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Cardiac Specialists (Kent)
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors specialising in cardiac care there are in Kent hospitals. [20073]
Caroline Flint: The number of doctors specialising in cardiac care in Kent hospitals is shown in the table.
'—' Denotes zero.
Source:
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre Medical and Dental Workforce Census
Darent Valley Hospital
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress Darent Valley Hospital has made towards achieving its accident and emergency targets. [20054]
Caroline Flint: The accident and emergency four-hour target and on-going operational standard requires trusts to ensure that 98 per cent. of patients are admitted or discharged within a maximum of four hours of arrival. Dartford and Gravesham National Health Service Trust achieved 98.6 per cent. in April-June 2005.
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress Darent Valley Hospital has made towards achieving its waiting lists target in each department. [20055]
Caroline Flint:
The Department collects information on hospital waiting lists targets at national health service trust level. The latest data on progress that is being made by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in achieving its waiting lists target in each department are shown in the table.
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Source:
Department of Health form QM08.
Deanery Funding
Mr. Nicholas Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been allocated to deanery funding in the NHS in each year since 1997. [19672]
Mr. Byrne: Central funding for postgraduate medical and dental education and training since 1997 is shown in the table.
| Amount (£ million) | |
|---|---|
| 1996–97 | 533 |
| 1997–98 | 592 |
| 1998–99 | 621 |
| 1999–2000 | 657 |
| 2000–01 | 821 |
| 2001–02 | 824 |
| 2002–03 | 1,156 |
| 2003–04 | 1,235 |
| 2004–05 | 1,337 |
| 2005–06 | 1,405 |
This represents an increase of 164 per cent. or £872 million. These sums formed part of the overall national health service training budgets allocated to regional health authorities and more recently to strategic health authorities. The amounts that postgraduate deaneries actually received will have been determined locally in the light of local priorities and national workforce targets.
Dementia
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what specific training is provided to doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in treating and caring for those with dementia. [2179]
Mr. Byrne: This is the responsibility of the appropriate regulatory bodies that set standards for the pre-registration training of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals and approve the education institutions that provide the training and determine the curricula.
Post-registration training needs for national health service staff are determined against local NHS priorities, through appraisal processes and training needs analyses informed by local delivery plans and the needs of the service.
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The content and standard of postgraduate medical training is the responsibility of the United Kingdom competent authorities, the specialist training authority for specialist medicine and, for general practice, the joint committee on postgraduate training for general practice.These bodies have a continuing interest in ensuring that doctors are equipped to deal with the problems they will encounter in practice.
Dentistry
Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she has issued guidance to English primary care trusts relating to the dental treatment of patients resident in Wales. [19069]
Ms Rosie Winterton: No guidance has been issued to primary care trusts (PCTs) relating to dental treatment of patients resident in Wales. However, PCTs and local health boards in Wales already have a statutory duty to co-operate in the provision of national health service services.
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent estimate she has made of the number and percentage of dental practitioners accepting new NHS patients, in (a) England and (b) each primary care trust in each of the last four years. [19173]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The last estimate of dentists accepting new patients showed that, as of May 2004, 36.2 per cent. of practices were taking on new patients.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to lay before Parliament (a) the National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2006 and (b) the National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) Regulations 2006. [19302]
Ms Rosie Winterton: We expect to lay both the National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2006 and the National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) Regulations 2006 before Parliament by the end of 2005.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she plans to publish her response to the consultation on the Draft National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2006; and when she expects to lay this measure before Parliament. [19347]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: We plan to publish the response to the consultation on the draft National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations during November 2005; we expect to lay the regulations before Parliament by the end of 2005.
Diet
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average daily consumption of fruit and vegetable portions has been in each of the last five years for (a) adults and (b) children. [19002]
Caroline Flint: The average daily consumption of fruit and vegetable portions is shown in the tables for adults and children. The Department is unable to provide data for the last five years, as questions on fruit and vegetable consumption were first included in 2001. Data for 2003 are the most recent available.
Notes:
1. Because the selection of children is limited to two per family, figures and bases for children have been weighted to compensate for the non-selection of other children in families of three or more.
2. One portion of fruit or vegetables is 80 grams.
Source:
Health Survey for England 2001—fruit and vegetable consumption. Data can be found in trend tables AD13_F&V and CH8_F&V on the Department's website at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/PublishedSurve y/HealthSurveyForEngland/HealthSurvevResults/HealthSurvey ResultsArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4098913&chk=4DPdlh
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