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| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |||
| Number of last minute cancellations for non-clinical reasons | Number of patients not treated within 28 days of last minute cancellation | Number of last minute cancellations for non-clinical reasons | Number of patients not treated within 28 days of last minute cancellation | |
| Note: In 2002-03 the number of patients not admitted within 28 days of cancellation on the day of surgery was collected. From 2003-04 onwards, the number of patients not admitted within 28 days of a last minute cancellation was collected. Source: Department of Health dataset QMCO. | ||||
NHS Pensions
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the annual savings would be from increasing the employee contribution rate of the NHS pension scheme by 1 per cent.; and if she will make a statement. [93547]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The annual savings to the Exchequer if the employee contribution rate had been increased by 1 per cent in the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006, would have been around £310 million. Under the joint proposals from NHS employers and the NHS trade unions, which are under consultation until 30 November, it has been agreed that there will be a cap on employer contributions.
NHS Redundancies
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of compulsory redundancies in each (a) trust and (b) NHS body making such redundancies in each of the next 12 months. [99972]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not collected centrally.
NHS Services (Hertfordshire)
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the recruitment and retention of health visitors in Hertfordshire. [96461]
Ms Rosie Winterton: No assessment has been made centrally as to the recruitment and retention of health visitors in Hertfordshire, as responsibility falls to local national health service organisations to ensure that they have sufficient staff to ensure that the services that they provide meet the needs of the local populations that they serve.
NHS Training Budgets
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each health authority will spend in 2006-07 on (a) continuing professional development and (b) professional enhancement; and what their planned spending is in each of these areas over the next three years. [95669]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Continuing professional development needs for national health service staff are determined against local NHS priorities, through appraisal processes and training needs analyses informed by local delivery plans, regulatory bodies’ requirements and the needs of the service.
Access to training is affected by a number of local factors and it would not be practical for the centre to be prescriptive on these.
NICE
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to review the (a) remit and (b) scope of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to ensure that they are able adequately to assess the wider benefits to society across (i) health, (ii) social care, (iii) carers and (iv) families; and if she will make a statement. [97819]
Andy Burnham: The Department has no plans to review the remit and scope of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. NICE explicitly takes account of publicly funded health and personal social services costs in its appraisals, and also takes account of factors such as benefits to carers where it is appropriate to do so.
As part of NICE’s normal business, its technology appraisal process and methodology is subject to periodic review which includes a public consultation. NICE’s appraisal process was last subject to such a review in 2003-04, and I understand that NICE will be undertaking a further scheduled review next year including a public consultation stage.
Ovarian Cancer
Mrs. Riordan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the Calderdale primary care trust in each of the last 10 years; and at which stage of cancer the diagnosis was made in each case. [98068]
John Healey: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 6 November 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question asking how many women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the Calderdale Primary Care Trust in each of the last 10 years; and at which stage of cancer the diagnosis was made in each case. I am replying in her absence. [98068]
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2004. Numbers of cases of ovarian cancer for the years 1995 to 2004 for Calderdale Primary Care Trust (PCT) are given in table 1 .
Stage at diagnosis was introduced in 1993 when the cancer registration minimum data set was established by the Department of Health. There remains much variation in the recording of stage by the regional cancer registries.
Available information for Calderdale Primary Care Trust (PCT) on the numbers of cases of ovarian cancer by stage of diagnosis for the years 1995 to 2004 are given in table 2 .
| Table 1: Number of newly diagnosed cases of ovarian cancer( 1) for Calderdale PCT, 1995-2004 | |||||||||||
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 1997-2004 | |
| (1) Ovarian cancer is defined as code C56 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD 10). Source: Office for National Statistics. | |||||||||||
| Table 2: Number of newly diagnosed cases of ovarian cancer( 1) by tumour stage( 2) for Calderdale PCT, 1995-2004 | |||||||||||
| Tumour stage | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 1995-2004 |
| (1) Ovarian cancer is defined as code C56 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD 10). (2) Tumour staging of ovarian cancer using the FIGO staging method as defined in the Staging Classifications and Clinical Practice Guidelines of Gynaecological Cancers, Second Edition. Source: Department of Health, Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service | |||||||||||
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