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Mr. Stephen O'Brien:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress the Information Centre for Health and Social Care has made in its project supporting the patient choice agenda, as stated on the Our Priorities for 2007-08 section of its website; what outcome measures which can be used to support choice have been identified; and if he will make a statement. [170033]
Mr. Bradshaw:
Good progress has been made in supporting the patient choice agenda. The Information Centre for health and social care is making a substantial contribution to the new national health service choices website. The Information Centre also provides information on a number of outcome measures, in particular:
an online database of general practitioner practice results under the Quality and Outcomes Framework, available at www.qof.ic.nhs.uk;
provision of information for the Healthcare Commission's web tool that enables heart patients to get easy access to information giving reliable facts and figures about survival rates; and
a website to give parents and carers of children with congenital heart disease information to help them make decisions about their child's treatment, including survival rates for the most common types of treatment.
Pharmacy: Standards
Mr. Vara:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the effect of pharmaceutical regulations on dispensing doctors' surgeries; and if he will make a statement. [169252]
Mr. Bradshaw:
The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 contain provisions that relate to both community pharmacy and dispensing doctors. These provisions include the procedures that are to be followed by primary care trusts in deciding whether a new provider can enter the market and the impact of any decision on existing local services. The operation of these provisions is kept under review and discussed with the various representative bodies as necessary.
Prescriptions: Information and Communications Technology
Mr. Oaten:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to agree the model for the smartcards required for the second phase of electronic prescribing. [167662]
Mr. Bradshaw:
In the near future. The model will conform with the commitments given in the care record guarantee, which requires access to patient-identifiable information to be controlled by use of individual user smartcards, a valid pass code, role-based access controls and a user profile linked to the organisation in which the user is working. Officials are now working with stakeholders to agree the operational detail which will underpin these requirements and this work is expected to complete shortly.
Mr. Oaten:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will wait until all system suppliers have received NHS Connecting for Health accreditation before he moves to the second stage of live electronic prescribing. [167785]
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Mr. Bradshaw:
Programme management best practice recommends an incremental approach to implementation for large-scale information technology-enabled change programmes. This approach was adopted for the electronic prescription service (EPS) release 1 and we intend to adopt the same best-practice approach for release 2.
A number of initial implementer primary care trusts (PCTs) have been identified for deployment of release 2 of the EPS. Following achievement of technical accreditation, systems will be rolled out on a limited basis in these PCTs prior to wider accreditation and national deployment.
Primary Care Trusts: Finance
James Brokenshire:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the financial position of each primary care trust was at the most recent date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [170425]
Mr. Bradshaw:
This information is shown in the following table.
| PCTs 2007-08 quarter 2 forecast outturn position |
| PCT name | 2007-08 Q2 forecast outturn surplus/(deficit) (£000) |
|
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan primary care trust PCT
|
2,250
|
|
Barking and Dagenham PCT
|
15,900
|
|
Barnet PCT
|
0
|
|
Barnsley PCT
|
1,878
|
|
Bassetlaw PCT
|
2,750
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset PCT
|
4,736
|
|
Bedfordshire PCT
|
0
|
|
Berkshire East Teaching PCT
|
0
|
|
Berkshire West PCT
|
(3,846)
|
|
Bexley PCT
|
0
|
|
Birmingham East and North PCT
|
3,200
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen Teaching PCT
|
4,900
|
|
Blackpool PCT
|
3,165
|
|
Bolton PCT
|
1,000
|
|
Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT
|
5,783
|
|
Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT
|
3,277
|
|
Brent Teaching PCT
|
(4,000)
|
|
Brighton and Hove City Teaching PCT
|
3,000
|
|
Bristol Teaching PCT
|
3,701
|
|
Bromley PCT
|
0
|
|
Buckinghamshire PCT
|
(10,001)
|
|
Bury PCT
|
250
|
|
Calderdale PCT
|
1,300
|
|
Cambridgeshire PCT
|
0
|
|
Camden PCT
|
2,008
|
|
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
|
1,011
|
|
Central Lancashire PCT
|
6,360
|
|
City and Hackney Teaching PCT
|
5,000
|
|
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT
|
2,725
|
|
County Durham PCT
|
8,000
|
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|
Coventry Teaching PCT
|
4,026
|
|
Croydon PCT
|
3,550
|
|
Cumbria PCT
|
139
|
|
Darlington PCT
|
0
|
|
Derby City PCT
|
2,300
|
|
Derbyshire County PCT
|
12,991
|
|
Devon PCT
|
3,695
|
|
Doncaster PCT
|
2,012
|
|
Dorset PCT
|
3,070
|
|
Dudley PCT
|
2,000
|
|
Ealing PCT
|
1,500
|
|
East and North Hertfordshire PCT
|
0
|
|
East Lancashire PCT
|
11,068
|
|
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT
|
1,729
|
|
East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT
|
0
|
|
Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching PCT
|
4,000
|
|
Enfield PCT
|
(11,078)
|
|
Gateshead PCT
|
0
|
|
Gloucestershire PCT
|
2,798
|
|
Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching PCT
|
0
|
|
Greenwich Teaching PCT
|
357
|
|
Halton and St. Helens PCT
|
290
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
|
10,000
|
|
Hampshire PCT
|
0
|
|
Haringey Teaching PCT
|
1,876
|
|
Harrow PCT
|
0
|
|
Hartlepool PCT
|
250
|
|
Hastings and Rother PCT
|
2,000
|
|
Havering PCT
|
0
|
|
Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
|
9,680
|
|
Herefordshire PCT
|
675
|
|
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
|
3,430
|
|
Hillingdon PCT
|
0
|
|
Hounslow PCT
|
(2,464)
|
|
Hull Teaching PCT
|
1,856
|
|
Isle of Wight Healthcare PCT
|
1,250
|
|
Islington PCT
|
0
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea PCT
|
5,042
|
|
Kingston PCT
|
1,619
|
|
Kirklees PCT
|
2,650
|
|
Knowsley PCT
|
1,400
|
|
Lambeth PCT
|
1,412
|
|
Leeds PCT
|
0
|
|
Leicester City Teaching PCT
|
2,194
|
|
Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT
|
0
|
|
Lewisham PCT
|
0
|
|
Lincolnshire Teaching PCT
|
4,144
|
|
Liverpool PCT
|
17,752
|
|
Luton Teaching PCT
|
0
|
|
Manchester PCT
|
2,000
|
|
Medway Teaching PCT
|
3,207
|
|
Mid Essex PCT
|
526
|
|
Middlesbrough
|
891
|
|
Milton Keynes PCT
|
3,000
|
|
Newcastle PCT
|
500
|
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|
Newham PCT
|
2,400
|
|
Norfolk PCT
|
0
|
|
North East Essex PCT
|
0
|
|
North East Lincolnshire PCT
|
1,052
|
|
North Lancashire PCT
|
456
|
|
North Lincolnshire PCT
|
952
|
|
North Somerset PCT
|
(12,000)
|
|
North Staffordshire PCT
|
1,981
|
|
North Tyneside PCT
|
0
|
|
North Yorkshire and York PCT
|
(19,179)
|
|
Northamptonshire Teaching PCT
|
4,178
|
|
Northumberland Care Trust
|
0
|
|
Nottingham City PCT
|
6,519
|
|
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT
|
10,000
|
|
Oldham PCT
|
1,500
|
|
Oxfordshire PCT
|
9,000
|
|
Peterborough PCT
|
1,500
|
|
Plymouth Teaching PCT
|
5,046
|
|
Portsmouth City Teaching PCT
|
8,808
|
|
Redbridge PCT
|
18,200
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland PCT
|
884
|
|
Richmond and Twickenham PCT
|
0
|
|
Rotherham PCT
|
1,651
|
|
Salford Teaching PCT
|
1,000
|
|
Sandwell PCT
|
1,500
|
|
Sefton PCT
|
1,000
|
|
Sheffield PCT
|
0
|
|
Shropshire County PCT
|
1,088
|
|
Solihull Care Trust
|
777
|
|
Somerset PCT
|
5,110
|
|
South Birmingham PCT
|
10,000
|
|
South East Essex PCT
|
0
|
|
South Gloucestershire PCT
|
1,103
|
|
South Staffordshire PCT
|
6,802
|
|
South Tyneside PCT
|
0
|
|
South West Essex Teaching PCT
|
12,719
|
|
Southampton City PCT
|
2,000
|
|
Southwark PCT
|
0
|
|
Stockport PCT
|
1,756
|
|
Stockton-on-Tees Teaching PCT
|
8,000
|
|
Stoke on Trent Teaching PCT
|
2,023
|
|
Suffolk PCT
|
0
|
|
Sunderland Teaching PCT
|
0
|
|
Surrey PCT
|
0
|
|
Sutton and Merton PCT
|
(3,952)
|
|
Swindon PCT
|
935
|
|
Tameside and Glossop PCT
|
2,000
|
|
Telford and Wrekin PCT
|
11,420
|
|
Torbay Care Trust
|
7,881
|
|
Tower Hamlets PCT
|
3,500
|
|
Trafford PCT
|
880
|
|
Wakefield District PCT
|
2,223
|
|
Walsall Teaching PCT
|
9,436
|
|
Waltham Forest PCT
|
(814)
|
|
Wandsworth PCT
|
6,423
|
|
Warrington PCT
|
1,400
|
|
Warwickshire PCT
|
(3,799)
|
|
West Cheshire PCT
|
1,600
|
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|
West Essex PCT
|
0
|
|
West Hertfordshire PCT
|
0
|
|
West Kent PCT
|
0
|
|
West Sussex Teaching PCT
|
0
|
|
Westminster PCT
|
8,685
|
|
Wiltshire PCT
|
(22,000)
|
|
Wirral PCT
|
10,000
|
|
Wolverhampton City PCT
|
16,753
|
|
Worcestershire PCT
|
2,000
|
Source:
Department of Health financial monitoring
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