10. SELECT COMMITTEES
18. Health
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 34 meetings.
|
Members | Meetings
|
| attended
|
|
Hinchliffe, Mr David (Chairman) | 33
|
Amess, Mr David | 26
|
Austin, Mr John | 25
|
Brand, Dr Peter | 23
|
Burns, Mr Simon (added, 5 July 199) | 6
|
Drown, Julia | 28
|
Gunnell, Mr John | 30
|
Keen, Ann (discharged, 1 February 1999) |
3 |
Lewis, Mr Ivan (added, 1 February 1999) |
14 |
Stoate, Dr Howard | 26
|
Syms, Mr Robert | 6
|
Walter, Mr Robert (discharged, 5 July 1999)
| 15 |
Wise, Audrey | 31
|
|
Overall attendance: | 71.1%
|
Number of Members added: | 2
|
Number of Members discharged: | 2
|
Turnover of membership during the Session: |
18% |
|
Staff
Committee Clerk: Dr John Benger, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior
Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr John Whatley, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Miss Suzanne O'Leary (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Mr Frank McShane, Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Alexandra Richards, Secretary (Band C).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Judith Allsop, Dr David Armstrong, Mr Séan
Boyle, Dr Graham Buckley, Dr Henry Burns, Dr Janine Collins, Professor
Joe Collier, Miss Lois Crooke, Mr Bob Dredge, Professor Andrew
Grubb, Mr Richard Harbord, Professor Martin Jarvis, Ms Monica
Kerr, Ms Patricia Oakley, Professor Sir Richard Peto, Professor
Allyson Pollock, Dr Helen Pringle, Mr Chris Vellenoweth, Professor
Alan Walker and Professor Gerald Wistow.
Witnesses | |
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
C abinet Ministers
| 4 |
Other Ministers (of which 1 was by a Member of the House of Lords).
| 6 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
Department of Health
| 26 |
public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
| 10 |
comprising: Hereford Health Authority
| 3 |
Norfolk & Norwich Health Care NHS Trust
| 5 |
Norfolk Health Authority
| 2 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 96 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
16-18.3.99
| Denmark | 7
| 2 |
Inquiry into Long Term Care of the Elderly
| £8,686.18
|
UK Visits
Date |
Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
30.11.99-1.12.99
| Darlington and Birmingham
| 6 |
2 | Inquiry into Future NHS Staffing Requirements
| £2,402.29
|
8.12.99
| Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel
| 8 |
3 | Inquiry into Future NHS Staffing Requirements
| £296.10
|
1-2.3.99
| York | 6
| 4A
| Inquiry into Long Term Care of the Elderly; Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
| £1,014.45
|
28.4.99
| Victoria Station Medicentre and the Wellington Hospital, London
| 5 |
4A
| Inquiry intoRegulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
| £258.50
|
5.5.99 |
Harley Street Clinics and the Highgate Private Hospital
| 5 |
5A
| Inquiry into Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
| £229.71
|
21-22.6.99
| Wakefield and Northallerton
| 4 |
3 | Inquiry into Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
| £2,170.25
|
A Includes specialist
advisers
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title |
HC No.
(1998-99)
| Date of
publication
| No. of
pages
| Sale price
| Government
reply
|
First Report: The Relationship between Health and Social Services
| 74-I |
13.1.99 |
34 | £8.00
| Received 14.4.99Cm 4320
|
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Relationship between Health and Social Services
| 74-II |
21.1.99 |
431 | £31.00
| Not required |
Second Report: Primary Care Groups
| 153 |
3.2.99 |
9 | £2.90
| Received 18.10.99Cm 4468
|
Third Report: Future NHS Staffing Requirements
| 38-1 |
3.3.99 |
14 | £8.80
| Received 22.6.99Cm 4379
|
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Future NHS Staffing Requirements
| 38-II |
3.3.99 |
355 | £26.20
| Not required |
Fourth Report: The Long Term Care of the Elderly
| 318 |
11.5.99 |
17 | £6.50
| Received 15.7.99Cm 4414
|
Fifth Report: The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
| 281-I |
21.7.99 |
63 | £10.60
| Awaiting reply |
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
| 281-II
| 21.7.99
| 467 |
£33.50
| Not required |
Sixth Report: Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
| 549-I |
23.11.99 |
54 | £9.80
| Awaiting reply |
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
| 549-II
| 23.11.99
| 322 |
£25.00
| Not required |
Minutes of Evidence without a Report:National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
| 221-i |
10.3.99 |
17 | £4.75
| Not required |
Public Expenditure 1999
| 469-i |
5.7.99 |
24 | £6.20
| Not required |
Public Expenditure 1999
| 469-ii
| 13.8.99
| 27 |
£7.00 |
Not required |
Public Expenditure 1999
| 469-iii
| 3.9.99
| 13 |
£4.00 |
Not required |
Memorandum:Public Expenditure on Health and Social Services 1999
| 626 |
18.10.99 |
219 | £20.50
| Not required |
Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
Reply to the Committee's Third Report: The Welfare of Former
British Child Migrants, published as Cm 4182 (14.12.97).
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98
were published on 4.3.99, as HC1166, Session 1997-98. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published
as HC904, Session 1998-99.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
12.7.99 | One, on an amendment proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on the Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare.
|
Debates
The following Report was the subject of a debate in the House:
Third Report, Session 1997-98, The Welfare of Former British Child
Migrants, on a Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday
morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4), 19.5.99.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 34 meetings.
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private.
Inquiry
| No. of oral evidence sessions
| No. of memoranda received
| No. of memoranda received from
| No. of memoranda published
| No. of memoranda made available in the Record Office for public use and placed in the Library
|
| |
| Govt. Departments
| executive agencies |
public bodies |
| |
The Relationship between Health and Social Services
| 0 |
14 | 1
| 0 |
1 | 48
| 76 |
Primary Care Groups
| 0 |
1 | 1
| 0 |
0 | 1
| 0 |
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
| 1 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
Future NHS Staffing Requirements
| 5 |
22 | 7
| 0 |
9 | 86
| 21 |
The Long Term Care of the Elderly
| 1 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
| 7 |
154 | 3
| 0 |
4 | 103
| 47 |
Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
| 5 |
305 | 3
| 1 |
3 | 41
| 249 |
Department of Health Expenditure 1999
| 3 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
The Availability and Price of Generic Drugs to the NHS*
| 1 |
23 | 2
| 0 |
3 | 0
| 0 |
Total | 23
| 519 |
17 | 1
| 20 |
279 | 393
|
The
Committee took oral evidence and received memoranda for this inquiry
in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete
The
Committee received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98;
these figures are therefore incomplete
* The Committee
did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1998-99;
these figures are therefore incomplete
|