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This funding was made available following a long campaign by the haemophilia lobby groups. Funding was available from the programme budget.

The roll-out programme for recombinant began in January 2004, and all haemophilia patients in England are now eligible for treatment with recombinant products.

Funding is now allocated to strategic health authorities through the national health service bundle, and will be managed through a service level agreement.


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Health Professions: Regulation

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which organisations have submitted responses to her Department's review of the regulation of non-medical healthcare professions; [119051]

(2) which organisations have submitted responses to the Chief Medical Officer's report Good doctors, safer patients: Proposals to strengthen the system to assure and improve the performance of doctors and to protect the safety of patients. [119052]

Ms Rosie Winterton: There was a joint consultation exercise for both the Department's review of the regulation of non-medical healthcare professions and the Chief Medical Officer's report ‘Good doctors, safer patients’. Our records show that 493 organisations responded. Copies have been placed in the Library.

Health Services

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what response she has made to the report of Professor Fryer entitled “Learning for a change in healthcare”; and if she will make a statement. [123558]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 26 February 2007]: Professor Fryer’s report is currently under consideration and out for wider consultation. We will provide a substantive response to his recommendations in due course.

Heroin

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people received treatment following the illegal use of heroin in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. [114557]

Caroline Flint: Information about how many people received treatment following the illegal use of heroin is shown in the table.

Heroin as primary drug of use Heroin as second drug of use

2003-04

78,931

3,656

2004-05

80,274

6,999

2005-06

109,100

9,714


The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) was introduced in England from 1 April 2001. Provisional data for total numbers presenting and numbers in drug treatment for 2001-02 and 2002-03 is not in a format to allow robust analysis of drug of misuse of those in treatment.

The information requested prior to 2001 is not available.

HIV

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were diagnosed with HIV in each London borough in each of the last five years. [116889]


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Caroline Flint: The HIV case load for each London borough from 2001 to 2005 is shown in the table.

Number of diagnosed HIV-infected individuals resident in London local authorities, 2001-05
Survey year
Local authority 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Barking and Dagenham

216

198

482

583

635

Barnet

588

413

780

805

898

Bexley

125

114

211

269

308

Brent

835

571

1,129

1,224

1,339

Bromley

239

167

331

399

468

Camden

1,606

1,036

2,042

2,083

2,074

City of London

25

26

52

61

77

Croydon

1,000

790

1,110

1,339

1,447

Ealing

731

468

969

1,045

1,176

Enfield

444

348

740

854

991

Greenwich

540

435

952

1,087

1,203

Hackney

961

747

1,400

1,632

1,796

Hammersmith and Fulham

1,314

851

1,543

1,653

1,741

Haringey

1,166

787

1,529

1,664

1,810

Harrow

210

168

351

397

424

Havering

62

66

142

156

187

Hillingdon

279

196

423

501

544

Hounslow

481

350

774

883

967

Islington

1,167

843

1,724

1,841

1,900

Kensington and Chelsea

1,356

833

1,521

1,600

1,732

Kingston upon Thames

229

122

255

293

334

Lambeth

2,409

1,669

3,341

3,629

3,984

Lewisham

976

734

1,524

1,626

1,774

Merton

351

282

536

624

688

Newham

1,267

903

1,852

1,981

2,104

Redbridge

347

259

559

657

695

Richmond upon Thames

267

180

327

325

354

Southwark

1,584

1,246

2,488

2,819

3,154

Sutton

166

134

252

317

343

Tower Hamlets

694

576

1,169

1,281

1,402

Waltham Forest

652

469

1,042

1,101

1,209

Wandsworth

1,076

730

1,379

1,498

1,632

Westminster

1,388

886

1,732

1,924

2,020

London: LA not known

1,487

15

4

0

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Source:
Survey of Prevalent HIV Infections Diagnosed (SOPHID), 2001-05. SOPHID collects residential and epidemiological information on individuals accessing HIV care within a calendar year in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

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