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Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of inpatients accommodated in mixed sex accommodation. [216158]
Ms Rosie Winterton: We have made no estimate of the number of in-patients accommodated in mixed or single-sex wards. We collect information on the total number of hospital admissions each year. This does not identify into which type of accommodation those patients are admitted.
The provision of single-sex accommodation is measured as compliance with three objectives we have set, requiring national health service trusts to provide single-sex sleeping areas, separate bathroom and toilet facilities for men and women, and where appropriate, safe facilities for the mentally ill. Compliance is measured annually at trust level and information at ward level is therefore not available.
Nationally, 97 per cent., of NHS trusts are fully compliant with our standards.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 7 February 2005, Official Report, columns 1337W, on MRI scans, what funding has been identified to cover additional diagnostic services; and what progress has been made towards the plans for phase two of the independent sector procurement programme. [217202]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 23 February 2005]: £135billion of investment in the national health service will be allocated to English primary care trusts for 200607 and 200708 to ensure the NHS continues to deliver improvements in patient care. This includes a £1billion independent sector procurement programme to ensure that NHS patients will get speedier access to high quality diagnostic tests, including magnetic resonance imaging scans. The Department will issue an advertisement inviting expressions of interest soon.
Mr. Gill: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of MRSA have been found in each hospital of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust since 2002. [217982]
Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is not collected at a national level to show numbers for individual hospitals within national health service trusts.
The numbers of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemias reported for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is shown in the table.
Number of MRSA bacteraemias reported | |
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200202 | 163 |
200203 | 144 |
200304 | 132 |
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will consult on the recommendations of the national burn care review. [218169]
Mr. Hutton: There will be a national consultation on the recommendations made in the report after it has been seen and accepted by the National Burn Care Group. This consultation is not expected to take place before the summer of 2005.
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will publish the recommendations of the national burn care review. [218170]
Mr. Hutton: The National Burn Care Group has asked the sub-group to carry out further work since the draft report was circulated to its members. A final report is not expected to be completed until the summer of 2005.
Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the full results of the last annual condition surveys for (a) 200001, (b) 200102, (c) 200203 and (d) 200304; and if he will publish future surveys within a set timeframe from the financial year end. [217583]
Mr. Hutton: Annual condition surveys are not collected centrally. It is for individual national health service trusts to determine whether to publish them.
Mr. Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of NHS reference costs are the costs for (a) all treatments, (b) elective and day care and (c) critical care services were for the Surrey and Sussex healthcare NHS trust in the latest financial year for which figures are available. [217679]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 24 February 2005]: The following data is available from the Reference Costs 2003 data, relating to the financial year 200203 and is the most current available.
Mr. Neil Turner:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of NHS staff are (a) medical, (b) nursing, (c) technical, (d) administrative (managerial and clerical) and (e) auxiliary and support;
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and what proportion of each category are covered by nationally negotiated wage rates and contract of employment conditions. [213746]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 21 February 2005]: The proportion of staff working within groupings used to illustrate their role in the national health service is shown in the table. Information about the proportion of staff working in these groupings covered by nationally negotiated wage rates could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the numbers of NHS staff referred to in his answer of 15 November 2004, Official Report, column 1171W are (a) headcount and (b) whole-time equivalent; and whether they cover (i) England, (ii) England and Wales and (iii) the UK. [217429]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 23 February 2005]: The figures are in headcount and are for England only.
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) hospital, (b) public health medicine and (c) community health service (i) doctors and (ii) nurses in training were employed in the Newcastle primary care trust area in (A) 1996, (B) 2001 and (C) 2004. [216490]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is not available in the format requested. Student nurses receive bursaries or grants and are not employed by national health service organisations. As a result of changes to the way that nurse training is commissioned, it is not possible to provide comparable data for the Newcastle primary care trust (PCT) area. Data for the number of doctors in training within the Northumberland Tyne and Wear Strategic Health Authority, broken down by organisation, are shown in the table.
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