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Food: Television Advertising
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on the nutrient profiling model developed by the FSA for the use of Ofcom on television advertising. [111280]
Caroline Flint: I have had regular discussions with the Food Standards Agency on the nutrient profiling model. The model enables Ofcom to devise rules on television advertising of foods high in fat, salt and sugars which do not have an unhelpful impact on the advertising of healthier options such as fruit and vegetables. I wrote to the chair of Ofcom on 6 December 2006 indicating our support for the model as an appropriate basis for underpinning regulatory intervention in relation to broadcast food advertising to children.
General Practitioners: Pay
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 29 January 2007, Official Report, column 62W, on practice-based commissioning, what plans she has to collect data on component two of the payment; and whether her Department has made any estimate of the proportion of practices in receipt of component two. [118217]
Andy Burnham: The Department is collecting data on the amount of money primary care trusts have spent on component two of the Directed Enhanced Service for practice based commissioning. Audited financial outturn data will be available following the end of the financial year.
Data on the numbers of practices currently in receipt of component two are not collected centrally and the Department has made no estimate of the proportion of practices who have received it.
Health Expenditure
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what expenditure above that already allocated for 2006-07 her Department plans in Hartlepool constituency to improve community and primary care facilities. [111845]
Ms Rosie Winterton: In 2006-07, £131.9 million has been allocated to the Hartlepool Primary Care Trust (PCT) and this will rise to £144.2 million in 2007-08.
Following the introduction of the new general medical service (GMS) contract, the funding for general practitioner premises forms part of the unified allocations made to PCTs. It is the responsibility of individual PCTs to decide locally what is spent on premises or other areas within the terms of the GMS contract.
However, the Hartlepool area has recently benefited from the results of the LIFT initiative which has seen the completion in August 2006 of the Wynyard Road Primary Care Centre at a cost of £1.2 million.
Health Services
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many clinical assessment, treat and support services are operated by (a) NHS hospitals and (b) primary care trusts; and what the average through-put of patients was in each location in the latest period for which figures are available. [117996]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Health Services: Greater Manchester
Ann Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East, on 26 January 2007, Official Report, column 2139W, on integrated clinical assessment and treatment services, what recent figures have been given to her by the NHS North West strategic health authority on the financial impact of the introduction of the independent integrated clinical assessment and treatment services on the foundation and acute trusts in Greater Manchester. [118206]
Andy Burnham: The impact assessment of the clinical assessment, treatment and support scheme is still being undertaken. The NHS North West expects to share the findings with stakeholders in spring 2007 once the assessment is complete.
Health Services: Northern Region
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether an assessment has been made by her Department comparing the expected costs of clinical assessment, treat and support services in Cumbria and Lancashire and the development or reconfiguration of existing local NHS services. [118009]
Andy Burnham: The clinical assessment, treatment and support (CATS) services for Cumbria and Lancashire will provide clinical consultations, diagnostic tests and minor treatment on one site. Patients using CATS services are likely to attend health services on fewer occasions than under a traditional outpatient care pathway, resulting in lower costs.
Health Services: West Lancashire
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting list times for (a) patients and (b) cancer patients of West Lancashire hospitals were in each year since 1997. [112300]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Average waiting times for the treatment of cancer patients are not collected centrally. Cancer waiting times standards of a maximum wait of 31 days from diagnosis to first cancer treatment and a maximum wait of 62 days from urgent referral to first cancer treatment were introduced for all cancer patients from December 2005. Data showing performance against these standards for the period July to September 2006 show that patients at the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre NHS Trust achieved 99.7 per cent. and 96.5 per cent. respectively. For the same period Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust achieved 100 per cent. and 97.6 per cent. respectively.
More detailed information and historic statistics for these standards and the cancer Two Week Wait are available online at:
www.performance.doh.gov.uk/cancerwaits.
Information requested on waiting times for all clinical specialties is shown in the table.
| Provider-based median outpatient waiting times | ||||||
| NHS trusts | ||||||
| Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Community Health Services | Blackpool Victoria | Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre | Southport and Formby Hospitals | West Lancashire | Southport and Ormskirk Hospital | |
| Source: Department of Health, KH07 and QM08 | ||||||
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