment at the two main hospitals in Leeds this March compared with 675 out of 13,492 last March. Along with the rest of the country, Leeds hospitals are working towards achieving the patients charter standards for the first out-patient appointments so that everyone is seen within 26 weeks of referral by their general practitioner, with nine out of 10 patients seen within 13 weeks.
Children's Services
Mr. Spearing: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what re-assessment has been made of the calculations of the standard spending assessment for children's services for the financial year 1997-98; what was the assessed figure for the London borough of Newham for the year 1996-97 and that for 1997-98 under this assessment. [40839]
Mr. Burns: For 1996-97, the standard spending assessment--SSA--for children's social services for the London borough of Newham is £27.191 million. The Government's proposals for 1997-98 SSAs are expected to be issued for consultation shortly after the Budget.
Anti-psychotic Drugs
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (1) pursuant to his answer of 23 July, Official Report, column 216, if he will list the research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the likelihood of developing tardive dyskinesia as a result of taking anti-psychotic drugs and ascertaining whether tardive dyskinesia is an irreversible condition; and if he will make a statement; [40860]
- (2) if he will estimate how many people have developed tardive dyskinesia as a result of taking anti-psychotic drugs; and if he will make a statement. [40863]
Mr. Burns: I will write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are currently prescribed anti-psychotic drugs; and if he will make a statement. [40862]
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Mr. Malone: Information in the form requested is not available.
Private Medical Insurance
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people he estimates were covered by private medical insurance in (a) 1979, (b) 1989 and (c) 1995. [40998]
Mr. Horam: The Department does not collect this information.
Management and Administrative Staff Costs
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for the (a) Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Mexborough Montagu NHS trust and (b) Doncaster Healthcare NHS trust the (i) total income, (ii) amount spent on the overall cost of management, staff, administrative staff and board members and (iii) (ii) as a percentage of (i) in each year since 1991-92. [40909]
Mr. Horam: I refer the hon. Member to the annual reports of the Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Mexborough Montagu and the Doncaster Healthcare national health service trusts respectively, published since September 1993.
Managers
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of (a) managers and (b) senior managers employed by (i) each South Yorkshire health authority, (ii) each South Yorkshire health trust and (iii) in total, in each year since 1979. [40991]
Mr. Horam: I will write to the hon. Member.
GP Lists
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the recommendations issued by his Department in respect of homeless people being placed on a general practitioner's list; up to how many refusals a homeless person may receive before he is placed on a general practitioner's list; and if he will make a statement. [40969]
Mr. Malone: A permanent address is not necessary for the registration of a patient with a general practitioner and all health authorities and general practitioners are aware of this. The Department encourages the permanent registration of homeless people wherever possible. Should, however, any patient have difficulty in registering with a doctor, health authorities have the power to assign the patient to a GP.
Voluntary Gender Reassignment
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the current maximum age for voluntary gender reassignment on the national health service for (a) males and (b) females. [40859]
Mr. Horam: There are no clinically effective treatments provided under the national health service that should be withheld from any patient on age grounds alone. The NHS provides services for everybody on the basis of clinical need.
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Dental Health
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what number of teeth affected by decay in five-year-old children, and what number of decayed, missing and filled teeth in 14-year-old children are currently found in the Doncaster health authority area; and what is the national average for each category. [40999]
Mr. Malone: The most recent figures available show that the number of decayed, missing and filled teeth--DMFT--for five-year-olds in Doncaster in 1993-94 was 2.15, while the national average was 1.74; and the DMFT figure for 14-year-olds in Doncaster in 1994-95 was 2.32 while the national average was 1.67.
Mentally Handicapped Children
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many mentally handicapped children are currently in NHS hospital care in (a) the Trent region and (b) nationally; and what were the equivalent figures in each of the past four years. [40923]
Mr. Burns: I will write to the hon. Member.
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Auraus
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the hospitals in South Yorkshire that have recorded incidents of MRSA since 1990; and how many patients suffered in each incident. [40992]
Mr. Horam: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) on 28 February, Offical Report columns 569-70.
Nurses
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of nurses employed by each of the health authorities in South Yorkshire for each of the last five years; and what was the national average for each health authority in this period. [40995]
Mr. Horam: I will write to the hon. Member.
Nursery Places
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the estimate for unmet need for nursery places in England. [41044]
Mr. Burns: This information is not held centrally. Information on the percentage of children attending each type of pre-school day care facility was published in the Office of Population Censuses and Survey survey of "Day care services for children", 1990, a copy of which is available in the Library.
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