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Baby Care Units

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished consultant episodes were provided in specialist neo-natal units in England in each month since January 1997. [175248]

Ann Keen: The hospital episode statistics do not allow us to identify whether care has been provided in a particular type of unit or ward.

Breast Cancer: Screening

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts use digital mammography for breast cancer screening; and if he will make a statement. [175575]


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Ann Keen: We do not have this information in the format requested, however we do have it by breast screening programme centre. Exeter, Norwich, Manchester, Coventry, St Bartholomew’s, St. Georges, Derby and Addenbrookes all use digital mammography for breast screening. Nationally this means that there are 31 digital mammography sets in the national health service breast screening programme, some are part of equipment evaluations.

The recently published Cancer Reform Strategy recommends that breast screening units should work with the NHS breast screening programme to develop business cases for digital mammography, that primary care trusts will need to give high priority to full implementation, with all units having at least one full-field digital mammography set by 2010. All women under 50 routinely screened should have Direct Digital available for assessment visits by 2010.

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2007, Official Report, column 1196W, on breast cancer screening to Question 171702 of 17 December 2007, what assessment he has made of the reasons for Uttlesford’s performance on breast cancer screening; and what steps he is taking to improve that performance. [176678]

Ann Keen: It is for strategic health authorities (SHAs) working in partnership with their primary care trusts (PCTs), local breast screening services and stakeholders to provide appropriate breast screening services for their local populations.

However, The East of England SHA has advised that a breast screening issue in West Essex, may have
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impacted on Uttlesford PCT (old PCT area) not reaching the 75 per cent. national aspirational standard for breast screening in that area.

The East of England SHA has advised that any backlog will be cleared by April 2008.

Cancer: Waiting Lists

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost to the NHS of collecting the data used to monitor progress against his Department’s cancer waiting time targets in 2007-08. [175573]

Ann Keen: The Department is unable to give an estimate of the cost incurred by the national health service in monitoring the waiting times targets. The NHS is funded to provide cancer services, and monitor local delivery of those services within the targets in the NHS Cancer Plan (2000), but local NHS organisations are not required to report these costs centrally.

Cervical Cancer: Screening

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the time taken by each primary care trust to inform women of the results of their cervical smear tests; and if he will make a statement. [175572]

Ann Keen: The information requested is not collected, however we do know the time from the cervical sample being taken to the availability of the test result, shown in the following table.


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Cervical screening programme: time from screening to availability of result by strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT) 2006-07
Number and percentage
Total letters sent by PCT (=100%)( 1) Up to 4 weeks (%) >4 weeks up to 6 weeks (%) >6 weeks up to 8 weeks (%) >8 weeks up to 10 weeks (%) >10 weeks up to 12 weeks (%)‘ Over 12 weeks (%) Letters not sent by PCT

England

3,353,285

48.3

25.8

13.6

7.1

3.7

1.6

270,383

Q30

North East SHA

165,701

43.0

19.3

18.8

12.9

5.4

0.6

26,003

5E1

North Tees PCT

13,085

14.5

52.4

31.3

1.5

0.2

0.1

380

5D7

Newcastle PCT

19,664

60.5

20.3

17.7

1.1

0.3

0.1

316

5D8

North Tyneside PCT

16,312

56.4

23.9

17.7

1.5

0.3

0.2

299

5D9

Hartlepool PCT

5,823

16.5

50.9

31.2

1.3

0.1

0.1

167

5J9

Darlington PCT

7,947

34.7

21.8

36.5

6.6

0.3

0.1

88

5KF

Gateshead PCT

14,981

30.1

3.7

11.1

33.6

19.3

2.3

246

5KG

South Tyneside PCT

10,513

41.6

1.8

3.7

30.1

20.6

2.3

74

5KL

Sunderland Teaching PCT

17,426

75.0

3.1

9.2

6.2

6.1

0.5

151

5KM

Middlesbrough PCT

8,974

46.1

20.5

11.6

19.7

1.8

0.3

299

5ND

County Durham PCT

39,985

32.7

17.6

24.9

18.5

5.7

0.6

472

5QR

Redcar and Cleveland PCT

8,774

48.8

19.4

11.1

18.7

1.8

0.2

279

TAC

Northumberland Care Trust

2,217

50.7

28.4

18.3

1.8

0.5

0.1

23,232

Q31

North West SHA

484,632

55.4

26.2

9.6

5.1

2.9

0.9

6,779

5CC

Blackburn with Darwen PCT

10,054

59.5

30.1

9.6

0.6

0.1

0.1

67

5F5

Salford PCT

14,047

65.4

30.6

2.4

1.0

0.4

0.1

315

5F7

Stockport PCT

22,009

89.6

8.5

1.3

0.3

0.1

0.2

368

5HG

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT

21,116

15.4

32.8

22.4

21.2

7.7

0.5

242

5HP

Blackpool PCT

8,474

97.3

2.2

0.3

0.0

0.1

0.1

104

5HQ

Bolton PCT

19,171

47.4

29.1

18.5

4.5

0.3

0.2

195

5J2

Warrington PCT

15,129

38.7

51.0

9.5

0.6

0.1

0.1

246

5J4

Knowsley PCT

10,059

71.5

24.7

2.7

0.7

0.3

0.1

107

5J5

Oldham PCT

15,923

16.6

26.5

14.0

15.3

22.8

4.8

222

5JX

Bury PCT

15,085

16.4

15.3

28.2

23.3

15.3

1.5

218

5LH

Tameside and Glossop PCT

17,394

15.0

12.3

7.2

34.8

17.5

13.1

200

5NE

Cumbria PCT

35,551

60.9

30.9

7.8

0.3

0.1

0.0

374

5NF

North Lancashire PCT

19,153

90.3

7.7

1.9

0.1

0.0

0.1

263

5NG

Central Lancashire PCT

30,250

81.3

15.2

3.2

0.2

0.1

0.1

344

5NH

East Lancashire PCT

26,903

81.4

12.9

3.7

0.9

0.6

0.4

234

5NJ

Sefton PCT

17,527

59.9

36.4

3.4

0.2

0.1

0.1

222

5NK

Wirral PCT

22,316

52.0

23.1

22.9

1.6

0.2

0.1

216

5NL

Liverpool PCT

28,155

51.6

39.4

6.8

1.5

0.5

0.2

368

5NM

Halton and St. Helen’s PCT

23,195

62.8

27.7

7.8

1.2

0.4

0.1

219

5NN

Western Cheshire PCT

17,672

48.6

44.5

6.2

0.5

0.1

0.1

298

5NP

Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT

34,749

41.2

37.9

16.8

3.7

0.3

0.1

539

5NQ

Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT

15,816

16.1

15.5

29.5

23.1

14.6

1.3

187

5NR

Trafford PCT

14,544

70.0

28.3

1.3

0.3

0.1

0.1

448

5NT

Manchester PCT

30,340

66.5

29.2

2.3

0.8

0.7

0.5

783

Q32

Yorkshire and the Humber SHA

326,566

65.4

24.2

7.6

1.9

0.5

0.4

7,680

5AN

North East Lincolnshire PCT

9,017

82.9

13.8

2.7

0.4

0.2

0.1

417

5EF

North Lincolnshire PCT

8,598

82.6

13.5

3.2

0.5

0.1

0.1

577

5H8

Rotherham PCT

15,010

93.5

4.6

1.4

0.4

0.1

0.1

204

5J6

Calderdale PCT

11,991

52.4

28.3

15.4

3.8

0.1

0.1

224

5JE

Barnsley PCT

15,545

14.1

46.7

29.4

7.0

0.8

2.0

278

5N1

Leeds PCT

40,597

46.7

43.1

7.5

1.9

0.5

0.3

1,288

5N2

Kirklees PCT

23,168

57.3

28.8

11.0

2.6

0.2

0.1

424

5N3

Wakefield District PCT

24,685

16.0

53.9

25.3

3.8

0.7

0.2

380

5N4

Sheffield PCT

34,972

98.3

1.4

0.2

0.0

0.0

0.1

510

5N5

Doncaster PCT

21,879

98.2

1.1

0.2

0.1

0.1

0.3

187

5NV

North Yorkshire and York PCT

52,067

81.7

15.6

1.3

0.7

0.2

0.5

2,364

5NW

East Riding of Yorkshire PCT

22,778

72.1

16.5

7.9

1.9

1.4

0.2

342

5NX

Hull Teaching PCT

20,340

70.9

15.0

9.3

2.8

1.6

0.3

114

5NY

Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT

25,919

43.3

47.1

5.6

2.6

0.9

0.6

371

Q33

East Midlands SHA

268,583

39.9

21.4

9.7

11.2

12.6

5.2

49,261

5EM

Nottingham City PCT

23,094

54.6

17.9

7.7

4.8

5.5

9.5

231

5ET

Bassetlaw PCT

8,291

96.6

1.9

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.7

90

5N6

Derbyshire County PCT

54,074

36.5

40.8

12.2

6.4

3.1

1.1

594

5N7

Derby City PCT

20,788

51.4

42.4

5.2

0.3

0.2

0.4

205

5N8

Nottinghamshire County PCT

53,352

50.9

25.9

9.6

5.0

3.3

5.4

533

5N9

Lincolnshire PCT

5,902

71.4

17.9

6.4

2.8

0.8

0.8

34,811

5PA

Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT

44,860

10.6

4.2

11.7

29.4

33.6

10.6

506

5PC

Leicester City PCT

20,619

9.4

2.0

11.5

31.6

33.9

11.6

166

5PD

Northamptonshire PCT

37,603

48.2

13.9

9.0

7.8

18.2

2.9

12,125

Q34

West Midlands SHA

372,212

55.6

25.7

11.0

5.3

1.5

1.0

8,271

5CN

Herefordshire PCT

11,013

79.0

17.7

2.5

0.5

0.2

0.0

201

5M1

South Birmingham PCT

23,424

69.5

27.1

2.9

0.2

0.1

0.2

566

5M2

Shropshire County PCT

20,474

51.9

42.7

4.7

0.5

0.1

0.2

282

5M3

Walsall Teaching PCT

18,831

83.0

14.4

1.9

0.3

0.1

0.1

339

5MD

Coventry Teaching PCT

20,893

8.7

16.5

33.1

26.7

7.3

7.7

351

5MK

Telford and Wrekin PCT

11,493

49.2

41.0

8.1

1.3

0.2

0.2

115

5MV

Wolverhampton City PCT

17,307

21.5

46.9

24.0

4.6

1.6

1.2

224

5MX

Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT

17,436

57.6

30.4

8.7

2.0

0.7

0.6

520

5PE

Dudley PCT

23,937

21.5

31.6

29.0

15.1

2.4

0.5

343

5PF

Sandwell PCT

20,000

77.8

13.3

5.7

2.4

0.7

0.2

969

5PG

Birmingham East and North PCT

25,977

75.1

20.2

3.3

0.8

0.2

0.4

740

5PH

North Staffordshire PCT

15,126

85.8

10.8

2.1

0.6

0.2

0.4

135

5PJ

Stoke on Trent PCT

19,346

88.4

9.3

1.5

0.4

0.2

0.2

116

5PK

South Staffordshire PCT

42,767

66.3

24.1

6.9

1.2

0.5

1.1

521

5PL

Worcestershire PCT

28,539

46.1

25.9

19.2

6.6

1.9

0.3

1,088

5PM

Warwickshire PCT

40,519

39.8

26.1

15.2

13.3

4.2

1.5

1,091

TAM

Solihull Care Trust

15,130

42.4

47.3

6.6

2.6

0.8

0.3

670

Q35

England

3,353,285

48.3

25.8

13.6

7.1

3.7

1.6

270,383

East of England SHA

341,727

40.4

36.4

15.9

4.8

1.4

1.0

39,102

5GC

Luton Teaching PCT

8,944

77.1

18.9

3.2

0.3

0.1

0.4

3,749

5P1

South East Essex PCT

19,651

38.6

40.6

20.1

0.5

0.1

0.2

1,903

5P2

Bedfordshire PCT

21,819

39.9

21.4

22.6

8.8

3.4

3.9

8,547

5P3

East and North Hertfordshire PCT

29,183

23.8

39.2

31.1

3.2

1.7

1.1

6,149

5P4

West Hertfordshire PCT

31,541

6.8

48.0

26.9

10.8

4.8

2.8

10,016

5PN

Peterborough PCT

10,263

72.5

14.0

8.3

5.0

0.2

0.1

162

5PP

Cambridgeshire PCT

37,297

59.3

36.6

2.9

0.9

0.1

0.2

1,238

5PQ

Norfolk PCT

42,727

21.2

56.2

20.3

2.1

0.2

0.1

2,054

5PR

Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching PCT

13,913

25.5

47.1

23.7

3.3

0.3

0.1

251

5PT

Suffolk PCT

42,895

52.5

44.1

2.8

0.4

0.1

0.1

807

5PV

West Essex PCT

15,655

41.7

39.0

11.9

5.5

1.2

0.7

1,183

5PW

North East Essex PCT

18,523

48.0

17.2

11.9

19.1

1.7

2.0

873

5PX

Mid Essex PCT

25,193

26.0

27.6

27.2

12.5

5.4

1.3

679

5PY

South West Essex PCT

24,123

79.8

10.7

6.7

1.0

0.3

1.4

1,491

Q36

London SHA

600,406

32.1

29.2

21.8

10.2

4.4

2.3

25,563

5A4

Havering PCT

15,887

32.3

26.7

32.1

7.1

1.1

0.7

236

5A5

Kingston PCT

12,769

54.1

29.8

9.8

6.0

0.1

0.2

597

5A7

Bromley PCT

26,535

23.8

46.6

28.0

1.3

0.1

0.2

882

5A8

Greenwich Teaching PCT

18,994

34.7

35.1

25.0

3.8

0.8

0.6

606

5A9

Barnet PCT

24,545

9.0

15.7

33.4

17.1

19.4

5.3

826

5AT

Hillingdon PCT

16,814

58.8

27.8

9.0

1.9

1.1

1.3

554

5C1

Enfield PCT

19,321

9.9

13.8

35.0

21.1

16.5

3.8

617

5C2

Barking and Dagenham PCT

10,109

31.2

22.0

34.5

10.6

1.1

0.7

248

5C3

City and Hackney Teaching PCT

18,971

21.4

19.2

28.9

19.0

9.8

1.8

614

5C4

Tower Hamlets PCT

14,688

22.2

19.2

29.4

19.2

9.0

1.1

546

5C5

Newham PCT

20,156

13.8

18.1

32.2

23.4

11.0

1.5

394

5C9

Haringey Teaching PCT

20,185

8.1

14.3

41.4

27.9

5.4

3.0

828

5H1

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

13,436

5.3

18.2

21.1

20.0

15.7

19.9

1,533

5HX

Ealing PCT

25,805

10.8

25.9

21.2

25.0

12.1

4.9

1,703

5HY

Hounslow PCT

18,493

22.6

30.7

19.2

15.3

9.6

2.5

1,011

5K5

Brent Teaching PCT

22,628

62.0

21.9

7.5

3.5

2.2

2.8

719

5K6

Harrow PCT

14,951

69.6

23.0

4.4

1.3

0.9

0.9

381

5K7

Camden PCT

16,357

25.6

33.4

30.5

6.7

1.6

2.2

1,157

5K8

Islington PCT

18,621

17.0

35.1

41.4

5.0

0.8

0.7

917

5K9

Croydon PCT

21,977

57.8

39.0

2.4

0.4

0.2

0.1

936

5LA

Kensington and Chelsea PCT

12,066

32.8

19.6

15.0

13.5

6.5

12.6

1,142

5LC

Westminster PCT

15,199

47.6

20.1

11.8

9.0

4.4

7.1

1,749

5LD

Lambeth PCT

29,826

28.3

42.1

19.3

8.5

1.0

0.8

1,186

5LE

Southwark PCT

24,436

33.8

42.4

15.4

7.0

0.8

0.6

735

5LF

Lewisham PCT

24,649

29.2

49.7

19.2

1.2

0.2

0.6

675

5LG

Wandsworth PCT

28,770

55.7

36.5

5.0

1.9

0.4

0.5

1,758

5M6

Richmond and Twickenham PCT

14,763

53.5

26.5

10.1

6.6

2.1

1.1

959

5M7

Sutton and Merton PCT

29,292

35.1

37.3

20.5

6.1

0.6

0.4

1,163

5NA

Redbridge PCT

15,902

26.1

17.9

41.4

11.6

1.7

1.3

264

5NC

Waltham Forest PCT

17,195

18.6

20.0

34.5

23.4

2.3

1.2

267

TAK

Bexley Care Trust

17,066

58.6

33.5

6.9

0.8

0.1

0.1

360

Q37

South East Coast SHA

289,784

55.6

19.9

10.9

6.7

4.1

2.9

12,560

5L3

Medway PCT

17,834

54.0

26.2

14.9

4.4

0.2

0.3

873

5LQ

Brighton and Hove City PCT

17,206

5.2

1.6

44.6

17.9

4.3

26.5

1,097

5P5

Surrey PCT

78,343

71.5

14.0

2.0

5.4

6.2

0.8

3,458

5P6

West Sussex PCT

48,591

25.5

29.6

14.6

16.1

10.9

3.3

1,718

5P7

East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT

21,215

67.5

10.7

12.3

4.0

1.0

4.5

637

5P8

Hastings and Rother PCT

11,818

98.7

0.8

0.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

192

5P9

West Kent PCT

47,328

33.2

42.0

18.0

4.6

1.3

0.9

2,083

5QA

Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT

47,449

85.3

10.8

2.7

0.9

0.2

0.1

2,502

Q38

South Central SHA

241,280

39.1

29.3

17.8

9.2

3.5

1.1

35,820

5CQ

Milton Keynes PCT

14,171

6.7

10.7

30.9

21.2

23.4

7.2

3,533

5FE

Portsmouth City Teaching PCT

9,497

18.9

39.8

21.9

9.5

7.8

2.0

1,718

5L1

Southampton City PCT

12,377

5.3

12.1

40.8

40.7

1.1

0.1

2,878

5QC

Hampshire PCT

69,022

19.5

32.9

30.7

14.3

2.3

0.3

14,500

5QD

Buckinghamshire PCT

31,515

58.2

16.6

9.0

7.3

6.8

2.1

7,620

5QE

Oxfordshire PCT

42,285

71.0

25.4

2.1

0.6

0.3

0.6

1,951

5QF

Berkshire West PCT

29,486

24.4

57.4

14.9

1.5

1.1

0.7

1,464

5QG

Berkshire East PCT

23,993

72.2

20.6

5.3

1.5

0.4

0.1

1,745

5QT

Isle of Wight PCT

8,934

51.1

37.6

10.2

1.0

0.1

0.0

411

Q39

South West SHA

262,394

62.8

17.8

9.9

5.9

3.3

0.3

59,344

5A3

South Gloucestershire PCT

14,463

73.9

24.2

1.1

0.4

0.3

0.0

336

5F1

Plymouth Teaching PCT

15,893

55.9

27.7

14.6

1.6

0.1

0.2

278

5FL

Bath and North East Somerset PCT

10,392

38.4

8.6

19.1

15.4

18.2

0.2

316

5K3

Swindon PCT

12,421

14.1

26.4

17.0

28.6

12.4

1.4

324

5M8

North Somerset PCT

11,235

70.0

26.7

1.9

0.8

0.6

0.1

447

5QH

Gloucestershire PCT

3,656

35.2

40.6

17.3

4.5

1.5

0.8

34,265

5QJ

Bristol PCT

24,288

73.0

25.5

1.2

0.2

0.1

0.0

717

5QK

Wiltshire PCT

24,423

20.8

20.5

22.9

17.5

17.3

1.0

836

5QL

Somerset PCT

22,644

86.8

4.4

3.3

2.8

2.6

0.2

7,115

5QM

Dorset PCT

20,320

85.5

11.2

2.5

0.4

0.1

0.2

5,517

5QN

Bournemouth and Poole PCT

18,077

98.3

1.4

0.1

0.1

0.1

0.0

7,351

5QP

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT

33,428

25.7

28.8

31.0

13.6

0.7

0.2

716

5QQ

Devon PCT

42,455

88.5

9.0

2.1

0.3

0.0

0.1

978

TAL

Torbay Care Trust

8,699

77.1

22.4

0.3

0.1

0.0

0.1

148

(1) Information on the time from taking a sample to the availability of a result are only available where the letters are produced by the PCT.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care

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