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Arrowe Park Hospital
Andrew Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of patients treated in Arrowe Park Hospital in the last 12 months were resident (a) in the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston and (b) within the area of Chester city council; [38367]
(2) how many patients have been treated in Arrowe Park Hospital in 2005 who were resident in (a) in the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston and (b) within the area of Chester city council. [38753]
Mr. Byrne:
The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows the number of patients living in the local authority of Chester and the Ellesmere Port and Neston primary care trust (PCT) area who were treated at the Wirral hospital national health service trust in 2004–05.
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Notes:
Patient counts:
Patient counts are based on the hospital episode statistics unique patient identifier (HESID). This identifier is derived based on patient's date of birth, postcode, sex, local patient identifier and NHS number, using an agreed algorithm. Where data are incomplete, HESID might erroneously link episodes or fail to recognise episodes for the same patient. Care is therefore needed, especially where duplicate records persist in the data. The patient count cannot be summed across a table where patients may have episodes in more than one cell.
Data Quality:
Hospital episode statistics (HES) are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) in England. The Health and Social Care Information Centre liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.
Ungrossed data:
Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Audiology Services
Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether treatment will be defined as the fitting of a hearing aid if one is required in relation to the target due to be introduced in 2008 that no one will wait more than 18 weeks for treatment in audiology services; [35571]
(2) what assessment she has made of the effects of thenew 18-week target on NHS hearing aid users who are waiting to switch from analogue to digital hearing aids; [35572]
(3) whether the 18-week target for treatment in audiology to be introduced in 2008 will be limited in its application to those patients accessing audiology services by consultant referral. [35826]
Mr. Byrne: Proposed principles and definitions to underpin the 18 weeks target are available at www.18weeks.nhs.uk The Department is currently collating the responses of a service-wide listening exercise on these proposals and will publish the outcome in 2006.
Capio Healthcare UK
Lynne Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date Dr. Thomas Mann, chief executive of Capio Healthcare UK, left the employment of the NHS as director of the NHS national implementation team for Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs); on what dates the process for selection of Capio Healthcare
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UK to operate a group of ISTCs (a) started and (b) finished; and on what date her Department signed contracts with Capio Healthcare UK for ISTCs across England. [38278]
Mr. Byrne: Dr. Thomas Mann left the post of director of the national implementation team in October 2003 and left the employment of the civil service on 29 February 2004.
The procurement for independent sector treatment centres was launched in December 2002, when a series of advertisements were published in the then titled, Official Journal of the European Union", and is still ongoing. To date, Capio Healthcare UK has been awarded one contract in the programme for the provision of a national chain of treatment centres, signed on 13 May 2004. In addition to this procurement, Capio Healthcare UK were awarded a one-year contract for the provision of supplementary surgical activity on 25 May 2004.
Carers Special Grant
Dr. Francis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was allocated to each county in Carers Special Grant in each year since 2000. [38342]
Mr. Byrne: The data requested have been placed in the Library.
Chelmsford PCT
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her oral answer of 20 December 2005, Official Report, column 1700, when she expects the turnaround team to conclude its work in investigating the financial situation at Chelmsford primary care trust. [40742]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Secretary of State announced the formation of turnaround teams at the beginning of December 2005. The aim of these teams is to restore financial balance to the national health service organisations concerned.
Chelmsford primary care trust (PCT) is subject to the first phase of the work, which is an initial assessment to establish the position of the PCTs financial control and actions to restore financial balance.
This assessment has now finished and the strategic health authority is currently reviewing the results with the aim of forming a tailored package of turnaround support.
Child Health and Social Services
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 22 November 2005, Official Report, column 1802W, on child health and social services, if she will make a statement on the increases in (a) high cholesterol, (b) heart failure and (c) diabetes in the last 10 years. [37857]
Caroline Flint:
Information on the number of episodes of heart failure, diabetes and high cholesterol is shown in the table. Data prior to 1998–99 are not available and are therefore not included in the table.
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Source:
Hospital episode statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Counsellors
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on plans to regulate counsellors; whether this will include voluntary counsellors; and if she will make a statement. [41498]
Jane Kennedy: The Government intend to regulate counsellors in the interests of patient and client safety. Consideration will be given to the most appropriate and proportionate form of regulation for voluntary practitioners once agreement has been reached on the roles, competences and training for their safe practice.
Dentistry
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to ensure adequate provision of NHS dentistry in East Yorkshire. [41228]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The East Yorkshire and Yorkshire Wolds and Coast primary care trusts are working together to improve access to NHS dentistry in East Yorkshire. A national health service dental access centre opened in Withernsea in 2001. In 2004–05, the dental access centre, and associated clinics in Hornsea and Beverley, provided treatment to 5,250 patients.
A new dental practice opened in Beverley in January 2005, which will provide NHS dental care for 5,500 patients, and a further new practice will be opening soon in Beverley with an agreement to provide a dental care for an additional 3,000 NHS patients.
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists serve the (a) Yorkshire Wolds and Coast primary care crust and (b) East Yorkshire primary care trust. [41378]
Ms Rosie Winterton: As at 30 September 2005, there were 51 national health service dentists with a general dental services or personal dental services contract within Yorkshire Wolds and Coast primary care trust (PCT). The equivalent figure for East Yorkshire PCT is 63.
Data on private dentists is not held centrally.
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists in the Beverley and Holderness constituency (a) operate fully within the NHS and (b) offer NHS treatment only for children. [41379]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: As at 30 September 2005, there were 31 national health service dentists with a general dental services (GDS) or personal dental services (PDS) contract within Beverley and Holderness parliamentary constituency.
Dentists are independent contractors and those 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 primary care trust (PCT). The Dental Practice 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 show that within East Yorkshire PCT there was one dentist having only children registered and none in the Yorkshire Wolds and Coast PCT area.
This figure has been provided by the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre. The data source is the Dental Practice Board.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether an individual primary care trust will be permitted to vary the value of a unit of dental activity between different dentists with whom it holds contracts from April 2006. [41968]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
From April 2006, general dental services contracts and personal dental services agreements are a matter for local agreement between primary care trusts and dentists, subject to the provisions set out in the General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional Provisions Order 2005 (SI2005/3435). The value of a unit of dental activity may vary between dentists depending on a range of factors. These include the relationship between national health service earnings and dental activity during the reference period October 2004 to September 2005, which in turn will reflect the average treatment needs of a dentist's patients.
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