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Medical Services: Prisoners
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of prisoners admitted to hospital for treatment in the last year; and how many of these were placed in single rooms in hospital. [165705]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is not held centrally.
A 2005-06 audit of health care escorts and bedwatches activity in all prison establishments in England and Wales identified the following activity(1):
(1 )Source:
A Twelve Month Study of Prison Healthcare Escorts and Bedwatches, Department of Health, 2006.
| Escorts and Bedwatches Activity (18 April 2005 to 21 April 2006) | |
| Number | |
A copy of the full report has been placed in the Library and is also available at:
Medical Treatments: Procurement
Mr. Havard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what statutory obligations there are upon the Centre of Evidence-based Purchasing to consider the outcomes of product assessments by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in its evaluations of medical devices. [166113]
Mr. Bradshaw:
There are no statutory obligations upon the Centre of Evidence-based Purchasing (CEP) to consider the outcomes of product assessments by
the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in its evaluations of medical devices.
However, the Centre of Evidence-based Purchasing works closely with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to ensure that respective work-programmes complement one another and build on each other’s efforts. For example, if NICE issues some clinical guidelines around a particular disease or technology, CEP can support that guidance by doing a piece of work on the specific products that support that guideline, perhaps by reviewing the market, or providing the national health service with comparative specifications to compare the products that are available.
Medical Treatments: Statistics
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when and by whom the decision was taken that the statistics published on 8 November on referral to treatment times would include data on non-admitted patients. [165691]
Mr. Bradshaw: The decision to publish referral to treatment data for non-admitted patients was made on 19 October. The date of publication was dependent on these data being of sufficient quality.
The Department’s Director-General for NHS Finance, Performance and Operations, made the decision to publish these data on 8 November.
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