Orthopaedic Operations
Bob Spink:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of patients who see an orthopaedic surgeon went on to have an operation in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [23126]
Jacqui Smith:
Patients who attend national health service trauma and orthopaedic out-patient clinics are treated in a range of ways, such as non-surgical treatment, physiotherapy, drug treatment and receive advice on lifestyle changes. A significant number of these patients will not need hospital admission. In 2000–01 there were:
Mrs. Vyan Gresty
Mr. Gareth R. Thomas:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received on the care of Mrs. Vyan Gresty by Harrow and Hillingdon Healthcare Trust. [23042]
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Mr. Hutton:
We are not aware of any representations relating to the care of this patient.
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Mr. Weir:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in the United Kingdom by nation and region, are diagnosed as having Lou Gehrig's disease; and what percentage of these are veterans of the Gulf War in the last year for which figures are available. [23207]
Jacqui Smith:
Lou Gehrig's disease is classified as motor neurone disease (MND) in this country and there are between 5,000 and 6,000 sufferers of MND in the United Kingdom. Worldwide, the annual incidence of MND is estimated to be 1.5 new cases per 100,000 people. To date, the Ministry of Defence is aware of five veterans of the 1990–91 Gulf conflict who have been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, one of whom died in 1992. The table shows the hospital admission figures for motor neurone disease in 2000–01.
Admissions for motor neurone disease by region of residence,
NHS hospitals, England 2000–01
| Number
|
|---|
| Regional office |
|
| Northern and Yorkshire | 396
|
| Trent | 330
|
| West Midlands | 169
|
| North West | 320
|
| Eastern | 347
|
| London | 269
|
| South East | 359
|
| South West | 259
|
| |
|
| England (NOS) | 1
|
| Scotland | 2
|
| Wales | 16
|
| Foreign | 6
|
| Not known | 4
|
|
|
| Total | 2,514
|
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition
Mr. Martyn Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the membership of (a) the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition and (b) its sub groups. [23882]
Yvette Cooper:
Membership of the committee, its subgroups and working groups, is shown in the table. Papers relating to the committee and its groups are available through the committee's website www.sacn.gov.uk.
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN)
| Main committee members |
|
|---|
| Chair |
|
| Professor Alan Jackson | Professor of Human Nutrition, Southampton University
|
| |
|
| Members |
|
| Professor Peter Aggett (OBE) | Head of School, Lancashire Postgraduate School of Medicine and Health, Professor of Child Health and Nutrition, University of Lancashire
|
| Professor Annie Anderson | Research Professor of Food Choice at the Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, University of Dundee
|
| Professor Sheila Bingham | Deputy Director of the Medical Research Council's Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge
|
| Professor John Cummings | Clinical Scientist at Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Dundee
|
| Ms Gillian Fine | Company Nutritionist at Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd.
|
| Ms Paulette Jones | Senior Mentoring Development Officer, Divert Trust, London
|
| Dr. Tim Key | Reader in Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, works at ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
|
| Professor Peter Kopelmann | Professor of Clinical Medicine, Assistant Warden (Education), Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London
|
| Dr. Ann Prentice | Director, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge
|
| Professor Andrew Rugg-Gunn | University Clinical Professor, Newcastle University Dental School
|
| Dr. Anita Thomas | Practising Consultant Physician in general (internal) and geriatric medicine, Derriford hospital, Plymouth
|
| Mrs. Stella Walsh Senior Lecturer | Leeds Metropolitan University, National Federation of Consumer Groups
|
| Dr. Anthony Williams | Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Neonatal Paediatrics, St. George's hospital, London
|
| Professor Christine Williams | Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Reading
|
| |
|
| Working Group on Iron |
|
| Chair |
|
| Professor Peter Aggett | Professor of Child Health and Nutrition, Head of School, Lancashire Postgraduate School of Medicine and Health. Member of SACN
|
| Vice Chairman |
|
| Dr. Ann Prentice | Director, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge. Member of SACN
|
| |
|
| International Observer |
|
| Dr. Bruno de Benoist | Senior Adviser, Micronutrients, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. World Health Organisation
|
| |
|
| Members |
|
| Dr. Philip Calder | Fetal Origins of Adult Disease Division, University of Southampton, School of Medicine
|
| Professor Sue Fairweather-Tait | Head of Nutrition and Consumer Science Division, Institute of Food Research
|
| Professor Sally Grantham-McGregor | Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health
|
| Ms Paulette Jones | Senior Mentoring Development Officer, Divert Trust. Lay Member of SACN
|
| Dr. Tim Key | ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford. Member of SACN
|
| Professor Joe Lunec | Director of Chemical Pathology, Leicester University
|
| Professor Martin Pippard | Professor of Haematology, University of Dundee Medical School
|
| Professor Mark Worwood | Department of Haematology, University of Wales Hospital
|
| |
|
| Subgroup on Risk |
|
| Professor John Cummings (Chair) | SACN Member
|
| Professor Christine Williams | SACN Member
|
| Dr. Tim Key | SACN Member
|
| |
|
| Subgroup on Salt |
|
| Professor Alan Jackson (Chair) | SACN Member
|
| Professor Peter Aggett | SACN Member
|
| Professor Sheila Bingham | SACN Member
|
| Gill Fine | SACN Member
|
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Food Standards Agency
Mr. Martyn Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what scientific evidence the Food Standards Agency based its statement on dietary salt and its effect on human health contained in its announcement on salt in bread on 29 November; and for what reason the statement was made by FSA before the salt review by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition had been completed. [23890]
Yvette Cooper:
I am advised that the statement was based on the finding of the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food Policy, as recently endorsed by the Chief Medical Officer in his annual report for 2001, as well as the large body of scientific evidence on the issues. The statement is without prejudice to the work that the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition currently has in hand on salt.
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Health Expenditure
Derek Twigg:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate health spending per head of population by health authority for 2002. [24011]
Mr. Hutton:
Health authority allocations for 2002–03 per weighted head of population for each health authority in England are shown in the table:
£
| Health authority | (17)2002–03
|
|---|
| Avon | 809
|
| Barking and Havering | 814
|
| Barnet, Enfield and Haringey | 798
|
| Barnsley | 808
|
| Bedfordshire | 775
|
| Berkshire | 776
|
| Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich | 858
|
| Birmingham | 821
|
| Bradford | 809
|
| Brent and Harrow | 843
|
| Buckinghamshire | 784
|
| Bury and Rochdale | 817
|
| Calderdale and Kirklees | 809
|
| Cambridgeshire | 791
|
| Camden and Islington | 867
|
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 829
|
| County Durham | 804
|
| Coventry | 809
|
| Croydon | 797
|
| Doncaster | 826
|
| Dorset | 832
|
| Dudley | 813
|
| Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow | 817
|
| East Kent | 834
|
| East Lancashire | 824
|
| East London and the City | 794
|
| East Riding | 828
|
| East Surrey | 846
|
| East Sussex, Brighton and Hove | 829
|
| Gateshead and South Tyneside | 823
|
| Gloucestershire | 834
|
| Herefordshire | 814
|
| Hertfordshire | 815
|
| Hillingdon | 824
|
| Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire | 824
|
| Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster | 757
|
| Kingston and Richmond | 810
|
| Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham | 852
|
| Leeds | 832
|
| Leicestershire | 789
|
| Lincolnshire | 811
|
| Liverpool | 846
|
| Manchester | 842
|
| Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth | 827
|
| Morecambe Bay | 851
|
| Newcastle and North Tyneside | 834
|
| Norfolk | 808
|
| North and East Devon | 821
|
| North and Mid Hampshire | 807
|
| North Cheshire | 839
|
| North Cumbria | 820
|
| North Derbyshire | 823
|
| North Essex | 797
|
| North Nottinghamshire | 814
|
| North Staffordshire | 815
|
| North West Lancashire | 832
|
| North Yorkshire | 802
|
| Northamptonshire | 807
|
| Northumberland | 821
|
| Nottingham | 806
|
| Oxfordshire | 788
|
| Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 843
|
| Rotherham | 822
|
| Salford and Trafford | 839
|
| Sandwell | 820
|
| Sefton | 861
|
| Sheffield | 838
|
| Shropshire | 803
|
| Solihull | 817
|
| Somerset | 813
|
| South and West Devon | 830
|
| South Cheshire | 830
|
| South Derbyshire | 797
|
| South Essex | 789
|
| South Humber | 839
|
| South Lancashire | 829
|
| South Staffordshire | 804
|
| Southampton and South West Hampshire | 807
|
| St. Helen's and Knowsley | 822
|
| Stockport | 812
|
| Suffolk | 814
|
| Sunderland | 833
|
| Tees | 808
|
| Wakefield | 818
|
| Walsall | 808
|
| Warwickshire | 820
|
| West Kent | 817
|
| West Pennine | 809
|
| West Surrey | 839
|
| West Sussex | 821
|
| Wigan and Bolton | 799
|
| Wiltshire | 812
|
| Wirral | 853
|
| Wolverhampton | 814
|
| Worcestershire | 810
|
| |
|
| England Total | 817
|
(17) Allocation per weighted head of population
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