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Healthcare Commission: Manpower

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are employed by the Healthcare Commission to deal with NHS complaints; and what the cost was of administering this function in the last 12 months. [160471]

Mr. Bradshaw: We understand from the Chairman of the Healthcare Commission that there are currently approximately 160 staff working on the independent review of NHS complaints. In 2006-07, the cost of the Commission's complaints work was £11.4 million.

Hearing Aids: Waiting Lists

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the waiting times are for digital hearing aid (a) assessment and (b) fitting in each London primary care trust; and if he will make a statement. [161532]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested can be found in the following table. The figure in the table is for both the assessment and the fitting. Figures are not held separately for fittings.


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Audiological assessments: Number of patients waiting by London primary care trust (PCT): August 2007-08
Provider organisation name Provider o rganisation c ode Over 13 weeks Over 26 weeks Over 52 weeks Total Median wait (weeks)

Barking and Dagenham PCT

5C2

380

302

146

564

29.5

Barnet PCT

5A9

7

0

0

55

2.4

Bexley Care trust

TAK

35

23

4

183

7.7

Brent Teaching PCT

5K5

105

19

1

304

8.9

Bromley PCT

5A7

13

6

2

154

9.4

Camden PCT

5K7

1

0

0

28

4.8

City and Hackney Teaching PCT

5C3

0

0

0

17

2.9

Croydon PCT

5K9

723

514

129

1016

26.6

Ealing PCT

5HX

442

346

119

557

32.4

Enfield PCT

5C1

1

0

0

4

2.8

Greenwich Teaching PCT

5A8

158

100

16

293

16.8

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

5H1

1

0

0

235

8.2

Haringey Teaching PCT

5C9

2

0

0

37

5.2

Harrow PCT

5K6

151

19

0

302

13.1

Havering PCT

5A4

1,362

1,087

501

1707

37.9

Hillingdon PCT

5AT

13

4

1

88

3.1

Hounslow PCT

5HY

3

2

0

16

3.6

Islington PCT

5K8

0

0

0

5

2.0

Kensington and Chelsea PCT

5LA

0

0

0

80

3.1

Kingston PCT

5A5

271

194

69

458

21.1

Lambeth PCT

5LD

213

125

35

395

14.4

Lewisham PCT

5LF

38

20

2

270

6.6

Newham PCT

5C5

0

0

0

161

2.9

Redbridge PCT

5NA

79

21

4

249

9.6

Richmond and Twickenham PCT

5M6

38

19

5

85

11.8

Southwark PCT

5LE

169

106

27

315

15.0

Sutton and Merton PCT

5M7

14

9

4

157

3.8

Tower Hamlets PCT

5C4

2

0

0

18

3.8

Waltham Forest PCT

5NC

125

46

3

367

9.7

Wandsworth PCT

5LG

57

38

4

230

5.5

Westminster PCT

5LC

4

2

1

168

3.2


Hepatitis

Mr. Laxton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many children and young people under the age of 16 years were diagnosed with hepatitis C in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement; [160518]

(2) how many people over the age of 59 years were diagnosed with hepatitis C in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [160528]

Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is shown in the following table. Data are only available by the under 15 age group.

Hepatitis C laboratory reports, England and Wales, by age group, 2002 to 2006.

Under 15( 1) Over 59

2002

41

305

2003

24

365

2004

46

439

2005

30

410

2006

26

485

(1) This excludes children under one year of age who are positive only by antibody testing, since this may be due to passively acquired maternal antibodies, present in the child during this period. The data may include a small number of children over the age of one year who have residual maternal antibody. Note: Data is based on laboratory reports to the HPA. Source: Health Protection Agency (HPA).

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