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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the 10 primary care trusts with the highest average general practitioner list sizes in England. [189261]
Mr. Hutton: The table shows the 10 primary care trusts with the highest average national general practitioner list sizes in England.
Numbers (headcount) | |||
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(UPEs) | Patients of (UPEs) | Average list size | |
England | 28,568 | 52,713,780 | 1,845 |
5LC Westminster PCT | 100 | 250,884 | 2,509 |
5C2 Barking And Dagenham PCT | 70 | 1 70,493 | 2,436 |
5AK Southend On Sea PCT | 73 | 177,522 | 2,432 |
5C5 Newham PCT | 126 | 305,285 | 2,423 |
5LA Kensington And Chelsea PCT | 82 | 195,743 | 2,387 |
5MX Heart Of Birmingham Teaching PCT | 132 | 314,844 | 2,385 |
5JP Castle Point And Rochford PCT | 73 | 173,946 | 2,383 |
5EY Eastern Leicester PCT | 78 | 185,819 | 2,382 |
5MM Cannock Chase PCT | 54 | 128,291 | 2,376 |
5GQ Thurrock PCT | 63 | 148,710 | 2,360 |
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the (a) strategic health authorities, (b) primary care trusts and (c) NHS trusts which relate to each constituency, including their addresses. [189258]
Mr. Hutton: This information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list (a) the administration costs and (b) the total number of staff of (i) the Healthcare Commission, (ii) the Commission for Social Care Inspection, (iii) the Office of the Independent Regulator of Foundation Trusts and (iv) The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for the latest year for which figures are available. [187877]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the following table.
Organisation | Administration costs (£million) | Number of staff |
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The Healthcare Commission | 15.7 | 632 |
The Commission for Social Care Inspection | 147.2 | 2,622 |
The Independent Regulator of National Health Service Foundation Trusts | 16.0 | 45 |
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency | 66.9 | 823 |
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make a statement on the future of Battledown Ward at Cheltenham General Hospital; [189537]
(2) if he will make a statement on NHS acute children's services in Cheltenham. [189538]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust is leading a period of public consultation on the future of maternity care and services for children across Gloucestershire.
The responses to the consultation will be considered by the PCT and decisions on any changes to acute children's services in Cheltenham will not be taken until next year.
All options will continue to see the delivery of children's services from both the Battledown ward at Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Mr. Nigel Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the proposals (a) to downgrade Battledown Children's Ward at
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Cheltenham General Hospital into a paediatric assessment unit and (b) for the removal of acute children's services to Gloucester. [189539]
Ms Rosie Winterton: I have made no such assessment. Primary care trusts (PCTs) are responsible for commissioning appropriate levels of services for their communities. Cotswold and Vale PCT is leading a period of public consultation on the future of maternity care and services for children at home and in hospital across Gloucestershire.
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dental patients were registered in Torbay in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [188134]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of registrations in the general dental service in the area covered by Torbay Primary Care Trust for the last five years is shown as follows. The table only shows the number of registrations for general dental services. Through the South West Peninsula Options for Change field site, dentists are increasingly opting for the new ways of working that personal dental services (PDS) allows. As of 1 September 2004, four practices in Torbay have accepted PDS contracts.
Year(45) | Dental Registrations |
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2000 | 73,374 |
2001 | 73,288 |
2002 | 76,915 |
2003 | 71,631 |
2004 | 57,865 |
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the (a) technical and financial contracts, (b) technical consultants used on a call-off basis and (c) financial consultants used on a call-off basis, with regard to Healthy Living centres, giving the (i) cost and (ii) start date of employment; and if he will make a statement. [188747]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The Department has a contract with the Tavistock Institute for evaluating the Healthy Living Centre programme. The evaluation is worth £350,000 and was awarded after a competitive tendering exercise. The start date of the contract was May 2001 and it is due to complete in 2005.
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the survival rate for heart bypass surgery was in (a) England and (b) the London Borough of Havering in each of the last five years. [189249]
Miss Melanie Johnson:
Based upon data compiled for the national adult cardiac surgical database report 2003 by the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the survival rate for isolated, first-time coronary surgery in England has increased from 97.8 per cent. in 199899 to 98.2 per cent. in 200203 (latest figures available). The data are collected from individual hospitals so the identification of survival rates for specific local authorities is not possible.
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Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the number of children suffering from heart disease; [189394]
(2) how many children were detected with early signs of heart disease in the last year for which figures are available; [189395]
(3) how many children are receiving treatment for heart disease. [189396]
Miss Melanie Johnson:
This data are not collected centrally. However, it is estimated that about eight out of every 1,000 babies born in the United Kingdom will have a congenital heart defect and that about half of these will have a minor defect needing little or no
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treatment. The Department is currently examining these issues in conjunction with experts, families of patients and other interested parties and will be publishing the conclusions next year.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital beds there were in (a) Southend Hospital Trust and (b) Basildon Hospital Trust in each of the last five years. [189555]
Dr. Ladyman: The tables show the number of hospital beds for both Southend Hospital National Health Service Trust and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Trust respectively for the period 199697 to 200203. Data for 200304 are not yet available.
All specialities (excluding day only) | General and acute | Acute | Geriatric | Mental illness | Learning disability | Maternity | Day only | |
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199697 | 776 | 709 | 498 | 211 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 46 |
199798 | 770 | 703 | 495 | 209 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 46 |
199899 | 757 | 690 | 499 | 191 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 46 |
19992000 | 754 | 687 | 495 | 192 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 44 |
200001 | 728 | 683 | 507 | 176 | | | 45 | 39 |
200102 | 728 | 684 | 492 | 191 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 79 |
200203 | 713 | 669 | 494 | 175 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 63 |
All specialities (excluding day only) | General and acute | Acute | Geriatric | Mental illness | Learning disability | Maternity | Day only | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
199697 | 675 | 593 | 452 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 32 |
199798 | 662 | 581 | 440 | 141 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 32 |
199899 | 613 | 536 | 425 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 32 |
19992000 | 614 | 542 | 425 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 42 |
200001 | 627 | 556 | 434 | 122 | | | 71 | 42 |
200102 | 647 | 571 | 424 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 52 |
200203 | 627 | 576 | 438 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 42 |
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