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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⁾

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern and Yorkshire	51	62	49	61	50	53	54	42	24
Trent	51	45	42	24	5	—	—	—	—
Anglia and Oxford	46	38	37	33	26	40	33	31	33
North Thames	169	145	165	102	72	55	51	61	50
South Thames	10	15	14	6	1	—	—	—	—
North West	59	32	33	17	8	9	12	15	19
West Midlands	18	25	19	22	16	13	12	12	15
Scotland	41	36	32	—	9	5	1	5	3

⁽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⁾

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern and Yorkshire	29	27	38	30	24	42	46	31	47
Anglia and Oxford	13	18	22	14	9	8	40	11	20
North Thames	35	30	13	13	14	14	27	23	40
South Thames	67	66	58	62	51	69	88	117	154
West Midlands	36	55	30	25	46	25	25	48	75
Scotland	4	7	6	11	16	10	23	28	28
Total	184	203	167	155	160	168	249	258	364

⁽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⁾

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern and Yorkshire	570	560	573	556	589	615	638	668	688
Trent	460	498	533	556	628	611	671	736	768
Anglia and Oxford	450	409	369	368	458	476	497	524	608
North Thames	1,031	1,048	1,084	1,163	1,058	1,001	950	1,032	1,065
South Thames	534	557	527	553	530	597	615	722	637
North West	703	679	724	736	772	840	912	935	953
South West	445	421	477	504	498	546	531	539	587
West Midlands	528	605	640	690	702	703	699	721	732
Wales	160	200	222	248	221	236	258	265	264
Northern Ireland	122	138	171	186	201	209	231	247	273
Scotland	594	578	584	566	566	585	556	576	681
Total	5,597	5,693	5,904	6,126	6,223	6,419	6,558	6,965	7,256

⁽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
1997–98	176
1998–99	180
1999–2000	189
2000–01	196
2001–02	242
2003–04	307
2004–05	338

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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