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Operation Cancellations

Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations, broken down into category of operation, have been cancelled in NHS hospitals in the last 12 months. [35194]

Mr. Hutton: Data on the number of cancelled operations are not collected by the type of operation.

The latest released figures are for Quarter 2 2001–02. Copies of quarterly statistics on cancelled operations by health authority are available in the Library. The publication gives the number of operations cancelled (for non-medical reasons) on the day patients are due to arrive or after arrival in hospital or on the day of the operation.

Care Homes

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to encourage providers of residential care for the elderly to connect up their homes to the internet. [35071]

Jacqui Smith: The national standards for care homes for older people require care homes to give residents the opportunity to exercise choice in relation to leisure and social activities and cultural interests. They also require care homes to record residents' interests and give them the opportunity for stimulation through leisure and recreational activities, in and outside the care home, which suit their needs, preferences and capacities, with particular consideration for people with cognitive or sensory impairments and those with physical or learning disabilities. This could include access to the internet. However, it is for individual care home owners to decide whether they wish their care home to be linked to the internet taking into account the individual circumstances of their business and the needs and capacities of the residents.

Financial Allocation

Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what financial allocation has been made to the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth health authority in each of the last 10 years. [35321]

Mr. Hutton: Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth health authority was established in its current form on 1 April 1996.

The table shows the financial allocation that the health authority has received since its establishment.

Revenue allocations to Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth health authority since 1996–97£000

Period	Total allocation
1996–97	293,778
1997–98	309,318
1998–99	322,343
1999–2000	422,995
2000–01	455,914
2001–02	498,646
2002–03	563,125

Note:

Allocations for 1999–2000 onwards are not comparable with those for 1996–97 to 1998–99 which cover hospital and community health services (HCHS) only. 1999–2000 was the first year of unified allocations which cover HCHS, prescribing and discretionary general medical services.

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Bed Occupancy

Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the highest level of occupancy of beds on a single day was in 2000–01 in each NHS trust in respect of acute mental health wards in London. [35081]

Jacqui Smith: [holding answer 11 February, 2002]: Occupancy levels are not collected on a daily basis for acute mental health wards.

Eating Disorders

Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has adjusted the 1999–2000 figures on hospital admissions in respect of eating disorders. [35089]

Jacqui Smith: [holding answer 11 February, 2002]: There were 2,030 finished consultant episodes with a primary diagnosis of eating disorder in 1999–2000. These figures have now been adjusted for shortfalls in data.

Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will commission research into the incidence of eating disorders among (a) children and young persons, (b) men and (c) women. [35085]

Jacqui Smith: [holding answer 11 February, 2002]: There are no plans to commission further research into the incidence of eating disorders. However, details of ongoing and recently completed research projects are available on the national research register at www.doh.gov.uk/research/ nrr.htm. The Department has also commissioned a guideline on the management of eating disorders from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

Antipsychotic Depot Injections

Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the number of prescription items dispensed in the community in England for antipsychotic depot injections in 2001. [35080]

Ms Blears: [holding answer 11 February, 2002]: We expect to publish the data in May 2002.

Cancer (Waiting Times)

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list (a) those NHS trusts and (b) those health authorities which have met the Government's two-week target in respect of out-patient waiting times for suspected cancer patients. [34693]

Yvette Cooper: [holding answer 11 February 2002]: The following tables show the percentage of patients seen within two weeks of urgent referral by their general practitioner by national health service trusts and health authorities for the period July to September 2001.

Cancer two week out-patient waiting time standard. Percentage of patients seen within two weeks of urgent referral by their general practitioner where the referral was received within 24 hours of the decision to refer

NHS trust	Percentage seen Qtr 2, 2001–02
Addenbrooke's	90.4
Aintree Hospitals	98.1
Airedale	100.0
Ashford and St. Peters' Hospitals	77.6
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals	78.9
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals	97.6
Barnsley District General Hospital	94.2
Barts and the London	94.5
Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals	100.0
Bedford Hospital	55.5
Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals	61.0
Birmingham Women's Healthcare	95.5
Blackburn Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care	99.5
Blackpool Wyre and Fylde Community Health Services	100.0
Blackpool Victoria Hospital	99.7
Bolton Hospitals	97.8
Bradford Hospitals	96.1
Brighton Healthcare	80.6
Bromley Hospitals	100.0
Burnley Healthcare	100.0
Burton Hospitals	92.0
Bury Healthcare	99.0
Calderdale and Huddersfield	97.1
Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool	100.0
Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals	85.0
Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare	97.1
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital	74.0
Chorley and South Ribble	100.0
Christie Hospital	100.0
City Hospitals	99.7
City Hospitals Sunderland	67.0
Countess of Chester Hospital	95.0
Dartford and Gravesham	86.1
Dewsbury Healthcare	97.8
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals	99.1
Dudley Group of Hospitals	94.4
Ealing Hospital	98.7
East and North Hertfordshire	77.4
East Cheshire	98.9
East Gloucestershire	99.8
East Kent Hospitals	86.1
East Somerset	72.3
Eastbourne Hospitals	79.7
Epsom and St. Helier	95.9
Essex Rivers Healthcare	97.9
Frimley Park Hospital	99.2
Gateshead Health	98.5
George Eliot Hospital	99.2
Gloucestershire Royal	99.8
Good Hope Hospital	97.8
Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital	89.1
Hammersmith Hospitals	89.7
Harrogate Health Care	100.0
Hastings and Rother	58.6
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals	98.7
Hereford Hospitals	95.5
Hillingdon Hospital	93.3
Hinchingbrooke Health Care	99.5
Homerton Hospital	90.8
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals	98.8
Ipswich Hospital	76.5
Isle of Wight Healthcare	95.1
James Paget Healthcare	95.7
Kettering General Hospital	78.6
King's College Hospital	98.2
King's Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals	90.0
Kingston Hospital	96.4
Leeds Teaching Hospitals	95.3
Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare	95.8
Lewisham Hospital	99.2
Liverpool Women's Hospital	92.7
Luton and Dunstable Hospital	94.9
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells	98.2
Mayday Healthcare	97.2
Medway	80.4
Mid-Cheshire Hospitals	96.7
Mid-Essex Hospital Services	98.8
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals	95.0
Mid-Sussex	93.2
Milton Keynes General	98.4
Morecambe Bay Hospitals	87.4
Newham Healthcare	100.0
Norfolk and Norwich Healthcare	94.8
North Bristol	85.0
North Cheshire Hospital	90.0
North Cumbria Acute	85.3
North Durham Health Care	89.8
North Hampshire Hospitals	86.3
North Manchester Healthcare	90.6
North Middlesex Hospital	100.0
North Staffordshire Hospital	85.9
North Tees and Hartlepool	88.2
North West London Hospitals	95.5
Northallerton Health Services	96.1
Northampton General Hospital	78.3
Northern Devon Healthcare	100.0
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals	98.6
Northumbria Healthcare	76.8
Nottingham City Hospital	99.7
Oldham	96.4
Papworth Hospital	100.0
Peterborough Hospitals	100.0
Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals	65.5
Plymouth Hospitals	97.0
Poole Hospital	99.6
Portsmouth Hospitals	87.4
Preston Acute Hospitals	100.0
Princess Alexandra Hospital	97.3
Princess Royal Hospital	94.6
Queen Elizabeth Hospital	99.0
Queen Mary's Sidcup	96.8
Queen Victoria Hospital	97.1
Queens Medical Centre Nottingham University Hospital	93.0
Rochdale Healthcare	93.0
Rotherham General Hospitals	99.0
Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospital	76.0
Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals	99.5
Royal Brompton and Harefield	83.3
Royal Cornwall Hospital	85.9
Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare	100.0
Royal Free Hampstead	40.0
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals	91.3
Royal Liverpool Children's	100.0
Royal Marsden Hospital	100.0
Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals	79.1
Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's Hospitals	100.0
Royal United Hospital Bath	93.7
Royal West Sussex	99.6
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals	99.8
Salford Royal Hospitals	91.1
Salisbury Health Care	85.6
Sandwell Healthcare	100.0
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare	100.0
Severn	100.0
Sheffield Children's Hospital	100.0
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals	98.6
Sherwood Forest Hospitals	93.2
South Buckinghamshire	77.9
South Devon Healthcare	97.0
South Durham Health Care	99.2
South Manchester University Hospitals	93.9
South Tees Acute Hospitals	88.8
South Tyneside Healthcare	90.3
South Warwickshire General Hospitals	86.1
South West London Community	100.0
Southampton University Hospitals	95.9
Southend Hospital	85.5
Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals	95.1
Southport and Ormskirk	99.8
St. George's Healthcare	99.5
St. Helens and Knowsley Hospitals	79.5
St. Mary's	100.0
Stockport Health Services	100.0
Stoke Mandeville Hospital	94.8
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare	98.8
Surrey Hampshire Borders	99.0
Swindon and Marlborough	98.4
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services	90.6
Taunton and Somerset	92.5
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals	98.9
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospital	97.7
Trafford Healthcare	96.8
United Bristol Healthcare	65.2
United Lincolnshire Hospitals	97.9
University College London Hospitals	92.5
University Hospital Birmingham	98.5
University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire	74.8
University Hospitals of Leicester	89.1
Walsall Hospitals	99.7
West Dorset General Hospitals	95.3
West Hertfordshire Hospitals	90.5
West Middlesex University Hospital	90.6
West Suffolk Hospitals	75.7
Weston Area Health	95.6
Whipps Cross University Hospital	70.5
Whittington Hospital	80.7
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare	93.2
Wirral Hospital	98.6
Worcestershire Acute Hospital	90.9
Worcestershire Community and Mental Health	95.2
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals	73.6
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh	86.2
York Health Services	95.3

Source:

DOH form QMCW

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Cancer two week out-patient waiting time standard. Percentage of patients seen within two weeks of urgent referral by their general practitioner where the referral was received within 24 hours of the decision to refer

Health authority	Percentage seen Qtr 2, 2001–02
Avon	83.4
Barking and Havering	78.9
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey	98.0
Barnsley	94.2
Bedfordshire	79.4
Berkshire	87.6
Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich	98.0
Birmingham	81.6
Bradford	97.4
Brent and Harrow	95.5
Buckinghamshire	88.7
Bury and Rochdale	96.7
Calderdale and Kirklees	97.4
Cambridgeshire	94.5
Camden and Islington	76.4
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	85.9
County Durham and Darlington	95.4
Coventry	74.8
Croydon	97.2
Doncaster	99.1
Dorset	98.0
Dudley	94.4
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	93.8
East Kent	86.1
East Lancashire	99.8
East London and City	96.0
East Riding and Hull	98.8
East Surrey	98.8
East Sussex Brighton and Hove	78.2
Gateshead and South Tyneside	96.2
Gloucestershire	99.8
Herefordshire	95.5
Hertfordshire	86.9
Hillingdon	93.3
Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	87.9
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	99.0
Kingston & Richmond	96.6
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	96.0
Leeds	95.3
Leicestershire	89.4
Lincolnshire	97.9
Liverpool	92.8
Manchester	91.4
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	98.9
Morecambe Bay	87.4
Newcastle and North Tyneside	98.9
Norfolk	93.8
North and East Devon	100.0
North and Mid Hampshire	90.7
North Cheshire	90.0
North Cumbria	85.3
North Derbyshire	74.0
North Essex	98.1
North Nottinghamshire	93.2
North Staffordshire	85.9
North West Lancashire	99.8
North Yorkshire	97.8
Northamptonshire	78.4
Northumberland	76.8
Nottingham	95.9
Oxfordshire	97.7
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	70.5
Rotherham	99.0
Salford and Trafford	93.1
Sandwell	100.0
Sefton	98.8
Sheffield	98.6
Shropshire	87.2
Somerset	85.0
South and West Devon	97.0
South Cheshire	96.9
South Essex	91.5
South Humber	98.6
South Lancashire	100.0
South Staffordshire	93.1
Southampton and SW Hampshire	95.9
Southern Derbyshire	95.1
St. Helens and Knowsley	79.5
Stockport	100.0
Suffolk	76.1
Sunderland	67.0
Tees	88.4
Wakefield	65.5
Walsall	99.7
Warwickshire	91.5
West Kent	87.9
West Pennine	93.0
West Surrey	92.0
West Sussex	90.8
Wigan and Bolton	93.3
Wiltshire	91.1
Wirral	98.6
Wolverhampton	99.8
Worcestershire	91.1

Note:

Health authority performance is based on data from NHS trust providers within their boundaries.

Source:

DOH form QMCW

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