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GP Lists

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.
Primary care trusts (PCTs) with the highest average list size for unrestricted principals and equivalents (UPEs)⁽⁴⁴⁾

	Numbers (headcount)
	(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

⁽⁴⁴⁾UPEs include general medical service (QMS) unrestricted principals, personal medical service (PMS) contracted general practitioners and PMS salaried GPs.
Patient data has been revised from previously published figures
Source:
Department of Health general and personal medical services statistics.




 
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Health Bodies

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
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

Notes:
1. The administration costs shown are budget figures for 2004–05.
2. Staff figures are whole-time equivalents as at 31 March 2004.

Health Services

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
2000	73,374
2001	73,288
2002	76,915
2003	71,631
2004	57,865

⁽⁴⁵⁾ At 30 June each year.

Healthy Living Centres

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.

Heart Bypass Surgery

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 1998–99 to 98.2 per cent. in 2002–03 (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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Heart Disease

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.

Hospital Beds

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 1996–97 to 2002–03. Data for 2003–04 are not yet available.
RAJ—Southend Hospital NHS Trust—average daily number of available beds, by sector, 1996–97 to 2002–03

	All specialities (excluding day only)	General and acute	Acute	Geriatric	Mental illness	Learning disability	Maternity	Day only
1996–97	776	709	498	211	0	0	67	46
1997–98	770	703	495	209	0	0	67	46
1998–99	757	690	499	191	0	0	67	46
1999–2000	754	687	495	192	0	0	67	44
2000–01	728	683	507	176	—	—	45	39
2001–02	728	684	492	191	0	0	44	79
2002–03	713	669	494	175	0	0	44	63

Source:
Department of Health form KH03





RDD—Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Trust—average daily number of available beds, by sector, 1996–97 to 2002–03

	All specialities (excluding day only)	General and acute	Acute	Geriatric	Mental illness	Learning disability	Maternity	Day only
1996–97	675	593	452	141	0	0	82	32
1997–98	662	581	440	141	0	0	81	32
1998–99	613	536	425	111	0	0	77	32
1999–2000	614	542	425	118	0	0	72	42
2000–01	627	556	434	122	—	—	71	42
2001–02	647	571	424	147	0	0	76	52
2002–03	627	576	438	138	0	0	51	42

Source:
Department of Health form KH03

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