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Nurses: Schools
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified school nurses there have been in each primary care trust in each year since 1997. [228009]
Ann Keen: School nurse occupation codes were first introduced in 2004. Consequently data can be provided only from this time. The information has been placed in the Library.
Obesity: Surgery
Mr. Clelland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what options for bariatric surgery for the morbidly obese are provided by (a) Gateshead and South Tyneside Primary Care Trust and (b) Liverpool Primary Care Trust in their respective areas; [227617]
(2) how many morbidly obese patients in (a) the Gateshead and South Tyneside Primary Care Trust area and (b) the Liverpool Primary Care Trust area have been offered a duodenal switch in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007 and (iv) 2008 to date. [227618]
Dawn Primarolo: This information is not held centrally.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published “Guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children”. This is available at:
This guidance is for both health and non-health professionals, and contains guidance on when bariatric surgery may be considered as an option.
It is up to primary care trusts as local commissioners and providers of services to determine the most appropriate methods to deliver health care to their populations, based on clinical need and effectiveness, and following medical advice.
Ophthalmology: Finance
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the NHS budget was spent on ophthalmology in 2007-08. [227766]
Ann Keen: Expenditure data relating to ‘Problems of Vision’, covering both primary and secondary care services, are collected as part of the annual programme budgeting returns to the Department by primary care trusts. Programme budgeting data for 2007-08 are not scheduled to be collected from primary care trusts until December 2008 and therefore are not currently available.
Ophthalmology: Manpower
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many opticians there are per 1,000 people in the London Borough of Havering. [227759]
Ann Keen: The information is not held centrally. The Information Centre for health and social care will publish the numbers of General Ophthalmic Services ophthalmic practitioners per 100,000 population, as at 31 December 2007, in the “General Ophthalmic Services: Workforce Statistics for England and Wales, 31 December 2007” report. It is anticipated that the report will be published in November 2008, with information available by primary care trust and strategic health authority.
Organs: Donors
Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Organ Donation Taskforce. [228479]
Ann Keen: A Programme Delivery Board, Chaired by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, has been established to bring together all those with a role in implementing the recommendations, including representatives from all four UK Health Departments, NHS Blood and Transplant, Human Tissue Authority, National Commissioning Group, Healthcare Commission and the relevant professional organisations. The Board will be responsible for ensuring that all recommendations are fully implemented.
In addition, Chris Rudge took up his appointment as the first National Clinical Director for Transplantation in September, with a remit of driving forward the implementation of the Taskforce recommendations.
Pharmacy
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many licensed pharmacies there are in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) England. [228537]
Phil Hope [holding answer 20 October 2008]: This information is only collected at primary care trust (PCT) level. The number of community pharmacies open in Lancashire PCTs at 31 March 2007 is shown in the following table.
Information relating to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for each Devolved Administration.
| Number of community pharmacies | |
| Source: The Information Centre for health and social care | |
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost has been of investigations into alleged wrongfully claimed exemptions from prescription charges in the last 12 months; and how much the NHS received in penalty charges during that period. [227929]
Dawn Primarolo: The information is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Ritalin
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been prescribed ritalin in England in each of the last 10 years. [227777]
Phil Hope: Ritalin is a brand name for methylphenidate hydrochloride. The product is also available under the different brand names Concerta, Equasym, Metadate and Tranquilyn.
The number of people prescribed a medicine is not held centrally. The number of prescription items for methylphenidate hydrochloride dispensed in the community in England for the period requested is shown in the following table.
| Calendar year | Number of prescription items dispensed ( Th ousand) |
| Source: Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Data | |
Social Services
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each local authority area were in receipt of the social care personal expenses allowance in each of the last five financial years for which figures are available. [226302]
Phil Hope: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Care home residents who are supported by local authorities contribute most of their income to pay for the cost of their care, but to ensure they have money to spend on personal items, they are guaranteed a weekly personal expenses allowance (PEA). The PEA is not a benefit paid to residents, but the minimum amount of their own money they must be left with, after their contribution to the cost of their care has been deducted from their income. All care home residents who are supported by local authorities in residential accommodation under section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 will, therefore, receive at least the PEA each week.
The following table shows the total number of people aged 18 or over receiving funding from their local authority to pay for their residential home placement as at 31 March each year.
| Local authority supported residents in registered accommodation, at 31 March 2003 to 2007, England | |
| Rounded number | |
| Source: SRI form. | |
Surgery
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting times were for (a) heart and (b) cancer operations in (i) Chesterfield, (ii) Derbyshire and (iii) England in each year since 1997. [225900]
Ann Keen: Average waiting times for heart surgery for the relevant organisations are shown in the following table.
| Mean and median days waited for a heart operation 1997-98 to 2006-07 | |||||||||
| England | Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation trust | |||||||
| Mean days waited | Median days waited | Finished Consultant Episodes | Mean days waited | Median days waited | Finished Consultant Episodes | Mean days waited | Median days waited | Finished Consultant Episodes | |
| (1) Denotes very few heart operations were performed in Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust between 1997-98 and 2001 02. Those heart operations that did take place were likely to be emergency procedures. (2) Denotes 1997-98 data have not been provided for Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust due to a complex merger that occurred during this time. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care. | |||||||||
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