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Residential and Nursing Homes
Jane Kennedy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what fees, including nursing care allowances and fees paid on a graduated basis, were paid to all providers of care in (a) nursing, (b) nursing elderly mentally infirm (EMI), (c) residential and (d) residential EMI homes in the metropolitan boroughs of (i) Liverpool, (ii) Sefton, (iii) St. Helens and (iv) Wirral in 2005-06; [81168]
(2) how many places were provided for (a) nursing, (b) nursing elderly mentally infirm (EMI), (c) residential and (d) residential EMI care by the metropolitan boroughs of (i) Liverpool, (ii) Sefton, (iii) St. Helens and (iv) Wirral in 2005-06; [81169]
(3) how many people over 65 years waited for (a) a place in (i) nursing, (ii) nursing elderly mentally infirm (EMI), (iii) residential, (iv) residential EMI care and (b) domiciliary care services in the borough of (i) Liverpool, (ii) Sefton, (iii) St. Helens and (iv) Wirral in 2005-06. [81170]
Ms Rosie Winterton: I understand from the chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) that the information on places in nursing and care homes is not available in the precise form requested. CSCI collects statistics in respect of places for people who are elderly mentally infirm (EMI) under the two registration categories of older people with dementia (DE) and older people with mental disorder (MD).
As such, CSCI’s statistics for these client groups for the metropolitan boroughs of Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens and Wirral for the year 2005-06 are shown in the table.
| Total registered places | Total registered EMI places in DE and MD categories | |
Information on the number of people awaiting delivery of a care package for which eligibility is established or the numbers of people currently having their needs and eligibility assessed is not available.
Information on the level of fees negotiated locally between councils and other purchasers of care services is not available centrally.
Section 64 Grants
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the value of section 64 grants was in each year since 2004-05; and how much each (a) organisation and (b) project received in each year. [84428]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The amounts available for the section 64 general scheme of grants in the three years from 2004-05 are shown in the table.
| Year of award | Value of award (£ million) |
Information on amounts awarded to organisations for the three years commencing 2004-05 is available on the Department’s website at www.dh.gov.uk/section64
Speech and Language Therapy
Dr. Blackman-Woods: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps her Department is taking to improve the delivery of speech and language therapy for young people. [84691]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: It is for primary care trusts in partnership with strategic health authorities, local authorities and other local stakeholders to determine how best to use their funds to meet national and local priorities for improving health, tackling health inequalities and modernising services. This process provides the means for addressing local needs within the health community including the provision of speech and language therapy.
We have increased the number of speech and language therapists employed in the national health service by 34.6 per cent., since 1997, and the numbers of people in training for this profession by 62 per cent., since 1999 to 2000.
Tattoos
Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the cost to NHS trusts of removing tattoos in 2005-06; and if she will make a statement. [83463]
Andy Burnham: This information is not collected centrally.
Thrombosis
John Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had with the Healthcare Commission on including thrombosis as a measurable indicator in annual hospital checks; and if she will make a statement. [81888]
Andy
Burnham: The Government response to the House of Commons
Health Committee Report on the prevention of venous thromboembolism
(VTE) in hospitalised patients was presented to Parliament by the
Secretary of State for Health in July 2005. The response included a
commitment to set up an independent expert working group which would
make its recommendations by summer 2006 and that once the expert group
had assessed the current guidance on
VTE that the Department would ask that the Healthcare Commission would
look to seek conformity with this good
practice.
The Department expects the report of the independent expert working group to be presented to the Chief Medical Officer shortly.
Top-slicing System
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which health trusts have received (a) a reduction and (b) an increase in funding under the top slicing system in 2006-07. [83366]
Andy Burnham: To date there have been no reductions or increases in funding relating to the transfer of surpluses between primary care trusts and strategic health authority (SHA) reserves in the 2006-07 financial year. The total planned transfers from primary care trusts to SHA reserves for 2006-07 have yet to be finalised.
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the sum taken from North East Lincolnshire primary care trust under the top slicing system will be reimbursed. [83367]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: Planned transfers from primary care trusts to strategic health authority reserves for 2006-07 have yet to be finalised.
Treatment Centres
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many untoward incidents there have been at independent sector treatment centres in the last five years, broken down by (a) specialty and (b) strategic health authority region. [81159]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: As of 28 June 2006, 144 incidents had been reported to the Department by wave one independent sector treatment centre providers. Incidents are not collected centrally either by specialty or by strategic health authority. In addition to reporting incidents to the Department, providers are also required to report events to the Healthcare Commission under section 28 of the national minimum standards regulations.
Tuberculosis Inoculation (Schools)
Derek Conway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts provide tuberculosis inoculation in schools within their area. [83838]
Caroline Flint: This information is not held centrally by the Department.
Waiting Times/Lists
Mr.
Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health what the (a)(i) mean waiting time and (ii) median waiting
time as provided by data drawn from the
hospital episode statistics and (b)(i) commissioner-based mean
waiting time and (ii) commissioner-based median waiting time as
provided by NHS organisations' monthly returns to her Department were
in each year since 1988.
[84016]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is shown in the table.
| Inpatient mean and medians in weeks from 1988 | ||||||
| Korner aggregate returns (stock) | Hospital episode statistics (flow) | |||||
| Median | Mean | Median | Mean | |||
| Year ending March each year | Provider | Commissioner | Provider | Commissioner | Provider | Provider |
| Notes:
Provider based data only available prior to 1994 from Korner returns
HES figures relate to patients admitted during financial year ending
March. First collected in 1989-90 Korner figures relate to numbers
waiting as at 31 March. Source: KH07/QF01
returns,
HES | ||||||
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) mean and (b) median waiting time was for an (i) in-patient and (ii) out-patient appointment in each year since 1990, broken down by region. [78015]
Andy Burnham: Data on the median and mean waiting time, broken down by strategic health authority has been placed in the Library.
The Department does not hold information on median and mean waits on an equivalent commissioner basis prior to 1995 for inpatients and 1997 for outpatients.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time to be seen by a consultant was for people in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset, (c) the South West and (d) England in 2005-06, broken down by clinical conditions. [83389]
Andy Burnham: Median waiting times as at 31 March 2006 by consultant specialty have been placed in the Library. Data is provided for South Somerset Primary Care Trust (PCT) (which includes Yeovil), PCTs in Somerset, and strategic health authorities in the South West.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are on waiting lists for (a) heart, (b) lung, (c) liver and (d) kidney operations in Yeovil constituency NHS hospitals. [83811]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: Information is not available in the format requested. However, as waiting times information is collected by speciality, the number of people waiting for cardiothoracic surgery and urology in the South Somerset Primary Care Trust (PCT) area is shown in the following table. Figures are for March 2006.
| South Somerset PCT | |
| Number | |
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