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This and other key information about deployments under the national programme for information technology are routinely published, and updated, on the programme’s website at:
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/delivery/servicemanagement/deployment
Private Finance Initiative
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many private finance initiative schemes have been approved by her Department in the last three financial years, broken down by parliamentary constituency. [102828]
Andy Burnham: The information is in the table.
Psychotherapy and Counselling
Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified non-medical psychotherapy and counselling practitioners were employed by the NHS in each of the last five years. [102637]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The table shows the number of qualified psychotherapy staff in the national health service in England from 2001 to 2005. The workforce census does not separately identify the number of counselling practitioners.
| Qualified psychotherapy staff in England as at 30 September each specified year | |
| England | Headcount |
| Source: The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census | |
Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the regulation of non-medical psychotherapy and counselling practitioners. [102638]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Work is in hand to scope competences and undertake preparatory work to enable the statutory regulation of psychotherapists.
Decisions about further progress will be made after consideration of responses received to the recent public consultation on healthcare professional regulation, which closed on 10 November 2006.
School Nurses
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many school nurses employed in the NHS are (a) qualified and (b) unqualified; what estimate she has made of the number of school nurses the NHS will need to employ in order to meet her Department’s target of ensuring that each school will have access to a school nurse; and whether this target refers to qualified school nurses. [101714]
Ms Rosie Winterton: An analysis of school nursing staff is provided in the table.
The “Choosing Health” commitment requires the majority of school nurses to have a school nursing qualification by 2010.
| Nursing staff in the school nursing area of work as at 30 September 2005 | |
| Headcount | |
| (1) Qualified school nurses hold the Nursing and Midwifery Council specialist practice qualification with an outcome in school nursing—which is a recordable qualification on the NMC register. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census. | |
Television Advertisements
Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by her Department on television advertisements in the last year for which figures are available. [104438]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The total expenditure by the Department on television advertisements in 2005-06 was £14 million.
Waiting Times
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the national average (a) outpatient, (b) day case and (c) inpatient waiting times were for (i) gynaecology, (ii) ophthalmology, (iii) trauma, (iv) orthopaedics and (v) urology units in the last period for which figures are available; [103879]
(2) what the national average (a) outpatient, (b) day case and (c) inpatient waiting times were for (i) cardiology units, (ii) ear, throat and nose clinics, (iii) general medicine units and (iv) general surgery units in the last period for which figures are available. [103880]
Andy Burnham: Average waiting times are not available by hospital units, but are available at specialty level. Median waiting times for each specialty are shown in the table.
| Median waiting times for inpatient admission by specialty September 2006 | ||
| Median wait in weeks | ||
| Specialty | Day case | Ordinary (inpatient) |
| Source: QF01 returns from PCTs | ||
| Median Waiting times for 1st outpatient attendance by specialty June 2006 | |
| Specialty | Median wait (weeks) |
| Source: QM08Rs returns from PCTs | |
Yellow Card Scheme
Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many deaths occurred in England as a result of adverse reactions to medicinal drugs in each of the past seven years; and what proportion of these deaths were reported by the Yellow Card scheme. [106057]
Andy Burnham: Reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are collected by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Commission for Human Medicines (CHM) through the spontaneous reporting scheme, the Yellow Card scheme. Approximately 19,000 reports of suspected ADRs are sent to the MHRA/CHM through this scheme each year. It is not possible to estimate from the Yellow Card scheme the number of people who suffer adverse drug reactions with a fatal outcome since the scheme is associated with an unknown level of under-reporting.
Table 1 shows the total number of suspected adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports received via the Yellow Card scheme in the United Kingdom in each of the past seven years, and the number associated with a fatal outcome.
| Table 1. Number of reports received via the Yellow Card scheme in the UK | ||
| Total number of adverse drug reaction reports | Number of adverse drug reaction reports with a fatal outcome | |
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