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	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
England(1)	7,075	7,147	7,241	7,536	8,311
of which:
Avon Ambulance Service	185	196	229	262	258
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service	340	351	163	166	155
Cumbria Ambulance Service	113	121	144	148	146
Dorset Ambulance Service	154	169	134	158	158
East Anglian Ambulance Service	440	467	348	374	401
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust	318	320	294	293	296
Essex Ambulance Service	240	233	236	255	313
Gloucestershire Ambulance Service	100	103	100	94	93
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service	301	334	358	381	387
Hampshire Ambulance Service	176	179	167	141	193
Hereford & Worcester Ambulance Service	93	107	101	112	140
Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust	39	38	38	43	45
Kent Ambulance Service	202	191	223	213	248
Lancashire Ambulance Service	136	166	198	210	232
Lincolnshire Ambulance and Health Transport Service	191	181	191	207	225
London Ambulance service	744	770	829	875	961
Mersey Ambulance Service	416	281	337	298	416
North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust	273	255	276	295	301
Oxfordshire Ambulance	63	60	66	66	80
Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service	117	101	179	196	177
South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service	159	133	173	169	179
Staffordshire Ambulance Service	183	206	191	200	428
Surrey Ambulance Service	160	152	147	159	167
Sussex Ambulance Services	217	254	249	278	234
Tees East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust	297	298	313	315	309
Two Shires Ambulance Service	90	92	90	111	134
Warwickshire Ambulance Service	70	77	80	125	156
West Midlands Ambulance Service	385	495	486	432	454
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service	251	252	284	320	334
Westcountry Ambulance Service	432	464	516	541	568
Wiltshire Ambulance Service	109	98	96	87	85
(1) A small number of ambulance paramedics are employed outside ambulance trusts. These are included in the England totals to provide national figures. Note: Ambulance service staff can be coded as: managers, paramedics, personnel or trainee personnel. The numbers in the table are for paramedics as reported by the trusts. It is possible that trusts may have revised the coding of some staff from paramedic to personnel and vice versa in the light of improved guidance on coding. Source: The information centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census

Bonuses

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was paid in bonuses to (a) staff and (b) senior managers in (i) strategic and special health authorities, (ii) NHS trusts and (iii) primary care trusts in (A) real and (B) nominal terms in each year since 1997. [107384]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: Information on the pay of individuals in strategic and special health authorities, NHS trusts and PCT is not collected centrally by the Department as part of its central returns collation of NHS information.

NHS organisations are autonomous public bodies and, as such, the pay of their senior executive teams are a matter of public record and published in their annual accounts.

Cancer Treatment

Mr. Fraser: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many specialist (a) breast cancer, (b) lung cancer,
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(c) prostate cancer and (d) colorectal cancer nurses work in the NHS. [106361]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: This information is not collected centrally.

Specialist cancer nurses were not separately identifiable in the work force census from the rest of the nursing work force.

Chronic Illnesses

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital beds are available in (a) Liverpool, (b) Sefton, (c) Knowsley and (d) Wirral for patients (i) in a permanent vegetative state, (ii) with advanced Huntingtons disease and (iii) with CJD; where these beds are located; and how many new cases of these conditions occurred in these areas in each of the last three years. [106968]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is not held centrally.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she plans to create centres of excellence for patients with chronic disability in Merseyside. [106969]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: Health services in the Mersey area, in conjunction with clinicians and patients, are developing care pathways to improve services for patients with chronic disability. These services will be patient centred rather than having an organisational focus. Many patients with chronic conditions are cared for in their own homes.

Consultant Fees

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether fees due to a consultant on a full-time contract to an NHS hospital for reports are paid to (a) the NHS and (b) the consultant. [103349]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: ‘Fee Paying Services’ are covered by schedule 10 of the consultant contract (2003) terms and conditions of service. ‘Fee Paying Services’ include the provision of specialist medical reports.

Schedule 11 of the consultant contract (2003) terms and conditions of service sets out the principles governing the receipt of fees for such services. It provides that the consultant should remit any fees to his/her employer when carrying out fee-paying work for other organisations during NHS time, unless the work involves minimal disruption and the employer agrees that it may be done in NHS time without the employer collecting the fee.

For fee-paying work carried out in the consultant's own time, the consultant can retain the fee.

The 2003 consultant contract was designed to clarify the NHS commitment and private practice commitment, and to provide stronger guarantees that private practice would not disrupt provision of NHS services or detract from NHS performance. Under the new arrangements, there is much greater transparency about consultants’ contractual commitments to the NHS, and clear guidelines on private work.

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