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Drugs: Rehabilitation
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the proposed Drug Treatment Agency allocation is for (a) Bristol and (b) north Somerset for each year covered by comprehensive spending review. [164427]
Dawn Primarolo: No decisions have been finalised about the pooled drug treatment budget allocations from April 2008 onwards.
East and West Kent NHS Hospitals Trust: Clostridium
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the infection rates were for Clostridium difficile in the East and West Kent NHS Hospitals Trust in each of the last three years; and on what basis these rates are calculated. [166616]
Ann Keen
[holding answer 20 November2007]: The mandatory surveillance system operated by the Health Protection Agency provides data on the number of reports of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection
(CDI). All acute national health service trusts in England are obliged to report all cases of CDI processed by their laboratories and the data is published at trust level.
Mandatory surveillance of Clostridium difficile was introduced in 2004 for patients aged 65 and over and has been extended to all patients aged two and over from April this year.
The data provided in the following table are for the acute NHS trusts that fall within the Kent region. This information and any further information on the number of CDIs for NHS acute trusts is available at:
| Number of reported cases of Clostridium difficile infections | ||||||
| Patients >65 years | ||||||
| January to December 2004 | January to December 2005 | January to December 2006 | ||||
| Trust | Number of Clostridium difficile reports | Rate per 1,000 bed days | Number of Clostridium difficile reports | Rate per 1,000 bed days | Number of Clostridium difficile reports | Rate per 1,000 bed days |
| Note: Data are provisional. Source: Health Protection Agency. | ||||||
The numerator used is the number of Clostridium difficile reports for each trust for each year (January to December).
The denominator used is based on the total bed days for patients 65 years and over for January to December 2004 for each trust as derived from the Hospital Episode Statistics data.
The number of bed days was calculated from the total length of consultant episodes for patients 65 years and over for that trust during the period. The number was adjusted to take account of the leap year in 2004.
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust: Clostridium
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have (a) contracted and (b) died from clostridium difficile at East Sussex NHS Trust hospitals in the last 10 years. [165309]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available in the format requested.
The best available data on the number of reports of Clostridium difficile infections are for patients aged 65 and over and come from the mandatory surveillance scheme run by the Health Protection Agency. The following table shows data for East Sussex Hospital NHS Trust from January 2004 to June 2007.
| Number of C. difficile reports for patients aged 65 years and over | |
| Source: Health Protection Agency—provisional data. | |
It is not possible to identify where the infection was acquired.
Heart Diseases: Drugs
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his assessment is of the effectiveness of traditional coronary heart disease drugs on (a) women and (b) men; and if he will make a statement. [166597]
Dawn Primarolo: Medicinal products licensed for treatment of coronary heart disease are assessed for safety, efficacy and quality, in both men and women. Post marketing surveillance continues the monitoring of safety signals after approval for use of these products in a wider population. Products currently approved for treatment of coronary heart disease are safe and effective in men and women when used in accordance with their approved prescribing recommendations.
Heart Diseases: West Midlands
Mr. Cash: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) angioplasty and (b) revascularisation procedures were carried out in (i) Stoke, (ii) south Staffordshire, (iii) north Staffordshire, (iv) Telford and Wrekin and (v) Shropshire county primary care trusts in each year since 2003, broken down by type. [165216]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is shown in the table. The source of the data is the hospital episode statistics (HES) held by the information centre for health and social care (IC). The data are provided for five primary care trusts (PCTs), in their commissioning, rather than provider of treatment role.
Historical information for new PCTs (i.e. pre 1 October 2006) has been calculated by the 1C based on information previously provided by predecessor organisations.
Rather than grouping procedures under the headings ‘angioplasty’ and ‘revascularisation’ the 1C has
provided a more detailed break-down of the operative procedures that sit under these headings so there is no confusion as to what has been included and counted. Angioplasty has been classed as those codes between K49-K50 and ‘revascularisation’ has been classed as those codes between K40-K46.
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