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Care Direct
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on (a) the Care Direct pilots and (b) the future of this scheme. [115524]
Jacqui Smith: The Government announced in their Manifesto, the intention to build on Care Direct to develop a Third Age Service. In light of this commitment, the Government has taken the decision not to extend Care Direct beyond the first six pilot sites, but to concentrate instead on developing the Third Age Service, for which the Department for Work and Pensions has lead responsibility.
Care Direct will continue in the six councils in the South West until March 2004, where it will provide a basis for the development of an operational model for the Third Age Service.
Catchment Areas (Liverpool)
Mrs. Ellman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the catchment area is for patients for (a) Royal Liverpool University Hospital, (b) Royal Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, (c) Women's Hospital, Liverpool, (d) Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool, (e) Alderley Hospital Trust, Liverpool and (f) the Neurological Unit, Walton. [110942]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 6 May 2003]: The information requested has been provided in the table.
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| NHS Trust | Local PCTs | PCT Population | Aggregate PCT Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University NHS Trust | Central Liverpool | 346,119 | 604,587 |
| North Liverpool | 146,550 | ||
| South Liverpool | 111,918 | ||
| University Hospital Aintree | Knowsley | 207,934 | |
| South Sefton | 180,226 | 508,508 | |
| Southport and Formby | 120,348 |
| NHS Trust | Strategic Health Authority Population |
|---|---|
| Royal Liverpool Children's Trust | 2,611,001 |
| Cardiothoracic Centre NHS Trust | |
| Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Trust | |
| Walton Centre for Neurology NHS Trust |
Notes:(i) There will be significant numbers of patients referred from the PCTs identified above to other healthcare providers; (ii) The Trusts (acute and specialist) identified above will provide healthcare to a number ofother commissioners, and this will not be restricted to England; (iii) Specialist Trusts provide a very limited range of services across the Strategic Health Authority; and (iv) Due to the above it is not possible to calculate catchment populations in the format requested.Source:Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority
Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many car parking spaces the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority (a) has within premises owned by them and (b) rents or leases from other organisations; and at what cost per year. [112416]
Jacqui Smith: Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority leases its accommodation at Wilderspool Park, Stockton Heath. Under the lease it has access to 96 car parking spaces including parking for visitors. The cost of these spaces is part of the overall lease cost for the accommodation and is not separately identified.
SHA staff based at Hamilton House in Liverpool have access to 18 spaces at an annual cost of £26,031.20.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many meetings the chief executive of Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has had with the leaders of local authorities since her appointment; and which local authorities were involved; [112787]
- (2) how many meetings the chair of Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has had with the leaders of local authorities since her appointment; and with which local authorities; [112793]
(3) how many meetings the chair of Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has had with chief executives of local authorities since her appointment; and which local authorities were involved. [112788]
Jacqui Smith: The principal relationship with local authorities (LAs) is with primary care trusts. However the chair and chief executive of the Cheshire and
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Merseyside Strategic Health Authority (CMSHA) welcome the opportunity to meet with officers of LAs to discuss issues of interest or concern and do meet with them from time to time on an on-going basis. According to records held by the CMSHA, the chief executive has met with senior officers of LAs on four occasions in the past year. The LAs were Warrington Borough Council, Chester County Council, Liverpool City Council and Wirral Borough Council. The chief executive has also met with senior officers of Social Services North West and the Social Services Inspectorate.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many meetings the chief executive of Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has had with individual chairs of trusts since her appointment. [112790]
Jacqui Smith: The chief executive has regular meetings, in addition to telephone contact with national health service trust senior officers, including trust chairs on an on-going basis. According to records held by the strategic health authority, the chief executive has met with trust chairs on an individual basis on 14 occasions and on a group basis on 39 occasions since her appointment.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many meetings the chief executive of Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has had with public bodies other than health bodies in the past year. [112791]
Jacqui Smith: According to its records, the chief executive of the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority met with chief executives of non-health public bodies on 15 occasions in the past year.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many board meetings the chair of the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has presided over since her appointment; and what the average length was of such meetings. [112794]
Jacqui Smith: There have been 10 board meetings since 1 April 2002, and the chair of the strategic health authority has chaired nine of these. The meetings usually last between two and two and half hours.
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many meetings the chief executive of Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority has had with individual hon. Members since her appointment; and what the average duration was of such meetings. [112803]
Jacqui Smith: The chief executive of the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority met collectively with 17 hon. Members on 29 October 2002 and with three hon. Members on 16 May 2003. The chief
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executive has also met with 16 hon. Members on an individual basis over the past year. The average duration of these meetings was one hour.
Child Protection
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many recommendations by Lord Laming in his report on Victoria Climbié shown as achievable within three months have been initiated; which have not been initiated; and for what reason. [114732]
Jacqui Smith: There are 46 recommendations in the Victoria Climbié Inquiry report which are viewed by Lord Laming as being achievable within three months. Thirty-eight of these were included in the checklist of good practice recommendations sent to police, health and social services by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health on 28 January 2003. A copy of this list is available in the Library. These were also included in the self-audit tools which were issued subsequently by the Commission for Health Improvement and the Social Services Inspectorate. The remaining eight recommendations will be covered in our substantive response to the report, to be published shortly as part of the Green Paper on Children at Risk.
Dietary Salt
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research he has evaluated on possible links between high levels of salt in pre-prepared food and heart disease in children under 10. [113401]
Ms Blears: A Sub-Group of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), an independent United Kingdom-wide advisory committee set up to advise both the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency, recently considered the effects of salt on health, in both children and adults.
The SACN report on Salt and Health (2003) concluded that,
"Further research is needed to assess the level of salt in children's diets, which may influence blood pressure [a risk factor for heart disease] independently of other factors. Nevertheless it would be inadvisable for children in the UK to become accustomed to the levels of salt intake currently habitual for adults as the evidence suggests long-term consumption of such amounts being potentially harmful in adult life".
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