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Health Care Professionals: International Recruitment
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of (a) systems of monitoring and (b) steps taken by NHS employers to ensure compliance with the Code for the International Recruitment of Healthcare Professionals. [107216]
Ms Rosie Winterton: NHS employers’ role of monitoring, and ensuring compliance with the code of practice for the recruitment of international healthcare professionals is included in the service level agreement between NHS employers and the Department of Health. The service level agreement is reviewed annually.
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to extend the Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Healthcare Professionals to other non-NHS healthcare providers. [107852]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department has made a groundbreaking agreement for this code to apply to major players in the independent healthcare sector.
The independent healthcare advisory services and the recruitment and employment confederation both endorse the code of practice.
Health Care Spending
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department spent per head of population on health care in (a) Shropshire, (b) Gloucestershire, (c) Herefordshire, (d) Warwickshire, (e) Staffordshire and (f) Birmingham in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [107363]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is not available in the format required.
However, the total expenditure per head of population by the relevant strategic health authority (SHA) area for 2005-06, is contained in the table.
| 2005-06 | |
| SHA | Expenditure (£ per head) |
| Notes: 1. Expenditure by strategic health authority area is taken as the total expenditure of the strategic health authority and of primary care trusts within the strategic health authority area. 2. Expenditure shown does not include all NHS expenditure within the area. Expenditure on general dental services and pharmaceutical services accounted for by the Dental Practice Board and Prescription Pricing Authority, respectively, are excluded from the figures. This expenditure cannot be included within the figures for the individual health bodies as they are not included in commissioner accounts. Sources: 1. Audited summarisation forms of the named strategic health authorities 2005-06 2. Audited summarisation schedules of primary care trusts within the named strategic health authority areas 2005-06 3. Office for National Statistics unweighted population figures | |
Healthy Start
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what evidence was used to inform her Department's Healthy Start scheme; what progress has been made in implementing the Healthy Start scheme; and what audits will be undertaken to assess the impact of the scheme. [105347]
Caroline Flint: Healthy Start builds on recommendations for reform made by the committee on the food and medical aspects of food and nutrition (COMA), which reviewed the former Welfare Food Scheme in 1999. Proposals for reform were further tested through public consultation.
Healthy Start was implemented in two phases—phase one introduced the scheme in Devon and Cornwall on 28 November 2005, to allow the processes and early impact on beneficiaries, health professionals and retailers to be evaluated independently. Executive summary reports of the evaluation undertaken can be obtained from the Department's website at: www.dh.gov.uk.
Phase two extended the scheme across the rest of Great Britain on 27 November 2006. Northern Ireland introduced an identical scheme on the same date. An expert scoping study is now under way to consider the longer-term evaluation requirements to examine the health and behavioural impacts of the scheme over time.
The Department will continue to monitor all aspects of delivery of the scheme, and to understand voucher usage. Voucher values and the range of foods available under the scheme will be reviewed at least annually.
HIV and AIDS Funding
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding is being provided by her Department to Bournemouth in 2006-07 to help individuals with HIV and AIDS; and whether this funding is ring fenced. [104986]
Caroline Flint: Primary care trusts provide health care for those living with HIV and AIDS from their general allocations. A separate breakdown of this figure is therefore not identifiable.
The Department does provide a ring-fenced AIDS support grant allocation to Bournemouth borough council of £71,000 in 2006-07, to assist the local authority with HIV and AIDS social care costs.
Hospital Beds
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital beds are available in East Sussex for patients (a) in a permanent vegetative state, (b) with advanced Huntington's disease and (c) with CJD; and where the beds are located. [105168]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Hospital Infections
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the requirements are for reporting (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile infections in (i) NHS hospitals, (ii) private hospitals and (iii) independent sector treatment centres. [107901]
Andy Burnham:
Since 1 April 2001, all acute national health service trusts have been obliged to report all
cases of bloodstream infections caused by meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
Since 1 January 2004, all acute NHS trusts have been obliged to report all cases of disease associated with Clostridium difficile in patients aged 65 years and over to the HPA.
The HPA collates and analyses the data on behalf of the Department.
At present, private hospitals and independent sector treatment centres are not required to report cases.
Hospital Waiting Lists
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been waiting (a) more than six months for in-hospital treatment and (b) more than 14 weeks for an out-patient appointment in each hospital in east Sussex. [105208]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is only collected at trust level. The following table details the number of outpatients waiting over 14 weeks to be seen by a consultant after GP referral and inpatients waiting over 26 weeks for admission for East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust at month ending 31 October.
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are waiting for (a) in-hospital treatment and (b) out-patient appointments in each hospital in East Sussex. [105209]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is only collected at trust-level. The following table details the total number of outpatients waiting to be seen by a consultant after general practitioner referral and total inpatients waiting for admission for East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals National Health Service Trust at month ending 31 October.
| East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust | Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust | |
| Source: Department of Health—MMI monthly monitoring | ||
Medical Staff: Sexual Offences
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many registered (a) doctors, (b) dentists, (c) nurses and (d) other health professionals were (i) convicted and (ii) cautioned for sexual offences in each year since 1997. [107388]
Andy Burnham: This information is not collected by the Department.
Mental Health
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many acute mental health beds were (a) available in the NHS and (b) contracted to the NHS by the independent sector in each of the last five years. [105630]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information about the average daily number of available beds in the mental health sector for each of the last five years is shown in the table. Information about the number of mental illness beds contracted to the national health service by the independent sector is not centrally available.
| Average daily number of available beds, mental illness sector, England | |
| Mental illness | |
Mental Health Services
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the funding was per one thousand population for mental health services in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Peterborough in each year since 2001; and if she will make a statement. [107088]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department does not allocate funds specifically for mental health services.
Estimates of primary care trust expenditure on ‘Mental Health’ are provided by the programme budgeting returns. At present, data are only available for the financial years 2003/-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06.
The following table shows net spend for each primary care trust (PCT) in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 on mental health, in terms of expenditure per 100,000 unified weighted population.
Weighted population figures represent the PCT populations after adjusting for age related need, additional need related to levels of deprivation, and differences in unavoidable costs. The weighted populations represent the amount of resources needed in each PCT to commission similar levels of healthcare for similar levels of need.
Unified weighted is the population adjustment when the weighting for hospital and community services is combined with the weighting used for general medical services (GMS) and prescribing services.
Further analysis is available at the website address:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/programmebudgeting
| PCT level ‘Mental Health’ expenditure (£000) 2003-04-2005-06 per head of 100,000 unified weighted population. | |||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |
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