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NHS Non-Medical Staff
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many non-medical staff are employed by the NHS in the London borough of Havering; [182819]
(2) how many non-medical staff are employed in each of London's NHS trusts. [182825]
Mr. Hutton:
This data is not collected by London
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borough. However the boundaries of primary care trusts (PCTs) are co-terminous with London boroughs.
The table shows the number of non medical staff employed in each of the London national health service trusts including Havering Primary Care Trust.
The non medical staff grouping includes nurses, health care assistants, technicians, administration staff etc. but does not include doctors employed in either the acute or primary care sector.
Source:
Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census
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NHS Posts (E-advertising)
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations his Department has received from professional health journals on change in income from job advertising due to e-advertising of NHS posts; and if he will make a statement. [183129]
Mr. Hutton: The Department has had regular meetings with representatives from the health care professions to discuss the national health service e-recruitment project and will continue to work with them. In addition, the Department and the Department of Trade and Industry are working with members of the periodical publishers association to share information about the development of the service, assess its impact and explore ways in which the service and the health journals can work together to support cost effective recruitment into the NHS.
NHS Recruitment (Young People)
Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to encourage young people (a) to enter the nursing profession and (b) to work for the national health service in non-clinical jobs. [184041]
Mr. Hutton:
The NHS Careers service, information available on their website at www.nhscareers.nhs.uk, provides information about jobs and careers, clinical and non-clinical, within the national health service. The service is supported by national and local initiatives to promote careers in the NHS to young people including:
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a competition in secondary schools and colleges of further education to encourage more young people to consider a career in the NHS; an annual, multi-media, high profile recruitment campaign; and NHS Job Shop Day, to be held on 23 September this year. In addition, NHS bursaries are available to nursing and midwifery students undertaking degree or diploma level pre-registration courses. The Department, in collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing, has also developed a dedicated website, at www.learnaboutnursing.org, and package of activities aimed at raising the profile of nursing among schoolchildren.
NHS Staffing
Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff left the NHS in each year since 1991; and what percentage of the total number of staff this represented in each case. [184211]
Mr. Hutton: The information requested is not collected centrally. The Department's workforce censuses collect information on the number of staff employed in the national health service each year; consecutive years' data therefore show the net change in the workforce, taking account of leavers and joiners.
NHS Treatment (Private Clinics)
Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS patients who will receive treatment in private clinics over the next three years. [179430]
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Mr. Hutton: The independent sector treatment centre (IS-TC) programme is part of a major initiative to create additional capacity within the national health service to reduce waiting times and introduce choice for patients.
When fully operational we expect IS-TCs to provide NHS treatment for up to 250,000 patients per annum.
Information about the number of NHS patients treated in private clinics is not currently available. However, the Department's ongoing capacity planning exercise will give us a better understanding of the shape of procurement plans over the next five years.
We expect the number of NHS patients who receive treatment through the independent sector to increase over the next five years.
Overseas Drugs Sales
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions his Department has had with other governments on preventing companies from overseas advertising, selling and exporting to the UK drugs which are only available with a prescription from a general practitioner. [183494]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The legal controls on the retail sale, supply and advertising of medicines are set out in the Medicines Act 1968 and supporting regulations. They apply without distinction to medicines advertised, sold or supplied through the internet and by mail order.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) replaced the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) on 1 April 2003.
In 1998, the MCA co-ordinated the initial conference of the permanent forum on international pharmaceutical crime (PFIPC). The most recent meeting was in June 2004.
The enforcement group of the MHRA has now established links through the PFIPC with senior enforcement officers from a number of regulatory agencies world-wide, including the United States, Australia, Singapore, South Africa and many European Union countries. Internet related issues are of common concern. Co-operation has been agreed between agencies to assist where possible on criminal investigations.
International co-operation on this issue is challenging because the way medicinal products are supplied, with or without prescription, varies between countries, and variation in national legislation also means that what may be an offence in one country is not necessarily an offence in another.
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