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Defect and Failure Reporting System

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 12 September 2005, Official Report, column 2663W, on the Defect and Failure
 
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Reporting System, what the main categories of defects were; and how many defects there were in each of the previous years for which figures are available. [18891]


 
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Mr. Byrne: The information requested is shown in the table.
Defect and Failure Reporting System: 1997–2004

Defect and failure categories2004200320022001200019991998199719961995
Ambulances and similar vehicles, tugs, etc.1000135254
Buildings, building components and lifts76300696144
Catering53503320212917
Communications equipment0620322338
Engineering plant and services
Boilers0130434348
Electrical installations1277381118252225
Generators0020431030
Heating1130122010
Other fixed plant1600300110
Ventilating1200030326
Water and drainage0400001322
Fire protection installations and equipment4211123537
Fixed luminaires, including operating and examination lamps1260261551110
Incinerators and other clinical waste treatment equipment0000000011
Installation aspects of fume cupboards and micro biological safety cabinets0010000000
Laundries0010101132
Lightning protection and electrostatic discharges0000000110
Maintenance and cleaning230012221011
Miscellaneous1414262201921232114
Permanently installed sterilizers, bedpan washers and disposal units22715511132119
Piped medical gas and vacuum installations, VIE's and anaesthetic gas scavenging systems78951010318106
Workshops0000010000
Total for year586776126781146125167144

Defect and failure categories1994199319921991199019891988198719861985
Ambulances and similar vehicles, tugs, etc.71341144222
Buildings, building components and lifts0312877457
Catering22151530283319151217
Communications equipment40321056233
Engineering plant and services
Boilers61382661310466
Electrical installations1651812131411162320
Generators4125772598
Heating0000000000
Other fixed plant0000000000
Ventilating2133210222
Water and drainage2024044010
Fire protection installations and equipment181212652688
Fixed luminaires, including operating and examination lamps71616131171891510
Incinerators and other clinical waste treatment equipment3002122012
Installation aspects of fume cupboards and micro biological safety cabinets0000000000
Laundries62712283748
Lightning protection and electrostatic discharges231456219654
Maintenance and cleaning1016192615107755
Miscellaneous13182391212127210
Permanently installed sterilizers, bedpan washers and disposal units2016233734233561725
Piped medical gas and vacuum installations, VIE's and anaesthetic gas scavenging systems8771315613101017
Workshops0000000000
Total for year133137177214177182164108130154

Departmental Records

Mr. Nicholas Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what statistics her Department records relating to applications for vacancies for (a) junior doctor, (b) pre-registration house officer and (c) senior house officer posts; and what recent assessment she has made of the competition for jobs at each level. [19670]

Mr. Byrne: Information on applications for vacancies in respect of junior doctors, pre-registration house officer (PRHO) and senior house officer (SHO) posts is not collected centrally.

Entry into the training grades is competitive and there has always been healthy competition for posts.

The number of specialist registrar (SpR) posts available is based on the future demand for trained specialists in each specialty determined by service demand and the impact of key government objectives.

We are aware that the number of applicants for most SHO posts has risen this year and it is likely that this is especially so for SHO posts in popular areas such as
 
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London and in popular specialties such as surgery. However, some of the reports of the difficulty in obtaining SHO posts have been exaggerated.

We value highly those doctors in whose education and training we have invested heavily, and recognise that they have made a substantial commitment to the medical profession and a future career in the national health service. We want these doctors to progress and develop their careers in the NHS where we see them as the doctors of the future, delivering modernised patient centred services.

Design Pilot Projects

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department is paying for each Inquiry by design pilot project undertaken by The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment. [19975]

Jane Kennedy: The Department commissioned The Prince's Foundation to undertake three pilot inquiry by designs for the national health service. The Department has provided the following funding for the pilots:
£
Cherry Knowle Hospital70,000
Liverpool Children's Hospital65,000
Sutton Health Campus (critical care centre)60,000

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment was commissioned to undertake an inquiry by design pilot for the NHS. [19977]

Jane Kennedy: NHS Estates, an Executive agency of the Department, first commissioned The Prince's Foundation to undertake an enquiry by design (EbD) in
 
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2003. Following the success of the first pilot EbD, the Department commissioned a further two pilot EbD's in 2004.

Drugs

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS has spent on drugs in each of the last eight years; and how many prescriptions were made. [18829]

Jane Kennedy: The national health service drugs spend for England from 1996–97 to 2003–04 is shown in table 2.

The number of prescription items dispensed in the community, rounded to the nearest million, is shown in table 1.
Table 1: Prescription items dispensed in the community: 1997–2004

Number (million)
1997500
1998513
1999530
2000552
2001587
2002617
2003650
2004686




Notes:
Prescription information is taken from the PCA system, supplied by the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA), and is based on a full analysis of all prescriptions dispensed in the community i.e. by community pharmacists and appliance contractors, dispensing doctors, and prescriptions submitted by prescribing doctors for items personally administered in England. Also included are prescriptions written in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man but dispensed in England. The data does not cover drugs dispensed in hospitals, including mental health trusts, or private prescriptions.
Source:
Prescription cost analysis (PCA) data.





Table 2: NHS drug spend for England: 1996–97 to 2003–04

Primary care
Gross
Net
Hospital and community health services
Outturn
(£ million)
Growth (percentage)Outturn
(£ million)
Growth
(percentage)
Outturn
(£ million)
Growth (percentage)
1996–973,8088.63,7747.996110.0
1997–984,1077.84,0858.21,08813.2
1998–994,3566.14,3396.21,21111.3
1999–20004,85111.44,83311.41,36913.0
2000–015,1605,1581,53011.8
2001–025,71410.85,70710.61,74013.7
2002–036,34511.06,34211.12,01315.7
2003–046,9639.76,9619.82,31114.8

Total drug spend
Gross
Net
Outturn (£ million)Growth (percentage)Outturn (£ million)Growth (percentage)
1996–974,7698.94,7358.3
1997–985,1958.95,1739.3
1998–995,5677.25,5507.3
1999–20006,22011.76,20211.7
2000–016,6907.56,688
2001–027,45411.47,44711.3
2002–038,35812.18,35512.2
2003–049,27411.09,27211.0




Notes:
1. The total actual cost of drugs and appliances prescribed by general practitioners/nurses within England plus any central budget expenditure or locally authorised payments. NB. Primary care actual drug cost = Net ingredient cost + VAT + container costs—discount allowance.
2. Primary care NET figures include pharmaceutical price regulation scheme (PPRS) receipt savings.
3. Hospital and community health services expenditure on drugs includes medical gases.
4. From 2000–01, figures are in resource terms, prior to this figures are in cash terms. Cash figures relate to February to January prescribing due to delay in prescription processing and payment calculations. Resource figures represent the actual cost between April to March.
Source:
PPA, England.





 
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Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what criteria are used in deciding on the referral of a new, licensed drug to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; and if she will make a statement. [20358]

Jane Kennedy: Information about the criteria used in deciding on the referral to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence of a new, licensed drug is available on the Department's website at:


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