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Ann Keen [holding answer 21 January 2008]: This information is not collected centrally. The decision to close hospital coronary care units is a matter for the local national health service.
Hospital Wards: Gender
Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress is being made on the phasing out of mixed sex wards in NHS hospitals; and if he will make a statement. [177823]
Ann Keen: Guidance issued to the national health service requires the provision of single sex accommodation, which can take a number of forms. NHS trusts may provide single rooms, single sex bays within a mixed ward, single-sex wards or combinations of these types. We do not collect information on the number of trusts who have mixed sex wards per se.
The NHS Operating Framework for 2008-09 includes a requirement for primary care trusts to agree, publish and implement stretching local plans for improvement, with identified time scales and monitoring mechanisms. The NHS Institute for Improvement and Innovation published “Privacy and Dignity—the elimination of mixed sex accommodation. Good practice guidance and self assessment checklist”, in December 2007 to support the NHS in delivering this.
Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent discussions he has had on the phasing out of mixed sex wards in hospitals; and if he will make a statement; [179340]
(2) how many mixed sex wards there are in (a) England and (b) Greater London, broken down by London borough. [179341]
Ann Keen: Single-sex accommodation should be the norm for elective care, and remains the ideal for all admissions. We have made this clear in this year’s operating framework.
Guidance issued to the national health service requires the provision of single sex accommodation, which can take a number of forms. NHS trusts may provide single rooms, single-sex bays within a mixed ward, single-sex wards or combinations of these types. We do not collect information on the number of trusts who have mixed sex wards per se.
The NHS Operating Framework for 2008-09 includes a requirement for primary care trusts to agree, publish and implement stretching local plans for improvement, with identified timescales and monitoring mechanisms.
Hospitals: Cleaning Services
Daniel Kawczynski:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much additional funding has been given to
(a) Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust and (b) all other hospital trusts for a deep clean. [177837]
Ann Keen: Information on the costs of individual trust plans for deep cleaning is not held by the Department. All trusts were required to submit and agree their deep clean plans, including costs, with primary care trusts and providers in their area by 14 December 2007 and this process has been monitored and assessed by the strategic health authorities.
I refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement issued on 21 November 2007, Official Report, columns 134-35WS, in which the Department made available information on the funding to support the deep clean of the national health service at regional level.
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when (a) West Suffolk, (b) Addenbrookes and (c) Ipswich hospitals will receive a deep clean; [179187]
(2) how many hospitals in the eastern area have been deep cleaned in the last 12 months. [179239]
Ann Keen: All trusts were required to submit and agree their deep clean plans with primary care trusts in their area by 14 December 2007 and this process has been monitored and assessed by strategic health authorities (SHAs). An interim local progress report about the implementation of deep cleans will be published by SHAs shortly. All deep cleans will be complete by the end of March 2008.
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) mean and (b) median (i) inpatient and (ii) outpatient waiting times were in each year from 1993-94 to 2006-07, as given by (A) Korner and (B) Hospital Episodes Statistics data. [174779]
Mr. Bradshaw: The figures are shown in the following tables.
It should be noted that Korner data measure the numbers still waiting at the end of a period, while Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) measure the time waited for patients admitted during a year. HES figures do not take into account periods of suspension for medical and social reasons.
The NHS has delivered access targets through better waiting list management. This means that routine cases are seen “in turn” once clinical priorities have been treated. Median waits initially increase as the longest wait patients are treated and this is reflected in the HES figures.
| Outpatient mean and medians in weeks from 1994 | ||||
| Korner aggregate returns | HES | |||
| Year ending | Median commissioner | Mean commissioner | Median provider | Mean provider |
| Notes: 1. HES figures relate to patients admitted during financial year ending March. Outpatient HES only available from 2004-05. 2. Korner figures prior to March 1998 are provider based. Source: QM08R return, HES. | ||||
Incontinence: Medical Equipment
Mr. Grogan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what patients groups and professional and industry representatives he has met in relation to his Department’s consultation arrangements under Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and incontinence appliances and related services to primary care. [179172]
Dawn Primarolo: On 9 March 2006, the former Minister of State met Lord Campbell-Savours and a representative from the Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group. The Disability Lobby raised the review during a meeting with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Ivan Lewis) on 26 April 2007.
Lambert Hospital
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans he has for the future of the Lambert hospital; [179258]
(2) what the staffing levels are at Lambert hospital in Thirsk. [179268]
Ann Keen: The organisation or reconfiguration of local services is a matter for the national health service locally; in this instance the North Yorkshire and York primary care trust (PCT) working in conjunction with clinicians, patients and other stakeholders.
Information on staffing levels at the Lambert hospital is not held centrally. This can instead be obtained direct from the North Yorkshire and York PCT.
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