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Agenda for Change
Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many NHS staff due back pay under the Agenda for Change programme had been paid their full entitlement to such pay at 31 October; and how many claims are outstanding; [27690]
(2) how many hospital trusts have paid their staff all the back pay due to them under the Agenda for Change; and if she will instruct hospital trusts to pay interest on monies due in October 2004 which have not been paid. [27691]
Mr. Byrne: Information on payment of back pay due to the implementation of Agenda for Change is not held centrally.
Ambulance Service
John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many assaults there have been on ambulance service staff in the course of their duties in the County of Durham in the last five years. [25698]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not held by specific location. The NHS Security Management Service is currently in the process of compiling and validating the first ever accurate figures for the levels of physical assault on national health service staff across England.
Estimated violent or abusive incidents in NHS ambulance trusts for 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03 is shown in the table. Information relating to the number of physical assaults for NHS ambulance trusts in England for 2004–05 will be published shortly.
Source:
Department of Health
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Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many assaults were recorded on ambulance staff in (a) Tamworth and (b) Staffordshire while on duty in each of the last five years; and how many prosecutions resulted in each case. [27484]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
The information requested is not held by specific location. The NHS Security Management Service is currently in the process of compiling and auditing the first ever accurate figures for the levels of physical assault on national health service staff across England. Last month figures for physical assaults in mental health and learning disability settings
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were released. These amounted to 43,309 for 2004–05. Figures for the acute, primary care and ambulance services nationally will be released shortly.
Information about the number of prosecutions resulting from reports of assaults on ambulance staff was not collected centrally for the period 2001–03. The number of prosecutions identified involving assaults on ambulance staff in England for 2004–05 totalled 100.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many ambulances there were in the NHS in each year since 1995. [26469]
Mr. Byrne: This information is not collected centrally.
Each ambulance service should plan to provide appropriate resources to meet local demand. This may include resources in addition to traditional ambulance provision, for example in using rapid response vehicles and motorbikes, as well as utilising staff such as community paramedics or emergency care practitioners. Patients who need a traditional ambulance response will continue to receive one. The fleet mix will vary across the country depending on operational and geographical requirements.
Mr. Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many assaults were recorded on ambulance service staff (a) in Blackpool and (b) in each ambulance service area while on duty in each of the last five years; and how many prosecutions resulted in each case. [25239]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not held by specific location. The NHS Security Management Service is currently in the process of compiling and validating the first ever accurate figures for the levels of physical assault on NHS staff across England. Figures for the acute, primary care and ambulance services nationally will be released in the near future.
Estimated violent or abusive incidents in NHS ambulance trusts for 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03 is shown in the table. Information relating to the number of physical assaults for NHS ambulance trusts in England for 2004–05 will be published shortly.
Information about the number of prosecutions resulting from reports of assaults on ambulance staff was not collected centrally for the period 2001–03. The number of prosecutions identified involving assaults on ambulance staff in England for 2004–05 totalled 100.
Source:
Department of Health
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Ashford and St. Peter's NHS Trust
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the financial performance of Ashford St Peters' NHS trust over the last five years for which figures are available, with particular reference to the requirement for NHS trusts to break even over a five year period. [28616]
Caroline Flint: The information requested is shown in the following table.
| Surplus/(deficit) | |
|---|---|
| 2000–01 | -4,846 |
| 2001–02 | -1,409 |
| 2002–03 | -1,328 |
| 2003–04 | 5 |
| 2004–05 | 61 |
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