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Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the areas of unmet needs in respect of access to GP surgeries in North Stoke. [26932]
Yvette Cooper: There are 17 general practitioner practices in the locality, and I understand that capacity exists to accept more patients.
In addition, Stoke (Haywood) walk-in centre opened in June 2000 and has proved popular locally, seeing 21,000 patients in the first 12 months.
David Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health-related PFI proceeds are (a) under way and (b) being evaluated in the west midlands; and where they are located. [26746]
Yvette Cooper: the current private finance initiative schemes that are (a) under way and (b) being evaluated in the west midlands are as follows:
Black Country Mental Health in-patient facility (Sandwell)
Stoke-on-Trent Mental Health in-patient facility (Stoke-on-Trent)
Monyhull Learning Disability in-patient facility (South Birmingham)
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Hereford District General Hospital
Worcester District General Hospital
Northern Birmingham Mental Health in-patient facility
Dudley District General Hospital
PFI schemes in procurement
Walsgrave District General Hospital and Mental Health in-patient facility (Coventry)
City Hospital Ambulatory Care Centre (Birmingham)
Wolverhampton Managed Radiology scheme
Nationally prioritised schemes in fourth and fifth waves (preparing business cases and planning to place OJEC advertisements in 200203)
University Hospital Birmingham Acute Hospital and South Birmingham Mental Health in-patient facility
North Staffordshire redevelopment of Acute Hospital site and North Stoke Primary Care Centre (Stoke-on-Trent)
Walsall Women's and Children's Unit and Ambulatory Care Centre
Wolverhampton Acute Hospital site rationalisation.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what further plans he has to review the fees paid to community pharmacists for dispensing NHS prescriptions. [26781]
Ms Blears [holding answer 14 January 2002]: We are currently considering representations on this issue from the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and others.
David Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of hospital investment in the last five years in Shropshire has been allocated to the hospitals in (a) Telford, (b) Shrewsbury and (c) Oswestry. [26750]
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Yvette Cooper: The total capital allocations to the three national health service trusts in Shropshire during the four-year period 199899 to 200102 are shown in the table.
£ million | Percentage | |
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Telford (Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust) | 10.9 | 37 |
Shrewsbury (Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust) | 11.7 | 40 |
Oswestry (Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust) | 6.6 | 23 |
Total | 29.2 | 100 |
Note:
The information requested is only available for the last four financial years (199899 to 200102 inclusive).
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of patients in each cancer speciality referred by their general practitioners are referred (a) urgently and (b) non-urgently; [27233]
(3) what percentage of patients in each cancer speciality referred to by their general practitioners as (a) urgent and (b) non-urgent are seen within a month. [27232]
Yvette Cooper: The two-week out-patient waiting time standard was introduced for urgent cases of suspected breast cancer from April 1999 and was extended to all other urgent cases of suspected cancer during 2000. Performance data against the standard are shown in the table. Data for non-urgent referrals are not collected centrally.
Full implementation of the maximum target wait of one month from diagnosis to their first definitive treatment for breast cancer was introduced on 31 December 2001. Central monitoring began on 1 January 2002 and data will be published later in the year.
200001 | ||||||
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Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | |||||
Cancer site | Number of referrals | Number seen within 14 days | Percentage seen within 14 days | Number of referrals | Number seen within 14 days | Percentage seen within 14 days |
Breast | 20,540 | 19,697 | 95.9 | 20,356 | 19,513 | 95.9 |
Children's | (27) | (27) | (27) | 127 | 125 | 98.4 |
Lung | (27) | (27) | (27) | 4,359 | 4,141 | 95.0 |
Haematological malignancies including leukaemia | (27) | (27) | (27) | 557 | 529 | 95.0 |
Upper Gastrointestinal | (27) | (27) | (27) | 5,429 | 4,990 | 91.9 |
Lower Gastrointestinal | (27) | (27) | (27) | 9,458 | 8,723 | 92.2 |
Skin | (27) | (27) | (27) | 5,906 | 5,499 | 93.1 |
Gynaecological | (27) | (27) | (27) | 3,722 | 3,441 | 92.5 |
Brain/Central Nervous System | (27) | (27) | (27) | 185 | 169 | 91.4 |
Urological | (27) | (27) | (27) | 4,714 | 4,034 | 85.6 |
Head and Neck | (27) | (27) | (27) | 2,613 | 2,524 | 96.6 |
Sarcomas | (27) | (27) | (27) | 122 | 114 | 93.4 |
Other Cancers | (27) | (27) | (27) | 234 | 222 | 94.9 |
(27) Not collected
Source:
Department of Health form QMCW
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Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the death rate per 100,000 among people aged under 65 years due to heart disease was in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [27364]
Yvette Cooper: The European age standardised death rates per 100,000 population from ischaemic heart disease aged under 65 in the United Kingdom is shown in the table.
Year | Persons |
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1996 | 41.7 |
1997 | 39.2 |
1998 | 37.3 |
1999 | 34.1 |
2000 | 32.1 |
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding was given to each children's hospice in the last year by his Department. [27249]
Yvette Cooper: The information requested is not collected centrally.
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