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Mental Health Wards
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds were available in secure mental health wards in each of the last five years. [93305]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is shown in the tables. The long-term secure bed numbers are included in these figures, but not separately identified in routine data collection.
| Year | Number of high secure beds |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 1,374 |
| 1998 | 1,366 |
| 1999 | 1,320 |
| 2000 | 1,290 |
| 2001 | 1,263 |
| 2002 | 1,244 |
| Secure beds | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Medium | Other | |
| 1997–98 | 1,493 | 986 | |
| 1998–99 | 1,642 | 1,032 | |
| 1999–2000 | 1,994 | 1,191 | |
| 2000–01 | 2,231 | 1,353 | |
| 2001–02 | (44)— | (44)— | |
(44) Figures currently not available.
Note:
Bed numbers are calculated from health authority returns of occupied bed days and assuming a 95 per cent. occupancy rate.
Ministerial Engagements
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many engagements were undertaken outside London (a) by him or his predecessor and (b) by Ministers in his Department in January (i) 2000, (ii) 2001 and (iii) 2002. [87354]
Mr. Lammy [holding answer 16 December 2002]: In January 2000 my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, undertook no visits outside London and made one visit in January 2001 and one visit in January 2002.
Members of the ministerial team made a total of 11 visits in January 2000, 16 visits in January 2001 and six visits in 2002 to venues outside London.
NHS Dentistry (Shropshire)
Mr. Paul Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many patients were registered with an NHS dentist in (a) Shrewsbury and Atcham and (b) Shropshire in each year since 1997; [93022]
- (2) what the average waiting time for an appointment was for the dental access centre in Shrewsbury in each month since its inception; [93024]
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(3) how many patients were waiting for treatment at the dental access centre in Shrewsbury in each month since it opened. [93025]
Mr. Lammy: The table shows the number of registrations in Shropshire health authority at 30 September in each of the years 1997 to 2002.
Registrations lapse if patients do not return to their dentists within 15 months. Registrations will exclude patients who have not been to their general dental service (CDS) dentist within the past 15 months and patients who receive dental treatment from other national health service dental services.
During the period 1997 to 2002, the registration numbers are affected by the change in the registration periods for adults and children. Also, the figures do not include patients attending the dental access centres which opened during the period and whose patients are not registered.
Patients wishing to register with a GDS dentist can obtain details of dentists accepting new patients by contacting NHS Direct.
Monthly waiting list information for the Shrewsbury dental access centre is not collected.
| At 30 September | Number of patients registered(45) |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 217,700 |
| 1998 | 191,000 |
| 1999 | 187,000 |
| 2000 | 186,000 |
| 2001 | 179,800 |
| 2002 | 182,300 |
(45) The registration number for September 1997 is not comparable with the later figures because of the change in the registration periods.
NHS Posts (Salaries)
Mr. Fallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will which NHS posts in Kent are paid a salary in excess of £100,000. [92085]
Ms Blears [holding answer 23 January 2003]: For reasons of data protection I am unable to provide a list, but there were 34 employees, excluding board members, in national health service trusts in Kent who received remuneration in excess of £100,000 in 2001–02. The remuneration includes gross salaries and wages, allowances for expenses and monetary value of benefits in kind.
The Government are committed to fair pay for all NHS staff. It recognises that the NHS needs good managers. Consequently guidance on managerial pay increases has been issued to the NHS in each of the past five years. This has taken into account increases in pay for other NHS staff as well as other relevant factors such as recruitment and retention. Local NHS employers have been advised to interpret the guidance appropriately and be able to justify decisions.
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NHS Staff Assaults
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many sick days were taken by NHS staff last year as a result of being assaulted by patients. [92601]
Mr. Hutton: Information on levels of sickness absence resulting from work-related injuries or violence at work is not collected centrally, but may be held at a local level by individual national health service employers.
NHS Trusts (Shropshire)
Mr. Paul Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget overspend was in each year since 1997 in each Shropshire NHS trust. [93021]
Mr. Lammy: The information requested is shown in the table.
| £000 | Cumulative | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust | |||
| 1997–98 | -3 | -3 | |
| 1998–99 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1999–2000 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2000–01 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2001–02 | 9 | 9 | |
| Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust | |||
| 1997–98 | 153 | 153 | |
| 1998–99 | 30 | 183 | |
| 1999–2000 | -826 | -643 | |
| 2000–01 | 260 | -383 | |
| 2001–02 | -545 | -928 | |
| Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust | |||
| 1997–98 | 21 | 21 | |
| 1998–99 | 24 | 45 | |
| 1999–2000(46) | -646 | -502 | |
| 2000–01 | 607 | 105 | |
| 2001–02 | -494 | -389 | |
(46) For 1999–2000 the cumulative position was amended due to a technical adjustment Note:
A minus figure represents an overspend
NHS Trusts (Surrey)
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what allocation of strategic capital Surrey NHS trusts have received in the current financial year. [91467]
Ms Blears: Total strategic capital earmarked for Surrey trusts in 2002–03 was £8.8 million.
Of this, Ashford & St. Peters National Health Service Trust received £2.5 million, Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust £2 million and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare £4.3 million.
Nicotine Replacement Therapies
Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his estimate is of the likely (a) fatal and (b) non-fatal side effects of Zyban if used for six months. [92605]
Ms Blears: Zyban (bupropion hydrochloride) was licensed in June 2000 as an aid to smoking cessation in combination with motivational support in nicotine-dependent patients. The maximum treatment course
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authorised in the United Kingdom is seven to nine weeks. Zyban should not be used for six months and therefore it is not possible to give an estimate of the likely fatal and non-fatal side effects of Zyban if used for this period of time.
Zyban is an effective aid to smoking cessation, and like all effective medicines is not without side effects. Since its launch in the United Kingdom, full guidance on prescribing and use, including possible side effects, have been present in the summary of product characteristics for health professionals and patient information leaflet for patients.
The side effects that are recognised to occur more commonly, ie, could happen to more than one in 100 people, in association with Zyban are non-serious including insomnia, urticaria, rash, headache, dizziness and nausea. Serious side effects do occur in association with Zyban, albeit rarely. These include seizures (fits or convulsions) which occur with an incidence of approximately 0.1 per cent., (one in 1,000) and hypertension and severe hypersensitivity reactions (which may occur in between one in 1,000 and one in 10,000 people taking Zyban). Of these, seizures and severe hypersensitivity reactions are potentially life threatening.
Nurses (Recruitment)
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 25 November 2002, Official Report, column 136W, regarding ethical foreign nurse recruitment, how he plans to inform (a) NHS organisations, (b) overseas Governments, (c) overseas nurses and (d) other interested parties, of agencies that have been reported by the Workforce Development, Confederation for failure to adhere to the code of practice. [84772]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 2 December 2002]: Where reported breaches of the code of practice are substantiated the agency will be removed from the list of agencies who are compliant with the code of practice that the Department of Health publicises.
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