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Mental Health Bill

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health who will appoint the new advocates proposed in the draft Mental Health Bill; and what the relationship will be between the advocates and the legal representatives envisaged in the draft Bill. [198343]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Decisions about who will appoint the independent Mental Health Act advocates proposed in the draft Bill will be made as part of the preparation for the implementation of the Bill.

The duties of independent Mental Health Act advocates are set out in clause 247 of the draft Bill, which provides that help from advocates must include:

(a) help in obtaining information about and understanding—

(i) what medical treatment is being provided to the patient,

(ii) why it is being provided,

(iii) under what authority it is being provided,

(iv) the requirements of this Act that apply in connection with the patient'streatmentt, and

 
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(v) the rights which can be exercised by or in respect of him under this Act,

and

(b) help (by way of representation or otherwise) in exercising those rights

In addition, as under the Mental Health Act 1983, all patients who have a Mental Health Tribunal hearing under the Bill will be entitled to public funding of legal services (legal aid) and will therefore be entitled to a legal representative at the Tribunal.

Mental Health Services

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been provided in (a) Chorley, (b) the North West and (c) England for mental health services in financial year 2004–05. [198216]

Miss Melanie Johnson: It is not possible to disaggregate funding for mental health services from the total national health service expenditure. Following the Department's "Shifting the balance of power" initiative, funding is allocated to primary care trusts (PCTs) on the basis of the relative needs of their populations. It is for PCTs, in partnership with strategic health authorities and other local stakeholders, to determine how best to use their funds to meet national and local priorities for health.

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people suffering from psychiatric illness are employed in the NHS. [198217]

Mr. Hutton: The requested information is not collected by the Department.

Mobile Phone Masts

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance he has been issued on possible effects of Tetra mast signals on the operation of pacemakers. [198538]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has not issued guidance about possible effects of Tetra mast signals on the operation of pacemakers.

Netcare

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many operations (a) have been carried out and (b) have been contracted to be carried out by Netcare on the NHS; [197955]

(2) which primary care trust areas have commissioned operations from Netcare. [197956]

Mr. Hutton: As part of the independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) programme, Netcare are the provider of two mobile cataract theatres. Within this programme, Netcare have carried out 9,000 cataract operations and are contracted to carry out over 44,000 over the term of the contract.

Information on individual contracts between Netcare and primary care trusts and acute trusts for the provision of overseas treatment teams are not collected centrally.
 
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The following list details of primary care trusts that have commissioned operations from Netcare as part of the ISTC programme:

Adur, Arun and Worthing primary care trust (Lead PCI acting on behalf of other PCTs in the Surrey and Sussex strategic health authority)

Bebington and West Wirral primary care trust

Birkenhead and Wallasey primary care trust

Blackburn with Darwen primary care trust

Blackpool primary care trust

Blackwater Valley Hart primary care trust (Lead PCT acting on behalf of other PCTs in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic health authority)

Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale primary care trust

Carlisle primary care trust

Central Cheshire primary care trust

Central Liverpool primary care trust

Cherwell Vale primary care trust

Cheshire West primary care trust

Chiltern and South Bucks primary care trust

Chorley and South Ribble primary care trust

Eastern Cheshire primary care trust

Eden primary care trust

Ellesmere Port and Neston primary care trust

Fylde primary care trust

Gateshead primary care trust

Halton primary care trust

Hyndburn primary care trust

Knowsley primary care trust

Morecambe primary care trust

Newcastle primary care trust

North Liverpool primary care trust

North Tyneside primary care trust

Northumberland Tyne and Wear primary care trust

Preston primary care trust

Reading primary care trust

South East Oxon primary care trust

South Liverpool primary care trust

South Sefton primary care trust

South Tyneside primary care trust

 
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South West Kent primary care trust (Lead PCT acting on behalf of other PCTs in the Kent and Medway strategic health authority)

South West Oxon primary care trust

South West Peninsula strategic health authority)

Southport and Formby primary care trust

Sunderland primary care trust

Taunton Deane PCT primary care trust (Lead PCT acting on behalf of other PCTs in the Dorset and Somerset strategic health authority)

Teignbridge primary care trust (Lead PCT acting on behalf of other PCTs in the South West Peninsula Strategic health authority)

Vale of Aylesbury primary care trust

Warrington primary care trust

West Cumbria primary care trust

Wycombe primary care trust

Wyre primary care trust

New Hospitals (Staffordshire)

Paul Farrelly: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his estimate is of the total cost of the planned (a) local hospital in Stoke North and (b) single site hospital in North Staffordshire. [198571]

Dr. Ladyman: Shropshire and Staffordshire strategic health authority reports that the capital cost of new Private Finance Initiative hospital in North Stoke is estimated to be £381 million.

That comprises:

(a) £26 million for North Stoke Primary Care Trust Community hospital; and

(b) £355 million for the University hospital of North Staffordshire National Health Service Trust's "Fit for the Future Project".

NHS Audit

Mr. Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list Public Interest reports issued by NHS trust auditors under the provisions of section (a) 8 and (b) 19 of the Audit Commission Act 1998, broken down by (i) trust, (ii) the date of report and (iii) the issue giving rise to the report; and what the name of the auditors was in each case. [198472]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 16 November 2004]: Section 8 and Section 19 reports are shown in the following tables.
Section 8 reports

Audit	Date	Issue	Auditor
Leeds Health Authority/Leeds Community National Health Service Trust	September 1999	Concern over payments made to a consultancy firm over a six year period	District audit
Bedfordshire Shared Services, including one NHS trust, one health authority and three primary care trusts.	May 2002	Deficiencies in the arrangements to maintain adequate systems of financial control and to keep proper accounting records	District audit
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust	March 2003	Deficiencies in arrangements to adequately project manage the roll out of a major departmental initiative, NHS Professionals, and the financial difficulties which arose as a consequence	Audit Commission operations directorate
Avon, Gloucester and Wiltshire strategic health authority (SHA), including NHS trusts in its area.	March 2003	Financial standing of the NHS organisation s within the SHA area.	Audit Commission operations directorate
The Mid Yorkshire hospitals NHS Trust (this report also constitutes a referral under Section 19 because of the potential breach of the trust's break even duty).	September 2004	Financial standing.	RSM Robson Rhodes

 
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Section 19 reports

Audit	Date	Subject	Audit supplier
Northallerton NHS Trust	May 1999	Severance agreement and house purchase made to an employee by the NHS trust.	Deloitte and Touche
Cornwall Healthcare NHS Trust	December 1999	Early retirement arrangements for the chief executive of the NHS trust.	District audit
Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust	January 2004	Increase in the chief executive's pay prior to retirement.	Audit Commission operations directorate

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