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Mental Health Services: Suicide
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of suicides committed by people who have received treatment for mental illness in each of the last five years. [173280]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 15 October 2007, Official Report, columns 925-26W.
Mentally Incapacitated: Protection
Mr. David Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adult protection referrals have taken place in each local authority in England, broken down by the assessment level of the provider involved. [172104]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: This information is not currently collected centrally.
On 14 June 2007, I announced that plans are being put in place to introduce a new national monitoring system to report the extent of abuse. This will be based on a standardised method for the collection of data on protection of vulnerable adult referrals in England. The Information Centre for health and social care is leading the work to develop and collect data from councils on a national basis.
Methadone: Durham
John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were prescribed methadone and other hard drug substitutes in (a) County Durham and (b) Easington constituency in each year since 2000. [172763]
Dawn Primarolo: The information is not available in the format requested. Dispensing data is collected by the number of prescription items and not by individuals. The following table contains figures for the number of prescriptions of methodone and buprenorphine in County Durham Primary Care Trust and predecessor organisations from 2003, the earliest full year for which information is available.
Midwives: Training
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost was of training student midwives in the 2006-07 financial year. [172145]
Ann Keen: Information on the total cost of training student midwives in the 2006-07 financial year is not held centrally. The latest year for which data are available is the 2005-06 financial year when the total cost was estimated at £82.2 million.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwifery training places were commissioned in each academic year since 1997-98. [172146]
Ann Keen: Information on the number of student midwives in each academic year since 1997-98 is shown in the following table.
| Diploma | Degree | Total pre-registration | Other | Grand total | |
| Source: Quarterly monitoring/financial and workforce information return | |||||
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which higher education institutions offer training in midwifery. [172147]
Ann Keen: Information on the higher education institutions that offer training to student midwives, is not held by the Department. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is responsible for approving education institutions to run midwifery training programmes.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Mike Penning:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence intends to publish a review of its
guidance on “Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems”, published on 25 February 2004. [174016]
Dawn Primarolo: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) sets out a proposed review date when it publishes each new clinical guideline. We understand that the published review date for NICE’s clinical guideline on “Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems” is February 2008. At that point, NICE will take a view on whether the guideline requires an update. This will depend primarily on whether significant new information has become available since the guideline was originally published. If NICE decides that the guideline does not need to be updated, it will set out a new time scale for a future reassessment of the need for a review.
NHS: Managers
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total wage cost of employing managers in the NHS was in the latest period for which figures are available; and what it was in 1997. [170597]
Ann Keen: Total costs of employing managers in the national health service in 2006-07 was £2,088 million. The total cost in 1997-98 was £912 million.
The figures include salaries and wages, national insurance and pension contributions. It is not possible to identify wages alone.
Source:
Annual financial returns of health authorities and NHS trusts 1997-98.
Annual financial returns of strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and NHS trusts 2006-07.
Data do not include NHS foundation trusts in 2006-07.
NHS: Overseas Visitors
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people and (b) children who would be denied access to medical care if the proposal to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility to free NHS primary medical services is implemented; and if he will make a statement; [173373]
(2) what assessment he has made of the likely effect on the incidence of communicable diseases in the general population if the proposal to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility to free NHS primary medical services is implemented; and if he will make a statement; [173374]
(3) if he will publish all the written responses received by his Department to the consultation on the proposal to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility to Free NHS primary medical services; [173375]
(4) when he plans to publish the results of the consultation on the proposal to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility to free NHS primary medical services. [173376]
Dawn Primarolo: The responses to the 2004 consultation are being considered.
No estimation has yet been made of the potential impact on people and children.
All current regulations will take into account the key preventative and public health role of NHS primary care as well as international law and humanitarian principles.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust: Waiting Lists
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting times for (i) inpatient and (ii) daycase admissions were in Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last four quarters for which figures are available. [172519]
Ann Keen: The information requested has been set out in the following table.
| Patient waiting for elective admission at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust | |||||
| Quarter | Admission type | Total waiting list | Maximum weeks | Median wait (weeks) | |
| Notes: 1. The average waiting times given are estimated from quarterly Korner returns (KH07) submitted by NHS providers to the Department of Health. 2. The figures show the median waiting times for patients still waiting for admission at the end of the period stated. Inpatient waiting times are measured from decisions to admit by the consultant to admission to hospital. 3. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits. Where there are low numbers of waiters the median is prone to fluctuations. This should be taken into account when interpreting the data. Source: Department of Health form KH07. | |||||
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