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5 Nov 2008 : Column 516W—continued
Under the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, patients do not have to be registered with an NHS dentist to receive NHS care. The closest equivalent measure to 'registration' is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services ("patients seen') over a 24-month period. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years.
Information on the number of patients seen by an NHS dentist in England, over the previous 24-month period, as a percentage of the population is available in Table C2 of Annex 3 of the NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2006-07 report. Information is available for the 24-month periods ending 31 March, 2006 and 2007. This information is provided by SHA and by PCT.
This report, published on 23 August 2007, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
Both reports have been published by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care.
Increasing the number of patients seen within the NHS dental service is now a national priority in The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2008-09. We have supported this with an 11 per cent. uplift in overall dental allocations to PCTs from 1 April 2008. Copies of the Operating Framework are already available in the Library.
Dental Services: Manpower
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there were on a (a) full-time equivalent and (b) headcount basis in England in each of the last five years. [231553]
Ann Keen: The information is not available in the format requested.
The number of national health service dentists, as at 31 March, 1997 to 2006 is available in Table 4 of the ‘NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report England: 31 March 2006’.
This measure counted the number of NHS dentists recorded on primary care trust (PCT) lists as at 31 March each year. This information is based on the old contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This report has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
The numbers of dentists with NHS activity during the years ending 31 March, 2007 and 2008 are available in Table 32 of the ‘NHS Dental Statistics for England:
2007/08’ report. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This report has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
Both sets of published figures relate to headcounts and do not differentiate between full-time and part-time dentists, nor do they account for the fact that some dentists may do more NHS work than others.
Data on full-time equivalent dentists are not available.
Departmental Dismissal
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of his staff were dismissed for improper conduct in the latest period for which figures are available. [226853]
Mr. Bradshaw: Figures are only available from the start of 2005. Since then no civil servants have been dismissed from the Department for improper conduct.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff employed in his Department have been dismissed, or have had their employment contract otherwise terminated, for failure to perform to the standard expected since 2005. [226862]
Mr. Bradshaw: Figures are only available from the start of 2005. Since then no civil servants have been dismissed from the Department, or have had their employment terminated, for failure to perform to the standards expected.
Departmental NDPBs
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether any office premises are shared between each of (a) Monitor, (b) the Standing Dental Advisory Committee, (c) the Doctors and Dentist Review Body, (d) the NHS Litigation Authority, (e) the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, (f) the NHS Business Services Authority and (g) the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency and another publicly-funded body; and what rent each organisation paid for its offices in the last 12 months. [232457]
Mr. Bradshaw: The Standing Dental Advisory Committee has no premises. The Doctors and Dentists Review Body is one of the six independent Pay Review Bodies, the secretariat for which is provided by the Office of Manpower Economics (OME). The OME’s office premises are the responsibility of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
No premises are shared between the other organisations listed. It is not possible to determine whether offices for the remaining organisations are shared with other publicly funded bodies as this information is not held centrally in the Department.
Available figures for the 12-month rental costs for offices for each organisation is as follows:
| £ | |
Doctors: Cambridgeshire
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors per 100,000 residents there were in (a) Peterborough and (b) Cambridgeshire in each year since 1997. [232362]
Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of general practitioners (GPs) per 100,000 population for Peterborough and Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) for 2006 and 2007. Information is not available for the years prior to 2006 because the complex mergers of the old organisations that created these PCTs mean it is not possible to provide a consistent time series.
| GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population for specified orga nisations, 2006 and 2007 | ||
| H eadcount | ||
| 2006 | 2007 | |
| Notes: 1. Although PCTs serve a defined geographical area, hospital trusts are not defined in this way. Consequently it is not possible to give a figure for the number of hospital doctors per 100,000 population as it would only include those employed directly by the PCT and would be incomplete. Thus numbers provided here are for GPs only. 2. Peterborough PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of North Peterborough PCT and a part merger of South Peterborough PCT (Peterborough part). Cambridgeshire PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of Cambridge City PCT, East Cambridgeshire and Fenland PCT, Huntingdonshire PCT, South Cambridgeshire PCT and with a part merger of South Peterborough PCT (Cambridgeshire elements). Due to these part mergers of old PCTs to create these two organisations it is not possible to map figures back prior to 2006 and provide a consistent time series. 3. Data as at 30 September 2006 and 2007 4. Data Quality: Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England. The NHS 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. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens any impact on figures already published will be assessed but unless this is significant at national level they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level this will be footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The Information Centre for health, and social care: general and personal medical services statistics: and Office for National Statistics population figures: 2006-2007 mid-year estimates based on 2001 census. | ||
Doctors: Manpower
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors per 100,000 residents there were in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in each year since 1997. [231926]
Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of general practitioners (GPs) per 100,000 population for health authorities (HAs) and primary care trusts (PCTs) in Hertfordshire and for Hertfordshire as a whole in each year since 1997.
| GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population in Hertfordshire, 1997 to 2007 | |||||||||||
| Headcount | |||||||||||
| Area | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| n/a = not applicable Notes: 1. Although PCTs serve a defined geographical area, hospital trusts do not. Consequently, it is not possible to give a figure for the number of hospital doctors per 100,000 population, as it would include only those employed directly by the PCT and would be incomplete. Thus, numbers are provided for GPs only. 2. East and North Hertfordshire PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of North Hertfordshire and Stevenage PCT, Royston, Buntingford and Bishop's Stortford PCT, South East Hertfordshire PCT and Welwyn Hatfield PCT. West Hertfordshire PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of Dacorum PCT, Hertsmere PCT, St Albans and Harpenden PCT and Watford and Three Rivers PCT. Data for the years 2001-2005 in the table have been presented using the 2006 format for purposes of presentation and comparison. 3. Prior to the existence of PCTs, in the years 1997-2000 Hertfordshire was served by East and North Hertfordshire HA and West Hertfordshire HA. 4. Data for Hemel Hempstead are not available. Data are available for trusts and PCTs that provide or provided services within the Hemel Hempstead constituency. 5. Data at 1 October 1997-99 and 30 September 2000-07. 6. Data quality: Work force statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 national health service trusts and PCTs in England. The Information Centre 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. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens, any impact on figures already published will be assessed, but unless this is significant at national level they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level this will be footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care: general and personal medical services statistics; and Office for National Statistics population figures: 1997-2000 mid-year estimates based on 1991 census, 2001-2007 mid-year estimates based on 2001 census. | |||||||||||
Drugs: Rehabilitation
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of methadone prescriptions relating to substance abuse were made by general practitioners in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many of these were not made as part of formal drug treatment programmes. [229663]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave him on 17 October 2008, Official R eport , column 1557W.
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse does not collect data on prescriptions made outside of structured drug treatment programmes.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were prescribed (a) methadone and (b) other hard drug substitutes in each of the last five years. [229665]
Dawn Primarolo: The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse collects data on the local services via the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS). The NDTMS does not record the specific substitute drug a drug misuser in treatment is prescribed and while the majority of clients will have received methadone, clients’ treatment programmes/regimes may have included buprenorphine and diamorphine.
The following table shows the number of clients receiving substitute prescribing in both primary care (general practitioner prescribing) and secondary care (specialist prescribing).
| Number of clients | |
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