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John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what formula her Department uses to determine the payment made to each primary care trust under payment by results. [66534]
Andy Burnham: Revenue allocations are made to primary care trusts (PCTs) on the basis of the relative needs of their populations. A weighted capitation formula calculates target shares of available resources for each PCT based on the age distribution, additional need and unavoidable geographical variations in the cost of providing services. The 2006-07 allocations have been adjusted to reflect non-recurrently the transitional arrangements for PCTs to support the implementation of payment by results.
NHS Hospital Trusts
John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2006, Official Report, column 743W, on NHS Hospital Trusts, if she will set out the figures for fixed costs identifying those that arise in relation to private finance initiative projects. [65944]
Andy Burnham: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 12 July 2005, Official Report, columns 988-89W. The table which has been placed in the Library gives the annual payments by each trust to its private sector partner on private finance initiative schemes which have reached financial close. This table has now been updated to reflect the Barts and London Hospital and the Hull and East Yorkshire private finance initiative schemes reaching financial close since then.
NHS IT Programme
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what models of IT provision were considered for the NHS IT programme. [63945]
Caroline Flint: Five commercial and organisational models were considered for delivering a national information
technology programme for the national health service before the national programme was launched in its current form. Briefly, these models were to:
Outsource the whole programme, including local implementation arrangements;
Selectively outsource major components, whilst delivering some components at a national level via the NHS Information Authority;
Deliver all major components at a national level, primarily via the NHS Information Authority;
Decentralise the management of NHS information technology to strategic health authorities; and
Continue local implementation - the status quo option.
All the options were considered and scored against a range of key criteria.
The options, and the option appraisal process, are described in greater detail in ‘Delivering 21st century IT support for the NHS: national strategic programme’, published in June 2002, which is available on the Department's website at www.dh.gov.uk.
Nursing (Thames Valley)
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many student places there are for (a) nursing and (b) community nursing at universities in the Thames Valley strategic health authority area. [72260]
Caroline Flint: Analysis of standard registration population data provided by the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) for 2004-05 shows that there were 2,909 students on pre-registration nurse training courses at Thames Valley University and 790 at Oxford Brookes University. Thames Valley strategic health authority may not have commissioned all of these training places.
No information is currently available from the HESA data on students enrolled on community nursing courses.
Obesity
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her most recent estimate is of how many children in Torbay constituency are obese. [72183]
Caroline Flint: The data are not available in the exact format requested. The main source of data on the prevalence of obesity is the Health Survey for England (HSE). The sample size of the HSE does not allow figures to be produced to the level of Torbay constituency. We do however hold data by Government Office Region (GOR). Torbay falls under the South West GOR. The latest figures for the obesity prevalence of children in South West GOR are taken from ‘The Health Survey for England 2002’.
For children aged two to fifteen in 2001-02 (2001 and 2002 combined), 4.5 per cent. of boys are classified as being obese in the South West. The figure for girls aged two to fifteen is 5.9 per cent.
Orthodontic Services
Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many orthodontists were practising in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Huddersfield in each of the last 10 years. [70307]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of orthodontists in England is not available centrally as orthodontists are not separately identified within general dental services contracts or personal dental services agreements.
Paediatric Specialists
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many paediatric specialists are employed in each strategic health authority area. [67643]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The following table shows the paediatric specialists working in the national health service in each current strategic health authority (SHA) area.
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