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E-mail Addresses

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Health by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation. [97442]

Ms Blears: Members of the public can contact Ministers at the Department of Health through the email address on the website at dhmail@ doh.gsi.gov.uk. This site was introduced in October 1999 and the numbers of emails received are as follows.

1999
October320
November371
December294
Total985
2000
January487
February490
March592
April868
May648
June679
July777
August755
September647
October977
November1,035
December804
Total8,759
2001
January1,391
February1,289
March1,618
April1,517
May1,651
June1,460
July1,653
August1,716
September1,563
October2,204
November2,210
December1,616
Total19,888
2002
January 2,494
February2,406
March2,312
April2,425
May2,148
June1,829
July2,804
August2,313
September2,224
October 2,801
November2,612
December1,768
Total28,136
2003
January3,003

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Electronic Yellow Card Scheme

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adverse drug reactions were reported by nurses to the electronic yellow card scheme in January 2003. [97138]

Ms Blears: In January 2003, the Medicines Control Agency and the Committee on Safety of Medicines received two reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) submitted by nurses using the electronic yellow card, out of a total of 24 electronic reports of suspected ADRs from all health professionals during this time.

Foundation Hospitals

Ms Drown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information foundation hospitals will cease to need to provide to their strategic health authority, his Department and other regulatory bodies. [99032]

Mr. Hutton: Paragraphs 3.22 and 3.23 of "A Guide to NHS Foundation Trusts" set out our proposals for the provision of financial and statistical information by national health service foundation trusts. Forthcoming legislation will set out the process for defining information requirements for NHS foundation trusts.

Ms Drown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether foundation trusts can choose not to have modern matrons. [99033]

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to ensure that foundation hospitals cannot disestablish modern matron posts. [98592]

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether foundation hospitals will have the right to remove modern matron posts. [98710]

Mr. Hutton: National health service foundation trusts will have freedom to put in place the staffing and management structures that ensure the necessary mix of skills to provide the best standard of care to patients.

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Modern matron posts have been a very successful innovation and I would expect foundation trusts to take this into account.

Gender Reassignment Surgery

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent information he has collated on waiting lists for gender reassignment surgery; [93435]

Mr. Hutton: Gender reassignment surgery consists of a series of different surgical procedures, for example, female to male gender reassignment may require a mastectomy and a hysterectomy and a series of operations to construct a phallus. The Department collects Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) from national health service trusts on operations specifically for sexual transformation, but those procedures such as mastectomies or hysterectomies are collected separately and it is not possible to identify if these were carried out as part of a gender reassignment operation. Details of the NHS trusts who have undertaken any operations for sexual transformation in the past five years are listed in the table.

The HES data shows that 89 operations were undertaken for male to female gender reassignment surgery in 2001–02. No operations for female to male gender reassignment were recorded during this period.

Information on the numbers of psychiatric assessments undertaken for gender dysphoria are currently not collected centrally. The mental health minimum dataset will collect data for the first time on psychiatric assessments from April 2003.

Information on waiting lists and the number of full time equivalent staff and sessions per week devoted to treating patients with gender dysphoria and those working in gender dysphoria clinics is not collected centrally.

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Trusts that undertake gender reassignment operations 1997–98 to 2001–02

1997–981998–991999–20002000–012001–02
The Freeman Group of Hospitals NHS Trust(26)
The Royal Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust(26)
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Trust(26)(26)(26)(26)
United Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust(26)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust(26)(26)(26)(26)
North Manchester Healthcare NHS(26)
Central Manchester and Manchester University NHS Trust(26)
Leicester General Hospital NHS(26)
University Hospitals of Leicestershire NHS Trust(26)
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Trust(26)
The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS(26)(26)(26)(26)
University College London Hospital NHS Trust(26)(26)(26)(26)(26)
East Somerset NHS Trust(26)
The United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust(26)(26)(26)(26)
St. Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust(26)
Liverpool Womens Hospital NHS(26)(26)
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust(26)(26)(26)(26)
Brighton Health Care NHS Trust(26)
Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust(26)(26)(26)
Pilgrim Health NHS Trust(26)
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS(26)(26)(26)
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS(26)
Mid Sussex NHS Trust(26)(26)
Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital NHS Trust(26)(26)
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust(26)
Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust(26)(26)
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust(26)

(26) Denotes a trust who have at least one recorded case for the given year.

Note:

A null value has been given where there has either been no cases for the given year or the trust did not exist.



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