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Consultant Vacancies
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which hospitals in Hertfordshire have vacancies for consultants; and in what departments. [10697]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The vacancy rates for trusts in Hertfordshire are shown in the tables. This is the latest data available as at 31 March 2004. Figures for 2005 are due for publication at the end of July 2005.
Notes:
1. Three month vacancies are vacancies which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (full-time equivalents).
2. Three month vacancy rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post.
3. Vacancy and staff in post numbers are rounded to the nearest full number.
4. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place:
'*' where the sum of the staff in post and number of vacancies is less then 10.
'—' where the sum of the staff in post and number of vacancies is zero.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental vacancy survey.
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Notes:
1. Three month vacancies are vacancies which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (full-time equivalents).
2. Three month vacancy rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post.
3. Vacancy and staff in post numbers are rounded to the nearest full number.
4. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental vacancy survey.
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Contaminated Blood Products (Ex-gratia Payments)
Michael Connarty: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress her Department has made in offering ex-gratia payments from the Skipton Fund to those who have contracted hepatitis C from contaminated blood products. [11221]
Caroline Flint: The Skipton Fund was set up to administer an ex-gratia payment scheme for people infected with hepatitis C through contaminated blood and blood products. The table shows information on the number of applications processed by the Skipton Fund since it was launched in July last year.
Note:
Figures as at 1 July 2005.
Contraceptive Training
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each primary care trust in England has spent in 2005–06 on contraceptive training; and how much each plans to spend in each of the next three years. [12779]
Caroline Flint: The information requested is not held centrally.
Dentistry
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority were accepting new NHS patients at the latest date for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. [8085]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
Information on which practices are currently taking on new national health service patients is not centrally collected. This information should be available from NHS Direct or from local primary care trusts.
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Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there are in the Peterborough constituency; and how many are taking on new NHS patients. [10487]
Ms Rosie Winterton: As at 31 March 2005, there were 68 NHS dentists in the Peterborough constituency area 1 .
Information about the number of dentists taking on new national health service patients is not collected centrally.
However, information about dental practices within primary care trusts (PCTs) currently taking on new NHS patients can be found on the NHS website at http://www.nhs.uk/England/AuthoritiesTrusts/Pct/list.aspx, from NHS Direct or from the local PCTs.
Dental Practice Board—based on dentists whose practice address postcode is within the constituency boundary.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the (a) adult and (b) child population was registered with an NHS dentist in the Southend primary care trust area in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [10530]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The estimated percentages of child, adult and total population registered with general dental service (CDS) and personal dental service (PDS) dentists for Southend primary care trust (PCT) for March each year are shown in the table.
| Child | Adult | All | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 68 | 51 | 54 |
| 2002 | 66 | 50 | 54 |
| 2003 | 65 | 50 | 54 |
| 2004 | 62 | 47 | 50 |
| 2005 | 62 | 44 | 48 |
Notes:
1. Registration rates, that is, the percentage of the population registered with a dentist, have been estimated by including registrations in the area of the dentist according to the postcode of the dental surgery (not the patient's address). So the registration rates for some areas may be affected by some patients receiving dental treatment in a different area from the one in which they live. This can lead to figures being unusually high (even over 100 per cent. for child registrations), whilst other areas may have estimated rates lower than the actual proportion of residents who are registered with a dentist in or outside their own area.
2. The registration rates use population estimates for the PCT areas for the nearest year for which data are available. Figures for 1997 to 2000 have been calculated from 2001 population data. Figures for 2004 and 2005 have been calculated from 2003 population data, as this is the most up to date available.
3. The numbers of registrations are based on a snapshot of the registration database taken at the end of March each year and subsequent retrospective notifications of changes to registrations have not been included.
4. Some double counting may occur in the totals when a patient has been newly registered with a dentist in one PCT, but not yet de-registered from a dentist in another PCT.
5. The changes in the registration period from two years to 15 months under the GDS from 1 September 1996 affected the registration numbers from December 1997 onwards, so the 1997 figures are not comparable with later figures.
6. Most PDS schemes that have registrations have a re-registration period in excess of 15 months, so the figures for PDS schemes are generally higher than they would have been for the same attendance pattern under GDS.
7. Some PDS schemes do not have any registrations, for example, dental access centres and will not therefore be included in these figures.
8. There is a small number of unallocated registrations.
Sources:
Dental Practice Board.
Office of National Statistics population data.
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Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the £50 million allocated to strategic health authorities in 2004 to improve dental access was given to Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority. [12059]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority received £2.013 million funding in 2004–05 to improve dental access.
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