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General Practitioners: Standards
Mr. Hollobone:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what targets for productivity improvement from GP practices she has set for the next three years. [131013]
Andy Burnham:
As part of the General Medical Services contract for 2006-07, the BMA and NHS Employers (on behalf of the Department) agreed that primary medical care contractors should be subject to the same level of efficiency improvement placed on other parts of the national health service. This remains our expectation.
Gynaecology
Sandra Gidley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients referred to hospital with fibroid-related dysfunctional uterine bleeding (menorrhagia) underwent (a) myomectomy and (b) uterine artery embolisation as an alternative to hysterectomy in each of the last five years, broken down by strategic health authority. [124949]
Caroline Flint:
This information cannot be provided in the format requested.
Sandra Gidley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were referred to hospital with dysfunctional uterine bleeding (menorrhagia) in each of the last five years, in each strategic health authority area. [124950]
Caroline Flint:
This information is shown in the following tables.
Count of finished admission episodes where the primary diagnosis was Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding* and Menorrhagia** NHS hospitals in England, 2001-02 to 2005-06 |
| | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Strategic health authority of treatment | Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding | Menorrhagia | Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding | Menorrhagia | Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding | Menorrhagia |
Q01
|
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA
|
305
|
2,548
|
244
|
2,518
|
199
|
2,555
|
Q02
|
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA
|
131
|
1,291
|
92
|
1,259
|
92
|
1,194
|
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Q03
|
Essex HA
|
299
|
1,403
|
318
|
1,251
|
348
|
1,422
|
Q04
|
North West London HA
|
114
|
1,285
|
62
|
1,334
|
90
|
1,588
|
Q05
|
North Central London HA
|
166
|
1,569
|
177
|
1,704
|
181
|
1,463
|
Q06
|
North East London HA
|
140
|
1,863
|
84
|
1,910
|
90
|
1,839
|
Q07
|
South East London HA
|
59
|
1,401
|
69
|
1,634
|
80
|
1,459
|
Q08
|
South West London HA
|
84
|
1,173
|
101
|
1,155
|
90
|
1,254
|
Q09
|
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA
|
366
|
1,788
|
336
|
2,011
|
316
|
2,018
|
Q10
|
County Durham and Tees Valley HA
|
253
|
766
|
324
|
1,639
|
303
|
1,439
|
Q11
|
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA
|
356
|
2,650
|
353
|
2,508
|
503
|
2,638
|
Q12
|
West Yorkshire HA
|
404
|
3,472
|
428
|
3,276
|
407
|
3,001
|
Q13
|
Cumbria and Lancashire HA
|
115
|
1,598
|
231
|
2,428
|
215
|
2,356
|
Q14
|
Greater Manchester HA
|
334
|
1,838
|
359
|
2,806
|
360
|
2,687
|
Q15
|
Cheshire and Merseyside HA
|
600
|
3,580
|
588
|
3,367
|
582
|
3,224
|
Q16
|
Thames Valley HA
|
163
|
2,614
|
187
|
3,148
|
172
|
2,594
|
Q17
|
Hampshire and Isle of Wight HA
|
297
|
1,872
|
296
|
1,835
|
258
|
1,533
|
Q18
|
Kent and Medway HA
|
281
|
1,904
|
347
|
1,754
|
302
|
1,653
|
Q19
|
Surrey and Sussex HA
|
112
|
1,307
|
174
|
2,299
|
168
|
2,384
|
Q20
|
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA
|
239
|
1,489
|
268
|
2,079
|
228
|
2,164
|
Q21
|
South West Peninsula HA
|
141
|
1,919
|
124
|
1,768
|
84
|
1,638
|
Q22
|
Dorset and Somerset HA
|
141
|
1,467
|
129
|
1,399
|
109
|
1,484
|
Q23
|
South Yorkshire HA
|
372
|
1,386
|
391
|
1,564
|
488
|
1,549
|
Q24
|
Trent HA
|
448
|
2,969
|
414
|
3,055
|
396
|
2,947
|
Q25
|
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA
|
271
|
1,874
|
246
|
1,654
|
157
|
2,106
|
Q26
|
Shropshire and Staffordshire HA
|
272
|
2,202
|
150
|
2,652
|
180
|
2,611
|
Q27
|
Birmingham and the Black Country HA
|
305
|
3,275
|
307
|
3,340
|
454
|
3,210
|
Q28
|
Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA
|
159
|
1,913
|
189
|
2,017
|
214
|
1,668
|
Y
|
Not known
|
443
|
4,728
|
|
|
|
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