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Health Funding

Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts receive funding centrally at an (a) regional and (b) sub-regional level to meet the cost of expensive drugs or treatment. [13266]

Ms Blears: The Department makes unified allocations annually to health authorities. Health authorities then allocate resources directly to their primary care groups/ trusts within national guidelines.

Health authorities in partnership with PCG/Ts and other local stakeholders determine how best to use their funds to meet national and local priorities for improving health, tackling health inequalities and modernising services. PCTs do not therefore receive direct funding from the Department for specific drugs or treatments.

Prescribed Heroin

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his estimate is of the numbers of individuals who have been prescribed heroin in each of the past 12 years. [13721]

Ms Blears: The figures give details of heroin prescribing between 1997 and 1996. As the addicts index from which these figures were taken ceased in 1997 we are not able to provide any statistics for later years.

Year	Number
1977	232
1978	211
1979	189
1980	162
1981	208
1982	214
1983	189
1984	182
1985	213
1986	179
1987	186
1988	194

Source:

"Drug Addicts recorded as receiving notifiable drugs in treatment of their addiction at 31 December by the type of drug of treatment"

26 Nov 2001 : Column: 722W

Since 1998 the figures have been presented differently and the heading since then has been "All drug addicts notified to the Home Office in (1989, 1990 etc) by treatment of notifiable drugs at first notification in (1989, 1990 etc)". The figures for the years 1989 to 1996 (the year when statutory notification ceased) are as follows:

Year	New addicts	Re-notified addicts
1989	10	59
1990	26	90
1991	17	106
1992	25	92
1993	30	144
1994	22	133
1995	14	128
1996	8	111

Breast Cancer

Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients presenting with breast cancer are seen within 14 days when GP written referral request was received within 24 hours for (a) each health authority and (b) in total in England for the last two years for which figures are available. [13615]

Ms Blears: The two week waiting time standard was introduced for urgent cases of suspected breast cancer from April 1999. Performance data for the last two years by health authority are shown in the table.

Percentage of patients seen for first out-patient appointment within two weeks when urgently referred by their GP with suspected breast cancer, and the referral being received by the NHS Trust within 24 hours: England and host health authorityPercentage

	1999–2000				2000–01				2001–02
Health authority	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4	Quarter 1
England	91.1	95.0	96.4	96.1	96.0	97.1	95.9	95.9	95.8
Hillingdon	97.4	100.0	85.5	100.0	100.0	97.3	92.2	80.0	93.7
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.8	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Enfield and Haringey	76.9	94.4	100.0	100.0	92.6	100.0	100.0	100.0	—
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	85.7	100.0	98.5	98.4	100.0	96.2	98.7	92.4	66.4
Bedfordshire	97.8	98.8	99.1	92.9	94.9	99.3	97.5	97.6	95.4
Berkshire	98.4	94.8	79.0	79.0	93.2	86.8	85.3	94.6	89.5
Buckinghamshire	96.9	96.9	97.7	96.5	96.5	95.3	96.1	98.1	94.7
Bexley and Greenwich	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.2	100.0	96.4	—
Bromley	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	94.7	100.0	100.0	100.0	—
Croydon	100.0	100.0	92.1	58.2	98.4	98.7	98.9	100.0	100.0
East Kent	95.4	100.0	99.0	96.1	97.8	99.0	97.6	96.1	96.2
West Kent	86.3	92.6	95.4	77.2	90.9	93.4	86.6	87.1	79.3
Kingston and Richmond	93.5	96.6	100.0	97.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	97.8
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	93.2	98.3	100.0	97.4	98.0	98.1	99.6	98.0	97.9
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	95.3	100.0	100.0	98.6	99.2	99.3	99.7	99.7	100.0
East Surrey	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.3	98.7	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
West Surrey	96.8	97.0	96.2	97.6	99.1	99.2	100.0	97.6	99.4
East Sussex Brighton and Hove	87.7	86.2	90.7	67.7	61.1	94.5	81.1	74.6	62.4
West Sussex	94.7	95.8	98.0	98.0	98.8	96.1	92.5	96.0	94.9
Barking and Havering	100.0	100.0	99.1	100.0	100.0	99.2	99.4	47.6	100.0
Barnet	87.9	96.2	100.0	97.1	98.5	98.9	96.6	82.0	—
Brent and Harrow	83.4	93.1	91.2	97.3	66.9	76.7	100.0	97.9	100.0
Camden and Islington	86.8	98.5	92.2	97.0	98.6	90.8	96.5	94.8	97.2
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	70.7	100.0	100.0	95.9	95.3	96.9	99.5	96.3	96.0
East London and City	60.0	77.5	92.2	90.9	89.6	90.8	90.1	93.2	100.0
North Essex	82.1	95.7	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.6	99.7	100.0	99.6
South Essex	100.0	99.2	99.5	92.8	99.5	100.0	100.0	99.1	90.8
South Lancashire	44.3	84.0	93.5	92.1	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Liverpool	80.4	100.0	99.5	99.5	92.6	100.0	100.0	96.8	98.2
Manchester	40.7	52.0	91.4	97.7	99.5	95.5	96.9	99.5	96.2
Morecambe Bay	70.4	91.9	94.2	78.3	74.8	79.6	94.2	95.6	88.2
St. Helens and Knowsley	100.0	57.6	90.0	89.8	97.5	100.0	98.8	100.0	85.4
Salford and Trafford	44.2	82.9	94.8	93.3	66.7	90.8	95.5	92.9	93.4
Sefton	76.2	88.2	95.0	100.0	96.3	100.0	98.7	99.6	99.6
Stockport	91.4	99.2	100.0	99.1	99.3	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
West Pennine	53.8	68.8	97.7	98.0	88.0	98.7	96.3	97.0	98.6
Northamptonshire	82.2	96.8	99.5	97.9	100.0	99.4	98.1	98.6	100.0
Oxfordshire	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Suffolk	94.8	98.9	97.3	99.1	98.5	98.9	100.0	100.0	100.0
Barnsley	91.1	100.0	100.0	71.1	71.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	96.1
North Derbyshire	92.2	100.0	100.0	81.4	91.5	96.2	100.0	95.7	98.0
Southern Derbyshire	98.8	100.0	96.0	97.8	98.7	100.0	99.4	99.5	99.4
Doncaster	98.8	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.8
Leicestershire	99.3	99.4	99.4	98.6	89.0	82.4	97.4	100.0	99.4
Lincolnshire	89.3	100.0	100.0	99.5	100.0	99.1	99.7	100.0	99.3
North Nottinghamshire	85.5	92.6	98.5	97.3	85.7	100.0	97.6	100.0	98.4
Nottingham	98.1	97.2	92.1	99.0	90.5	97.7	93.3	92.0	92.5
Rotherham	96.3	97.8	100.0	97.7	100.0	66.1	96.3	100.0	100.0
Sheffield	96.6	98.2	97.7	100.0	100.0	99.3	97.9	92.5	100.0
Bury and Rochdale	60.2	85.0	89.1	96.0	94.2	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
North Cheshire	94.9	90.2	89.4	97.6	94.7	94.7	95.6	100.0	95.2
South Cheshire	95.5	98.6	99.4	96.7	95.0	98.5	98.1	95.8	96.9
East Lancashire	85.3	86.8	85.3	91.1	93.1	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
North West Lancashire	56.5	76.7	73.7	75.8	75.5	84.5	91.4	99.1	100.0
North and Mid Hampshire	100.0	95.8	99.4	99.4	92.1	94.4	97.5	98.3	95.3
Portsmouth and SE Hampshire	99.0	90.0	100.0	99.7	97.8	98.5	91.1	82.9	—
Southampton and SW Hampshire	97.1	100.0	95.6	90.6	99.4	96.0	98.1	97.9	99.0
Isle of Wight	100.0	86.5	89.1	87.7	95.9	100.0	96.4	100.0	—
Somerset	94.9	97.8	99.7	96.5	100.0	98.1	92.6	94.3	99.6
South and West Devon	100.0	100.0	98.9	100.0	92.7	99.3	100.0	100.0	98.6
Wiltshire	100.0	99.7	99.7	99.7	99.2	99.8	100.0	97.8	98.6
Avon	100.0	98.0	99.5	98.4	97.0	94.7	94.6	95.3	98.2
Birmingham	96.1	99.8	99.1	98.9	99.0	98.7	91.9	94.9	94.7
Wigan and Bolton	63.7	70.3	86.1	92.8	95.0	99.4	100.0	92.9	95.8
Wirral	42.0	64.0	67.3	93.7	87.5	83.5	84.8	99.4	100.0
Bradford	93.5	92.2	97.7	91.0	99.1	98.0	86.5	88.1	96.8
County Durham and Darlington	97.8	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.5	100.0	100.0	93.6
East Riding and Hull	37.3	72.4	100.0	99.0	100.0	99.5	94.6	100.0	100.0
Gateshead and South Tyneside	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.3	96.8	98.4	98.6	95.7
Leeds	92.0	96.1	96.3	95.9	94.5	93.9	92.6	100.0	93.3
Newcastle and North Tyneside	69.0	95.1	99.4	100.0	99.5	96.9	66.7	100.0	100.0
North Cumbria	96.6	97.1	97.5	84.9	83.8	99.1	71.1	92.9	99.3
South Humber	74.3	88.2	98.1	99.1	99.5	97.9	100.0	100.0	99.2
Northumberland	96.0	98.0	92.3	95.2	96.5	94.2	56.4	88.9	57.7
Sunderland	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.2	100.0	100.0
Tees	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.4	99.4	100.0	99.2	98.0	96.5
Wakefield	99.1	99.1	91.3	96.4	77.9	83.0	100.0	100.0	69.9
North Yorkshire	71.3	79.0	79.7	69.2	87.4	95.8	91.8	95.1	99.2
Calderdale and Kirklees	99.5	100.0	99.3	100.0	100.0	98.1	92.6	99.4	100.0
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	97.9	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.5	99.5	100.0	91.1	97.7
Dorset	99.7	99.8	100.0	99.2	99.8	100.0	99.4	100.0	100.0
North and East Devon	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	96.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Gloucestershire	100.0	100.0	100.0	97.5	100.0	98.2	100.0	100.0	99.3
Coventry	92.4	99.1	99.6	98.3	98.9	98.6	99.3	99.6	98.9
Dudley	98.6	95.8	68.9	100.0	99.4	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Herefordshire	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	87.7	99.0	100.0	96.9	94.8
Sandwell	100.0	100.0	58.3	89.3	98.6	88.1	100.0	100.0	100.0
Shropshire	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.4	100.0	99.5	97.6	99.3	97.8
North Staffordshire	99.4	94.3	97.7	100.0	100.0	90.2	97.6	99.5	94.7
South Staffordshire	100.0	99.3	99.1	98.4	97.8	96.0	75.3	73.2	77.6
Walsall	99.1	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.8
Warwickshire	99.1	98.0	99.5	93.8	96.1	94.4	99.3	100.0	100.0
Wolverhampton	95.2	88.8	100.0	99.3	100.0	99.4	99.4	100.0	96.2
Worcestershire	100.0	94.8	100.0	95.2	95.9	96.4	96.3	90.4	89.3
East and North Hertfordshire	77.2	91.6	95.1	94.8	78.8	94.4	96.7	94.0	—
West Hertfordshire	73.9	77.5	100.0	97.1	97.8	99.1	99.5	89.5	—
Cambridgeshire	93.8	99.3	99.7	100.0	99.7	100.0	100.0	99.8	99.8
Norfolk	99.7	91.8	98.2	99.7	98.0	96.5	95.6	100.0	99.6
Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	86.3
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	99.1
Hertfordshire	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	97.0
Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	(39)—	99.1

⁽³⁹⁾ Not applicable due to health authority mergers in 2001–02

Source:

Department of Health form QMCW

26 Nov 2001 : Column: 725W

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