House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 12 Jan 2004 (pt 26)

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HEALTH

Genital Mutilation

Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate the Government have made of the number of women who have undergone genital mutilation in (a) St. Helens and (b) Merseyside in each of the last five years; and what estimate has been made of the total number of women in the UK who have undergone genital mutilation. [146045]

Miss Melanie Johnson: No estimate has been made of the number of women who have undergone female genital mutilation in St. Helens and Merseyside in the last five years or the national total.

Access to GPs

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what right of free access British citizens have to treatment at a GP practice other than that at which they are registered if (a) they are registered with a different practice but are resident in the UK and (b) they are UK citizens living outside the UK. [146355]

Mr. Hutton: Any person is entitled to receive emergency or immediately necessary treatment from any general practitioner if that treatment is necessary. In addition, anyone who is temporarily in an area for more than 24 hours but less than three months, including a

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United Kingdom citizen visiting from overseas, may register as a temporary resident to receive national health service primary medical services.

Accident and Emergency Departments(Cambridgeshire)

Mr. Djanogly: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to accident and emergency departments in Cambridgeshire there were in each of the past 12 quarters, broken down by hospital. [146448]

Dr. Ladyman: Information on the number of admissions to accident and emergency departments is published quarterly for each national health service trust, and is available from the Department's website at www.doh.gsi.gov.uk/hospitalactivity.

Copies of this information are also available in the Library.

The only acute NHS trust in Cambridgeshire is Addenbrooke's NHS Trust.

Accident and Emergency Nurses

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many registered nurses work in general accident and emergency units in England. [145666]

Mr. Hutton: Separate information is not collected on the number of nurses employed in accident and emergency units in the national health service. Qualified accident and emergency nurses are included in the 'Acute, elderly and general' area of work. As at September 2002 there were 187,439 nurses employed in the acute, elderly and general area of work in the NHS, an increase of 9,535 over the previous year and 27,505 since 1997.

ADHD UK Alliance

Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on how grants made by his Department to the ADHD UK Alliance have been spent. [143804]

Dr. Ladyman [holding answer 16 December 2003]: The Department of Health has given the ADHD UK Alliance a one-year grant of £25,000 as a contribution towards the central administrative costs of their activities in England. This grant supports our priorities in child and adolescent mental health by resourcing an organisation, which in turn, will help the development of the many small support groups in the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) field. We have also previously supported the ADHD UK Alliance when they were part of the organisation, Contact a Family.

Agency Staff

Mr. Djanogly: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of agency (a) nurses and (b) doctors has been to the NHS in Huntingdon in each year since 1999. [146444]

Dr. Ladyman: The information is not collected in the format requested. The tables show the available information regarding the national health service trusts that cover the Huntingdon constituency.

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(a) Non-NHS 'Nurses'⁽¹⁹⁾ NHS expenditure in Huntingdon: 1999–2000 to 2002–03⁽²⁰⁾£

Non-NHS 'nurses'⁽¹⁹⁾ 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03⁽²⁰⁾

Hinchingbrook Healthcare NHS Trust 900,387 887,916 965,681 256,352

Cambs and Peterborough MH Partnership Trust n/a n/a n/a 2,237,493

Cambridgeshire Health Authority 0 0 0 n/a

Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority n/a n/a n/a 0

Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust n/a n/a 0 0

Total 900,387 887,916 965,681 2,493,845

Non-NHS 'nurses'⁽¹⁹⁾	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03⁽²⁰⁾


Hinchingbrook Healthcare NHS Trust	900,387	887,916	965,681	256,352
Cambs and Peterborough MH Partnership Trust	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,237,493
Cambridgeshire Health Authority	0	0	0	n/a
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust	n/a	n/a	0	0
Total	900,387	887,916	965,681	2,493,845

⁽¹⁹⁾ 'Nurses' = Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Staff.

⁽²⁰⁾ 2002–03 data are provisional.

(b) Non-NHS 'Doctors'⁽²¹⁾ NHS expenditure in Huntingdon: 1999–2000 to 2002–03⁽²²⁾£

Non-NHS 'doctors'⁽²¹⁾ 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03⁽²²⁾

Hinchingbrook Healthcare NHS Trust 369,121 404,724 530,833 477,535

Cambs and Peterborough MH Partnership Trust n/a n/a n/a 880,861

Cambridgeshire Health Authority 615 133 0 n/a

Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority n/a n/a n/a 0

Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust n/a n/a 0 269,952

Total 369,736 404,857 530,833 1,628,348

Non-NHS 'doctors'⁽²¹⁾	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03⁽²²⁾


Hinchingbrook Healthcare NHS Trust	369,121	404,724	530,833	477,535
Cambs and Peterborough MH Partnership Trust	n/a	n/a	n/a	880,861
Cambridgeshire Health Authority	615	133	0	n/a
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust	n/a	n/a	0	269,952
Total	369,736	404,857	530,833	1,628,348

⁽²¹⁾ 'Doctors' = Medical Staff.

⁽²²⁾ 2002–03 data are provisional.

Sources:

1. Annual Financial Returns of NHS Trusts 1999–2000 to 2002–03.

2. Annual Financial Returns of Health Authorities 1999–2000 to 2001–02.

3. Annual Financial Returns of Strategic Health Authorities 2002–03.

4. Annual Financial Returns of Primary Care Trusts 2000–01 to 2002–03.

Approved Treatments

Andy King: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to ensure that patients are not taken off treatments which have not been approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence for non-medical reasons and transferred to those which have been so approved. [145387]

Miss Melanie Johnson: This is a matter which needs to be resolved at a local level according to the individual circumstances. Clinicians have a prime responsibility to prescribe treatments appropriate for the individual patient. In doing so, they should take full account of National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance and the evidence on which it is based.

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr. Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the progress being made towards the implementation of the Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust Franchise Plan. [146489]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 8 January 2004]: Further to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Salford (Ms Blears), on 20 May 2003, Official Report, col.736W, I understand from the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority that significant progress continues to be made on the franchise plan for Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals National Health Service Trust as follows:

Ongoing implementation of the £10 million capital programme, including completion of the day case surgery expansion, new ward which is part of a medical assessment unit scheme and new child care nursery at Ashford

Refurbishment of the maternity unit and a new playscheme at St. Peter's

14 per cent. increase in qualified nursing staff

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Year on year stability in the workforce

Provision of more affordable housing for key worker staffing under Government schemes

Improved collaborative working with local primary care trusts, social services and local authorities

Achievement of Improving Working Lives (IWL) 'Practice' Status

Moving from being a zero star in 2001 to two star trust in 2003

Since April 2003, in line with the franchise plan, Glenn Douglas has been the Trust's Chief Executive.

Ashford Hospital, Middlesex

Mr. Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the progress being made towards finalising the contract with Mercury Health Ltd to provide and run a diagnostic treatment centre at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex; and how many procedures per year he expects to be carried out at the new centre. [146502]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 8 January 2004]: The Department, working with local National Health Service sponsors, is making good progress towards finalising a contract for the provision of an independent sector treatment centre at Ashford. The treatment centre plans to provide treatment for 1,711 patients on average annually.

Mr. Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, has an Accident and Emergency Department. [146543]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 8 January 2004]: Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, which is part of the Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals National Health Service Trust, has an emergency department which deals

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with all medical emergencies and walking wounded. The accident and emergency department at St.Peter's Hospital in Chertsey handles trauma cases.

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