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Mental Health

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost of winding up the Mind Out for Mental Health campaign; and what plans he has for establishing a follow-up campaign. [209800]

Ms Rosie Winterton: No costs were incurred were in winding up the Mind Out for Mental Health campaign.

The National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) launched a new five-year initiative on 11 October 2004 called Shift" designed to tackle the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health issues. This new initiative is building on the work carried out under the Mind Out for Mental Health banner. In addition, NIMHE has commissioned a scoping review of what works in anti stigma and discrimination and is moving forward on the basis of a five-year strategic plan launched last June called From Here To Equality".

MRSA

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 10 January 2005, Official Report, column 105W, on MRSA, how many of the babies who contracted MRSA in 2002 died from their infections. [209250]

 
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Miss Melanie Johnson: The voluntary reporting scheme, used by the Health Protection Agency to provide the data previously given, is based on aggregated data and cannot be used to investigate the outcome.

Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the progress towards developing a vaccine against methicillin resistant staphyloccus aureus; and what steps his Department is taking to support this work. [209929]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Reducing the risk of Staphylococcus aureus" infection in those undergoing surgery would be of great benefit and an important step in preventing methicillin resistant Staphyloccus aureus" infections. The Department is currently part-funding work through the national vaccine evaluation consortium on the use of a vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus" prior to elective surgery.

NHS Bank

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) the NHS bank has lent to each NHS organisation and (b) has been repaid in each year since the bank's inception. [209036]

Mr. Hutton: The NHS bank provides special assistance to support the most financially challenged strategic health authorities (SHAs). The amounts are shown in the table.

The amount allocated in 2002–03 is not repayable. The allocations in 2003–04 and 2004–05 are repayable, subject to abatements, as either capital or revenue beginning 2006–07. However, Kent and Medway SHA plans to make a repayment of £7.7 million from its capital allocations in this financial year.
Distribution of special assistance funding—2002–03 to 2004–05 £ million

SHA	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	25	0	0
Thames Valley	0	25	10
Kent and Medway	0	17	0
Surrey and Sussex	30	40	20
Avon, Gloucester and Wiltshire	45	70	40
Total	100	152	70

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of the NHS bank is for (a) 2004–05 and (b) 2005–06; what loans were made by the bank in 2004–05; and what loans are expected to be made in 2005–06. [210358]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 24 January 2005]: The overall budget managed by the NHS bank on behalf of the Department in 2004–05 is £732 million. The budget for 2005–06 has not yet been agreed. The special assistance allocations in 2004–05 are shown in the table. The only special assistance allocation planned for 2005–06 is £20 million for Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority.
 
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Distribution of special assistance funding 2004–05

	£ million
Strategic health authority	2004–05
Thames Valley	10
Surrey and Sussex	20
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire	40
Total	70

Health Services (Nottingham, North)

Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes have been made available in local health services in Nottingham North constituency since June 1997. [211017]

Dr. Ladyman: The following changes have been made available in local health services in Nottingham North constituency since June 1997.

Trent Strategic Health Authority (SHA)—Trent Access and Choice Pilot (TRAC):

Trent SHA is a pilot site for introducing choice ahead of national time scales.

TRAC is working with three general practitioner practices, including one in Nottingham. From July 2003, the pilots have been offering a choice to patients on the waiting list for cataract operations. Initially this is a choice of national health service trusts and agreements are being reached with local trusts to provide extra clinics on a trial basis for TRAC.

The cost of TRAC is as follows: £10.8 million in 2004–04 and £1.8 million in 2004–05. This covers all 19 primary care trusts (PCTs) in the Trent SHA area. Nottingham PCTs received £1,890,234 in 2003–04 and £541,000 in 2004–05.

Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust:

Ear, nose and throat/ophthalmology unit opened in 2001 (£18.5 million).

Accident and emergency department expanded and modernised in 2003 (£6.3 million).

Maternity unit modernised and refurbished in 2003 (£1.45 million).

Patient advice and liaison service (PALS) set up in 2003 (£100,000).

PALS staffing (£74,500).

Simulation and clinical skills centre opened in 2004 (£2.48 million).

New acute medicine unit opened in December 2004, offering more efficient patient care in improved surroundings. (£1 million).

New magnetic resonance imaging scanner operational in 2004 (£1 million).

Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust:

Extension of cardiac surgery unit—extension of existing services in 1997 (£250,000).

New high dependency unit—new service—opened 2000 (£980,00).

Re-provision of the endoscopy unit—to existing service—opened in 2001 (£3.1 million).

New orthopaedic pre-operative assessment suite—new service—opened in 2002 (£500,000).

Re-provision of the breast unit, which opened in 2003 (£5.2 million).

Modernise and refurbishment of hospital laundry—opened in 2002 (£1 million).

Two cardiac catheter labs—one temporary—opened in 2002 and 2003 at a combined cost of £1.5 million.

Extension to the dialysis unit opened 2003 (£900,000).

 
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Upgrade and expansion of the hospital kitchen opened in 2003 (just under £1 million).

New clinical haematology wards opened in 2003 (£1.8 million). New clinical haematology unit to replace and combine existing adult services located across two hospitals. Due to open January 2006 (£9.2 million).

Three linear accelerator machines (£850,000 each). Two were funded by the new opportunities fund money and the third by central funds. Two machines were replacements for existing facilities and one was an additional machine.

New coronary heart disease unit to replace existing facilities due to open July 2005 (£20.8 million).

New urology unit to replace existing facilities due to open July 2005 (£8.2 million).

Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust:

Demolition of Strelley Ward due to start at the beginning of February, and new build over the next few years will see the provision of new mental health services. This is a £20 million project due for completion in early 2009.

Broxtowe and Hucknall PCT:

Choice at the point of referral has been offered to patients for ophthalmology and orthopaedics since autumn 2004. Choice will be rolled out to other specialities over the course of 2005 in line with national targets.

In the autumn of 2004, a new community based echo service was launched (joint effort by four Greater Nottingham PCTs—Broxtowe and Hucknall PCT, Gedling PCT, Nottingham City PCT and Rushcliffe PCT).

June 2004, a pilot service began for patients who presented at hospital with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—admissions are being prevented as early nurse assessments are leading to discharge and receipt of a community based pulmonary rehabilitation service.

Walk in Centre:

Nottingham walk-in centre opened in June 2000. (£1.2 million annual budget—includes all staffing, service provision costs, and patient care).

Dental Access Centre (DAC):

A DAC was opened in Nottingham City PCT in 2001. (This cost comes under the walk-in centre figure above).

Personal dental services (PDS)— field sites:

Two PDSs also opened in Nottingham in January 2004, at Broxtowe and Hucknall and Rushcliffe (£142,000). This cost includes a total of six pilot sites in Rushcliffe (£3,000 of modernisation agency funding for information technology).

Independent Sector Treatment Centre:

Based at Barlborough (junction 30 of the M1). An interim service is being provided from Bassetlaw and Ilkeston Hospital, which commenced in April 2004. The full service from the new facility is due to commence in May 2005. (£90 million over a five year contract period).

Pharmacy Information:

Since 1997–98, five pharmacies have opened in the Nottingham area (local information at this level is not available centrally).

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