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NHS Professionals

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of NHS trusts implemented NHS professionals by the end of April; [8785]

(2) what NHS professionals' budget (a) was in 2004–05 and (b) is in 2005–06. [8786]

Mr. Byrne: In April 2005, NHS professionals was providing services to 43 per cent. (102) of the 236 national health service trusts in England.

NHS professionals' central budget allocation from the Department was £30.5 million in 2004–05 and is £23 million in 2005–06.

NHS Trust Deficits

Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Bradford Acute Trust was in deficit before it became a Foundation Trust. [10012]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 5 July 2005]: The Bradford Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust moved to Foundation Trust status on 1 April
 
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2004. The retained surplus or deficit of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for the year 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004 was zero, as reported by the audited summarisation schedules for the trust.

NHS Trusts (Financial Consultants)

Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each NHS trust spent on external financial consultants during the financial period (a) 2001–02, (b) 2002–03, (c) 2003–04 and (d) 2004–05. [8731]

Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Nurses

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nursing vacancies there were on 31 May, broken down by primary care trust; and if she will make a statement. [8233]

Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not available centrally for 31 May 2005.

Scanning Services

Mr. Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time for a scan in County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority area was in the last period for which figures are available. [9760]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 5 July 2005]: This data are not collected centrally.

Mr. Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many residents of Sacriston have had scans carried out by Alliance Medical; [9761]

(2) how many residents of Great Lumley have had scans carried out by Alliance Medical. [10382]

 
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Mr. Byrne [holding answer 5 July 2005]: The information requested is not centrally available.

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of waiting times for routine MRI scans in (a) Kingston and Surbiton, (b) South West London, (c) London and (d) England. [8340]

Mr. Byrne: No estimate has been made, as the Department has not previously collected data on diagnostic waits.

Sexual Health

John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many young people between the ages of 16 and 18 years have been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease in the Easington Primary Care Trust area in the last three years; [8936]

(2) how many cases of sexually transmitted diseases have been diagnosed in the Easington Primary Care Trust area in each of the last three years, broken down by disease. [8937]

Mr. Byrne: This information is not collected centrally. However, the information can be obtained from the Health Protection Agency at genito urinary medicine (GUM) clinic level. There is no GUM clinic in the Easington Primary Care Trust area.

Sickness Absence

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the rate of sickness absence for (a) medical staff, (b) non-medical clinical staff and (c) all other staff has been in each (i) primary care trust and (ii) strategic health authority in London in each year since 1997. [8245]

Jane Kennedy: Sickness absence rates are not collected for different groups of staff. However, the table shows a single sickness absence figure for each London national health service organisation between 1999 and 2004.
Sickness and absence rates for London organisations: 1999–2004

	Organisation	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
5H1	Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust (PCT)	—	—	—	7.5	4.2	3.2
5HX	Ealing PCT	—	—	—	3.6	3.4	3.9
SHY	Hounslow PCT	—	—	—	8.8	4.3	3.2
5K5	Brent PCT	—.	—	—	2.6	5.0	4.5
5K6	Harrow PCT	—	—	—	3.8	4.7	5.4
5K7	Camden PCT	—	—	—	4.9	5.3	4.7
5K8	Islington PCT	—	—	—	3.9	3.9	4.0
5K9	Croydon PCT	—	—	—	5.8	5.1	4.0
5LA	Kensington and Chelsea PCT	—	—	—	4.8	4.4	4.5
5LC	Westminster PCT	—	—	—	2.3	4.4	3.7
5LD	Lambeth PCT	—	—	—	4.1	7.6	4.3
5LE	Southwark PCT	—	—	—	5.3	5.5	3.5
5LF	Lewisham PCT	—	—	—	4.4	6.8	3.4
5LG	Wandsworth PCT	—	—	—	3.9	4.1	4.4
5M6	Richmond and Twickenham PCT	—	—	—	4.2	3.4	3.7
5M7	Sutton and Merton PCT	—	—	—	3.6	5.1	5.1
SNA	Redbridge PCT	—	—	—	—	6.4	6.0
5NC	Waltham Forest PCT	—	—	—	—	4.8	5.9
Q04	North West London Strategic Health Authority (SHA)	—	—	—	1.1	1.5	2.2
Q05	North Central London SHA	—	—	—	—	1.7	1.5
Q06	North East London SHA	—	—	—	2.2	1.8	2.1
Q07	South East London SHA	—	—	—	0.1	0.6	1.1
Q08	South West London SHA	—	—	—	3.2	1.0	2.0
RAL	Royal Free NHS Trust	—	4.5	3.5	4.5	3.5	3.9
RAN	Royal National Orthopaedic NHS Trust	5.1	3.9	2.9	4.6	4.7	4.0
RAP	North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust	4.0	5.9	—	5.3	6.5	5.4
RAS	Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust	4.6	4.1	4.1	4.5	5.4	5.2
RAT	North East London Mental Health NHS Trust	—	—	4.1	4.9	4.6	4.0
RAX	Kingston Hospital NHS Trust	5.6	3.2	—	4.8	4.0	3.7
RC3	Ealing Hospital NHS Trust	3.0	4.4	4.2	4.0	3.9	3.7
RF4	Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	—	—	3.8	3.9	4.1	4.4
RFW	West Middlesex University NHS Trust	3.7	4.2	—	4.1	4.0	3.4
RG2	Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust	3.6	—	—	4.5	4.0	3.9
RG3	Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust	5.2	5.4	—	6.4	5.3	4.3
RGC	Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	—	—	—	4.8	2.7	3.5
RGZ	Queen Mary's, Sidcup NHS Trust	4.5	4.6	4.8	5.0	4.9	4.6
RJ1	Guys and St. Thomas's NHS Trust	—	3.6	3.6	3.4	3.7	3.6
RJ2	Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust	3.8	3.3	4.5	5.2	5.2	5.1
RJ5	St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust	—	3.9	—	—	2.3	4.1
RJ6	Mayday Health Care NHS Trust	4.5	—	—	4.4	4.0	4.0
RJ7	St. George's Group NHS Trust	4.8	3.4	4.0	3.6	4.2	4.2
RJZ	King's Healthcare NHS Trust	4.7	4.6	4.2	3.9	3.9	3.7
RKE	Whittington Hospital NHS Trust	—	5.5	3.8	3.8	4.8	6.0
RKL	West London Mental Health NHS Trust	—	—	6.8	5.7	6.1	5.7
RNH	Newham Healthcare NHS Trust	4.2	5.0	4.9	4.8	4.7	4.6
RNJ	Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, The Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital NHS Trust	—	3.5	3.7	3.6	3.5	3.3
RNK	Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust	—	2.9	1.5	2.5	1.9	1.9
RP4	Great Ormond Street Hospital For Sick Children NHS Trust	—	3.6	3.5	3.9	3.2	3.3
RP6	Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust	—	3.1	4.1	4.5	5.4	3.6
RPG	Oxleas NHS Trust	4.7	5.4	5.8	6.1	5.2	5.2
RPY	Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust	2.5	—	4.4	4.7	3.9	4.3
RQM	Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust	3.7	2.0	3.7	3.5	3.7	3.8
RQN	Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	—	3.7	3.9	4.0	3.7	3.6
RQX	Homerton Hospital NHS Trust	4.0	4.9	4.3	4.8	4.1	4.3
RQY	South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust	7.1	4.7	5.7	3.9	4.4	4.8
RRP	Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust	—	—	4.8	3.2	4.1	4.2
RRU	London Ambulance Service NHS Trust	7.8	—	7.5	6.7	6.6	6.4
RRV	University College London Hospitals NHS Trust	—	3.9	4.4	3.7	3.9	3.3
RT3	Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust	—	—	5.4	3.4	3.4	3.4
RV3	Brent, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Mental Health NHS Trust	4.6	5.2	—	4.5	4.3	4.0
RV5	South London and Maudsley NHS Trust	—	2.9	3.8	5.1	6.2	5.0
RV8	North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	3.1	2.4	3.4	3.4	3.7	3.4
RVL	Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	3.2	3.7	—	3.9	3.2	3.1
RVR	Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust	3.5	2.7	3.5	5.5	4.5	3.6
RWK	East London and the City Mental Health NHS Trust	—	6.5	4.8	5.0	4.6	5.0
TAF	Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust	—	—	—	4.9	5.1	4.8
TAK	Bexley Care Trust	—	—	—	—	3.7	3.8
5A4	Havering PCT	—	—	5.5	5.2	5.3	6.0
5A5	Kingston PCT	—	—	—	4.0	4.1	4.2
5A7	Bromley PCT	—	—	5.8	5.3	5.6	5.3
5A8	Greenwich PCT	—	—	—	4.2	4.1	3.7
5A9	Barnet PCT	—	—	—	—	4.7	4.3
5AT	Hillingdon PCT	—	—	3.5	7.1	4.5	5.1
5C1	Enfield PCT	—	—	3.4	3.0	3.5	3.7
5C2	Barking and Dagenham PCT	—	—	3.0	3.5	2.6	4.7
5C3	City and Hackney PCT	—	—	4.9	4.5	4.9	5.6
5C4	Tower Hamlets PCT	—	—	3.4	6.6	6.2	5.7
5C5	Newham PCT	—	—	—	4.3	4.2	4.4
5C9	Haringey PCT	—	—	3.9	2.4	3.6	3.9

Notes:
1. Sickness absence rate is defined as the amount of time lost through absences as a percentage of staff time available. This does not cover maternity leave, carers' leave or any periods of absence agreed under family friendly/flexible working policies.
2. General practitioners and their staff are not included in the above figures.
3."—" values indicate that either no response was made by the organisation or the organisation did not yet exist in that year.
Source:
Department of Health sickness absence surveys 1999–2003.
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre sickness absence survey 2004.





 
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