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Consultants/Advisers
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much has been spent by the Shropshire and Staffordshire strategic health authority on management consultants in each of the last five years; [29380]
(2) what projects in the Shropshire and Staffordshire strategic health authority (a) have required and (b) will require the assistance of external management consultants in 2005. [29381]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is not held centrally.
Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list departmental projects conducted by consultants in each year since 2000; what the cost was in each case; and what the total cost of employing consultants was in each year. [29073]
Jane Kennedy: The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) consultants and (b) special advisers were employed by her Department in each year since 1997; what the cost of each was in each year; and if she will make a statement. [27411]
Jane Kennedy: There is no centrally held data on the number of consultants within the Department.
Obtaining the information requested would incur disproportionate costs to the Department. With regards to part (b) I refer to the hon. Member to the response provided by the Parliamentary Secretary (Jim Murphy) at the Cabinet Office sent on 16 November.
Information on the numbers of special advisers prior to 2003 was provided at regular intervals and this information will be available in the Library.
Dentistry
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she intends to publish the likely values for units of dental activity under the new general dental services contract. [26004]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
Under the national health service dental reforms being introduced from April 2006, units of dental activity (UDA) refer to courses of treatment that are weighted to reflect their relative complexity. The proposed weightings for different courses of treatments, that is the number of UDA to which they correspond, were set out in the draft general dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS) contract regulations, which were published in August 2005. The final version of these proposed regulations will be laid before Parliament shortly.
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UDA do not have a fixed price attached to them. It is for primary care trusts (PCTs) and dentists to agree annual contract values and to agree the number of UDA that the dentist is expected to carry out over the course of the year in return for this contract value. The cost of a UDA will therefore be locally determined.
From the end of November, GDS dentists began to receive information showing their level of activity, expressed in terms of UDA, during the reference period, 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005, and their NHS earnings during the same period. PCTs and dentists will use this as the basis for agreeing new annual contract values and the number of UDA that the dentist is expected to carry out over the course of the year in return for this annual contract value. GDS dentists will be guaranteed an annual contract value based on their reference period earnings, uplifted to reflect 2006–07 pay and prices, provided the dentists agree with their PCT an annual level of UDA equivalent to 95 per cent. of their activity during the reference period.
PDS dentists are due to receive similar information from PCTs at the end of November. PDS dentists will be guaranteed an annual contract value worth at least that of their current PDS agreement, uplifted to 2006–07 pay and prices, in return for carrying out annually an appropriate level of UDA agreed with their PCT.
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many new personal dental service contracts were agreed for the Rochdale primary care trust in financial year 2005–06. [30580]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Since the beginning of the 2005–06 financial year the Secretary of State has approved one personal dental service contract application in the Rochdale primary care trust area. This is for the Castlemere community centre, Tweedale street.
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists have been recruited in the Rochdale primary care trust area in the last five years. [30581]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the table.
(4)Complete new entrant means the dentist had an open GDS or PDS contract in September of the specified year but no GDS or PDS contract in September of the previous year.
Source:
Dental Practice Board.
Departmental Staff
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to relocate staff in her Department and related agencies into London and the South East. [31769]
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Jane Kennedy: Neither the Department nor either of its two executive agencies, NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency and Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, have any plans to relocate any groups of staff into London and the South East.
Diet
Mr. Lansley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS in the last five years of complications relating to a poor diet, with particular reference to (a) food poisoning, (b) heart disease, (c) stroke, (d) diabetes, (e) cancer and (f) tooth decay. [32072]
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Caroline Flint: This information is not collected centrally in the form requested.
Doctors and Nurses
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses are working in the NHS in (i) Oxfordshire and (ii) Banbury constituency; and what the equivalent figures were in 1997. [30644]
Caroline Flint: The information requested is shown in the following table.
n/a=not available.
(5)General medical practitioners (excluding retainers) includes contracted GPs, GMS others and PMS others. Prior to September 2004 this group included GMS unrestricted principals, PMS contracted GPs, PMS salaried GPs, restricted principals, assistants, salaried doctors (Para 52 SFA), PMS other, flexible career scheme GPs and GP returners.
(6)Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are GPs working part-time in hospitals.
(7)There is no PCT data available in 1997 as PCTs came into existence in 2001.
(8) Data as at 30 September 2004, In 1997, data for HCHS medical and dental staff and nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff as at 30 September, data for GP and practice nurse data as at 1 October.
Source:
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre medical and dental workforce census
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre non-medical workforce census
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