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Marfan Syndrome
Dr. Gibson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to raise awareness of Marfan syndrome among medical professionals. [169340]
Ann Keen:
The Clinical Knowledge Summaries database which is available at www.cks.library.nhs.uk/ specifically set-up to provide clinical information for health professionals and patients, contains information on the diagnosis and treatment of Marfan syndrome.
Maternity Services: Finance
Mr. Stewart Jackson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy periodically to review the funding of maternity services in those areas with live birth rates significantly above the national average; and if he will make a statement. [170721]
Ann Keen:
Payment by Results is transforming the way key national health service services are funded by paying hospitals according to the number and complexity of cases treated. The tariff payment for births is therefore based on activity in a given area.
Maternity Services: Standards
Anne Milton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the quality of (a) birth conditions and (b) training opportunities provided by each type of childbirth unit. [168189]
Ann Keen:
It would be for primary care trusts (PCTs) to make such assessments when deciding how best to commission maternity services for their resident populations. However, our policy, as laid out in ‘Maternity Matters’, published in April this year, is to encourage PCTs to allow mothers as much choice as possible as to where they wish to give birth.
Maternity Matters also sets out clearly details about responsibilities for ensuring an adequate trained work force to provide maternity services while allowing mothers as much choice as possible.
NHS: Reorganisation
Sandra Gidley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) who has been invited to sit on the four national review groups contributing to Lord Darzi's review of the NHS; [166162]
(2) which patient groups will be involved in Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, including on the four national review groups on (a) constitution, (b) leadership, (c) workforce/education and (d) quality. [166163]
Ann Keen:
Membership of the national working groups will be finalised shortly and details published. A wide range of stakeholder groups including patient groups will be involved in the groups and in other elements of the National Health Service Next Stage Review.
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NHS: Waiting Lists
Mr. Lansley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the effect on NHS staff numbers in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008 of meeting the target that patients should not have to wait longer than 18 weeks for treatment. [165701]
Ann Keen:
Service transformation, supported by the significant increase in the workforce since 1997, new ways of working and productivity gains, will enable 18 weeks to be delivered and sustained.
Nurses: Schools
Norman Lamb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts (PCTs) have at least one full-time year round qualified school nurse for each cluster or group of primary schools and related
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secondary schools; which PCTs do not have such provision; and if he will make a statement. [165790]
Ann Keen:
The following table shows the number of primary care trusts (PCTs) and trusts who employ qualified school nurses who hold the Nursing and Midwifery Council Specialist Practice Qualification with an outcome in school nursing.
School nurses are generally employed by PCTs although some school nurses will be directly employed by both state and independent schools. The national health service workforce census does not capture these. A number of qualified school nurses will also work conterminously across PCTs boundaries but be directly employed by one single PCT.
In 2006 there were 1,129 school nurses with a school nurse qualification. This is an increase of 31.9 per cent since 2004.
| NHS hospital and community health services: Qualified school nurses( 1) in England by strategic health authority area, by organisation and by contracted hours as at 30 September 2006 |
| H eadcount |
| | All staff | Full- time | Part- time | Bank |
|
England
|
1,129
|
223
|
886
|
20
|
| | | | | |
|
North East Strategic Health Authority area
|
57
|
12
|
45
|
—
|
|
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
|
17
|
6
|
11
|
—
|
|
County Durham PCT
|
26
|
1
|
25
|
—
|
|
Darlington PCT
|
2
|
—
|
2
|
—
|
|
Gateshead PCT
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
|
Northumberland Care Trust
|
8
|
2
|
6
|
—
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland PCT
|
2
|
2
|
—
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
North West Strategic Health Authority area
|
223
|
39
|
181
|
3
|
|
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT
|
6
|
—
|
6
|
—
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen PCT
|
5
|
1
|
4
|
—
|
|
Blackpool PCT
|
7
|
2
|
5
|
—
|
|
Bolton PCT
|
31
|
6
|
25
|
—
|
|
Bury PCT
|
17
|
2
|
15
|
—
|
|
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
|
11
|
—
|
11
|
—
|
|
Central Lancashire PCT
|
8
|
1
|
7
|
—
|
|
Cumbria PCT
|
38
|
5
|
33
|
—
|
|
East Lancashire PCT
|
12
|
3
|
7
|
2
|
|
Halton and St Helens PCT
|
9
|
1
|
8
|
—
|
|
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
|
12
|
5
|
7
|
—
|
|
Knowsley PCT
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
|
North Lancashire PCT
|
5
|
—
|
3
|
—
|
|
Oldham PCT
|
9
|
2
|
7
|
—
|
|
Stockport PCT
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
1
|
|
Tameside and Glossop PCT
|
30
|
5
|
25
|
—
|
|
The Wirral Hospital NHS Trust
|
12
|
2
|
10
|
—
|
|
Warrington PCT
|
9
|
1
|
8
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority area
|
204
|
39
|
165
|
—
|
|
Barnsley PCT
|
13
|
5
|
8
|
—
|
|
Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT
|
22
|
7
|
15
|
—
|
|
Calderdale PCT
|
11
|
1
|
10
|
—
|
|
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT
|
24
|
—
|
24
|
—
|
|
Hull Teaching PCT
|
8
|
—
|
8
|
—
|
|
Kirklees PCT
|
41
|
4
|
37
|
—
|
|
Leeds PCT
|
47
|
12
|
35
|
—
|
|
North Lincolnshire PCT
|
7
|
2
| |
—
|
|
North Yorkshire and York PCT
|
7
|
—
|
7
|
—
|
|
Rotherham PCT
|
8
|
4
|
4
|
—
|
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|
Sheffield PCT
|
15
|
2
|
13
|
—
|
|
Wakefield District PCT
|
1
|
—
|
1
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
East Midlands Strategic Health Authority area
|
45
|
10
|
34
|
1
|
|
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
|
Derby City PCT
|
4
|
4
|
—
|
—
|
|
Derbyshire County PCT
|
2
|
1
|
1
| |
|
Leicester City Teaching PCT
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
—
|
|
Lincolnshire Teaching PCT
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
—
|
|
Northamptonshire Teaching PCT
|
29
|
1
|
28
|
—
|
|
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT
|
2
|
1
|
—
|
1
|
| | | | | |
|
West Midlands Strategic Health Authority area
|
133
|
31
|
102
|
—
|
|
Birmingham East and North PCT
|
13
|
5
|
8
|
—
|
|
Dudley PCT
|
1
|
—
|
1
|
—
|
|
North Staffordshire PCT
|
13
|
4
|
9
|
—
|
|
Shropshire County PCT
|
2
|
—
|
2
|
—
|
|
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust
|
1
|
—
|
1
| |
|
South Staffordshire PCT
|
20
|
4
|
16
|
—
|
|
Stoke on Trent Teaching PCT
|
30
|
10
|
20
|
—
|
|
Walsall Teaching PCT
|
6
|
1
|
5
|
—
|
|
Warwickshire PCT
|
23
|
6
|
17
|
—
|
|
Wolverhampton City PCT
|
24
|
1
|
23
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
East of England Strategic Health Authority area
|
52
|
13
|
39
|
—
|
|
Bedfordshire PCT
|
5
|
2
|
3
|
—
|
|
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
|
Cambridgeshire PCT
|
3
|
—
|
3
|
—
|
|
East and North Hertfordshire PCT
|
4
|
—
|
4
| |
|
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust
|
5
|
—
|
5
|
—
|
|
Luton PCT
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
—
|
|
Mid Essex PCT
|
12
|
1
|
11
|
—
|
|
North East Essex PCT
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
|
Peterborough PCT
|
1
|
—
|
1
|
—
|
|
West Essex PCT
|
15
|
5
|
10
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
London Strategic Health Authority area
|
198
|
51
|
133
|
14
|
|
Barking and Dagenham PCT
|
3
|
1
|
2
| |
|
Barnet PCT
|
1
|
—
|
1
|
—
|
|
Brent Teaching PCT
|
29
|
6
|
23
|
—
|
|
Bromley PCT
|
3
|
—
|
—
|
3
|
|
Camden PCT
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
|
City and Hackney PCT
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
—
|
|
Ealing PCT
|
3
|
—
|
3
|
—
|
|
Enfield PCT
|
2
|
—
|
2
|
—
|
|
Greenwich Teaching PCT
|
21
|
—
|
21
|
—
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
|
13
|
10
|
3
|
—
|
|
Haringey Teaching PCT
|
3
|
3
|
—
| |
|
Havering PCT
|
15
|
1
|
14
|
—
|
|
Islington PCT
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
—
|
|
Kingston PCT
|
2
|
—
|
2
|
—
|
|
Lambeth PCT
|
32
|
2
|
22
|
8
|
|
Lewisham PCT
|
15
|
6
|
8
|
1
|
|
Newham PCT
|
8
|
5
|
3
|
—
|
|
Redbridge PCT
|
13
|
2
|
11
|
—
|
|
Richmond and Twickenham PCT
|
4
|
—
|
4
|
—
|
|
Southwark PCT
|
11
|
7
|
2
|
2
|
|
Tower Hamlets PCT
|
2
|
—
|
2
|
—
|
|
Wandsworth PCT
|
9
|
1
|
8
|
—
|
|
Westminster PCT
|
2
|
2
|
—
|
—
|
| | | | | |
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|
South East Coast Strategic Health Authority area
|
89
|
11
|
78
|
—
|
|
East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT
|
14
|
—
|
14
|
—
|
|
Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching PCT
|
6
|
4
|
2
|
—
|
|
Hastings and Rother PCT
|
15
|
3
|
12
|
—
|
|
South Downs Health NHS Trust
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
|
Surrey PCT
|
12
|
1
|
11
|
—
|
|
West Kent PCT
|
3
|
—
|
3
|
—
|
|
West Sussex Teaching PCT
|
38
|
2
|
36
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
South Central Strategic Health Authority area
|
60
|
2
|
58
|
—
|
|
Berkshire East Teaching PCT
|
16
|
1
|
15
|
—
|
|
Berkshire West PCT
|
17
|
—
|
17
|
—
|
|
Hampshire PCT
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
—
|
|
Oxfordshire PCT
|
23
|
—
|
23
|
—
|
| | | | | |
|
South West Strategic Health Authority area
|
68
|
15
|
51
|
2
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset PCT
|
7
|
—
|
6
|
1
|
|
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT
|
17
|
4
|
13
|
—
|
|
Devon PCT
|
22
|
2
|
20
|
—
|
|
Dorset PCT
|
7
|
2
|
5
|
—
|
|
North Bristol NHS Trust
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
1
|
|
North Somerset PCT
|
1
|
1
|
—
|
—
|
|
Somerset PCT
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
—
|
|
Torbay Care Trust
|
7
|
4
|
3
|
—
|
|
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
—
|
(1) Qualified school nurses hold the NMC specialist Practice Qualification with an outcome in school nursing—which is a recordable qualification on the NMC register. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care non—medical workforce census.
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