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NHS Marketing

Mike Wood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment her Department has made of (a) the extent of the establishment of marketing departments in the NHS as a consequence of the extension of patient choice and (b) the extent to which NHS providers are asserting their intellectual property rights over specialisms rather than sharing their expertise as a consequence of the new commercial environment. [85974]


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Andy Burnham: The Department has made no assessment of the extent of the establishment of marketing departments in the national health service nor the extent to which NHS providers are asserting their intellectual property rights.

The Department has set out in the ‘Operating Framework for 2006/07’ the importance of patients and the public having access to reliable information about the services available to them, so that they can exercise informed choice. NHS trusts must decide upon a suitable level of marketing activity which should present accurate and fair information about services and must follow statutory guidelines, such as the advertising standards authority code. The Department will be consulting on a code of practice for marketing services to NHS patients.

The NHS plan commits the NHS to ensuring that new technologies are identified and developed in the interests of NHS patients and society as a whole. The Department published ‘A Framework and Guidance on the Management of Intellectual Property in the NHS’, which became operational on 9 September 2002.

NHS Senior Staff

Mr. Flello: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS senior staff have resigned from NHS trusts within North Staffordshire in the last 12 months; and where in the UK they have indicated that they are taking new jobs. [87397]

Caroline Flint: The information requested is not held centrally.

NHS Trust Turnaround Teams

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health to which NHS trusts turnaround teams were sent during the last 12 months; when the review and audit took place; which company undertook the review and audit; and what the total cost of the review and audit was in each case (a) to the NHS, (b) to the trust and (c) to other contributors. [87447]

Andy Burnham: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State announced the turnaround teams in a written ministerial statement on 1 December 2005, Official Report, column 37WS.

The first stage of this is a baseline assessment, the aim of which is to ensure there is an agreed understanding of the local financial problem and that actions are in hand to address this. The contract for the baseline assessment which took place during December 2005 (phase 1) and February 2006 (phase 2) was awarded to consultants KPMG

The following national health service trusts were assessed by KPMG:


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Organisation Phase Ranking

North East

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust

1

3

Sedgefield Primary Care Trust (PCT)

1

3

South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust

1

3

North West

Cheshire West PCT

1

1

North Cumbria NHS Trust

2

1

North Cumbria PCT

2

1

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

1

2

East Cheshire NHS Trust

1

2

The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust

1

2

Morecambe Bay NHS Trust

2

3

Morecambe Bay PCT

2

3

Yorkshire and the Humber

Sheffield North PCT

1

1

Sheffield South East PCT

1

1

Sheffield South West PCT

1

1

Sheffield West PCT

1

1

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

1

1

Selby and York PCT

1

1

Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale PCT

2

2

Yorkshire Wolds and Coast PCT

2

2

Barnsley PCT

2

4

East Midlands

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

2

1

High Peak and Dales PCT

2

2

West Midlands

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

1

1

South Warwickshire NHS Trust

2

1

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

1

1

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

1

1

Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust

1

2

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

1

2

North Stoke PCT

1

2

Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust

1

3

East of England

Cambridge City PCT

1

2

South Cambridgeshire PCT

1

2

Colchester PCT

2

2

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Trust

1

2

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

1

2

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

1

2

North Norfolk PCT

2

3

Waveney PCT

2

3

Broadlands PCT

1

3

Southern Norfolk PCT

1

3

Suffolk West PCT

1

3

Ipswich PCT

1

3

West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust

1

3

Essex Rivers NHS Trust

2

3

Princess Alex Harlow NHS Trust

2

3

Suffolk Coastal PCT

1

3

Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust

1

3

Bedfordshire Heartlands PCT

1

3

Witham, Braintree and Halstead Care PCT

1

3

Chelmsford PCT

1

3

Tendring PCT

2

4

London

Mayday Hospital NHS Trust

2

1

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

1

1

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust

1

1

Hillingdon PCT

1

1

St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

1

2

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

1

2

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

1

2

Royal Free NHS Trust

2

2

Hounslow PCT

1

2

Kensington and Chelsea PCT

1

2

West Middlesex University NHS Trust

1

2

Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust

1

2

Bexley PCT

2

2

Kingston PCT

2

2

The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust

1

3

Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust

1

3

Wandsworth PCT

1

3

Lewisham PCT

2

3

Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust

1

4

Bromley PCT

2

4

South East Coast

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

1

1

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

1

1

The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

1

1

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

2

2

Maidstone Weald PCT

2

2

South West Kent PCT

2

2

Guildford and Waverley PCT

2

2

East Elmbridge and Mid Surrey PCT

2

2

Ashford and St. Peters NHS Trust

2

3

South Central

Blackwater Valley and Hart PCT

1

2

East Hampshire PCT

1

2

Fareham and Gosport PCT

1

2

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

1

2

Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust

1

2

North Hampshire PCT

2

3

New Forest PCT

1

3

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

2

3

Isle of Wight PCT

2

3

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust

1

4

South West

Kennet and North Wiltshire PCT

1

1

West Wiltshire PCT

1

1

Weston Area Health NHS Trust

2

1

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

2

1

Dacorum PCT

2

1

Cotswold and Vale PCT

1

2

North Somerset PCT

2

2

North Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

1

3

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

2

3

South Wiltshire PCT

1

3


Information on costs is being presented to the Health Select Committee during July and October.

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