Smallpox Vaccine
Mr. Kevan Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which companies were approached with regard to the supply of smallpox vaccines; and what information was included in the specification sent to these companies. [53949]
Mr. Hutton:
Detailed confidential discussions were held with five major pharmaceutical companies who were known to have vaccine manufacturing capability either in the UK or in Europe. The companies approached were Acambis, Aventis Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline, RIVM and PowderJect. Our requirements for vaccine strain, timing and delivery and the need to meet current vaccine manufacturing guidelines were made clear to each of the companies and confirmed in writing. Each of the companies was then given time to submit their responses.
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Mental Health
Dr. Fox:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many elderly patients have received community-based psychiatric provision in each of the last five years. [56958]
Jacqui Smith:
The number of first contacts with patients aged 65 and over by community psychiatric nurses is set out in the table.
Community psychiatric nursesnumber of first contacts with patients aged 65 and over, 199697 to 200001
Thousand
| Number of persons
|
199697 | 146
|
199798 | 152
|
199899 | 162
|
19992000 | 158
|
200001 | 154
|
Further information about patient contacts with community psychiatric nurses is contained in the statistical report "Patient care in the community, Community Psychiatric Nursing, summary information for 200001, England". A copy of the summary is in the Library and also available on the Department website at www.doh.gov.uk/ public/kc570001.
Older people also receive other community-based psychiatric services, either as well as or separately from services from community psychiatric nurses, but information is not available on the numbers receiving other services.
Mr. Oaten:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding is being made available to organizations in the voluntary sector working to promote employment of people with mental health problems as set out in the National Service Framework for Mental Health. [61323]
Jacqui Smith
[holding answer 17 June 2002]: Over the period 199899 to 200304 the Department has awarded funding of £627,428 through the Section 64 general scheme of grants to the following mental health voluntary organisations to support national projects that are designed to help improve employment opportunities for people with mental health problems.
£
Name of voluntary organisation | Name of project | Amount
|
SIGN | "Education and employment training for deaf people with mental health problems" | 99,000
|
| |
|
Turning Point | "Starting point: Routes to work for people with mental health problems" | 286,428
|
| |
|
Working Well Trust | "On Line"Professional IT training and support for people who have mental health problems, including help with job search and vocational advice | 92,000
|
| |
|
Southside Partnership | "Mentally disordered offenders prison discharge support"Includes help for mentally disordered offenders to find employment | 150,000
|
|
|
Total | | 627,428
|
Primary Care Premises
Dr. Fox:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) on how many of the GP premises due to be modernised work will have been (a) started and (b) completed by 1 April; and what financial resources will be needed to complete this work by March 2004; [56942]
(2) how many of the new one-stop primary care centres will have been (a) started and (b) completed by 1 April; and what financial resources will be needed to complete this work by March 2004. [56945]
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Mr. Hutton:
Data are collected only on completed premises developments and associated capital spend. As set out in the NHS Plan, up to £1 billion will be invested in the primary care infrastructure to refurbish substantially or replace up to £3,000 general practitioners' (GP) premises and develop 500 one-stop primary care centres. Outturn figures for 31 March 2002 show that 1,098 GP premises were refurbished or replaced, and 70 one-stop primary care centres were in place.
Hospital Beds (Northumberland)
Dr. Fox:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the bed capacity was of each community and cottage hospital in Northumberland in (a) 1997 and (b) 2001. [56935]
Jacqui Smith:
Bed capacity data by individual hospital site are not collected.
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Information on the average daily number of available beds for national health service trusts in England is on the Department website www.doh.gov.uk/hospitalativity.
Home Helps
Mr. Breed:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 28 February 2002, Official Report, column 616W, what information on home helps is held by his Department; and if he will publish it. [57470]
Jacqui Smith:
The table gives the number of home helps (excluding home help organisers) employed by councils with social services responsibilities in England as at 30 September in each year between 1992 and 2001. Home helps employed by the private sector are not included, even if doing work contracted by councils.
Home helps employed by councils with social services responsibilities in England as at 30 September, 19922001 (whole time equivalents)
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001
|
Avon | 1,275 | 1,050 | 1,100 | 1,075 | | | | | |
|
Barking and Dagenham | 245 | 220 | 220 | 225 | 210 | 255 | 0 | 245 | 210 | 210
|
Barnet | 230 | 60 | 220 | 255 | 240 | 170 | 175 | 155 | 120 | 185
|
Barnsley | 420 | 390 | 365 | 340 | (61) | 260 | 240 | 225 | 225 | (62)
|
Bath and North East Somerset UA | | | | | 135 | 130 | 125 | 140 | 145 | 130
|
Bedfordshire (old) | 490 | 415 | 515 | 530 | 445 | | | | |
|
Bedfordshire (remaining) | | | | | | 235 | 225 | 200 | 180 | 180
|
Berkshire | 590 | 515 | 580 | 505 | 680 | 680 | | | |
|
Bexley | 270 | 290 | 345 | 365 | 350 | 360 | 315 | 340 | 0 | 0
|
Birmingham | 1,320 | 1,450 | 1,690 | 1,575 | 1,475 | 1,670 | 1,490 | 1,435 | 1,105 | 1,250
|
Blackburn with Darwen UA | | | | | | | 155 | 175 | 120 | 100
|
Blackpool UA | | | | | | | 195 | 155 | 130 | 100
|
Bolton | 340 | 325 | 345 | 365 | 350 | 370 | 375 | 380 | 395 | 365
|
Bournemouth UA | | | | | | 140 | 145 | 140 | 110 | 110
|
Bracknell Forest UA | | | | | | | 40 | 40 | 40 | 30
|
Bradford | 695 | 715 | 725 | 665 | 625 | 590 | 600 | 655 | 540 | 475
|
Brent | 110 | 315 | 310 | 275 | 250 | 250 | 570 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
Brighton and Hove UA | | | | | | 200 | 145 | 170 | 165 | 105
|
Bristol UA | | | | | 465 | 460 | 535 | 555 | 555 | 570
|
Bromley | 245 | 250 | 275 | 295 | 350 | 330 | 215 | 200 | 175 | 160
|
Buckinghamshire (old) | 530 | 565 | 790 | 810 | 925 | | | | |
|
Buckinghamshire (remaining) | | | | | | 565 | 520 | 540 | 410 | 355
|
Bury | 210 | 210 | 210 | 205 | 210 | 200 | 265 | 185 | 205 | 200
|
Calderdale | 390 | 305 | 305 | 320 | 310 | 335 | 290 | 245 | 240 | 225
|
Cambridgeshire (old) | 470 | 515 | 515 | 550 | 415 | 430 | | | |
|
Cambridgeshire (remaining) | | | | | | | 460 | 380 | 200 | 215
|
Camden | 275 | 270 | 210 | 190 | 170 | 170 | 180 | 165 | 105 | 85
|
Cheshire (old) | 865 | 815 | 775 | 750 | 625 | 585 | | | |
|
Cheshire (remaining) | | | | | | | 480 | 515 | 525 | 535
|
City of London | 15 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15
|
Cleveland | 730 | 720 | 875 | 660 | | | | | |
|
Cornwall | 480 | 450 | 465 | 380 | 390 | 340 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15
|
Coventry | 360 | 240 | 345 | 315 | 315 | 270 | 260 | 200 | 180 | 170
|
Croydon | 245 | 245 | 300 | 210 | 210 | 190 | 190 | 175 | 165 | 140
|
Cumbria | 500 | 505 | 545 | 0 | 410 | 415 | 440 | 445 | 605 | 715
|
Darlington UA | | | | | | 75 | 70 | 65 | 30 | 30
|
Derby UA | | | | | | 325 | 300 | 295 | 295 | 280
|
Derbyshire (old) | 1,405 | 1,135 | 1,130 | 1,090 | 0 | | | | |
|
Derbyshire (remaining) | | | | | | 930 | 930 | 945 | 930 | 900
|
Devon (old) | 920 | 945 | 955 | 955 | 835 | 800 | | | |
|
Devon (remaining) | | | | | | | 505 | 425 | 395 | 440
|
Doncaster | 465 | 510 | 545 | 515 | 510 | 505 | 370 | 385 | 335 | 250
|
Dorset (old) | 535 | 515 | 605 | 580 | 610 | | | | |
|
Dorset (remaining) | | | | | | 265 | 220 | 260 | 255 | 215
|
Dudley | 310 | 285 | 300 | 310 | 245 | 240 | 270 | 210 | 270 | 280
|
Durham (old) | 945 | 860 | 920 | 725 | 740 | | | | |
|
Durham (remaining) | | | | | | 600 | 600 | 500 | 510 | 365
|
Ealing | 225 | 250 | 260 | 250 | 200 | 130 | 75 | 110 | 110 | 100
|
East Riding of Yorkshire UA | | | | | 400 | 250 | 190 | 125 | 110 | 80
|
East Sussex (old) | 630 | 625 | 630 | 565 | 560 | | | | |
|
East Sussex (remaining) | | | | | | 275 | 260 | 265 | 265 | 250
|
Enfield | 310 | 210 | 215 | 200 | 195 | 180 | 165 | 165 | 145 | 130
|
Essex (old) | 1,405 | 655 | 525 | 555 | 1,480 | 1,150 | | | |
|
Essex (remaining) | | | | | | | 815 | 620 | 590 | 635
|
Gateshead | 340 | 335 | 415 | 415 | 390 | 350 | 405 | 485 | 360 | 365
|
Gloucestershire | 495 | 500 | 550 | 545 | 415 | 300 | 295 | 295 | 305 | 295
|
Greenwich | 290 | 285 | 260 | 260 | 220 | 235 | 190 | 170 | 170 | 160
|
Hackney | 380 | 340 | 310 | 320 | 265 | 240 | 220 | 205 | 165 | 140
|
Halton UA | | | | | | | 65 | 65 | 80 | 80
|
Hammersmith and Fulham | 260 | 310 | 305 | 280 | 255 | 140 | 225 | 140 | 120 | 115
|
Hampshire (old) | 955 | 990 | 1,010 | 875 | 855 | | | | |
|
Hampshire (remaining) | | | | | | 620 | 480 | 525 | 475 | 350
|
Haringey | 255 | 195 | 195 | 0 | 45 | 215 | 145 | 165 | 100 | 120
|
Harrow | 240 | 215 | 230 | 235 | 235 | 220 | 245 | 195 | 200 | 170
|
Hartlepool UA | | | | | 0 | 115 | 115 | 100 | 85 | 50
|
Havering | 255 | 290 | 265 | 320 | 155 | 150 | 135 | 125 | 105 | 95
|
Hereford and Worcester | 655 | 670 | 630 | 520 | 405 | 365 | | | |
|
Herefordshire UA | | | | | | | 85 | 150 | 90 | 85
|
Hertfordshire | 820 | 730 | 585 | 745 | 565 | 445 | 445 | 375 | 0 | 0
|
Hillingdon | 285 | 320 | 320 | 285 | 0 | 275 | 210 | 160 | 175 | 330
|
Hounslow | 225 | 140 | 160 | 150 | 125 | 105 | 100 | 95 | 90 | 85
|
Humberside | 1,200 | 1,445 | 1,150 | 1,220 | | | | | |
|
Isle of Wight UA | 150 | 0 | 80 | 80 | 120 | 65 | 165 | 150 | 150 | 145
|
Isles of Scilly | (61) | (61) | (61) | (61) | (61) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
Islington | 250 | 235 | 235 | 425 | 330 | 330 | 0 | 155 | 135 | 80
|
Kensington and Chelsea | 145 | 160 | 135 | 145 | 165 | 135 | 120 | 85 | 95 | 90
|
Kent (old) | 660 | 140 | 125 | 105 | 85 | (61) | | | |
|
Kent (remaining) | | | | | | | 5 | 180 | 160 | 135
|
Kingston upon Hull UA | | | | | 405 | 215 | 175 | 165 | 155 | 155
|
Kingston upon Thames | 95 | 90 | 80 | 80 | 70 | 70 | 50 | 0 | 65 | 65
|
Kirklees | 545 | 480 | 545 | 170 | 285 | 295 | 270 | 255 | 425 | 445
|
Knowsley | 90 | 95 | 95 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 120 | 110 | 115
|
Lambeth | 450 | 375 | 150 | 340 | 340 | 235 | 160 | 105 | 0 | 95
|
Lancashire (old) | 1,635 | 1,665 | 1,905 | 1,685 | 1,540 | 1,565 | | | |
|
Lancashire (remaining) | | | | | | | 795 | 0 | 0 | 10
|
Leeds | 1,600 | 1,450 | 1,535 | 1,520 | 1,480 | 1,450 | 1,415 | 1,475 | 1,420 | 1,390
|
Leicester UA | | | | | | 255 | 215 | 185 | 155 | 140
|
Leicestershire (old) | 690 | 815 | 890 | 710 | 700 | | | | |
|
Leicestershire (remaining) | | | | | | 395 | 310 | 335 | 425 | 275
|
Lewisham | 370 | 345 | 350 | 325 | 295 | 290 | 225 | 225 | 220 | 210
|
Lincolnshire | 525 | 520 | 550 | 550 | 625 | 555 | 485 | 200 | 255 | 160
|
Liverpool | 845 | 840 | 900 | 1,040 | 955 | 900 | 865 | 865 | 780 | 690
|
Luton UA | | | | | | 120 | 115 | 100 | 125 | 135
|
Manchester | 700 | 735 | 720 | 660 | 650 | 585 | 540 | 515 | 455 | 415
|
Medway Towns UA | | | | | | | 45 | 55 | 35 | 25
|
Merton | 215 | 205 | 210 | 205 | 190 | 170 | 170 | 155 | 140 | 0
|
Middlesbrough UA | | | | | 185 | 155 | 140 | 135 | 110 | 110
|
Milton Keynes UA | | | | | | 235 | 230 | 200 | 190 | 135
|
Newcastle upon Tyne | 515 | 435 | 425 | 415 | 470 | 395 | 440 | 465 | 470 | 420
|
Newham | 385 | 335 | 270 | 190 | 215 | 230 | 245 | 205 | 35 | 100
|
Norfolk | 985 | 1,025 | 1,190 | 1,095 | 1,130 | 1,075 | 1,010 | 975 | 910 | 880
|
North East Lincolnshire UA | | | | | 255 | 250 | 185 | 190 | 130 | 95
|
North Lincolnshire UA | | | | | 150 | 110 | 100 | 105 | 95 | 100
|
North Somerset UA | | | | | 165 | 165 | 155 | 145 | 150 | 165
|
North Tyneside | 360 | 360 | 360 | 350 | 345 | 310 | 325 | 345 | 345 | 335
|
North Yorkshire (old) | 795 | 740 | 750 | 790 | | | | | |
|
North Yorkshire (remaining) | | | | | 625 | 525 | 515 | 560 | 535 | 535
|
Northamptonshire | 375 | 375 | 385 | 385 | 225 | 220 | 165 | 50 | 165 | 125
|
Northumberland | 485 | 525 | 610 | 570 | 445 | 475 | 335 | 320 | 405 | 430
|
Nottingham UA | | | | | | | 240 | 320 | 315 | 260
|
Nottinghamshire (old) | 1,200 | 1,245 | 1,280 | 1,150 | 1,245 | 1,010 | | | |
|
Nottinghamshire (remaining) | | | | | | | 745 | 610 | 550 | 540
|
Oldham | 355 | 310 | 320 | 280 | 295 | 310 | 275 | 265 | 250 | 235
|
Oxfordshire | 525 | 545 | 505 | 485 | 555 | 430 | 460 | 475 | 475 | 415
|
Peterborough UA | | | | | | | 5 | 65 | 30 | 40
|
Plymouth UA | | | | | | | 220 | 225 | 145 | 120
|
Poole UA | | | | | | 110 | 100 | 85 | 80 | 85
|
Portsmouth UA | | | | | | 125 | 120 | 115 | 105 | 95
|
Reading UA | | | | | | | 95 | 90 | 80 | 70
|
Redbridge | 225 | (61) | 165 | 155 | 195 | 180 | 145 | 135 | 110 | 105
|
Redcar and Cleveland UA | | | | | 180 | 220 | 195 | 180 | (61) | 145
|
Richmond upon Thames | 185 | 235 | 195 | 200 | 185 | 185 | 0 | 145 | 150 | 130
|
Rochdale | 440 | 440 | 375 | 400 | 390 | 310 | 330 | 305 | 145 | 280
|
Rotherham | 375 | 375 | 345 | 335 | 310 | 295 | 295 | 305 | 295 | 280
|
Rutland UA | | | | | | 30 | 25 | 25 | 15 | 15
|
Salford | 375 | 505 | 510 | 505 | 520 | 485 | 495 | 505 | 330 | 300
|
Sandwell | 420 | 410 | 430 | 365 | 450 | 440 | 350 | 320 | 335 | 165
|
Sefton | 340 | 355 | 315 | 290 | 260 | 240 | 240 | 230 | 195 | 160
|
Sheffield | 1,505 | 735 | 700 | 700 | 970 | 805 | 810 | 800 | 750 | 735
|
Shropshire (old) | 265 | 245 | 235 | 235 | 200 | 180 | | | |
|
Shropshire (remaining) | | | | | | | 100 | 105 | 90 | 95
|
Slough UA | | | | | | | 140 | 100 | 105 | 75
|
Solihull | 185 | 190 | 200 | 185 | 185 | 170 | 140 | 130 | 120 | 105
|
Somerset | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 425 | 435 | 260 | 210 | 220
|
South Gloucestershire UA | | | | | 170 | 160 | 165 | 160 | 145 | 125
|
South Tyneside | 230 | 235 | 235 | 240 | 230 | 225 | 180 | 190 | 230 | 215
|
Southampton UA | | | | | | 140 | 135 | 180 | 110 | 110
|
Southend UA | | | | | | | 135 | 150 | 120 | 100
|
Southwark | 285 | 265 | 265 | 280 | 265 | 230 | 210 | 180 | 150 | 0
|
St. Helens | 340 | 340 | 305 | 310 | 285 | 335 | 315 | 365 | 265 | 260
|
Staffordshire (old) | 1,400 | 1,415 | 1,485 | 1,355 | 1,295 | | | | |
|
Staffordshire (remaining) | | | | | | 760 | 665 | 650 | 710 | 625
|
Stockport | 370 | 350 | 280 | 365 | 360 | 310 | 295 | 280 | 280 | 245
|
Stockton on Tees UA | | | | | 155 | 210 | 165 | 165 | 140 | 125
|
Stoke-on-Trent UA | | | | | | 245 | 240 | 225 | 205 | 205
|
Suffolk | 555 | 655 | 705 | 625 | 600 | 540 | 555 | 620 | 385 | 400
|
Sunderland | 480 | 480 | 515 | 455 | 475 | 585 | 715 | 540 | 345 | 410
|
Surrey | 455 | 450 | 395 | 490 | 435 | 405 | 360 | 355 | 325 | 310
|
Sutton | 210 | 165 | 170 | 170 | 155 | 155 | 145 | 120 | 115 | 95
|
Swindon UA | | | | | | 105 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 35
|
Tameside | 390 | 350 | 365 | 310 | 290 | 260 | 225 | 215 | 205 | 125
|
Telford and Wrekin UA | | | | | | | 65 | 45 | 40 | 35
|
Thurrock UA | | | | | | | 95 | 105 | 50 | 50
|
Torbay UA | | | | | | | 75 | 75 | 90 | 110
|
Tower Hamlets | 165 | 165 | 160 | 160 | 225 | 165 | 145 | 145 | 150 | 140
|
Trafford | 305 | 330 | 330 | 345 | 330 | 330 | 320 | 305 | 315 | 295
|
Wakefield | 445 | 360 | 430 | 450 | 450 | 470 | 455 | 410 | 425 | 360
|
Walsall | 245 | 240 | 235 | 230 | 210 | 215 | 205 | 215 | 195 | 185
|
Waltham Forest | 445 | 335 | 360 | 355 | 325 | 285 | 285 | 235 | 225 | 215
|
Wandsworth | 440 | 445 | 410 | 335 | 325 | 275 | 245 | 215 | 205 | 185
|
Warrington UA | | | | | | | 95 | 90 | 75 | 65
|
Warwickshire | 465 | 445 | 415 | 365 | 370 | 405 | 365 | 330 | 330 | 480
|
West Berkshire UA | | | | | | | 150 | 150 | 120 | 40
|
West Sussex | 750 | 775 | 870 | 865 | 815 | 815 | 795 | 540 | 595 | 485
|
Westminster | 305 | 325 | 305 | 330 | 300 | 0 | 285 | 290 | 295 | (62)
|
Wigan | 405 | 440 | 400 | 390 | 365 | 290 | 295 | 285 | 300 | 285
|
Wiltshire (old) | 330 | 265 | 460 | 420 | 440 | | | | |
|
Wiltshire (remaining) | | | | | | 470 | 235 | 220 | 0 | (62)
|
Windsor and Maidenhead UA | | | | | | | 80 | 85 | 80 | 45
|
Wirral | 500 | 515 | 615 | 550 | 580 | 500 | 435 | 410 | 325 | 290
|
Wokingham UA | | | | | | | 65 | 75 | 25 | 40
|
Wolverhampton | 390 | 275 | 375 | 385 | 420 | 375 | 340 | 230 | 235 | 30
|
Worcestershire | | | | | | | 255 | 265 | 300 | 265
|
York UA | | | | | 210 | 210 | 200 | 150 | 135 | 120
|
| | | | | | | | | |
|
England | 54,255 | 50,745 | 52,685 | 49,810 | 47,750 | 46,315 | 42,885 | 39,775 | 35,630 | 33,020
|
(61) Not available
(62) Five or less
Note:
Due to local government reorganisation, not all authorities were in existence for the whole period covered by the table
Source:
Department of Health annual return SSDS001
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