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Mental Health Act
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many officials in his Department at Grade 7 and above have worked on the reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 since May 1997. [178752]
Ms Rosie Winterton: A number of officials across the Department have contributed to work on the reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act since 1997. Quantifying this information by grade could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.
Mental Illness
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure that drug treatments for patients with mental health illnesses are prescribed at the correct dosage; and what measures are taken to monitor patients for harmful side effects. [178145]
Ms Rosie Winterton
[holding answer 15 June 2004]: The safety of all medicines in clinical practice is continually monitored by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM). Health professionals are asked to report any suspected side
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effects to the MHRA/CSM through the Yellow Card scheme. When a new side effect for a medicine is identified, action is taken to inform prescribers and to minimise the risk to patients.
Where specific monitoring of patients is required to ensure safe use of a medicine, this is referred to in the product information for prescribers (the summary of product characteristics) and in the patient information leaflet.
MRSA
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each of the last two years have fallen ill owing to MRSA-related conditions contracted as a result of a stay in hospital in each health service area. [177721]
Miss Melanie Johnson: This information is not collected centrally. Available data from the national mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections (bacteraemias) system is shown in the table.
(20) These data are provisional.
Source:
Health Protection Agency
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Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of MRSA were reported in each month over the last two years in each health trust. [177988]
Miss Melanie Johnson: Annual data are available from the mandatory Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream (bacteraemia) infections surveillance system that started in April 2001 at the Department's website at http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/06/39/46/04063946.pdf.
Natural Products Show (Olympia)
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what strategy the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency adopted in terms of (a) numbers of officials and (b) method of approach for visits to stands at the Natural Products Show at Olympia on 5 April. [176963]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The medicines borderline section of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency was given six free tickets to the Natural Products Show by an industry trade association with whom the MHRA meets on regular basis. The visit was intended to help inform the Medicines Borderline Section of market trends and developments, and to help provide information to the sector. During the visit the staff had informal discussions with exhibitors about the presentation of a number of unlicensed products making illegal medicinal claims with the exhibitors and some presentational material was taken away.
NHS Admissions (Burnley)
Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many elective admissions to the NHS there were in Burnley in each of the last five years. [167946]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected centrally on a constituency basis. Information relating to national health service organisations serving the Burnley area is shown in the table.
Notes:
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust was formed on 1 April 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Healthcare and the acute services of Burnley Healthcare. The Mental Illness and Old Age Psychiatry services of Burnley Healthcare transferred to Lancashire Care NHS Trust on 1 April 2002.
Source:
DH form KH07 and Monthly Monitoring
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NHS Admissions (Preston)
Mr. Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admissions to the NHS in Preston in the past five years. [168108]
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Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected centrally on a constituency basis. Information relating to national health service organisations serving the Preston area is shown in the table.
| Patients waiting for admission by months waiting | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month-end | NHS Trust | Total number of patients | Less than 3 months | 3–5 months | 6–8 months | 9–11 months | 12–14 months | 15–17 months | 18+ months |
| March 1997 | Chorley and South Kibble NHS Trust | 1,857 | 1,079 | 463 | 249 | 66 | — | — | — |
| March 1997 | Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,970 | 4,137 | 2,352 | 1,445 | 1,000 | 18 | 15 | 3 |
| March 1998 | Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust | 2,121 | 1,299 | 537 | 183 | 102 | — | — | — |
| March 1998 | Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,500 | 4,079 | 1,969 | 1,334 | 787 | 257 | 74 | — |
| March 1999 | Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust | 2,051 | 1,126 | 527 | 248 | 132 | 17 | 1 | — |
| March 1999 | Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 7,602 | 4,154 | 1,729 | 1,043 | 544 | 132 | — | — |
| March 2000 | Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust | 1,967 | 1,228 | 453 | 186 | 90 | 10 | — | — |
| March 2000 | Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 7,025 | 4,110 | 1,701 | 853 | 359 | 2 | — | — |
| March 2001 | Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,926 | 5,559 | 1,987 | 1,002 | 378 | — | — | — |
| March 2002 | Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,891 | 5,565 | 2,055 | 995 | 276 | — | — | — |
| March 2003 | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,445 | 5,473 | 2,096 | 711 | 165 | — | — | — |
| February 2004 | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 8,657 | 5,642 | 2,224 | 791 | — | — | — | — |
Note:
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was established 1 August 2002 from the acute services of Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust and Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. For 2001 and 2002, data for both trusts was reported under Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Source:
DH form KH07 and Monthly Monitoring
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