Acute NHS Trusts
Mr. Sawford:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many acute NHS trusts there are in England; and what population is served by each trust. [145625]
Mr. Denham:
The number of acute National Health Service trusts in England is 197. Population figures are not available as these trusts do not serve fixed catchment areas.
MRI Scanners
Mr. Sawford:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the acute NHS hospitals which have an MRI scanner on their premises. [145624]
Yvette Cooper:
A list is given in the table of those acute National Health Service trusts which currently have an MRI scanner on their premises. The provision of 33 new MRI scanners to support the accurate diagnosis and staging of cancer patients is being funded through the New Opportunities Fund. As a result of the NHS Plan by 2004 there will be a further 50 new MRI scanners.
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NHS MRI Scanners: 1 September 2000(17)
| England | NHS Trust
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| Eastern | Addenbrooke's
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| Eastern | Bedford Hospitals
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| Eastern | East and North Hertfordshire
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| Eastern | Ipswich Hospital
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| Eastern | James Paget Healthcare
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| Eastern | Kings Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals
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| Eastern | Luton and Dunstable Hospital
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| Eastern | Mid Essex Hospitals
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| Eastern | Norfolk and Norwich Healthcare
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| Eastern | Peterborough Hospitals
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| Eastern | Southend Hospital
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| Eastern | The Princess Alexandra Hospital
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| Eastern | West Hertfordshire Hospitals
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| London | Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals
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| London | Barts and The London
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| London | Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare
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| London | Epsom and St. Helier
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| London | Forest Healthcare
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| London | Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
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| London | Guys and St. Thomas'
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| London | Havering Hospitals
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| London | King's Healthcare
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| London | Mayday Healthcare
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| London | North Middlesex Hospital
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| London | North West London Hospitals
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| London | Queen Mary's Sidcup
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| London | Royal Brompton and Harefield
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| London | Royal Free Hampstead
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| London | St. George's Healthcare
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| London | St. Mary's Hospital
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| London | The Hammersmith Hospitals
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| London | The Royal Marsden Hospital
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| London | The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
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| London | University College London Hospitals
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| London | West Middlesex University
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| London | Whittington Hospital
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| North West | Aintree Hospitals
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| North West | Blackburn, Hyndurn and Ribble Valley Healthcare
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| North West | Blackpool Victoria Hospital
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| North West | Central Manchester Healthcare
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| North West | Christie Hospital
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| North West | Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
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| North West | Countess of Chester Hospital
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| North West | East Cheshire
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| North West | North Manchester Healthcare
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| North West | Oldham
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| North West | Preston Acute Hospitals
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| North West | Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals University
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| North West | Salford Royal Hospitals
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| North West | Southport and Ormskirk Hospital
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| North West | The Manchester Children's Hospitals
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| North West | Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery
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| North West | Warrington Hospital
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| Northern and Yorkshire | Bradford Hospitals
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| Northern and Yorkshire | Calderdale Healthcare
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| Northern and Yorkshire | Carlisle Hospitals
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| Northern and Yorkshire | City Hospitals Sunderland
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| Northern and Yorkshire | Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals
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| Northern and Yorkshire | Leeds Teaching Hospitals
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| Northern and Yorkshire | North Durham Healthcare
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| Northern and Yorkshire | North Tees and Hartlepool
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| Northern and Yorkshire | Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals
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| Northern and Yorkshire | South Tees Acute Hospitals
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| Northern and Yorkshire | The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals
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| South East | Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals
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| South East | Brighton Healthcare
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| South East | East Kent Hospitals
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| South East | Eastbourne Hospitals
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| South East | Frimley Park Hospital
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| South East | Hastings and Rother
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| South East | Isle of Wight Healthcare
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| South East | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
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| South East | Medway
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| South East | Mid Sussex
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| South East | Milton Keynes General Hospital
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| South East | North Hampshire Hospitals
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| South East | Northampton General Hospital
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| South East | Nuffield Orthopaedic
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| South East | Oxford Radcliffe Hospital
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| South East | Portsmouth Hospitals
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| South East | Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals
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| South East | Royal Naval Hospital Haslar
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| South East | Royal Surrey County Hospital
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| South East | South Buckinghamshire
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| South East | Southampton University Hospitals
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| South East | Stoke Mandeville Hospital
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| South East | Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
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| South East | Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare
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| South East | Worthing and Southlands Hospitals
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| South West | East Gloucestershire
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| South West | East Somerset
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| South West | North Bristol
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| South West | Plymouth Hospitals
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| South West | Poole Hospitals
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| South West | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals
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| South West | Royal Cornwall Hospitals
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| South West | Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare
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| South West | Royal United Hospital Bath
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| South West | Salisbury Healthcare
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| South West | South Devon Healthcare
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| South West | Swindon and Marlborough
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| South West | Taunton and Somerset
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| South West | United Bristol Healthcare
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| South West | West Dorset General Hospitals
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| Trent | Central Sheffield University Hospitals
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| Trent | Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montague Hospital
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| Trent | North East Lincolnshire
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| Trent | Northern General Hospital
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| Trent | Nottingham City Hospital
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| Trent | Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital
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| Trent | Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals
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| Trent | United Lincolnshire Hospitals
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| Trent | University Hospitals of Leicester
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| West Midlands | Birmingham Children's Hospital
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| West Midlands | Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull (Teaching Trust)
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| West Midlands | Burton Hospitals
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| West Midlands | City Hospital (incorporating the Birmingham City Hospital)
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| West Midlands | Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals
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| West Midlands | North Staffordshire Hospital
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| West Midlands | Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital
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| West Midlands | Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
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| West Midlands | The Princess Royal Hospital
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| West Midlands | University Hospital Birmingham
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| West Midlands | Walsgrave Hospitals
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Medicines Directive
Mr. Todd:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his reply of 20 December 2000, Official Report, column 196W, (1) what steps he plans to take to provide a secure regulatory framework on the market for those products which are safe combinations of herbal remedies and food ingredients; and if he will make a statement; [145568]
(2) pursuant to his answer of 20 December 2000, Official Report, column 196W, if it is his policy to promote within discussions on the proposed Traditional Use Medicines Directive efforts to reduce the 30 year qualifying period for the demonstration of traditional use to a shorter period that reflects the conditions of the existing UK market; [145582]
(3) pursuant to his answer of 20 December 2000, Official Report, column 196W, if it is his policy to promote within the discussions on the proposed Traditional Use Medicines Directive the objective of extending its scope to include products which are combinations of herbs with other ingredients and which have been on the market for the qualifying period (a) as part of the combination in question or (b) as an ingredient separate from the one with which it is to be combined; [145581]
(4) what response the Medicines Control Agency has made to the European Commission in its call for comments on the draft Traditional use Medicines Directive; and if he will arrange for that response to be published in the Official Report. [145389]
Ms Stuart:
Our priority in continuing European discussions on the proposed directive is to achieve a secure regulatory regime for traditional herbal remedies. We are aware that there are also some traditional medicines which consist wholly or partly of non-herbal ingredients. Our current position is that, once the directive goes beyond relatively discrete categories such as traditional herbal remedies, it may become more difficult to contain the wider public health and regulatory consequences. We therefore wish to continue to review the developing shape of the directive and the implications for overall medicines regulation before firmly committing ourselves to supporting the principle that coverage should extend more widely.
We are also considering carefully our detailed position on the definition of traditional use, including the qualifying time period, and on criteria which might apply in the case of combinations. One general consideration is that the normal regulatory requirements for medicines include demonstration of efficacy. While we have
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advocated in Europe the specific case for lifting the requirement for efficacy in the case of genuinely traditional herbal remedies, we would have concerns about the potential implications if the parameters for traditional use were set so loosely that a very wide range of medicinal products were no longer required to demonstrate efficacy.
At this stage we do not yet know the views of other member states on specific issues relating to combination products. We would expect a clearer picture to emerge over the coming months as European discussions continue. The Medicines Control Agency (MCA) has submitted our initial response to the European Commission on the preliminary draft of the proposed directive. Copies of the MCA's letter will be placed in the Library. We will continue our current consultative approach with herbal interest groups.
