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Incident Category	East of England	London	South East Coast	South Central	South West	Total
Access, admission, transfer, discharge (including missing patient)	17,746	30,465	11,682	13,190	15,631	182,839
Clinical assessment (including diagnosis, scans, tests, assessments)	9,200	27,631	5,435	5,405	13,087	111,914
Consent, communication, confidentiality	7,013	15,671	6,760	5,845	11,344	91,611
Disruptive, aggressive behaviour	10,507	18,066	7,268	3,811	5,872	107,225
Documentation (including records, identification)	12,378	24,233	7,227	5,518	12,161	122,587
Infection Control Incident	3,169	6,070	1,857	2,458	3,533	34,329
Implementation of care and ongoing monitoring / review	8,652	9,623	3,666	3,138	8,148	59,834
Infrastructure (including staffing, facilities, environment)	18,746	25,355	12,034	11,349	23,187	151,971
Medical device/equipment	6,554	16,755	4,971	4,948	8,481	77,606
Medication	23,240	37,161	12,574	13,884	20,883	203,032
Patient abuse (by staff/third party)	2,244	2,259	493	983	845	15,803
Patient accident	92,257	105,427	59,534	57,727	97,146	852,435
Self-harming behaviour	6,366	11,844	3,589	3,378	4,551	76,312
Treatment, procedure	24,329	38,758	16,295	16,451	25,432	218,285
Not stated	42	123	37	22	57	484
Other	9,447	12,903	3,578	2,713	5,277	67,316
Total	251,890	382,344	157,000	150,822	255,635	2,373,583
(1) Incident could not be assigned to a SHA.

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Incidents reported to the NRLS (1 November 2003 to 30 June 2008) by SHA
Reporting SHA	Number of incidents reported	Percentage
North West	372,696	16
London	382,344	16
Yorkshire and the Humber	302,034	13
East of England	251,890	11
South West	255,635	11
East Midlands	190,865	8
West Midlands	172,150	7
South East Coast	157,000	7
North East	138,146	6
South Central	150,822	6
Could not be assigned to a SHA	1	0
Total	2,373,583	100
Notes: 1. These incidents exclude duplicated incidents and incidents where the submitting organisation/individual did not consent to provide their details. Incidents where the data provided did not meet our minimum requirements were excluded from these results. Incidents from Welsh organisations, community pharmacies and NHS Direct were also not included. 2. As reporting to the NRLS is done on a voluntary basis, the figures provided should not be used as an indicator of national trends. 3. NRLS Reports Disclaimer Statement: NPSA Staff The incidents summarised in this report have been drawn from the NPSA National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). The NRLS supports the goal of the NPSA to make patient care safer. The NRLS is a confidential reporting system. The incidents are reported through a variety of routes, by individual NHS staff, including through local trust risk management systems and web based e-forms (including an open access e-form). The individual reports are not investigated or verified by the NPSA. Since these incidents are self-reported they are not necessarily representative of the NHS across England and Wales and therefore need interpreting with care. 4. Permission must be obtained from the NPSA before the information contained within the report it is published or passed on to a third party outside the NPSA. For help with interpretation please contact the statistics team on [e-mail].

Pharmacy: Rural Areas

Mr. Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will ensure that people in rural areas who use GP practices for prescription dispensation will remain able to do so. [219882]

Mr. Bradshaw: The Government are committed providing the right services at the right time in the right place to meet patients’ needs.

The White Paper “Pharmacy in England; Building on Strengths—Delivering the Future” (copies have already been placed in the Library) looks at aligning the future provision of pharmaceutical services and sets out proposals to look at the market entry criteria for doctors and pharmacists, but no decision has yet been taken on the criteria to be used in future for patients to receive pharmaceutical services from their general practitioner.

A consultation paper will be launched next month that will look at the options for the future and will provide everyone with an opportunity to contribute, healthcare professional and patient alike. I refer my hon. Friend to the written statement I made on 17 July 2008, Official Report, column 49WS.

Following that consultation, we will consider fully the impact of any proposals on patients, the national health service and contractors.

Plastic Surgery

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his response to the report of the Expert Group on the Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery, what steps he has taken in response to each agreed recommendation. [221553]

Mr. Bradshaw: The information has been placed in the Library.

Primary Care Trusts: Statistics

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information each primary care trust is required to provide to his Department each (a) month and (b) year. [218652]

Mr. Bradshaw: Primary care trusts (PCTs) are required to provide the following data to the Department as approved, ongoing PCTs collections:

Biennially

Earnings survey; and

National capabilities survey.

Annually

Attribution data set;

Adult and older adult mental health finance mapping;

Adult Screening Programme: breast cancer (primary care trust (PCT) return);

Adult Screening Programme: breast screening (Screening Unit return);

Adult Screening Programme: cervical screening;

Adults and older adult mental health service mapping;

Annual health and community health services non-medical workforce census;

Annual medical and dental workforce census;

Annual national health service vacancy collection;

Annual statement of fire safety;

Audited PCT accounts summarisation schedules;

Average cleared balances;

Beds;

Childhood Immunisation Programme;

Collection of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine uptake in the 65 and

over population;

Consultants clinical excellence awards (consultant verification exercise);

Diagnostic departments: radiology, nuclear medicine and medical physics;

Emergency continuity business preparedness;

Estate return information collection;

Family health services complaints;

Workforce statistics: annual return of practitioners and premises;

Health and community services complaints;

Informal patients and patients detained under the Mental Health Act;

National survey of patient experience;

NHS information governance assessment;

NHS intellectual property data;

NHS pharmaceutical services;

Partnership intentions between health services and local authorities;

PCT financial returns;

Prison health performance indicators;

Programme budgeting: NHS trust apportionment reports;

Public health workforce collection;

Reference costs collection;

Seasonal flu vaccine uptake;

Summary of contraceptive services; and

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