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Nappies
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Department has received a written request from the Nappy Alliance seeking a meeting to discuss policy and practice in the use of nappies within NHS facilities. [178246]
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Dr. Ladyman [pursuant to his reply, 21 June 2004, Official Report, column 1279W]: I regret that my previous reply was incorrect. It should read as follows:
The Department of Health received a written request from the Nappy Alliance for a meeting in a letter dated 6 May 2004.
NHS Agency Staff
Mr. Tony Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money was spent by the NHS on agency staff in Northampton south in each year since 1997. [186519]
Dr. Ladyman: The information for the national health service organisations serving the Northampton south area is shown in the following table.
| Trust name | 1997–98 | 1998–99 | 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | 279,396 | 560,994 | 668,454 | 949,289 | 2,173,143 | 3,254,519 |
| Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust | 147,376 | 106,148 | 208,977 | 458,423 | 903,261 | 1,346,960 |
| Northampton Community Healthcare NHS Trust | 803,837 | 1,221,668 | 1,057,035 | 1,266,031 | n/a | n/a |
| Rockingham Forest NHS Trust | 265,930 | 902,672 | 806,521 | 1,384,405 | n/a | n/a |
| Northampton Healthcare NHS Trust | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4,121,279 | 4,649,625 |
| Daventry and South Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) | n/a | n/a | n/a | 63,534 | 67,404 | 100,000 |
| Northampton PCT | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 202,315 |
Sources:
1. Annual financial returns of NHS trusts, 1997–98 to 2002–03.
2. Annual financial returns of PCTs, 2000–01 to 2002–03
| As at 30 September each year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |
| Medical and Dental Staff (Doctors) | 226 | 241 | 248 | 264 | 283 |
| Non-Medical Staff (Nurses) | n/a | 2,628 | 2,601 | 2,581 | 2,799 |
| Of which | |||||
| Professionally qualified clinical staff | n/a | 1,411 | 1,414 | 1,427 | 1,548 |
| Qualified nurses | n/a | 1,141 | 1,149 | 1,156 | 1,233 |
| Qualified Scientific and Technical staff | n/a | 270 | 265 | 271 | 315 |
| Support to clinical staff | n/a | 893 | 876 | 766 | 879 |
| Support to doctors and nurses | n/a | 738 | 724 | 616 | 719 |
| Support to Scientific and Technical staff | n/a | 155 | 152 | 150 | 160 |
| NHS infrastructure support | n/a | 324 | 311 | 388 | 372 |
| Central functions | n/a | 120 | 130 | 125 | 120 |
| Hotel property and estate staff | n/a | 145 | 127 | 204 | 193 |
| Managers and senior managers | n/a | 59 | 54 | 59 | 59 |
n/a—not applicable
Sources:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census
Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census
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NHS Commercial Activity
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will (a) take steps to prevent the distribution within NHS hospitals of Bounty packs to mothers of newly-born children and (b) undertake an assessment of the environmental sustainability of the products contained in Bounty packs. [186180]
Dr. Ladyman: There are no plans to take steps to prevent the distribution of Bounty packs within National Health Service hospitals and no plans to undertake an assessment of the environmental sustainability of the products contained in the packs.
NHS Dentistry
Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make a statement on the progress of the NHS dentistry support team's work with primary care trusts in Gloucestershire; [186311]
(2) if he will make a statement on the progress of the action plan to establish new dental practices in Gloucestershire. [186312]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The national health service dentistry support team is working with West Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT). The PCT's dental action plan has been endorsed by the support team and will be published following the PCT's board meeting on 16 September.
Additional recurrent funding of £400,000 has been allocated by the support team to the PCT to support the developments contained in its action plan.
Mr. Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental practices are offering NHS dental services in the London borough of Enfield; and what efforts are being made to increase their availability. [187004]
Mr. Hutton: Data for numbers of dentists accepting new patients are not collected by London borough.
The available information on practises accepting new patients is on the nhs.uk website at www.nhs.uk. The table shows the number of dentists in Enfield Primary Care Trust (PCT) accepting new patients.
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| Service | Accepting new patients | Total number of practices |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | ||
| Providing occasional NHS treatment to non registered patients | 4 | — |
| Registering charge exempt adults for NHS treatment | 21 | — |
| Registering charge paying adults for NHS treatment | 22 | — |
| Registering children aged 0–18 years for NHS treatment | 30 | — |
Note:
Enfield PCT (as part of North Central London) has the highest general dental practitioner per 1,000 population ratio in the United Kingdom (=0.5).
Enfield PCT recognises that practices are not always located in the areas of greatest need. As part of developing its commissioning strategy for dentistry, the PCT will look to increase the number of personal dental services in Enfield in 2004–05 and has already put aside space for a dental practice at the local investment finance trust Forest Road Primary Care Centre, Edmonton, in February 2006.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists in the Colchester constituency provide NHS treatment; how many provided NHS treatment in 1997; and if he will make a statement. [186979]
Dr. Ladyman: Information is not collected by parliamentary constituency. However, there were 82 dentists providing National Health Service treatment in the Colchester Primary Care Trust area, which includes the Colchester constituency, in September 2003, the latest data available. In September 1997, there were 72 dentists. These numbers cover dentists working in the general dental service or personal dental service.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of NHS dentists in the Bury St. Edmunds constituency are registering new NHS patients. [187202]
Dr. Ladyman: This information is not collected by Parliamentary constituency. However, there are 34 national health service dental practices in the Suffolk West Primary Care Trust area, which covers the Bury St. Edmunds constituency. Of these, 12, or 35.3 per cent., of the total, are registering children, eight, or 23.5 per cent., are registering charge exempt adults and six, or 17.6 per cent., are registering charge paying adults. In addition, one practice is providing occasional NHS treatment for non registered patients.
Source:
NHS.UK website.
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Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists have applied to become NHS dentists in each year since 2000 in Suffolk. [187206]
Dr. Ladyman: The number of entrants into national health service dentistry in each year since 2000 in Suffolk primary care trusts (PCTs) are shown in the table.
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Suffolk PCT area(53) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Suffolk Coastal PCT area(54) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Suffolk West PCT area(55) | 8 | 14 | 16 | 10 |
(53) Figures for Central Suffolk are based on general dental service (GDS) contracts only. There are no personal dental service (PDS) dentists in this PCT area.
(54) Figures for Suffolk Coastal are based on GDS contracts only. There are no PDS dentists in this PCT area.
(55) Figures are based on GDS and PDS contracts.
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