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Consultant Treatment

Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to monitor how many patients originally referred to a NHS consultant finally receive treatment in the private sector from the same consultant. [72222]

Mr. Hutton: This Department does not collect information about private patients treated in private hospitals. We have agreed as part of the framework for the new consultant contract that there will be contractual provisions governing the relationship between private practice and National Health Service commitments, based on the principle that an NHS consultant's commitment to the NHS must take priority over any work undertaken for other organisations. The detail of the provisions is under discussion, but we have agreed that consultants will be required to inform employers of their private practice commitments, as part of their annual job planning and appraisal process.

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Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will introduce regulations to prevent consultants treating patients in their private practices that were originally referred to them through the NHS. [72221]

Mr. Hutton: We have agreed as part of the framework for the new consultant contract that there will be contractual provisions governing the relationship between private practice and National Health Service commitments. These provisions will be based on the principle that an NHS consultant's commitment to the NHS must take priority over any work undertaken for other organisations and designed to minimise the potential for actual or perceived conflicts of interest. One of the key principles is that consultants should not allow private practice to disrupt the provision of NHS services or have any adverse impact on NHS performance or delivery of NHS commitments. The detail of the provisions is under discussion, but we have agreed that the areas covered by the new rules will include the transfer of patients between the NHS and private sector, and management of NHS waiting lists.

NHS Planning

Ms Shipley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many registered (a) town planners, (b) landscape designers, (c) chartered surveyors and (d) architects work in (i) NHS Estates, (ii) NHS regional offices and (iii) NHS trusts. [71857]

Mr. Lammy: NHS Estates employs four town planners, forty-seven chartered surveryors and fourteen architects. In addition it draws on specialist expertise from outside the Agency. We do not hold the requested information on National Health Service trusts centrally. NHS regional offices ceased to exist on 1 April 2002.

Accident and Emergency Departments

Virginia Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures he has taken to publicise the fact that accident and emergency departments do not give advice over the phone. [72415]

Mr. Lammy: The Department has taken no specific measures to publicise the fact the accident and emergency departments do not give advice over the phone.

Patients can obtain telephone advice on medical emergencies from NHS Direct, a nurse-led telephone helpline providing health information and advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time is in accident and emergency departments by region, before a patient gets treated in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [72461]

Mr. Lammy: The Department does not routinely collect information on average waiting times in accident and emergency departments (A and E).

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Information on total time in A and E from arrival to transfer, admission or discharge has been collected by the Department since August 2001. We have reliable data from October 2001.

The table below shows the number of people spending four hours or less in A and E by region from October 2001 to March 2002.

Percentage of patients spending less than four hours in A and E from arrival to transfer, admission or discharge.

Organisation	Number of A and E attendances	Number of patients spending under 4 hours in A and E	Patients spending under 4 hours in A and E per cent.
Eastern	488,915	365,871	75
London	1,015,261	653,043	64
North West	861,612	665,217	77
North Yorkshire	779,716	680,503	87
South East	822,514	612,993	75
South West	443,697	357,123	80
Trent	500,379	406,254	81
West Midlands	641,729	536,635	84
England	5,553,823	4,277,639	77

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he is taking to deal with increased accident and emergency admissions in the south-west area [71264]

Ms Blears [holding answer 19 July 2002]: In the former south west region over £15 million from the accident and emergency (A and E) modernisation fund has been invested in improving A and E facilities over the last three years.

Private Bed Facilities

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much revenue was earned by hospital trusts operating private bed facilities in the last 12 months for which figures are available; [71084]

(2) if he will list those hospital trusts operating private bed facilities. [71085]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 18 July 2002]: In 2000–01 the total gross income received and receivable for patient care services from private patients treated by National Health Service trusts was £316,627,000. Source: NHS Trust Summarisation Schedules 2000–01. The income reported is for all private patients and not just those using a bed.

The Department does not maintain records centrally of the private facilities operated by NHS acute trusts. A list of NHS trusts reporting finished consultant episodes for private patients in 2000–01 is shown in the table.
Hospital Episode Statistics: NHS Hospitals in England Reporting
Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) for Private Patients for 2000–01
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust Airedale NHS Trust Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust Avon and Western Wiltshire MHC NHS Trust Bamsley Community and Priority Bamsley District General Hospital Barts and The London NHS Trust Basildon and Thurrock General Hospital

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Bassetlaw Hospital and Community NHS Trust Bath and West Community NHS Trust Bay Community NHS Trust Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust Birmingham Children's Hospital Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Birmingham Women's Healthcare NHS Trust Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care NHS Trust Blackpool Victoria Hospital NHS Trust Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde Community Health Services NHS Trust Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust Brighton Health Care NHS Trust Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust Burnley Healthcare NHS Trust Burton Hospitals NHS Trust Bury Health Care NHS Trust Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust Carlisle Hospitals NHS Trust Central Manchester Healthcare Trust Central Sheffield University Hospital Chase Farm Wellhouse NHS Trust Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust Christie Hospital NHS Trust City hospitals sunderland NHS Trust Clatterbridge Centre For Oncology NHS Trust Cornwall Healthcare NHS Trust Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Dewsbury health care NHS Trust Doncaster Royal Infirmary Dorset Community NHS Trust Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust Durham County Priority Service East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust East Cheshire NHS Trust East Gloucestershire NHS Trust East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust East Somerset NHS Trust Eastbourne Hospitals NHS Trust Epsom/St Helier NHS Trust Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust Exeter and District Community Health Service NHS Trust Forest Healthcare NHS Trust Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust Gateshead Health NHS Trust George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust Guild Community Healthcare NHS Trust Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust Halton General Hospital NHS Trust Harrogate Healthcare NHS Trust Hastings and Rother NHS Trust Havering Hospitals NHS Trust Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust Herefordshire Community Health Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust Homerton Hospital NHS Trust Huddersfield NHS Trust Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital Invicta Community Care NHS Trust Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust Isle Of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust James Paget Hospital NHS Trust Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust King's Healthcare NHS Trust

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Kings Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals Kingston Hospital NHS Trust Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare NHS Trust Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust Liverpool Womens Hospital NHS Trust Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust Medway NHS Trust Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust Mid Staffordshire General Hospital Mid Sussex NHS Trust Milton Keynes General Hospital Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust Newham Community Health Services NHS Trust Newham Healthcare NHS Trust Norfolk and Norwich Health Care NHS Trust Norfolk Mental Healthcare NHS Trust North Bristol NHS Trust North Dorset Primary Care Trust North Durham Healthcare NHS Trust North East Lincolnshire NHS Trust North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust North Hampshire, Loddon Community NHS Trust North Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust North Sefton and West Lancashire Community NHS Trust North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust Northallerton Health Services Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northem Devon Healthcare NHS Trust Northem General Hospital NHS Trust Northgate and Prudhoe NHS Trust Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust Northwick Park/Central Middlesex Norwich Community Health Partnership NHS Trust Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust Nottingham University Hospital Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust Oldham NHS Trust Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust Papworth Hospital NHS Trust Parkside Health NHS Trust Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust Pinderfields and Pontefract hospital Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust Poole Hospitals NHS Trust Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Premier Health NHS Trust Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust Redbridge Health Care NHS Trust Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and DH NHS Trust Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Univ. Hosp. NHS Trust Royal Liverpool Childrens NHS Trust Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Trust Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust Scarborough and NE yorkshire health Scunthorpe and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust Sheffield Children's Hospital Shropshire's Community and Mental Health Services NHS Trust

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South Buckinghamshire NHS Trust South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust South Durham health care NHS Trust South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust South London and Maudsley NHS Trust South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust South tyneside Healthcare NHS Trust South Warwickshire General Hospital Southampton Community Health Services NHS Trust Southampton University Hospital Southend Hospital NHS Trust Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust St George's Healthcare NHS Trust St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust Stockport NHS Trust Stoke Mandeville Hospital NHS Trust Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust The Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool NHS Trust The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust The Manchester Children's Hospital The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital The Princess Alexandra Hospital The Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust The Royal Free Hampstead Hospital The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust The Royal National Orthopaedic NHS Trust The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital The United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust Tower Hamlets Healthcare NHS Trust Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust University College London Hospitals NHS Trust University Hospital Birmingham University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust Warrington Hospital NHS Trust West Cumbria Healthcare NHS Trust West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust West Middlesex University NHS Trust West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust Weston Area Health NHS Trust Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Wigan and Leigh Health Services Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust Wirral Hospital NHS Trust Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Worcestershire Community and Mental Health NHS Trust Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust Worthing Priority Care Services NHS Trust Wrightington Hospital NHS Trust York Health Services NHS Trust
A FCE is defined as a period of patient care under one consultant in one healthcare provider. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health

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