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Macular Degeneration
Mr. Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts provide treatment and which health authorities have purchased treatment for individual patients (a) inside and (b) outside their own area, for macular degeneration. [19416]
Jacqui Smith: In 2000–01, there were 3,317 in-patient episodes in England with a primary diagnosis concerning age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The hospital trusts that provided the treatment are given in list 1, the health authorities that purchased treatment from within their own area in list 2, and those that purchased treatment from outside their area in list 3. An appraisal of the use of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of AMD, which is being conducted by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), should be completed in July 2002 provided there are no appeals. NICE's guidance will provide for a consistent approach to the purchasing of the treatment.
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Of the 3,317 cases with this diagnosis, 1,907 (57 per cent.) were treated within the health authority of residence.
List 2—the following HAs have purchased treatment from trusts within their own area; the majority of these have also purchased treatment from outside their area:
- QEM: Wolverhampton
QEF: Shropshire
QC4: Morecambe Bay
QDH: Leeds
QDA: Wigan and Bolton
QDV: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
QCY: North-west Lancashire
QET: Norfolk
QAM: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove
QDR: North Yorkshire
QCV: North Cheshire
QC7: Sefton
QDW: Dorset
QDK: North Cumbria
QCT: Bury and Rochdale
QDY: Gloucestershire
QD8: Avon
QAN: West Sussex
QEH: North Staffordshire
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QD9: Birmingham
QCL: Leicestershire
QC2: Liverpool
QCX: East Lancashire
QD3: Southampton and south-west Hampshire
QD6: South and west Devon
QC5: St. Helens and Knowsley
QA3: Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster
QCF: Suffolk
QCE: Oxfordshire
QA8: Buckinghamshire
QAH: Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham
QER: Cambridge
QEN: Worcestershire
QDF: East Riding
QDP: Tees
QCP: Nottingham
QC3: Manchester
QDN: Sunderland
QAL: West Surrey
QDD: Bradford
QAT: Camden and Islington
QAX: North Essex
QD5: Somerset
QDJ: Newcastle and north Tyneside
QDE: County Durham
QC8: Stockport
QA5: Redbridge and Waltham Forest
QDX: North and east Devon
QD7: Wiltshire
QAY: South Essex
QAF: West Kent
QDT: Calderdale and Kirklees
QDC: Wirral
QC9: West Pennine
QCR: Sheffield
QC1: South Lancashire
QAJ: Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth
QCC: Northamptonshire
QD1: North and mid Hampshire
List 3—the following HAs have purchased treatment from outside their area:
QAQ: Barnet
QAP: Barking and Havering
QAR: Brent and Harrow
QEC: Dudley
QCM: Lincolnshire
QCN: North Nottinghamshire
QEP: East and north Hertfordshire
QCW: South Cheshire
QEE: Sandwell
QA4: Enfield and Haringey
QA7: Berkshire
QAK: East Surrey
QAW: East London and the City
QAG: Kingston and Richmond
QEQ: West Hertfordshire
QA2: Hillingdon
QDG: Gateshead and south Tyneside
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QA6: Bedfordshire
QAD: Croydon
QEK: Walsall
QEJ: South Staffordshire
QAV: Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow
QC6: Salford and Trafford
QD2: Portsmouth and south-east Hampshire
QDQ: Wakefield
QAA: Bexley and Greenwich
QEL: Warwickshire
QEG: Solihull
QCH: North Derbyshire
QDL: South Humber
QAE: East Kent
QED: Herefordshire
QCQ: Rotherham
QCK: Doncaster.
University of Leicester Hospitals Trust
Mr. Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many accidents were reported by patients while they were on the premises of hospitals in the University of Leicester Hospitals Trust in the last 12 months. [20260]
Jacqui Smith: The number of statutory reportable "incidents" is collected under Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995. This covers reportable infectious diseases, and accidents that result in more than three days absence from work, deaths in the workplace for example.
The number of RIDDOR incidents recorded at University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust (UHL) in 2000–01 was 89—the latest year for which figures are available. This figure includes both patient and staff incidents.
In terms of public liability claims against UHL, under the NHS Litigation Authority's "Non-Clinical Pooling Scheme", the total number of accidents reported by patients and visitors over the last 12 months was 20.
Delayed Discharges
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average delay for patients with delayed discharges has been in each quarter since 1996. [20862]
Jacqui Smith: No information was collected centrally about the length of delay for patients with delayed discharge until the first quarter of 2001–02. In the first two quarters of 2001–02, the breakdown of lengths of delay is shown in the table.
| Delay | |
|---|---|
| Less than eight days | 26 |
| Between eight and 14 days | 18 |
| Between 14 and 28 days | 20 |
| More than 28 days | 36 |
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Renal National Service Framework
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measurements of capacity he used when deciding on the feasibility of introducing a Renal National Service Framework. [20864]
Jacqui Smith: The Renal National Service Framework was announced on 27 February 2001. An external reference group led by Professor Robert Wilkinson and announced on 14 September 2001, will develop proposals for modernising services and improving patient care over a 10 year period in planned stages. The programme will build on the already agreed and funded targets for expanding kidney dialysis set out in the NHS Plan, and increased transplantation rates agreed with, and funded through, United Kingdom Transplant.
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