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Health Service Premises

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health clinics have been modernised in (a) Chorley South Ribble Primary Care Trust and (b) Lancashire since 1997 [172075]

Miss Melanie Johnson: This information is not gathered centrally. Health clinics are most often held in general practice settings. For information relating to the number of general practitioner practices that have been replaced or refurbished since 2000–01, the latest available data, I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to him on 7 June 2004, Official Report, column 39W.

Health Services

Mr. Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been allocated to health in Manchester, Blackley in each of the last seven years. [175009]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is not available in the format requested. Expenditure per weighted head in the Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area, which includes the constituency of Manchester, Blackley, has increased from £582.33 in 1997–98 to £992.61 in 2002–03 (the latest year available). This does not represent the total expenditure per head as an element of health expenditure cannot be identified by SHA area.

Eye Tests

Mr. Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many senior citizens in Manchester, Blackley have access to free eye tests. [175010]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Data for the number of sight tests by constituency or by the number of senior citizens are not collected centrally.
 
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In 2002–03, the total number of national health service sight tests paid for by the Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority for patients aged 60 and over was 189,900. Sight tests cannot be equated to the numbers of patients.

Heart Surgery

Mrs. Humble: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many residents of Blackpool, North and Fleetwood awaiting heart surgery have had the option of choosing an alternative hospital for quicker treatment in the last 12 months. [175334]

Miss Melanie Johnson: This information is not collected centrally.

Heart Disease/Cancer Care

Mrs. Humble: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been spent on (a) heart disease and (b) cancer care in Blackpool, North and Fleetwood in each of the last five years. [175330]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected centrally. Allocations of funding for particular treatments are matters for the local primary care trust.

Hepatitis C

Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he will publish his Department's strategy on hepatitis C; [173191]

(2) when he will launch his Department's awareness campaign on hepatitis C; at what targets it is directed; and what the budget is for the campaign. [173192]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The Department intends to publish a hepatitis C action plan including an awareness campaign to assist implementation of the consultation paper, "Hepatitis C Strategy for England" in the next few months.

Immigrant Medical Inspections

Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what authority Hillingdon Primary Care Trust has to use NHS resources for the medical inspection of immigrants. [156848]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The authority for national health service bodies to incur expenditure on medical inspection of immigrants is in sections 1–3 of the National Health Service Act 1977.

The Secretary of State's duties under the Act are delegated to primary care trusts.

Malnutrition

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 10 May 2004, Official Report, column 168W, on malnutrition (1) what measures and strategies are in place to manage, monitor and screen patients for under nutrition; and if he will make a statement; [175931]

(2) for which specific groups nutritional screening is recommended; and if he will make a statement. [175932]

 
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Miss Melanie Johnson: Measures and strategies are in place to manage, monitor and screen patients for under-nutrition in hospitals, residential care and the wider community. Food and nutrition is one of eight benchmark areas aimed at ensuring that patients are screened on admission, and that appropriate action is taken according to nutritional needs. Nutritional screening is recommended for the care of specific groups, such as those highlighted in the national service frameworks for older people, diabetes and renal. Nutritional screening is also part of locally determined services.

Maternity Services

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will provide (a) mortality and (b) morbidity statistics for (i) normal vaginal deliveries, (ii) Caesarean sections and (iii) other deliveries in the last five years. [173734]

Dr. Ladyman: The Department does not collect the information in the format requested. However, the table, taken from the latest report on the confidential inquiries into maternal deaths (CEMD) in the United Kingdom, shows the direct and indirect maternal deaths and mortality rates per 100,000 maternities reported to registrars and the CEMD; United Kingdom for each triennium since 1988.

	Triennium
	1988–90	1991–93	1994–96	1997–99
Maternal deaths known to registrars general
Number	172	150	175	142
Rate	7.3	(1)6.5	(2)8.0	(3)6.7
Direct deaths known to inquiry
Number	145	128	134	106
Rate	6.2	5.5	6.1	5.0
Indirect deaths known to inquiry
Number	93	100	134	136
Rate	4.0	4.3	6.1	6.4
Total known to inquiry
Number	238	228	268	242
Rate	10.1	9.8	12.2	11.4
Total maternities
Number	2,347,529	2,317,328	2,197,640	2,123,614

⁽¹⁾ Final Office for National Statistics revised figures for 1991–93: the rate available at the time for the publication of the 1991–93 report was 6.0.
⁽²⁾ England and Wales figures for 1994 now include underlying cause and mentions (ICD9 630–676).
⁽³⁾ The rate for 1994–96 in the previous report was 7.4.

Information about morbidity in mothers may be found in table 27, and selected complications by delivery onset method and delivery method can be found in table 28 of "National Health Service Maternity Statistics, England: 2002–03", which can be found at www.publications.doh.gov.uk/public/sb0410.htm. A copy of the bulletin is available in the Library.

ME

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to help ME sufferers in Lancashire. [172076]

 
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Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected centrally. Allocation of funding for particular treatments are matters for the local primary care trust.

Mental Health

Mrs. Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what data are available to his Department relating to the numbers of (a) primary school age children and (b) secondary school age children assessed as needing support from child and adolescent mental health services in each year since 2001; and what proportion of these children are in mainstream education. [177514]

Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is not collected centrally. A survey by the Office for National Statistics, "Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, ONS 1999", found that among five to 10-year-olds, 10 per cent. of boys and 6 per cent. of girls had a mental disorder. In the 11 to 15-year-old age group, the proportion of children with any type of mental disorder was 13 per cent. for boys and 10 per cent. for girls. Mental disorders can range from clinically significant conduct disorders; emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression, to hyperactivity.

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