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Public capital schemes
NHS t rust Scheme description Capital value (£ million) Tender award date Operational date

2003-04

Imperial College Healthcare

Renal centre

25

4 July 2003

December 2004

Royal Wolverhampton Hospital

Heart and lung centre

57

1 October 2003

1 September 2004

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre

Cardiac centre

45

1 October 2003

1 April 2006

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals

Essex heart and lung centre

59

1 November 2003

1 July 2007

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

New theatre and refurbishment of existing theatres

12

12 December 2003

31 March 2005

Southampton University Hospitals

Cardiac Centre

53

1 February 2004

31 July 2006

Total

251

2004-05

Plymouth Hospitals

South West Cardiothoracic Unit Centre

31

1 April 2004

1 February 2006

The Cardiothoracic Centre

Cardiac Centre in Liverpool

49

1 November 2004

1 March2006

Total

80

2005-06

West London Mental Health

Women's enhanced medium secure services

27

1 June 2005

30 June 2007

South London and Maudsley

New build forensic services (mental health) development at Bethlem Royal Hospital

25

12 September 2005

22 February 2008

Total

52

2006-07

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals

Cardiac Centre

51

1 August 2006

Q3 2008

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

Reprovision of hospital buildings

75

9 October 2006

Q32011

United Bristol Healthcare/North Bristol

Cardiothoracic Centre

64

16 October 2006

Q1 2009

University Hospital of North Staffordshire

Maternity and Oncology Unit

55

1 December 2006

Q1 2009

Total

245

2007-08

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals

Cardiac Centre

29

1 May 2007

Q1 2009

West Hertfordshire Hospitals

Acute Accident Unit

40

14 October 2007

Q2 2009

Total

69


Meat Hygiene Service: Finance

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding the Meat Hygiene Service has received in each of the last three years; and how much funding it is proposed to receive in 2008-09. [201172]

Dawn Primarolo: The actual net funding cost of the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), after charges to industry and Government customers, for the last three financial years together with the provision for 2008-09 (before any exceptional restructuring costs) is listed as follows:

Net operating costs (£ million)

2005-06

31.6

2006-07

33.3

2007-08

42.0

2008-09

32.0


The increased MHS net operating cost in 2007-08 resulted from an MHS Transformation Programme that will implement service delivery changes for all MHS customers. This transformation is continuing into 2008-09 and will reduce future costs. During 2007-08, exceptional transformation costs of £10.8 million were incurred mainly relating to redundancy and redeployment costs. In addition to the projected net operating cost of £32 million in 2008-09, we expect further exceptional transformation costs of up to £8 million.

Meat Hygiene Services: Veterinary Services

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what private companies provided official veterinary services to the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) in 2007-08; and what the cost to the MHS of the services of each such company was in that year. [200906]

Dawn Primarolo: The private companies who provided official veterinary services to the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) in 2007-08 are shown as follows:


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The MHS is unable to disclose the cost of individual contracts because that information is commercially sensitive. The total cost to the MHS of contracting private companies to provide official veterinary services in 2007-08 was £20.9 million.

Medical Records: Databases

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how often data records registered on the National Health Application Infrastructure Service (Exeter) are updated. [200885]

Mr. Bradshaw: Data records held by the National Health Application Infrastructure Service (NHAIS) are updated electronically on each occasion whenever a business event occurs that requires data to be updated. Nationally, approximately 60,000 patient demographic
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changes including new registrations, amendments and deductions are made on the NHAIS patient database each working day. Examples include when a patient advises his or her general practitioner practice of a change of home address or change of name following marriage or divorce; or when the NHS Central Register advises NHAIS of the death of a patient following the death being formally recorded by a registrar of births, marriages and deaths.

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) surveys and (b) consultations used contact details from the National Health Application Infrastructure Service (Exeter) in (i) 2003-04, (ii) 2004-05, (iii) 2005-06, (iv) 2006-07 and (v) 2007-08. [200886]

Mr. Bradshaw: Available information relates only to surveys that have been commissioned directly by the Department. Information is not held centrally about surveys or consultations by primary care trusts (PCTs) or national health service shared services agencies using locally held data.

Surveys conducted on that basis were:


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