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St. Bartholomew's Hospital

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the costs incurred in the private finance initiative project to redevelop St. Bartholomew's and the London NHS Trust as a result of the delay in giving final approval to the project beyond 31 January. [58607]

Jane Kennedy: Since the trust submitted their final business case, they have undertaken additional work with their private sector partners. This has resulted in the annual unitary charge the trust has to pay over the lifetime of the contract being reduced from £116.9 million per annum to £96.6 million per annum. This will save the taxpayer approximately £650 million when measured over the original concession period.

Stroke

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assistance her Department offers for the setting up of centres to help the survivors of strokes; and if she will make a statement. [55654]


 
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Ms Rosie Winterton: Provision of services and support for survivors of stroke is the responsibility of local authorities and primary care trusts. Standard five of the older people's national service framework sets out the long-term support that should be provided for stroke patients including social and emotional support to minimise the loss of independence following the stroke, and help manage the consequences of stroke.

Voluntary organisations also have an invaluable role to play in providing support to stroke survivors. We are working closely with voluntary organisations, including The Stroke Association, Connect and Different Strokes, as well as a range of other stakeholders to develop a national stroke strategy. This will look at the provision of services from prevention right through to long-term support.

Trade in Organs

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action her Department takes against those who undertake illicit trade in organs; and what advice she offers to NHS operatives on this issue. [55362]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 prohibits commercial dealings in human organs intended for transplantation and any person suspected of committing an offence under the Act will be investigated. Once commenced, the Human Tissue Act 2004 will repeal and replace the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989. The Human Tissue Act 2004 prohibits commercial dealings in all human material (tissue and organs) for transplantation and a person found guilty of an offence under the Act is liable to a term of imprisonment, a fine or both.

Transplant Surgery

Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were on waiting lists for transplant surgery for (a) heart, (b) liver and (c) kidney in each year between 1995 and 2005, broken down by region. [55522]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The following tables show the number registered (active and suspended 1 ) for transplant surgery, at 31 December of each year from 1997 for heart, liver and kidney. Similar figures were not routinely collected for 1995 and 1996.
Number registered (active and suspended(24)) for a heart(25) transplant in the United Kingdom at 31 Decemberof each year since 1997, by region(26)

199719981999200020012002200320042005
Northern and Yorkshire516249615053544224
Trent514542245
Anglia and Oxford463837332640333133
North Thames1691451651027255516150
South Thames10151461
North West5932331789121519
West Midlands182519221613121215
Scotland41363295153


(24) Suspended means the patient has been temporarily removed from the list.
(25) Includes heart/lung.
(26) Numbers are based on the region of the transplant centre where patient was registered. For heart transplants, three of these centres closed in this period, one only temporarily.





 
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Number registered (active and suspended(27)) for a liver transplant in the UK at 31 Decemberof each year since 1997, by region(28)

199719981999200020012002200320042005
Northern and Yorkshire292738302442463147
Anglia and Oxford1318221498401120
North Thames353013131414272340
South Thames67665862516988117154
West Midlands365530254625254875
Scotland476111610232828
Total184203167155160168249258364


(27) Suspended means the patient has been temporarily removed from the list.
(28) Numbers are based on the region of the transplant centre where patient was registered. For heart transplants, three of these centres closed in this period, one only temporarily.



Number registered (active and suspended(29)) for a kidney(30) transplant in the UK at 31 December of each year since 1997, by region(31)

199719981999200020012002200320042005
Northern and Yorkshire570560573556589615638668688
Trent460498533556628611671736768
Anglia and Oxford450409369368458476497524608
North Thames1,0311,0481,0841,1631,0581,0019501,0321,065
South Thames534557527553530597615722637
North West703679724736772840912935953
South West445421477504498546531539587
West Midlands528605640690702703699721732
Wales160200222248221236258265264
Northern Ireland122138171186201209231247273
Scotland594578584566566585556576681
Total5,5975,6935,9046,1266,2236,4196,5586,9657,256


(29) Suspended means the patient has been temporarily removed from the list.
(30) Includes kidney/pancreas.
(31) Numbers are based on the region of the transplant centre where patient was registered. For heart transplants, three of these centres closed in this period, one only temporarily.


Type-2 Diabetes

Mrs. Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children were diagnosed as suffering from type-2 diabetes in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. [56148]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The figures are not available in the format requested. The table shows the number of children admitted to hospital each year where type-2 diabetes was recorded in diagnoses fields, including primary diagnoses and any of the secondary diagnoses fields.
All diagnoses count of patient for selected diagnoses—age at start of episode-under 18—national health service hospitals England, 1997–98 to 2004–05

Patient counts
1997–98176
1998–99180
1999–2000189
2000–01196
2001–02242
2003–04307
2004–05338




Notes:
1. Patient counts
Patient counts are based on the unique patient identifier hospital episodes statistics identification (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 patient may have episodes in more than one cell.
2. All diagnoses count of patients
These figures represent a count of all patients where the diagnosis was mentioned in any of the 14 (seven prior to 2002–03) diagnosis fields in the HES record.
Source:
Hospital Episodes Statistics. NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre





 
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