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Food: Safety

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) inspections and (b) audits the Food Standards Agency undertakes of local authority premises; and what plans there are to incorporate such inspections into comprehensive area assessments. [230914]

Dawn Primarolo: Local authorities are responsible for the inspection of food premises within their area. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for the audit and monitoring of all local authority food law enforcement activities against a standard which forms part of the framework agreement on local authority food law enforcement. This includes audit of the local authority food law enforcement services and their risk-based food business inspection programmes. Details of the framework agreement, and published local authority monitoring and audit findings, are available from the FSA's website at:

The final consultation on the comprehensive area assessment (CM) has just closed. The final proposals are due to be announced in the new year.

Health

Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people living in (a) Warrington, (b) the North West and (c) England have been diagnosed with (i) coronary heart disease, (ii) diabetes and (iii) food related allergies. [231812]

Ann Keen: The Department does not collect information in the form requested. However, the national Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), which many general practices participate in, records the number of people recorded on certain practice disease registers. Such registers exist for both coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes.

The CHD register includes all patients who have had coronary artery revascularisation procedures such as
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coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, patients with Cardiac Syndrome X will not generally be included in the CHD register.

The diabetes register includes patients aged 17 years and over with diabetes mellitus. As the care of children with diabetes mellitus is generally under the control of specialists, the diabetes register generally excludes those patients age 16 and under.

The following table below sets out the number of people on CHD registers and diabetes registers for Warrington Primary Care Trust (PCT) and North West Strategic Health Authority.

The Department does not collect any data on food related allergies and does not have figures for the rest of the United Kingdom.

Patient register Number of patients

Warrington PCT 2007-08

Coronary Heart Disease

7,728

Diabetes

8,347

North West SHA 2007-08

Coronary Heart Disease

308,187

Diabetes

296,826

England 2007-08

Coronary Heart Disease

1,892,432

Diabetes

2,088,335


Health Professions: Manpower

Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many individuals of each healthcare profession there have been in the Newly Qualified Healthcare Professionals Pool in each month since its creation; and if he will make a statement. [230906]

Ann Keen: The data requested are shown in the following tables.

Number of professionals probably available each month

General Adult Children’s Mental Health Learning Disabilities Midwife Chiropody/ Podiatry Dietetics Occupational Therapy

April 2007

216

40

57

6

20

10

5

51

May 2007

556

91

135

13

60

19

20

81

June 2007

757

116

190

19

77

21

26

115

July 2007

1017

147

271

26

109

32

37

192

August 2007

1136

152

304

31

136

42

50

200

September 2007

1127

154

315

38

143

40

46

209

October 2007

1203

150

339

41

155

49

47

225

November 2007

1142

132

334

44

151

44

38

186

December 2007

1059

118

319

37

135

40

33

167

January 2008

1027

109

320

38

134

39

33

164

February 2008

986

103

322

42

118

35

34

145

March 2008

774

81

281

42

93

23

28

131

April 2008

721

77

272

40

85

23

26

126

May 2008

647

70

251

34

68

16

23

115

June 2008

619

79

236

37

65

15

20

111

July 2008

572

74

236

26

61

20

21

118

August 2008

528

70

220

27

51

23

27

112

September 2008

529

67

229

30

43

26

34

122

October 2008

452

52

222

32

41

24

32

120


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Orthoptics Physiotherapy Radiography Diagnostic Radiography Therapeutic Prosthetics and Orthotists Speech and Language Therapy Audiology

April 2007

1

55

15

0

0

19

2

May 2007

3

214

38

3

1

37

6

June 2007

4

379

60

6

2

45

10

July 2007

7

666

75

8

2

75

10

August 2007

8

860

75

8

2

90

11

September 2007

8

892

69

6

2

89

13

October 2007

8

952

68

6

2

97

14

November 2007

7

907

61

6

3

94

13

December 2007

5

825

60

7

5

84

10

January 2008

5

803

58

7

5

81

14

February 2008

6

784

56

7

6

78

15

March 2008

5

651

45

7

5

63

13

April 2008

5

598

43

4

5

61

11

May 2008

3

502

34

4

5

45

13

June 2008

4

544

32

6

5

38

15

July 2008

6

737

35

6

5

49

16

August 2008

6

828

35

5

5

55

15

September 2008

4

872

41

5

5

58

13

October 2008

3

793

39

2

5

64

14


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