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Alzheimer's
Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to make anti-dementia drugs freely available on the NHS for all Alzheimer's disease sufferers; and if he will make a statement. [196929]
Dr. Ladyman:
In 2000, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended to the national health service that the three drugs: donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine should be made available in the NHS as one part of the management of some people with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease. Not all people taking one of these drugs will benefit from them. For those who do not show improvement, or a slowing down of the disease in the first few months, it is unlikely that they would show any benefit later on.
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NICE is currently reviewing the original appraisal and recommendations, including looking at whether a fourth drug, memantine, should also be made generally available.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease under the age of 65. [197924]
Dr. Ladyman: The Alzheimer's Society estimate that around 750,000 people in the United Kingdom have dementia and more than half have Alzheimer's disease. They further estimate that around 18,500 people under the age of 65 have dementia.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to include early onset Alzheimer's disease in the forthcoming Green Paper on Adult Social Care. [197925]
Dr. Ladyman: Our vision for adult social care is for services that are tailored to individual circumstances, enabling adults of all ages, whatever their circumstances, to live more fulfilled and independent lives.
Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the financial position of Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust. [197513]
Dr. Ladyman: The retained deficit reported by Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals National Health Service Trust in its annual accounts for the year ended March 2004 was £4,398,000.
The trust is currently forecasting that it will break even in 2004–05.
Barnet Hospital
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses, (b) junior doctors, (c) registrars, (d) consultants and (e) managers were employed at Barnet hospital on (i) 1 May 1997 and (ii) the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [197516]
Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is shown in the table.
(29) In 1999 Wellhouse NHS Trust (RDC) merged with Chase Farm Hospital NHS Trust (RG9) to become Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust (RVL).
(30) Not applicable.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census
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Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients from Barnet had (a) elective surgery, (b) emergency surgery and (c) out-patient appointments in (i) 1996–97 and (ii) 2003–04; and if he will make a statement. [197518]
Dr. Ladyman: Information requested for elective surgery and emergency surgery is shown in the table. Information on out-patient appointments is not collected centrally. 2003–04 figures are not yet available. 2002–03 figures are shown instead.
Finished admission episodes
A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission 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 (4 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.
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
Charnwood and North West Leicestershire PCT
Mr. Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding Charnwood and North West Leicestershire Primary Care Trust has received in each year since 2001. [197428]
Mr. Hutton: The information requested is shown in the following table.
Note:
The Department has only made direct allocations to PCTs since 2003–04. Prior to this, allocations were made directly to HAs. Therefore allocations information from the relevant HA is also included.
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Children's Hospices
Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he last met interested groups in the Greater London area to discuss core funding for hospices for children; and if he will make a statement. [197717]
Dr. Ladyman: I have not met with any groups in Greater London to discuss funding for hospices. I did however meet with representatives of the Association of Children's Hospices and the Association for Children with Life Threatening Illnesses on 21 July 2004.
The principles governing sources of funding for children's hospice services are the same in Greater London as in any other part of the country. Primary care trusts (PCTs) may commission services according to their assessment of the needs of their child population and their priorities. It is for children's hospices to enter into a dialogue with their local PCT, or the lead commissioning PCT where a hospice serves a wide area, who may seek to place a child with them and so establish the level of demand for their services.
The disabled child module of the children's national service framework (published on 15 September) acknowledges the importance of palliative care services for children and recommends that high quality palliative care services should be available for all children and young people who need them.
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