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Medical Treatments: Heart Diseases

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients suffering from congestive heart failure were treated through (a) pharmacological management, (b) cardiac transplant surgery and (c) the use of medical devices in each of the last five years, broken down by strategic health authority. [152914]

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Ann Keen: These data are not collected centrally.

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS spent on (a) pharmacological management, (b) cardiac transplant surgery and (c) the use of medical devices in the treatment of congestive heart failure in each of the last five years, broken down by strategic health authority. [152915]

Ann Keen: Information is not collected in the form requested. It is possible to separate spending on medical devices and pharmacological management devices specifically for treatment for congestive heart failure from figures for such spending related to cardiac conditions generally.

On heart and lung transplants only national figures are available for procedures commissioned under the auspices of the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group. The following figures are for national commissioning across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and include assessment, organ retrieval and follow-up services for both heart and lung transplant.

	£ million
2002-03	30.1
2003-04	31.4
2004-05	33.8
2005-06	35.7
2006-07	37.8

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the cost was of treating congestive heart failure in each of the last five years to the NHS, broken down by strategic health authority; [152916]

(2) what the average cost of an occupied bed day was for patients with congestive heart failure in each of the last five years, broken down by strategic health authority. [152917]

Ann Keen: These data requested are not held centrally.

Members: Correspondence

Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 21 June 2007 on Type 1 diabetes. [153492]

Ann Keen: A reply was sent to the hon. Member on 24 July 2007.

Mental Health Services: Children

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many specialists in child mental health were employed in the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS trust. [151017]

Mr. Bradshaw: Information about medical child mental health specialists has been placed in the Library. It is not possible to separately identify child mental health nurses.

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Mental Health Services: Manpower

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) consultant psychiatrists, (b) mental health nurses and (c) primary care mental
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health workers were employed by the NHS in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (i) head count and (ii) full-time equivalents. [151009]

Mr. Bradshaw: The information requested is shown in the following tables.

	1997		1998		1999		2000
	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent
All staff	52,667	47,385	51,504	46,316	51,730	46,273	51,930	46,823
Consultant Psychiatrists	2,447	2,206	2,627	2,359	2,808	2,525	2,904	2,621
Mental Health Nurses	50,220	45,179	48,877	43,957	48,922	43,748	49,026	44,203
Nurse Consultant	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Modern Matron	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Manager	1,137	1,106	1,119	1,085	1,070	1,036	1,154	1,113
Other 1(st) level	43,509	39,297	42,963	38,685	43,494	38,965	44,363	40,061
Other 2(nd) level	5,574	4,776	4,795	4,186	4,358	3,747	3,509	3,029

	2001		2002		2003		2004
	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent
All staff	54,274	48,046	55,183	49,172	56,907	50,127	59,601	52,342
Consultant Psychiatrists	2,959	2,633	2,979	2,673	3,229	2,920	3,555	3,231
Mental Health Nurses	51,315	45,413	52,204	46,499	53,678	47,207	56,046	49,111
Nurse Consultant	36	36	75	70	95	94	130	126
Modern Matron	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Manager	1,464	1,416	1,423	1,377	1,731	1,677	2,021	1,974
Other 1(st) level	46,112	40,927	47,673	42,590	48,775	43,120	50,924	44,785
Other 2(nd) level	3,703	3,033	3,033	2,461	3,077	2,317	2,971	2,226

	2005		2006
	Headcount	Full-time equivalent	Headcount	Full-time equivalent
All staff	61,136	53,328	59,866	52,957
Consultant Psychiatrists	3,759	3,432	3,805	3,474
Mental Health Nurses	57,377	49,896	56,061	49,483
Nurse Consultant	142	138	144	141
Modern Matron	168	165	225	222
Manager	1,764	1,718	1,823	1,763
Other 1(st) level	52,668	45,965	52,299	46,009
Other 2(nd) level	2,635	1,909	1,570	1,348
n/a = Not applicable. Notes: 1. Mental health nurses are those qualified nurses who work within the community psychiatry, other psychiatry, community learning disabilities and other learning disabilities areas. 2. More accurate validation processes in 2006 have resulted in the identification and removal of 9,858 duplicate non-medical staff records out of the total work force figure of 1.3 million in 2006. Earlier years’ figures could not be accurately validated in this way and so will be slightly inflated. The level of inflation in earlier years’ figures is estimated to be less than 1 per cent. of total across all non-medical staff groups for headcount figures (and negligible for full-time equivalents). This should be taken into consideration when analysing trends over time. Sources: 1. Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census 2. The Information Centre for health and social care medical and dental workforce census

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