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| Region | Number | Rate (per 100,000) | Number | Rate (per 100,000) | Number | Rate (per 100,000) |
| Sources: Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance, Office for National Statistics mid-year population estimates, as at 17 March 2006. Communicable disease surveillance centre (CDSC), Health Protection Agency centre for infections. | ||||||
Turnaround Teams
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding her Department has allocated for turnaround teams for NHS organisations; and what average period of time teams have remained in organisations in the last 12 months, broken down by (a) strategic health authority, (b) primary care trust and (c) hospital trust. [89066]
Andy Burnham: The Department is funding the national programme office and the strategic health authority (SHA) turnaround directors but trusts and primary care trusts are responsible for funding the support they decide they require. The Department will spend in 2005-06 and 2006-07 about £11 million, excluding VAT and expenses, on the turnaround programme at a national and SHA level covering local baseline assessments, a national programme office, one-off local support payments and SHA turnaround directors.
It is for local organisations to determine and commission the turnaround support they require and the Department does not maintain records on the average period of time these teams remain in the organisations.
Vocational General Practice Training Scheme
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people completed the vocational general practice training scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [84365]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The total number of vocational general practice training certificates has increased year on year in the last five years.
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Waiting Times/Lists
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of people in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland city council area were waiting more than (i) three months, (ii) six months and (iii) a year for an NHS operation in each year since 1997. [87373]
Andy Burnham: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the information relating to the Sunderland health authority (HA) and the Sunderland primary care trust (PCT) is shown in the tables.
| Number of patients waiting for inpatient treatment, Sunderland HA, quarter four, 1996-97 to 2001-02 | |||||||
| Total waiting | Waiting more than three months | Waiting more than six months | Waiting more than 12 months | ||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||
| Number of patients waiting for inpatient treatment, Sunderland PCT, quarter four, 2002-03 to 2005-06 | |||||||
| Total waiting | Waiting more than three months | Waiting more than six months | Waiting more than 12 months | ||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what incentives her Department has introduced to reduce waiting times for (a) elective surgical procedures, (b) initial consultation and (c) diagnostic procedures. [87658]
Andy Burnham: A description of the Department’s approach to implementing the 18 week referral-to-treatment waiting time target is set out in detail in “Tackling hospital waiting: the 18 week patient pathway—an implementation framework”, published in May. The document is available in the Library and on the Department’s website at: www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/13/46/69/04134669.pdf.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was for (a) a hip replacement operation and (b) an MRI scan in (i) each London strategic health authority and (ii) each London primary care trust in each of the last three years. [87722]
Andy Burnham: The table shows average hip replacement waiting times by London primary care trust (PCT) and strategic health authority (SHA) for the years 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05.
Data on average waits for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is not held in the format requested. However, the following table shows average waits for MRI scans by London primary care trusts in April 2006 which is the latest information available.
| Median waits for MRI scans in London PCTs and SHAs, April 2006 | |
| Organisation | Median wait (weeks) |
| Source: DM01 diagnostic waiting times returns | |
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