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Departmental Data Protection

Mr. Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department’s information technology and data management systems are BS7799 compliant. [168747]

Mr. Bradshaw: The Department is compliant with IS027001 the International Standards Organisation standard on information security management systems which replaced BS7799.


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The Department is currently being assessed for continued compliance with the standard under the terms by which compliance is assured.

Departmental Property

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by his Department on renovation and refurbishment of its properties in each of the last five years. [164371]

Mr. Bradshaw: Spend by the Department in the financial years from 2002-03 has been:

£

2002-03

0

2003-04

1,113,565

2004-05

963,974

2005-06

5,033,305

2006-07

3,520,407


Diabetes

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government has taken to improve the lives of those with diabetes since 1997. [167898]

Ann Keen [holding answer 26 November 2007]: In December 2001 the Department published the “Diabetes National Service Framework” (NSF). This set out 12 National Standards for diabetes in the areas of prevention, identification, education and treatment and was put in place to raise the quality of services for people with diabetes.

The standards were followed by the “National Service Framework: Delivery Strategy”. Published in January 2003, the Delivery Strategy provides a vision of what services should be in place by 2013, and what steps will be necessary to deliver those services.

The national diabetes support team (NDST) was established in 2003. This has been a successful mechanism for the delivery of the NSF, providing support to local services through its regional programme managers and developing tools and resources that can be used nationally.

Dr. Sue Roberts was appointed national clinical director to lead on implementation of the National Service Framework. Dr. Roberts works closely with colleagues in the Department and the NDST to spread good practice and provide professional leadership at a national level.

The introduction of the new Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) as part of the general practitioner contract had led to the diagnosis of around 200,000 extra people in the last two years. This means that these people are now able to access the care, advice and treatment they need to enable them to manage their diabetes more effectively and reduce their risk of complications. The QOF also measures achievement of key clinical indicators for people with diabetes, such as HbA1c, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. This has also shown improvements in the management of diabetes over the last three years.

The Department works together with the NDST and other organisations such as Diabetes UK to provide the
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national health service with tools and guidance to support them in improving local services for people with diabetes. This includes a Diabetes Commissioning Toolkit, care planning guidance and a report on improving services for children and young people with diabetes.

Patient education is key to empowering people with diabetes to be partners in their own care. The number of sites offering good quality structured education is increasing, but the 2007 “Healthcare Commission survey of people with diabetes” showed that only 11 per cent., of people with diabetes have accessed patient education. We are supporting the spread of these programmes through our patient education guidance, which outlines the elements necessary for developing high-quality patient education programmes and highlights best practice to enable local services to meet the recommendations in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance and NSF.

The fourth NSF progress report “The Way Ahead: The Local Challenge” was published in March 2007 and highlights progress made in the four years following the publication of the delivery strategy. The report highlights the progress that frontline NHS staff have made in improving diabetes services, and provides examples of best practice. A copy has been placed in the Library and is also available at:

Drugs: Patents

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many British companies hold the patents to drugs that have no generic alternative. [165195]


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Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply.

From the databases which record patent data, it is not possible to determine which patents, for products having pharmaceutical properties, have resulted in drugs which have been put on sale in the market place. It is also not possible from these databases to tell whether a generic equivalent of a patented drug is available. While a patent remains in force, it is unlikely that a generic alternative will be available.

General Practitioners

Frank Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the costs and benefits of GPs with special interests. [168353]

Mr. Bradshaw: No assessment has been made centrally of the costs and benefits of general practitioners (GPs) with special interests. It is for local health commissioners, both primary care trusts and practice-based commissioners, to determine which local services - including services provided by GPs with a special interest will best meet the needs of their local populations within the resources available to them, and to fund these services accordingly. The development of GPs with special interests has expanded the range of options available to local commissioners.

General Practitioners: Manpower

Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners there are for each 100,000 of the population in each (a) region and (b) primary care trust area. [167918]

Ann Keen [holding answer 26 November 2007]: This information is shown in the following table.


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General Medical Practitioners (excluding GP Retainers and GP Registrars)( 1) per 100,000 head of population by Primary Care Trust—England
Number (headcount)
GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population

England

33,091

65.3

Q30

North East

1,815

70.9

5ND

County Durham PCT

345

69.0

5J9

Darlington PCT

70

70.6

5KF

Gateshead PCT

134

70.0

5D9

Hartlepool PCT

59

65.5

5KM

Middlesbrough PCT

94

68.3

5D7

Newcastle PCT

176

63.7

5D8

North Tyneside PCT

141

73.3

TAC

Northumberland Care Trust

311

99.9

5QR

Redcar and Cleveland PCT

89

64.2

5KG

South Tyneside PCT

100

66.1

5E1

Stockton-on-Tees Teaching PCT

115

61.6

5KL

Sunderland Teaching PCT

181

63.8

Q31

North West

4,392

63.8

5HG

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT

171

55.8

5CC

Blackburn with Darwen PCT

83

59.2

5HP

Blackpool PCT

88

61.6

5HQ

Bolton PCT

168

63.3

5JX

Bury PCT

119

64.9

5NP

Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT

286

63.9

5NG

Central Lancashire PCT

261

58.0

5NE

Cumbria PCT

378

75.8

5NH

East Lancashire PCT

221

57.9

5NM

Halton and St. Helens PCT

170

57.6

5NQ

Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT

127

61.5

5J4

Knowsley PCT

81

54.2

5NL

Liverpool PCT

321

71.7

5NT

Manchester PCT

306

69.4

5NF

North Lancashire PCT

201

62.0

5J5

Oldham PCT

125

57.0

5F5

Salford PCT

154

71.2

5NJ

Sefton PCT

170

60.5

5F7

Stockport PCT

186

66.0

5LH

Tameside and Glossop PCT

131

53.0

5NR

Trafford PCT

129

60.5

5J2

Warrington PCT

117

60.1

5NN

Western Cheshire PCT

174

74.8

5NK

Wirral PCT

225

71.9

Q32

Yorkshire and the Humber

3,386

66.9

5JE

Barnsley PCT

133

59.9

5NY

Bradford and Airedale PCT

369

76.1

5J6

Calderdale PCT

112

57.4

5N5

Doncaster PCT

170

58.7

5NW

East Riding of Yorkshire PCT

190

58.0

5NX

Hull PCT

156

62.6

5N2

Kirklees PCT

250

63.4

5N1

Leeds PCT

500

69.1

5AN

North East Lincolnshire PCT

96

60.5

5EF

North Lincolnshire PCT

96

62.6

5NV

North Yorkshire and York PCT

554

72.1

5H8

Rotherham PCT

145

57.3

5N4

Sheffield PCT

381

73.2

5N3

Wakefield District PCT

234

73.0

Q33

East Midlands

2,570

60.1

5ET

Bassetlaw PCT

62

56.0

5N7

Derby City PCT

159

68.0

5N6

Derbyshire County PCT

452

63.3

5PC

Leicester City PCT

154

53.5

5PA

Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT

374

56.2

5N9

Lincolnshire PCT

403

59.2

5PD

Northampton PCT

389

59.7

5EM

Nottingham City PCT

183

65.7

5N8

Nottinghamshire County PCT

394

60.4

Q34

West Midlands

3,390

63.2

5PG

Birmingham East and North PCT

236

59.5

5MD

Coventry Teaching PCT

196

64.4

5PE

Dudley PCT

187

61.2

5MX

Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT

176

66.0

5CN

Herefordshire PCT

137

76.6

5PH

North Staffordshire PCT

117

55.7

5PF

Sandwell PCT

186

65.0

5M2

Shropshire County PCT

205

70.9

TAM

Solihull Care Trust

134

66.7

5M1

South Birmingham PCT

263

77.9

5PK

South Staffordshire PCT

343

57.3

5PJ

Stoke on Trent PCT

144

58.5

5MK

Telford and Wrekin PCT

97

60.0

5M3

Walsall Teaching PCT

132

52.1

5PM

Warwickshire PCT

315

59.0

5MV

Wolverhampton City PCT

133

55.5

5PL

Worcestershire PCT

389

70.0

Q35

East of England

3,568

64.4

5P2

Bedfordshire PCT

258

64.9

5PP

Cambridgeshire PCT

394

66.9

5P3

East and North Hertfordshire PCT

317

61.1

5PR

Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT

141

68.0

5GC

Luton PCT

101

54.6

5PX

Mid Essex PCT

225

63.0

5PQ

Norfolk PCT

501

68.5

5PW

North East Essex PCT

181

59.3

5PN

Peterborough PCT

94

58.9

5P1

South East Essex PCT

205

62.9

5PY

South West Essex PCT

230

59.8

5PT

Suffolk PCT

399

69.1

5PV

West Essex PCT

173

63.3

5P4

West Hertfordshire PCT

349

65.9

Q36

London

4,868

64.8

5C2

Barking and Dagenham PCT

75

45.6

5A9

Barnet PCT

218

66.1

TAK

Bexley Care Trust

98

44.5

5K5

Brent Teaching PCT

194

71.8

5A7

Bromley PCT

198

65.6

5K7

Camden PCT

156

69.0

5C3

City and Hackney Teaching PCT

178

82.1

5K9

Croydon PCT

221

64.5

5HX

Ealing PCT

185

61.3

5C1

Enfield PCT

159

56.7

5A8

Greenwich Teaching PCT

118

51.7

5H1

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

102

56.7

5C9

Haringey Teaching PCT

150

66.8

5K6

Harrow PCT

140

65.4

5A4

Havering PCT

124

54.8

5AT

Hillingdon PCT

143

56.7

5HY

Hounslow PCT

122

57.4

5K8

Islington PCT

140

76.7

5LA

Kensington and Chelsea PCT

110

56.1

5A5

Kingston PCT

113

73.8

5LD

Lambeth PCT

228

84.7

5LF

Lewisham PCT

179

72.3

5C5

Newham PCT

181

73.5

5NA

Redbridge PCT

123

48.9

5M6

Richmond and Twickenham PCT

118

63.4

5LE

Southwark PCT

187

72.6

5M7

Sutton and Merton PCT

260

69.8

5C4

Tower Hamlets PCT

151

70.8

5NC

Waltham Forest PCT

149

66.5

5LG

Wandsworth PCT

198

70.4

5LC

Westminster PCT

150

61.4

Q37

South East Coast

2,684

63.9

5LQ

Brighton and Hove City PCT

169

66.3

5P7

East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT

215

66.2

5QA

Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT

427

59.8

5P8

Hastings and Rother PCT

105

60.7

5L3

Medway PCT

133

53.0

5P5

Surrey PCT

717

67.4

5P9

West Kent PCT

384

58.6

5P6

West Sussex PCT

534

69.9

Q38

South Central

2,611

66.0

5QG

Berkshire East PCT

232

61.2

5QF

Berkshire West PCT

302

67.9

5QD

Buckinghamshire PCT

315

63.6

5QC

Hampshire PCT

799

63.4

5QT

Isle of Wight PCT

87

62.1

5CQ

Milton Keynes PCT

141

63.0

5QE

Oxford PCT

455

75.5

5FE

Portsmouth City Teaching PCT

116

61.2

5L1

Southampton City PCT

164

73.9

Q39

South West

3,807

75.0

5FL

Bath and North East Somerset PCT

127

73.1

5QN

Bournemouth and Poole PCT

233

77.5

5QJ

Bristol PCT

327

82.1

5QP

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT

396

76.2

5QQ

Devon PCT

602

82.4

5QM

Dorset PCT

300

74.8

5QH

Gloucestershire PCT

399

69.4

5M8

North Somerset PCT

128

65.6

5F1

Plymouth Teaching PCT

188

76.4

5QL

Somerset PCT

409

79.3

5A3

South Gloucestershire PCT

170

68.5

5K3

Swindon PCT

123

64.8

TAL

Torbay Care Trust

101

76.1

5QK

Wiltshire PCT

304

68.1

(1) General Medical Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) includes GP Providers and GP Others.
Note:
GMP data as at 30 September 2006
Sources:
The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics Resident Population Estimates, Office for National Statistics

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