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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.


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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

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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