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Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average pay is of a qualified nurse; and if she will make a statement. [125277]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 6 March 2007]: The annual average earnings per head for a qualified nurse (full-time equivalent—FTE) in the national health service in 2005-06, which is the latest available year, is £29,010.
Notes:
Earnings per head (FTE) is derived using full-time equivalent staff numbers. Earnings figures include the on-costs of employment. Earnings are estimated using on-cost figures in financial returns (these are not broken down by staff group or grade).
Source:
Department of Health financial returns. We use the sum of the pay bill from each of these returns. We also add on the pay bill from foundations trusts which is taken for the foundation trusts annual report.
Patients
Roger Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the impact on the ability of patients with long-term conditions to self care of the proposed changes to the remuneration of services relating to Part IX of the Drug Tariff. [122528]
Caroline Flint: The Department believes that the current terms of service as laid out in the National Health Service Pharmaceutical Services Regulations and remuneration for some stoma and incontinence appliances do not deliver consistent levels of service provision. Therefore, it proposes to define the terms of service and is seeking views on the proposed specification at present. The required specification is set out in the consultation document entitled “Arrangements for the remuneration of services relating to appliances within Part IX of the Drug Tariff”.
It has always been a stated objective of the consultation process that patient care will be maintained and, where applicable, improved. Throughout the review of these arrangements, which began in October 2005, the Department has consulted a number of patient organisations and clinicians in order to ascertain patient need and the level of services provided by dispensing contractors to meet those needs.
The current consultation on service specification and remuneration closes on 2 April 2007. The Department intends to publish a summary of responses to as soon as is practical, and in any case within three months of the closing date. This summary will be available on the Department's website at:
www.dh.gov.uk/consultations/responsestoconsultations/fs/en
Queens Hospital Romford: Accident and Emergency Departments
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time for accident and emergency services at the new Queen’s hospital in Romford has been since its opening. [122503]
Andy Burnham: This information is not held in the format requested. However, 96.9 per cent. of patients at Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service Trust, which the Queen’s hospital in Romford is part of, spent under four hours between arrival and admission and transfer or discharge in the period September 2006 to December 2006.
Royal Preston Hospital: Waiting Lists
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was for (a) inpatient, (b) day cases and (c) outpatient appointments in Royal Preston hospital in each year since 1992. [124305]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is shown in the table.
| Median waiting time (weeks) | ||||
| Organisation | Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust | |||
| Year | Month | Inpatient ordinary admission | Inpatient daycase admission | First outpatient appointment |
| Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | ||||
| Year | Month | Inpatient ordinary admission | Inpatient daycase admission | Outpatient appointment |
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | ||||
| Year | Month | Inpatient ordinary admission | Inpatient daycase admission | First outpatient appointment |
| Notes: Inpatient waiting time based on median wait of those still waiting at end of period. Outpatient waiting times based on time waited for those seen during the quarter. Prior to the financial year 2000-01, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust existed as two separate trusts—Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust and Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2000-01 these trusts merged (with part of Chorley being allocated to another trust), keeping the name Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. In the financial year 2002-03, this became Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Sources: Department of Health, KHO7 and QM08s | ||||
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