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Community Matrons
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many community matrons are employed in each primary care trust in the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority area; and for how many patients they are providing treatment. [18817]
Caroline Flint: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Community Pharmacies
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the terms of the community pharmacy contract stipulated an enhanced services expenditure floor to primary care trusts. [18345]
Contagious Diseases
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list occasions since 1997 when highly contagious diseases have been identified in the UK as having originated abroad, broken down by country of origin. [16704]
Caroline Flint: There is no agreed definition of the term highly contagious". The following cases of highly contagious diseases, have been reported to the Health Protection Agency in England and Wales since 1997.
There was one confirmed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, whose infection was acquired in Hong Kong.
There were two confirmed cases of Lassa fever since 1997, both of whom acquired their infection in Sierra Leone, one in 2000, and the other in 2003.
Since 1997, there have been 10 laboratory confirmed cases of cholera each year, with around a further 30 cases notified but not confirmed.
There have been laboratory confirmed cases of shigellos, which all came from abroad. These are shown in the table.
| Shigella boydii | Shigella dysenteriae | |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 79 | 49 |
| 1998 | 75 | 43 |
| 1999 | 70 | 42 |
| 2000 | 56 | 26 |
| 2001 | 52 | 31 |
| 2002 | 54 | 23 |
| 2003 | 94 | 50 |
| 2004 | 113 | 53 |
There have been laboratory confirmed cases of typhoid from abroad, which are shown in the table.
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| S. Typhi | |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 99 |
| 1998 | 82 |
| 1999 | 94 |
| 2000 | 109 |
| 2001 | 97 |
| 2002 | 101 |
| 2003 | 118 |
| 2004 | 121 |
The information regarding country of origin is not held as a matter of routine.
Decontamination Supercentre Procurement Processes
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when further waves of the NHS decontamination supercentre procurement processes are expected to be announced; [19351]
(2) how many procurement competitions for the provision of decontamination supercentres (a) have been announced, (b) have been completed and (c) remain to be announced; [19354]
(3) what progress is being made with the national surgical instrument decontamination supercentre programme in England. [19392]
Jane Kennedy: The redeveloped sterile services centre based in King George's Hospital, Ilford and serving other national health service trusts in North East London, opened earlier this year. Twelve joint venture projects involving 63 NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts have advertised for private sector partners in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and are at various stages of the procurement. The most advanced is the project involving the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, which announced its preferred bidder earlier this year and is working towards awarding the contract by the end of this year. Service commencement is expected in the autumn of 2006.
Six projects involving some 20 NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts have signed collaboration agreements and are preparing outline business cases prior to advertising in the OJEU later this year. We expect a total of some 100 NHS trusts to adopt a joint venture solution within the mixed economy for sterile services. We cannot, however, be exact about those that have not yet signed collaboration agreements. We have made provision for further NHS trusts to join a collaboration up to four years after contract commencement. These projects are managed locally, with local teams taking decisions such as when to advertise in the OJEU.
Delayed Hospital Discharges
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many delayed hospital discharges there were in England in each year since 1997; [18561]
(2) what assessment she has made of the impact on local authorities' performance in making provision for patients discharged into their care of fines for delays to hospital discharges in England; and if she will make a statement. [19233]
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Mr. Byrne: The fining system has had a very positive effect on reducing delays, as shown in the table.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 5,473 |
| 2002–03 | 4,147 |
| 2003–04 | 2,821 |
| 2004–05 | 2,359 |
The collection of data relating to hospital discharge began in June 2001.
Dementia Care (Essex)
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in the Essex strategic health authority area suffer from dementia. [18082]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Digital Hearing Aids
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people were fitted with digital hearing aids in each primary care trust area in the last 12 months; [19011]
(2) how many digital hearing aids were fitted outside the NHS but paid for by the NHS in the last 12 months; [19012]
(3) what the current waiting time is for fitting a digital hearing aid from initial referral to final fitting in each area in South East England. [19022]
Mr. Byrne: Information on numbers of people fitted with digital hearing aids and on waiting times for fitting of digital hearing aids is not held centrally.
We do not collect information on the number of digital hearing aids fitted outside the national health service but paid for by the NHS. However, since the Public Private Partnership (PPP) started in October 2003, the Royal National Institute for the Deaf estimates that 50,000 extra patients will be fitted with digital hearing aids by private dispensers through the PPP initiative by the end of December 2005.
E. Coli
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of E. coli have been identified in (a) Southend-on-Sea and (b) Basildon hospital trusts over each of the last five years. [18779]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is not collected centrally.
East Sussex Hospitals Trust
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what involvement Ministers had in the appointment of the new chief executive of East Sussex Hospitals Trust; [17927]
(2) what involvement Ministers had in the departure of the previous chief executive of East Sussex Hospitals Trust. [17928]
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Caroline Flint: Ministers were not involved in the departure of the previous chief executive of East Sussex Hospitals Trust, or in the appointment of the new chief executive. This is an employment matter, which was handled by the trust.
Emergency Dental Treatment
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people visited (a) NHS accident and emergency departments and (b) dental school emergency departments for emergency dental treatment in each of the last five years. [17025]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Data are not collected centrally on the number of patients who visit national health service accident and emergency departments or dental school emergency department for emergency dental treatment. Data are collected on the number of patients admitted to NHS hospitals as emergencies for dental procedures. The table shows this information for each of the last five years.
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