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Other evidence includes publications by the Foundation Trust Network at www.foundationtrustnetwork.org such
as “Foundation Trusts: two years on” which provides further independent evidence that foundation trusts are demonstrating the capacity for improving patient services that their greater freedom and independent corporate governance brings.
NHS Treatment Centres: Private Sector
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the funding for the proposed independent sector treatment centres will be on-balance sheet; and if she will make a statement. [122943]
Andy Burnham: Where assets under the Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme are likely to revert to the national health service these will appear on balance sheet. Funding for this is through the NHS capital allocations and is included in the Department’s accounts.
NHS: Drugs
Derek Conway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the pooled treatment budget for NHS drugs is in London, broken down by primary care trust. [123587]
Caroline Flint: The information in the table shows the pooled drug treatment budget allocations for London primary care trusts in 2006-07 and proposed allocations in 2007-08.
| £ | ||
| PCT lead within London | Adult PTB 2006-07 (inc. PTB capital) | PTB channelled through PCT 2007-08 (indicative) |
NHS: Eastbourne
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) dentists and (b) patients were registered in Eastbourne constituency in each year since 1997. [125471]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Table 1 shows information on the number of national health service dentists and the numbers of patients registered with an NHS dentist as at 31 March 1997 to 2006 for the Eastbourne parliamentary constituency, under the old contractual arrangements.
Under the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, registration data are no longer collected centrally. Instead, there is a new measure on patients seen within the last 24 months. The latest information of numbers of NHS dentists and patients seen within the last 24 months is provided in tables 2 and 3. These data are only available at England, strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT) levels and not at constituency level. The Eastbourne constituency is covered by Eastbourne Downs PCT.
| Table 1: General dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS): N umber of NHS dentists and patients registered with an NHS dentist within Eastbourne constituency as at 31 March each year | ||
| Dentists | Registrations | |
| Notes: 1. Dentists consist of principals, assistants and trainees. Information on NHS dentistry in the community dental service, in hospitals and in prisons is excluded. 2. A dentist can provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed within the contract. In some cases an NHS dentist may be listed to carry out NHS work but may not do so for a given period. 3. The data in this report are based on NHS dentists on PCT lists from the BSA. Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) | ||
| Table 2: Number of dentists (performers) on open NHS contracts as at 30 June 2006 and 30 September 2006 | |
| Eastbourne Downs PCT | |
| Notes: 1. A performer is defined as a dentist who has been set up on the BSA Payments online (POL) system by the PCT to work under an open contract during the relevant time period. 2. Data provided are a count of the individuals listed as performers on open contracts within a PCT, including orthodontists. 3. A dentist can provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed within the contract. In some cases an NHS dentist may be listed to carry out NHS work but may not do so for a given period. 4. Data consists of performers in General Dental Services (GDS), Personal Dental Services (PDS) and Trust-led Dental Services. Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care. NHS Business Services Authority (BSA). | |
| Table 3: Number of patients seen in the two years ending 30 June 2006 and 30 September 2006 | |
| Eastbourne Downs PCT | |
| Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) | |
NHS: Finance
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will assess the outcome of her policy to ensure that overspending NHS organisations achieve run-rate balance in March 2007 by (a) health economy and (b) individual NHS organisations; and whether she monitors the monthly income and expenditure of NHS organisations forecasting deficits in 2006-07. [123130]
Andy Burnham:
In 2006-07, one of the Secretary of State’s key financial objectives was to achieve recurrent
monthly run rate balance across as many national health service organisations as possible by 31 March. We will assess progress against this target for individual organisations and the NHS as a whole at the end of the year. The income and expenditure of all NHS organisations are monitored on a monthly basis.
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts she expects to be in financial deficit at the end of the 2006-07 financial year. [124405]
Andy Burnham: The report “NHS Financial Performance Quarter Three 2006-07”, published on 20 February contains details of the forecast financial outturn position for all NHS organisations. Copies of the report are available in the Library. Final accounts for each national health service organisation will be published in the autumn.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons her Department produced the NHS investment maps published on 27 February; when her Department was instructed to produce these maps; who in her Department asked for the maps to be produced; and what the overall cost to the public purse was of producing the maps. [124927]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The maps were commissioned by Ministers on 14 February, to convert existing data about the hospital and primary care buildings programme into a more accessible format for the NHS and the public.
The overall cost was £3,200, including set-up costs, which will enable the Department to re-use the templates for different data sets and for a number of different communications vehicles.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when her Department expects to publish (a) primary care trust allocations for 2008-09 and (b) its final report on its review of the weighted capitation formula; what major milestones exist as part of her Department's review of the weighted capitation formula; and if she will make a statement. [124935]
Andy Burnham: The date for the announcement of revenue allocations to primary care trusts (PCTs) post 2007-08 has not yet been determined.
The Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA) is reviewing elements of the weighted capitation formula, as is usual before a new round of allocations. ACRA will be making recommendations on changes to the weighted capitation formula to Ministers in the autumn of 2007, in time to inform allocations for 2008-09.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date strategic health authorities are required to submit 2006-07 month 12 financial performance data for their entire health economies to her Department. [124936]
Andy Burnham: Strategic health authorities will send the Department month 12 provisional outturn forecast positions for their organisations on 11 May 2007.
Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts received funding below the national capitation formula in 2006-07; and by what total amount. [126917]
Andy Burnham: In 2006-07, 175 primary care trusts received funding below their weighted capitation targets. This represented £1.1 billion in cash terms.
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