Mr. Lansley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to page 148 of his Department’s Annual Report 2008, if he will provide a breakdown of the £1.4 billion central capital budgets, stating what percentage of this funding has already been allocated. [209139]
Mr. Bradshaw:
The figures behind the £1.4 billion allocation for central budgets in the Department of Health departmental report 2008 are shown in the following table. These are budgets for central expenditure and were notified to Department's budget-holders in March 2008. It should be noted that changes will be made from time to time to the value of individual budgets as requirements are refined in the course of the year.
2008-09 Capital resource
Description of budget
£000
Total Arms Length Body capital requirement
136,355
Connecting for Health, the National Programme for Information Technology
917,000
Capital resource cover for Wave 2 independent sector treatment centre procurements and resources for enabling works
29,500
Electronic staff record
21,200
Various human resources initiatives, principally the development of E-learning
22,000
Skills for Care
2,000
Capital Grants for Improvements to environments in hospices—completion of 2006 programme
2,100
Social enterprises
11,000
Tuberculosis action plan
5,000
Investment in capital procurement vehicles, principally National Health Service Local Improvement Finance Trust
30,000
Protection of children and vulnerable people
3,945
Pandemic Flu, purchase of vaccines and anti-virals and other stocks
51,340
Departmental Administration
19,970
Total allocated for central expenditure
1,251,410
Contingency fund to cover risks
148,590
Total central budgets
1,400,000
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Departmental Records
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what files his Department holds on (a) the Abortion (Rights of Ancillary Workers) Bill of Session 1988-89, (b) the Abortion (Right of Conscience) Bill of Session 1988-89 and (c) the Abortion (Amendment of Grounds) Bill of Session 1988-89; and if he will make a statement. [214061]
Dawn Primarolo:
The Department does not hold any files on the Abortion (Rights of Ancillary Workers) Bill of Session 1988-89, the Abortion (Right of Conscience) Bill of Session 1988-89 and the Abortion (Amendment of Grounds) Bill of Session 1988-89.
Drownings
Norman Lamb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) persons under 16 years, (b) persons aged 16 to 18 years and (c) persons aged over 18 years were admitted to hospital after drowning in (i) public swimming pools, (ii) private swimming pools, (iii) garden ponds and (iv) public lakes and ponds in each of the last five years. [212243]
Dawn Primarolo:
The following tables contain relevant available information collected centrally, namely total admissions to hospital after drowning and submersion in a swimming pool, natural water, other specified drowning and submersion, and unknown drowning or submersion at the start of his/her stay broken down by persons under 16 years, persons aged 16-18 years, and persons aged over 18 years in 2002-03.
The figures also do not include drownings that occurred in, or as a result of, a fall into a bath tub.
National health service hospitals England and activity performed in the independent sector in England commissioned by English NHS.
2002-03
0-15 years
16-18 years
19 years and over
Total
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into a swimming pool
45
1
12
58
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into natural water
24
1
44
69
Other specified drowning and submersion
17
0
9
26
Unspecified drowning and submersion
63
0
55
118
2003-04
0-15 years
16-18 years
19 years and over
Unknown or unspecified age
Total
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into a swimming pool
44
0
12
0
56
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into natural water
39
1
51
1
92
Other specified drowning and submersion
18
2
4
0
24
Unspecified drowning and submersion
68
2
58
0
128
2004-05
0-15 years
16-18 years
19 years and over
Total
(Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into a swimming pool
50
3
12
65
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into natural water
33
3
54
90
Other specified drowning and submersion
18
1
6
25
Unspecified drowning and submersion
53
5
60
118
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2005-06
0-15 years
16-18 years
19 years and over
Unknown or unspecified age
Total
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into a swimming pool
53
2
13
0
68
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into natural water
17
3
48
1
69
Other specified drowning and submersion
13
0
3
0
16
Unspecified drowning and submersion
34
7
57
0
98
2006-07
0-15 years
16-18 years
19 years and over
Total
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into a swimming pool
32
1
12
45
Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into natural water
35
4
68
107
Other specified drowning and submersion
13
1
7
21
Unspecified drowning and submersion
52
5
66
123
Notes:
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD10) codes for drowning:
1. Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into a swimming pool.
W67—Drowning and submersion while in swimming pool.
W68—Drowning and submersion following fall into swimming pool.
2. Drowning and submersion while in or following a fall into natural water.
W69—Drowning and submersion while in natural water
W70—Drowning and submersion following fall into natural water
3. Other specified drowning and submersion.
W73—Other specified drowning and submersion
4. Unspecified drowning and submersion.
W74 Unspecified drowning and submersion Admissions:
Admissions are defined as the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. Cause Code:
The cause code is a supplementary code that indicates the nature of any external cause of injury, poisoning or other adverse effects. Data Quality:
HES are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England. Data are also received from a number of independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by
the English NHS. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. Whilst this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain. Assessing growth through time:
HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. During the years that these records have been collected the NHS there have been ongoing improvements in quality and coverage. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series.
Some of the increase in figures for later years (particularly 2006-07 onwards) may be due to the improvement in the coverage of independent sector activity.
Changes in NHS practice also need to be home in mind when analysing time series. For example a number of procedures may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and may no longer be accounted in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time. Ungrossed data:
Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care
Elderly: Abuse
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department (a) has commissioned, (b) plans to commission and (c) has evaluated on the levels of abuse of older people who are (i) resident in care homes and (ii) suffering from dementia; what recent representations he has received on the issue; and if he will make a statement. [214075]
Mr. Ivan Lewis:
On 27 March 2008, the Department and Comic Relief announced £2 million funding for a new joint research initiative to investigate the dignity and safety of older people being cared for in institutional settings. The study will explore the experience of older people, and the staff who care for them, in settings such as care homes, intermediate care and hospitals.
The new research is likely to run until April 2011. An advertisement inviting tenders to undertake the research was placed in The Guardian newspaper on 4 June 2008, with on-line registration of interest (ROI) required by 23 June.
It will build on research published in 2007, also funded by the Department and Comic Relief, which examined the prevalence of abuse of older people living in their own homes.
Although the experience of older people with dementia was not included as a specific aspect in this first study, we envisage that the research in institutional settings will include methods to take account of their experiences.
A total of 32 ROIs have been received. These will be sifted shortly. Full research applications are due to be received by 27 August 2008.
