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Overseas Doctors
Mr. Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if it is mandatory for general practitioners from the Commonwealth coming to the UK to spend six months as a registrar; and if he will make a statement. [57963]
Mr. Hutton: There is no mandatory requirement in law for general practitioners coming to this country from the Commonwealth to spend time in training as a general practitioner registrar.
Doctors wanting to practise as a GP in the United Kingdom must meet the standard of being "suitably experienced" required by the NHS Act 1977. The joint committee on postgraduate training for general practice (JCPTGP), currently has the responsibility of assessing incoming doctors to see if they are in fact "suitably experienced" and issuing a certificate to those who are. We are aware that the JCPTGP invariably requires doctors from the Commonwealth to undertake training in the UK before issuing a certificate.
We announced in the NHS Plan that we would replace the JCPTGP and the specialist training authority, the parallel body for hospital doctors, with a new body to be known as the postgraduate medical education and training board. We will also introduce for the first time a GP
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register, and it will become a requirement to be registered, instead of being "suitably experienced", before practising as a GP in the National Health Service in the UK.
DXA Scanners
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many DXA scanners there are in (a) Hull and the East Riding and (b) England and Wales; [57580]
- (2) what plans his Department has for the purchase of new DXA scanners. [57581]
Jacqui Smith: Decisions about the purchase of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanners are made by NHS trusts in the light of local needs and priorities.
Information about the number of DXA scanners is not available centrally. Information relating to Wales is a matter for the National Assembly for Wales.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many DXA scans have been completed in Hull and the East Riding since 1 January 2001. [57582]
Jacqui Smith: Since the 1 January 2001, a total of 9223 dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans have been completed in Hull and the East Riding.
Osteoporosis
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the (a) East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and (b) West Hull Primary Care Trust have a strategy for osteoporosis management. [57576]
Jacqui Smith: Yes, both the East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and West Hull Primary Care Trust are represented on an East Riding and Hull-wide "Osteoporosis Strategy Group" and have in place strategies for osteoporosis management.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds were blocked as a result of osteoporotic hip fractures in (a) Hull and the East Riding and (b) England and Wales in the last two quarters for which figures are available. [57574]
Jacqui Smith: The Department does not collect such information.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many elective operations were postponed due to osteoporotic hip fractures in (a) Hull and the East Riding and (b) England and Wales in the last two quarters for which figures are available. [57573]
Jacqui Smith: Data on the number of operations postponed or cancelled due to osteoporotic hip fractures are not available.
Data on the number of operations cancelled by the hospital for non-clinical reasons on, or after, the day the patient was due to be admitted are available in the Library.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of patients on 7.5 mg of corticosteroids for over six months are on osteoporotic preventive therapy in (a) Hull and the East Riding and (b) England and Wales; [57578]
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(2) how many primary care trusts and groups have a strategy for osteoporosis management; [57577] (3) what percentage of fracture patients aged over 50 years received an osteoporosis risk assessment in (a) Hull and the East Riding and (b) England and Wales, in the last two quarters for which figures are available. [57571]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not available centrally. Information relating to Wales is a matter for the National Assembly for Wales.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many osteoporotic hip fractures there have been in (a) the East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and (b) the West Hull Primary Care Trust since 1 January 2001. [57579]
Jacqui Smith: The information is not collected in the format requested.
National Service Framework for Older People
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what measures he has implemented to ensure standard six of the National Service Framework for Older People is met; [57583] (2) what targets his Department has set in relation to standard six of the National Service Framework for Older People. [57584]
Jacqui Smith: Standard six of the national service framework for older people requires that "the National Health Service working in partnership with councils, takes action to prevent falls and reduce resultant fractures or other injuries in their populations of older people. Older people who have fallen receive effective treatment and prevention and, with their cares, receive advice on prevention through a specialised falls service." It sets milestones for ensuring the delivery of this standard by:
April 2003 local health care providers (health, social services and the independent sector) should have audited their procedures and put in place risk management procedures to reduce the risk of older people falling.
April 2004 the Health Improvement Plan, and other relevant local plans developed with local authority and independent sector partners, should include the development of an integrated falls service.
April 2005 all local health and social care systems should have established this service.
Primary Care Trusts
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the prescribing budget is of the (a) East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and (b) West Hull Primary Care Trust. [57594]
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Jacqui Smith: The current prescribing budgets allocated to general practice in the East Yorkshire and West Hull Primary Care Trust's is £18.8 million and £20.3 million respectively.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the level of financial deficit is for the (a) East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and (b) the West Hull Primary Care Trust. [57593]
Jacqui Smith: East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust currently have expenditure plans which exceed income by £1 million but are expecting to achieve financial balance by the end of the financial year.
West Hull Primary Care Trust currently have expenditure plans which exceed income by £0.5 million but are expecting to achieve financial balance by the end of the financial year.
Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list each body which has been given funding to deliver the teaching PCT objectives, together with the sum involved in each case. [58085]
Mr. Hutton: The following primary care trusts (PCTs) have been approved in principle to become teaching PCTs from April 2003:
Bournemouth
City & Hackney
Coventry
Eastern Hull and West Hull (joint bid)
Greenwich
Merseyside (confederation of Bebington & West Wirral, Birkenhead and Wallasey, Central Liverpool, Knowsley, North Liverpool, South Liverpool, South Sefton, Southport & Formby, and St Helens)
North Peterborough Confederation (North Peterborough, South Peterborough and Fenland)
Plymouth
Portsmouth & City
South Stoke and North Stoke (joint bid)
Walsall
Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what resources have been given directly to each teaching PCT for their work as teaching PCTs in 2002–03. [58084]
Mr. Hutton: The following primary care trusts (PCTs) have received funding in 2002–03, as detailed, for their work as teaching PCTs:
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Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts have been given teaching PCT status. [58083]
Mr. Hutton: The following primary care trusts have been given teaching primary care trust status:
First wave, from April 2001
Bradford City
Salford
Sunderland West
Second wave, from April 2002
Blackburn & Darwen
Bristol North and Bristol South & West (joint bid)
Haringey
Heart of Birmingham
Lincolnshire South West
Luton
North Tees
Slough
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