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Ambulance Drivers

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the implications for UK ambulance drivers' working time limits of European Court of Justice cases C-397/01 to C403/01, reference OJC300 vol. 47 of 4 December 2004. [207104]

Mr. Hutton: The Pfeiffer judgment should not have implications for United Kingdom ambulance staff because the vast majority work less than 48 hours per week, on average. Ambulance staff who sign the individual opt-out can legitimately work more than an average of 48 hours per week.

Cancer Specialists

Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many trained cancer specialists were practising in England (a) by headcount and (b) expressed as a whole-time equivalent figure in each year since 1997; [215692]

(2) how many cancer specialist students began training in each year since 1997; [215693]

(3) how many cancer specialists qualified in each year since 1997; and what his policy is on the optimum number of cancer specialists. [215694]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 10 February 2005]: The number of consultants, within the cancer specialties, who were working in the national health service since September 1997 is shown in table one.

The number of staff in the registrar group within the cancer specialties, in each year since September 1997 is shown in table two.

The number of specialist registrars who became consultants within the cancer specialties in each year since September 1997 is shown in table three.

It is for cancer networks, in partnership with strategic health authority workforce development directorates and postgraduate deaneries, to plan their workforce. This includes the education and training needs of all staff and will be linked to local and national priorities for cancer.
 
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Table 1: Hospital, medical consultants within the cancer specialties numbers (headcount) and whole time equivalents

	September 1997		September 1998		September 1999		September 2000		September 2001
	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte
All 'Cancer' specialties	3,155	2,897	3,273	2,991	3,362	3,082	3,528	3,183	3,721	3,331
Clinical oncology	287	265	299	277	305	283	307	279	333	299
Clinical radiology	1,442	1,364	1,481	1,387	1,507	1,414	1,585	1,460	1,645	1,492
Haematology	488	447	478	437	510	465	527	475	556	500
Histopathology	769	692	828	748	836	760	865	778	915	827
Medical oncology	89	68	102	79	110	87	133	103	147	120
Palliative medicine	80	61	85	64	94	73	111	88	125	94

	March 2002		September 2002		March 2003		June 2003		September 2003
	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte
All 'Cancer' specialties	3,864	3,534	3,913	3,569	4,059	3,704	4,096	3,730	4,169	3,787
Clinical oncology	316	292	315	295	366	334	367	337	347	325
Clinical radiology	1,679	1,575	1,702	1,582	1,781	1,658	1,794	1,669	1,810	1,669
Haematology	575	521	588	532	598	541	590	530	609	549
Histopathology	959	876	968	882	994	915	1,015	936	1,021	939
Medical oncology	183	151	185	152	172	141	176	141	202	167
Palliative medicine	152	118	155	125	148	114	154	118	180	138

	December 2003		March 2004		June 2004
	no	wte	no	wte	no	wte
All 'Cancer' specialties	4,240	3,841	4,332	3,932	4,337	3,940
Clinical oncology	358	332	376	347	381	353
Clinical radiology	1,822	1,680	1,862	1,720	1,859	1,721
Haematology	632	568	32	567	632	569
Histopathology	1,036	950	1,070	985	1,075	986
Medical oncology	211	173	197	164	195	160
Palliative medicine	181	138	95	149	195	151

Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census





Table 2: Hospital, Public Health medicine and Community Health Services (HCHS): New cancer registrars⁽⁴⁰⁾1998–2003 England, as at 30 September    numbers (headcount)

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
All cancer specialties	370	421	473	478	590	520	517
of which:
Medical oncology	26	56	59	48	48	48	67
Clinical oncology	54	46	51	52	70	68	52
Haematology	56	72	86	58	82	90	76
Histopathology	61	68	77	73	125	107	100
Clinical radiology	153	157	188	208	238	180	191
Palliative medicine	20	22	12	39	27	27	31

⁽⁴⁰⁾The term new cancer registrars" denotes those registrars who have a cancer specialty, and did not appear in the census as registrars in the previous year.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census





Table 3: Hospital, Public Health medicine and Community Health Services (HCHS): New cancer consultants⁽⁴¹⁾ 1998–2003 England, as at 30 September    numbers (headcount)

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
All cancer specialties	120	113	99	114	130	123	140
of which:
Medical oncology	5	5	1	9	10	9	11
Clinical oncology	15	19	16	14	14	15	14
Haematology	13	14	12	14	20	12	18
Histopathology	35	22	21	17	29	18	16
Clinical radiology	50	50	45	55	52	60	77
Palliative medicine	2	3	4	5	5	9	4

⁽⁴¹⁾The term new cancer consultants" denotes those consultants who have a cancer specialty, and who appeared in the census as a registrar in the previous year.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census





 
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Care Homes

Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) privately owned and (b) local authority owned nursing and residential homes are located in the Easington constituency; and what the bed capacity is of each. [214140]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Data are not available for the area requested. Information on the number of independent and local authority-owned care homes and places for adults aged 18 and over in County Durham at 31 March 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 comparable details are not available.
Number of independent and local authority-owned care homes and places for adults aged 18 and over in County Durham⁽⁴²⁾, 31 March 2001

	Residential		Nursing(43)	Total(44)
	Local authority	Independent	Independent
Homes	40	220	100	350
Places	1,080	4,000	3,250	8,330

⁽⁴²⁾Nursing care relates to County Durham health authority; residential care relates to Durham and Darlington councils with social services responsibilities.
⁽⁴³⁾Nursing home figures include places in general nursing homes, mental nursing homes, private hospitals and clinics.
⁽⁴⁴⁾Figures may not add up due to rounding.
Source:
RA and RH(N) form A

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) privately owned and (b) local authority owned care homes there are in the Vale of York; where each is located; and what the bed capacity of each is. [213464]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Data are not available for the area requested. Information on the number of independent and local authority-owned care homes and places for adults aged 18 and over in North Yorkshire at 31 March 2001 is shown in the table.

Information on individual locations of care homes and the capacity of each is not available centrally.

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 comparable details are not available.
Number of independent and local authority-owned care homes and places for adults aged 18 and over in North Yorkshire⁽⁴⁵⁾ at 31 March 2001 Rounded numbers

	Independent(46)(5507390047)	Local authority(48)
Homes	510	40
Places	9,230	1,320

⁽⁴⁵⁾Nursing care relates to North Yorkshire health authority; residential care relates to York and North Yorkshire councils with social services responsibilities.
⁽⁴⁶⁾Independent home figures includes nursing and residential care homes
⁽⁴⁷⁾Nursing home figures include places in general nursing homes, mental nursing homes, private hospitals and clinics.
⁽⁴⁸⁾Local authority home figures include residential care homes only.
Source:
RA and RH(N) form A




 
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