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Bed Occupancy Rates
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the trusts operating with bed occupancy levels higher than the Department of Health's target of 82 per cent. [193455]
Mr. Hutton: The Department does not have a target for bed occupancy. National health service organisation data including bed occupancy rates for 2000–01 to 2003–04, are available on the Department's website at www.performance.doh.gov.uk/hospitalactivity/index.htm.
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will ask the management of Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to carry out an urgent investigation into levels of cleanliness and hygiene and to publish its findings. [193777]
Miss Melanie Johnson: There were 106 reported methycillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream infections at the Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull National Health Service Trust (Teaching) during 2003–04. This equates to 0.26 incidences per 1,000 bed days 1 .
We are committed to reducing healthcare associated infections and we have set a new national target of year-on-year reductions in MRSA infection rates.
Birmingham and The Black Country Strategic Health Authority (SHA) is currently reviewing implementation in its area of the guidance contained in "Winning ways: working together to reduce healthcare associated infection in England", which was issued by the Chief Medical Officer in December 2003.
The SHA reports that the trust has a robust infection control plan, in line with the guidance, and has passed external inspections by the patient environment action team. The trust is also conducting its own inquiry, involving an independent investigator, into cleanliness and hygiene at the trust.
The findings of this inquiry will be made available once it is completed.
Department of Health Mandatory Bacteraemia Surveillance Scheme.
Bullying
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the financial cost resulting from bullying in the NHS in the last year for which figures are available. [196257]
Mr. Hutton:
This information is not collected and held centrally, although it may be available from individual national health service employing organisations. The Government has made it clear that no form of bullying or harassment will be tolerated in the NHS. NHS employers are expected to take proactive action to prevent such behaviour and to take effective action to tackle it when it occurs.
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Cancer
Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what actions his Department has taken to improve the early diagnosis of cancer since the publication by the National Audit Office of its report,"Tackling cancer in England: saving more lives", HC 364, Session 2003–04. [197217]
Miss Melanie Johnson:
The cancer policy team within the Department is currently developing a programme of work to raise public awareness of symptoms which might result in the diagnosis of cancer and to encourage
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people with those symptoms to seek medical advice as early as possible.
This work is being undertaken in conjunction with a variety of key stakeholders, including clinicians, researchers, charities and patient representatives.
Mr. Skinner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations for cancer were carried out in hospitals covering the constituency of Bolsover in (a) 1997, (b) 2000 and (c) 2003. [197094]
Dr. Ladyman: Information relating to those national health service trusts most likely to treat patients from the Bolsover constituency is shown in the table.
Notes:
Finished consultant episode (FCE)—A FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year.
All operations count of episodes—These figures represent a count of all FCE's where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002–03) operation fields in a HES record. A record is only included once in each count, even if an operation is mentioned in more than one operation field of the record.
Diagnosis (primary diagnosis)—The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.
Ungrossed data—Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Mr. Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health in what circumstances the provision of cardiac rehabilitation is a mandatory requirement for NHS trusts; and if he will make a statement. [196879]
Miss Melanie Johnson: Provision for cardiac rehabilitation is addressed in standard 12 of the national service framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease. Standards are quality requirements which describe the care that clinicians and others will use to guide their practice. Standard 12 states:
"NHS Trusts should put in place agreed protocols/systems of care so that, prior to leaving hospital, people admitted to hospital suffering from coronary heart disease have been invited to participate in a multidisciplinary programme of secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation. The aim of the programme will be to reduce their risk of subsequent cardiac problems and to promote their return to a full and normal life."
Service models for the delivery of this standard are set out in the NSF.
Care Homes
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear and (d) England have been in (i) voluntary sector, (ii) local authority and (iii) private sector care homes in each year since 1997. [193606]
Dr. Ladyman: Information about the number of places in care homes is collected but information about the number of people in those places is not centrally available.
The number of care home places in Gateshead and South Tyneside, Newcastle and North Tyneside, Northumberland, and England at 31 March for the years 1997 to 2001 is shown in the table.
I understand from the chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) that figures for later years were collected by the National Care Standards Commission and now CSCI, but that comparable details are not available.
(56) Nursing relates to Gateshead and South Tyneside health authority, Newcastle and North Tyneside HA, and Northumberland HA; Residential care relates to Gateshead Council with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSR), South Tyneside CSSR, Newcastle CSSR, North Tyneside CSSR and Northumberland CSSR.
(57) Nursing home figures include places in general nursing homes, mental nursing homes and private hospitals and clinics.
Source:
RA and RH(N) form A.
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Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many new care homes have been built by local authorities in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear and (d) England in each year since 1997; [193607]
(2) how many new care homes are being built in the private sector in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear and (d) England in each year since 1997; [193608]
(3) how many new care homes have been built in the voluntary sector in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear and (d) England in each year since 1997; [193610]
(4) how many care homes have closed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear and (d) England in each year since 1997. [193633]
Dr. Ladyman: Information about the total number of care homes is collected, but information about the number of care homes opening and closing is not centrally available.
Data are not available for the areas requested. The table shows the number of care homes for the nearest equivalent areas at 31 March for the years 1997 to 2001.
I understand from the chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) that figures for later years were collected by the National Care Standards Commission and now CSCI, but that comparable details are not available.
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(58) Nursing relates to Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority, Newcastle and North Tyneside HA, and Northumberland HA; Residential care relates to Gateshead Council with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSR), South Tyneside CSSR, Newcastle CSSR, North Tyneside CSSR, and Northumberland CSSR.
(59) Nursing home figures include places in general nursing homes, mental nursing homes and private hospitals and clinics.
Source:
RA and RH(N) form A.
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