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Hospital Funding (Essex)
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funds have been allocated to hospitals in Romford and Havering in each year since 1997. [219367]
Dr. Ladyman: The Department does not make revenue allocations to national health service trusts. Revenue allocations are made to primary care trusts, which are responsible for commissioning services from NHS trusts, such as those provided by Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust, to meet the needs of their local population.
International Recruitment
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many private sector healthcare providers have signed up to the NHS Code of Practice for the international recruitment of healthcare professionals; and how many private sector healthcare providers there are. [218454]
Mr. Hutton:
The Code of Practice for international recruitment of healthcare professionals has been signed up to by both the Independent Healthcare Forum and the Registered Nursing Home Association. Both these organisations represent many independent healthcare providers. The number and names of these providers is not collated by the Department.
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Data related to the number of independent sector healthcare providers are not held centrally by the Department.
Living Wills
Dr. Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the policy of Hammersmith and Fulham Hospital is in relation to providing living wills to patients; and if he will make a statement; [218754]
(2) how many NHS hospitals provide living wills to patients. [218755]
Dr. Ladyman: Information on how many national health service hospitals provide living wills to patients is not collected centrally.
Healthcare professionals will discuss possible treatment options with a patient as part of the treatment process and this should, where an individual's condition makes it appropriate, include how they would like to be treated if or when they become incapacitated. Individual trusts will decide what arrangements to have in place locally.
Mental Health Care
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 21 February 2005, Official Report, column 164W, on mental health, how many NHS trusts (a) supplement the income of and (b) provide goods in kind for people in hospital for more than a year. [218292]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is not collected centrally.
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many trained medical doctors there have been in mental health facilities in Romford and Havering constituencies in each year since 1997. [219366]
Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is shown in the table.
Data held by the Department are not broken down by mental health facilities but by the number of hospital, public health medicine and community health services (HCHS) staff within the psychiatry group of specialties for each trust.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service Trust and East London Mental Health Trust are the two trusts operating in Romford and Havering.
There are no staff in Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust within the psychiatry group of specialities and the Department only has figures dating back to 2001 for North East London Mental Health Trust.
| North East London Mental Health NHS Trust RAT | Number (headcount) |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 102 |
| 2002 | 96 |
| 2003 | 71 |
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census.
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Naltrexone
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if his Department will conduct trials of the use of low-dose naltrexone in the treatment of multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on its availability on the NHS; [215112]
(2) what trials have taken place of low dose Naltrexone (LDN) for the treatment of multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the availability on the NHS of LDN for sufferers of MS. [217518]
Dr. Ladyman: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, which is responsible for ensuring that all new medicines and medical devices sold in the United Kingdom meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and efficacy, is unaware of any clinical trials having taken place in the United Kingdom using low-dose naltrexone in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. It is aware that a small trial, funded by a charity, is under consideration.
In the UK, naltrexone is currently only licensed for the treatment of opiate dependency. Nevertheless, there is provision in both UK and European legislation, which allows doctors to prescribe, on their own direct personal responsibility, a specially prepared medicinal product for administration on a named patient" basis where they consider it necessary to meet a special clinical need.
NHS Funding
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his oral statement of 9 February 2005, Official Report, columns 1503–18, on NHS funding, what the total expenditure on the National Programme for IT in England by (a) the Department and (b) primary care trusts will be in each financial year from 2003–04 to 2007–08. [217072]
Mr. Hutton: The Department's actual/planned expenditure on the national programme for information technology for the years in question is shown in the table. The figures are on a resource accounting basis and therefore include the cost of capital charges and depreciation of fixed assets.
| Amount (£ million) | |
|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 102 |
| 2004–05 | 404 |
| 2005–06 | 1,873 |
| 2006–07 | 1,968 |
| 2007–08 | 1,796 |
Estimates for primary care trust expenditure are not held centrally.
NHS Performance
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the URL on his Department's website which allows users to view the guide to NHS performance in each parliamentary constituency. [215855]
Ms Rosie Winterton
[holding answer 10 February 2005]: The Department publishes on its website information on national health service organisations,
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which includes some performance data. This information is in the form of NHS factsheets, which can be viewed by NHS region and by parliamentary constituency. The URL is: www.dh.gov.uk/nhsfactsheets.
NHS factsheets are internal Departmental briefing sheets on individual strategic health authorities and NHS trusts. They contain organisational information, contact details and selected published statistical information. NHS factsheets are updated regularly.
The Department first published these factsheets on its website on 3 December 2004 as part of the Departments commitment to openness under Freedom of Information. They have been available to anybody willing to access the website since then.
Obesity Clinics (West Midlands)
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many obesity clinics there are in the West Midlands region; and what the waiting times were for those clinics in the latest year for which figures are available. [218041]
Dr. Ladyman: There is one national health service obesity clinic and one NHS child obesity clinic in the West Midlands. Both are at Heartlands hospital, part of the Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust.
Waiting times data for obesity clinics are not held centrally.
Prisons
Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prisons in (a) Yorkshire and (b) England and Wales have mental health in-reach teams; and if he will make a statement. [218661]
Dr. Ladyman: 13 prison establishments in Yorkshire have mental health in-reach teams and a mental health nurse visits the fourteenth, Askham Grange, on one day a week. Such teams are now in operation at over 100 establishments in England and Wales.
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