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General Practitioners
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 5 January 2004, Official Report, column 192W, on general practitioner referral, what his Department's policy is on encouraging direct referral of patients by general practitioners to (a) therapists, (b) hospital diagnostics and (c) other general practitioners with a specialist interest. [213536]
Mr. Hutton: The Department encourages direct referrals to any healthcare service where clinically appropriate and in line with primary care trust commissioning arrangements.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to increase the flexibility of continued professional development for general practitioners, with particular reference to opportunities offered to those working in rural or remote medical practices. [212137]
Mr. Hutton: Responsibility for work force planning and development lies with strategic health authorities, in consultation with primary care trusts (PCTs). Provision of, and participation in, continuing professional development for general practitioners is the responsibility of the postgraduate deaneries and individual GPs respectively.
We accept that continuing professional development should be flexible and responsive to the needs of individual practitioners, their patients and the organisations they work in. It is for this reason that the new GP contract specifically includes an element for protected time to allow GPs and their practice staff opportunities for development, but which also allows GPs, with support from their PCTs, to decide what their local development needs are and how best to meet them.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners there were per 100,000 population in (a) England, (b) each strategic health authority and (c) each primary care trust for each year since 1997. [216388]
Mr. Hutton: Information on the number of general practitioners, excluding retainers, registrars and locums, per 100,000 weighted population in England broken down by strategic health authority and by primary care trust in each year since March 2002 has been placed in the Library.
Information prior to 2002 is not available in a comparable format.
Mr. Flook: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by name and address each of the general practitioner surgeries in (a) Mendip primary care trust (PCT), (b) South Somerset PCT, (c) Somerset Coast PCT and (d) Taunton Deane PCT; and what is the number of full-time equivalent (i) doctors and (ii)nursing staff in each. [214615]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
The names and address of general practitioner surgeries in each of the areas above and number of full-time equivalent doctors and nursing staff are not held centrally. However, the list of names and addresses for general medical practitioners for each of the primary care trusts in Somerset can be found at the following website: http://195.105.0.110/pcis/gpreports.asp
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Linda Perham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners were practising in the London borough of Redbridge at 31 December (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. [214950]
Dr. Ladyman: The Department does not hold the number of general practitioners in the London borough of Redbridge from 1997. However, the table shows the number of GPs in North East London from 1997 and the number of GPs in Redbridge Primary Care Trust from 2001.
(50)All practitioners (excluding retainers, registrars and locums) include general medical service (GMS) unrestricted principals, personal medical service (PMS) contracted GPs, PMS salaried GPs, restricted principals, assistants, salaried doctors (Para 52 SFA), PMS other and flexible career scheme GPs and GP returners.
Note:
Data as at 1 October 1997, 30 September 2001 and 30 June 2004.
Source:
Department of Health GMS and PMS statistics.
Health Professionals
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans he has to ensure that numbers of health professionals in London's schools are sufficient; and if he will make a statement: [215317]
(2) how much the NHS has spent on school nurses in each constituency in London in each year since 1997; [215319]
(3) how many children per school nurse there have been in each London constituency in each year since 1997; [215320]
(4) how many schools in each constituency in London have had a full-time school nurse in each year since 1997; [215321]
(5) which health professionals are employed in London's schools. [215322]
Dr. Ladyman:
Information on the number of school nurses employed in the national health service was collected in the September 2004 non-medical workforce census. This data will be published shortly. In line with our policy of Shifting the Balance of Power", it is the responsibility of primary care trusts (PCTs), in conjunction with strategic health authorities, to ensure that services meet the needs of their local communities.
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The Department recognises the important role that school nurses have to play in addressing health priorities, and this has been reinforced in the children's national service framework and the Chief Nursing Officer's review of the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to vulnerable children and young people. We are providing new funding so that by 2010 every PCT, working with children's trusts and local authorities will be resourced to have at least one full-time, year-round qualified school nurse working with a group of primary schools and its related secondary school.
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Healthwhat tests are conducted on health professionals trained in England for (a) HIV, (b) tuberculosis and (c) hepatitis B. [214764]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is contained in the recent publication from NHS Employers: The management of health, safety and welfare issues for NHS staff" which is available at http://www.nhsemployers.org/docs/blue_book_complete.pdf
Health Services (North Durham)
Mr. Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the level of capital of expenditure on health care was in North Durham in (a) 2001 and (b) the last year for which figures are available. [214458]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the following table and is based on the net book value of purchased capital additions for the national health service trusts and primary care trusts in the North Durham area.
| £000 | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 18,145 |
| 2003–04 | 11,454 |
Notes:
1.The figures in the table do not include Private Finance Initiative (PFI) expenditure where PFI costs are revenue expenditure in the books of NHS bodies.
2.Capital investment will vary between years owing to the investment decisions at individual NHS bodies.
Sources:
1.Audited summarisation schedules of relevant NHS trusts 2001–02 and 2003–04
2.Audited summarisation schedules of relevant primary care trusts 2003–04
Mr. Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the change has been in waiting lists in North Durham since 1997. [214672]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the following tables.
Source:
Department of Health KH07
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| Weeks not yet seen by consultant after GP referral | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Name | Not seen 13 to <17 | Not seen 17 to <21 | Not seen 21 plus |
| September 2004 | County Durham and Darlington acute hospitals NHS trust | 766 | 0 | 0 |
Note:
Changes in timebands.
Source:
Department of Health QM08
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