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Methylphenidate
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the annual percentage change was in prescriptions of methylphenidate to children since 1995. [24026]
Jane Kennedy: The Department do not hold information on who receives medication and so does not have information by age. However we do have data, which are sample based, for exemption categories not required to pay a charge. This is shown in the table.
| Percentage | |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 18.2 |
| 2001 | 21.4 |
| 2002 | 19.7 |
| 2003 | 22.6 |
| 2004 | 12.6 |
The data include children under 16 years and young people in full-time education aged 16 to 18. Information is not available for the earlier period requested.
Ministerial Visits
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health at what time she (a) arrived at and (b) left the Your Health, Your Care, Your Say event in Birmingham on 29 October. [25538]
Ms Hewitt
[holding answer 7 November 2005]: I arrived at the 'Your Health, Your Care, Your Say' citizens' summit in Birmingham before 9 am on Saturday 29 October and left at 4.45 pm. I opened the event at 9.30 am with some introductory remarks and ended the day with reflections on what was heard.
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MMR Vaccines
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health from which countries United Kingdom registered companies that provide MMR vaccines to the NHS source their products. [24316]
Caroline Flint: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines are supplied to the national health service by GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur MSD. GlaxoSmithKline's MMR vaccine is manufactured in Belgium. Sanofi Pasteur MSD manufactured their MMR vaccine in the United States of America and the Netherlands.
NHS Dentistry
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department spent per capita on NHS dentistry in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 1997. [21045]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The estimated spend per capita on the general dental service (GDS) in Jarrow constituency in the year ending 31 March 2001 was £23.38. Figures for other years are not available because population estimates for other years are not available.
Estimates of spend per capita on the GDS in South Tyneside, the North East Government office region (GOR), Northumberland, Tyne and Wear strategic health authority (SHA) and in England for the years ending as at 31 March for 1998 to 2004 are shown in the table.
These estimates do not include expenditure on national health service dental services for pilot personal dental services agreements or the community (salaried) dental service.
Notes:
1. Figures have been provided by the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre. The data sources are the Dental Practice Board and the Office of National Statistics.
2. South Tyneside local authority area includes Jarrow and South Shields constituency areas.
3. Spend per capita was calculated by taking the total fees plus commitment payments less revenue from patient charges divided by the population.
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Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department has spent per capita on NHS dentistry in (a) the Tamworth constituency, (b) Staffordshire, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each year since 1997. [22474]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The estimated spend per capita on the general dental service (GDS) in Tamworth constituency in the year ending 31 March 2001 was £11.83. Figures for other years are not available because population estimates for other years are not available.
Estimates of spend per capita on the GDS in Staffordshire, the West Midlands Government office region (GOR), Shropshire and Staffordshire strategic health authority (SHA) and in England for the years ending as at 31 March for 1998 to 2004 are shown in the table.
These estimates do not include expenditure on national health service dental services for pilot personal dental services agreements or the community (salaried) dental service.
Notes:
1. Figures have been provided by the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre. The data source is the Dental Practice Board and the Office of National Statistics.
2. Staffordshire local authority area includes Burton, Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent North, Stone and Tamworth constituency areas.
3. Spend per capita was calculated by taking the total fees plus commitment payments less revenue from patient charges divided by population.
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists have been practising in the Gravesham constituency in each year since 1997. [24134]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of dentists in the Gravesham parliamentary constituency area as at 30 September each year are shown in the table.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 40 |
| 1998 | 40 |
| 1999 | 36 |
| 2000 | 35 |
| 2001 | 32 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 35 |
| 2004 | 34 |
| 2005 | 41 |
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National Health Service Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2005, Official Report, column 1139W, on dentistry, how many NHS dentists were in place in each of the primary care trusts covering (a) the Isle of Wight, (b) Milton Keynes, (c) South West Devon, (d) Torbay, (e) Plymouth, Devonport, (f) Teignbridge, (g) Romsey, (h) West Hampshire, (i) Broxbourne and (j) Hitchin and Harpenden constituency at the most recent date for which information is available; and what proportion of the resident (i) under 18 and (ii) over 18 years population was known to be registered with an NHS dentist at the most recent date for which information is available in each case. [25710]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 8 November 2005]: The information requested on the number of dentists in the primary care trusts (PCTs), broken down by geographical area, as at September 2005, is shown in table 1.
Information on the number of patients under and over the age of 18 registered with a national health service dentist, as at September 2005, is shown in table 2.
Notes:
1. The dentists include principals, assistants and trainees. Prison contracts are excluded from the data.
2. The postcode of the dental practice was used to allocate dentists to specific geographical areas. Parliamentary constituency and PCT areas have been defined using the Office for National Statistics all fields postcode directory.
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Notes:
1. Registration data include personal dental service counts of patients seen in the past 15 months as a proxy for registrations for some schemes. This is to give greater consistency with registrations data for the GDS, which has a 15 month re-registration period. Many PDS schemes use longer periods and some, such as dental access centres, do not require patients to register.
2. Registration rates (the percentage of the population registered with a dentist) have been estimated by including registrations in the area of the dentist, that is according to the postcode of the dental surgery and 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. The figures were calculated using population estimates for the primary care trust areas for the nearest year for which data is available.
Source:
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there were per 1,000 people in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) Wantage constituency in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2005. [25356]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested on the number of dentists in Oxfordshire and Wantage is shown in the following table.
(15) 2005 data has been calculated on 2004 population data, as this is the latest available.
(16) Population data at parliamentary constituency area is not available.
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many dentists serve the Shropshire Primary Care Trust; [25333]
(2) how many dentists in Shrewsbury and Atcham constituency (a) operate fully within the NHS and (b) only offer NHS treatment for children. [25336]
Ms Rosie Winterton: As at 30 September 2005, there were 153 national health service dentists with a general dental services (GDS) or personal dental services (PDS) contract within Shropshire County Primary Care Trust (PCT).
As at 30 September 2005, there were 80 NHS dentists with either a GDS or PDS contract within Shrewsbury and Atcham parliamentary constituency.
The data source is the Dental Practice Board. A dentist with a GDS or PDS contract may provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed with the relevant PCT. The Dental Practice
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Board has no information concerning the amount of time dedicated to private or NHS work by individual dentists.
Information about who dentists offer to treat is not collected centrally. However, an analysis of NHS patient registrations data as at 1 June 2005 shows that within Shropshire County PCT there were six dentists having only children registered. This analysis is not available at parliamentary constituency area.
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