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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the National Care Standards Commission will publish its findings on the medicines management standard in care homes. [156295]
Dr. Ladyman: Yes. The National Care Standards Commission expects to publish its findings in a report to be issued in March.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has undertaken of the impact of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's proposed fee increase on the number of nurses nearing retirement renewing their registration; and if he will make a statement. [154586]
Mr. Hutton: It is for the Nursing and Midwifery Council to decide and justify any increase in registration fees that it proposes. Any increase is subject to Privy Council approval, and the Privy Council will carefully consider all arguments expressed when the time comes.
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff grade posts within the NHS he expects will be made consultant posts in the next 12 months. [156458]
Mr. Hutton: There are no central plans to convert staff grade posts into consultant posts over the next 12 months. National health service trusts can, if they feel there is a need, make proposals to their postgraduate deanery to increase the numbers of locally funded specialist training posts. These may be funded by conversion of staff grade posts and may eventually lead to additional consultant posts.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the (a) information requests and (b) data collections (i) made by and (ii) supplied to his Department concerning NHS finances; when they are collected; when they are available for publication; and at what level of NHS organisation the information is collected. [154584]
Mr. Hutton: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 10 February 2004, Official Report, column 1411W.
In addition, special health authorities also supply annual accounts, capital charge estimates and financial monitoring data to the Department.
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Annual accounts are published locally by individual national health service bodies. The accounts data collected by the Department is summarised and published. The most recent such publication was in March 2003, in respect of the summarised 200102 accounts.
NHS annual accounts data is also used by the Department in the preparation of the Departmental Resource Account. The 200203 Resource Account was published in January 2004.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much NHS land has been included on the register of surplus public sector land which can be sold off on the open market. [154099]
Mr. Hutton: This Department has recently agreed that surplus property owned by National Health Service trusts and primary care trusts are no longer required for the benefit of the NHS should be placed on the newly established Register of Surplus Public Sector Land. This will further the Government's objective of making the best use of such land. The NHS has been informed and detailed guidance on these arrangements will shortly be issued. It is anticipated that the NHS will be major users of the register, including as purchasers of surplus public land owned by other bodies.
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money has been allocated to NHS services in (a) Greater London and (b) each London borough in each of the last three years. [158440]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 3 March 2004]: The following tables show the allocations for health authorities and primary care trusts in London over the last three years. The Department does not have a breakdown by London borough.
Health authority(16) | 200102 | 200203 |
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Barking and Havering | 305,009 | 333,897 |
Barnet | 248,445 | n/a |
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey | n/a | 725,055 |
Bexley and Greenwich | 345,432 | n/a |
Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich | n/a | 635,109 |
Brent and Harrow | 371,479 | 432,599 |
Bromley | 218,662 | n/a |
Camden and Islington | 396,403 | 477,910 |
Croydon | 242,431 | 274,247 |
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow | 581,735 | 676,038 |
East London and The City | 598,866 | 702,986 |
Enfield and Haringey | 387,770 | n/a |
Hillingdon | 184,100 | 203,317 |
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster | 361,234 | 436,168 |
Kingston and Richmond | 256,722 | 284,506 |
Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham | 695,407 | 829,552 |
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth | 498,646 | 563,125 |
Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 351,329 | 399,542 |
Total | 6,043,669 | 6,974,051 |
(16)There were health authority mergers on 1 April 2001
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Primary care trust | 200304 |
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Barking and Dagenham | 153,449 |
Barnet | 303,125 |
Bexley | 181,941 |
Brent | 291,023 |
Bromley | 264,585 |
Camden | 264,700 |
Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford | 109,461 |
City and Hackney | 266,159 |
Croydon | 295,063 |
Ealing | 321,825 |
Enfield | 242,179 |
Greenwich | 238,961 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 192,779 |
Haringey | 244,127 |
Harrow | 178,844 |
Havering | 213,977 |
Hillingdon | 219,844 |
Hounslow | 216,776 |
Islington | 248,319 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 202,056 |
Kingston | 142,871 |
Lambeth | 325,353 |
Lewisham | 283,282 |
Newham | 276,635 |
Redbridge | 160,654 |
Richmond and Twickenham | 161,752 |
Southwark | 282,305 |
Sutton and Merton | 324,770 |
Tower Hamlets | 237,707 |
Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone | 163,981 |
Wandsworth | 275,795 |
Westminster | 263,876 |
Total | 7,548,174 |
John Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated deficit or underspend for each NHS trust in London is in the current financial year; and what cumulative deficit is being carried forward in each case. [154922]
Mr. Hutton: Audited information on the financial position of national health service trusts will be published in their individual annual accounts. This data will be available centrally in the autumn. We have no plans to publish un-audited information.
John Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust about ward closures; and if he will make a statement. [154924]
Mr. Hutton: I have had no discussions. It is for strategic health authorities (SHAs) to performance manage the national health service. I am assured by South East London SHA that, although Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust faces a number of financial pressures, it is working with its partners to manage them and to avoid any unnecessary or inappropriate impact on patient care.
Mr. Hurst: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost was of payments to retiring or resigning NHS trust chief executives in each year since 1990 to 2003. [156012]
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Mr. Hutton: This information is not identified separately in trust financial returns.
Mr. Hurst: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the salary was of the chief executive of each NHS trust in 2003. [156013]
Mr. Hutton: The Department does not hold this information centrally but has asked national health service trusts to include the information in their annual accounts.
Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget for the Centrally Funded Initiative and Services Special Allocation was for 200304; whether this budget has been committed; and whether reserves from the budget will be used to meet overspends in existing primary care trust budgets in 200304. [155591]
Mr. Hutton: The current budget for Centrally Funded Services and Initiatives and Special Allocations in 200304 is £13,030 million. This budget is fully committed and contains no reserve element.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the top-up sum available to primary care trusts to pay individual general practitioners for out-of-hours service will reach at least the current investment level. [155682]
Mr. Hutton: The investment in out-of-hours services has been doubled to £92 million from 200405. This is in addition to the average of £6,000 primary care trusts (PCTs) will receive for every general practitioner opting out of the responsibility to provide out of hours services. A further £28 million will be made. available to PCTs facing the biggest challenges in developing their out-of-hours services.
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