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Mentally Ill: Discrimination
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department has allocated to SHiFT in each year to 2011. [240713]
Phil Hope: SHIFT is expected to receive around £600,000 for the remaining two years of the programme and has so far received the following funding:
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John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent progress has been made by SHiFT in its work to tackle discrimination in (a) employment and (b) the media against people with mental health problems. [240714]
Phil Hope: SHIFT was originally launched in 2004 by National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) as a five-year programme but has now been extended to run until 2011 to work alongside “Time to Change”, a new £18 million charity sector-led anti-stigma and well-being social marketing campaign. SHIFT's work complements that of “Time to Change” by focusing on two key audiences—employers and the media.
The work in employment is aimed at improving the recruitment and retention of people with mental health problems. For example, SHIFT has distributed to public and private sector employers more than 30,000 copies of the SHIFT Line Managers Resource, giving guidance to managers on handling mental health problems in the workplace.
An independent expert panel, the SHIFT review panel, has been set up to review guidance on mental health and employment and help guide employers through the wealth of existing advice. A website signposts employers to the most appropriate resource. The panel, hosted by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, includes experts from academia, business and the public sector.
The work with the media is aimed at improving media coverage of mental health and in particular challenging the link made between severe mental illness and violence.
Guidance on best practice for reporting mental health has been distributed to more than 10,000 journalists. It focuses on covering violence and suicide.
Training on reporting mental illness and suicide is being delivered to postgraduate students at journalism training colleges and the SHIFT Speakers Bureau, a bank of people willing to talk about their real life experiences of mental illness, has become an essential resource for journalists and a way of ensuring that people’s voices are heard.
National Treatment Agency
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the role and purpose is of the National Treatment Agency; [241686]
(2) how many staff were employed at the National Treatment Agency (a) when it was first launched and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available; [241687]
(3) what the budget was for the National Treatment Agency in (a) its first year of operation and (b) 2007-08. [241690]
Dawn Primarolo: The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) is a special health authority within the NHS, established by Government in 2001 to improve the availability, capacity and effectiveness of treatment for drug misuse in England.
The NTA has achieved significant improvements in access to services and is now focusing on improving the quality of treatment in order to maximise the benefit to individuals, families and communities. The NTA also plays an important role in advice and guidance on the quality of and, since April 2008, monitoring access to alcohol treatment.
In 2001-02, the NTA's first year of operation, it received a £2.1 million core grant in aid budget (from the Department) and employed an average number of 27(1) staff.
In 2007-08, the NTA received a £11.59 million core grant in aid budget (from the Department) and employed an average of 173 staff.
(1) Note that although the NTA was established in April 2001, staff began to be appointed only from July 2001 onwards.
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: ICT
Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is on schedule to go live with its electronic patient management and care record system. [243190]
Mr. Bradshaw: We understand that Newcastle upon Tyne hospitals NHS foundation trust has no reason to believe that it will not go live with its new patient management and care record system next year as planned. The trust is working closely with its commercial partner, and in collaboration with NHS Connecting for Health, to ensure that all project timescales are met.
NHS Foundation Trusts
Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what rights (a) foundation trust members and (b) members of the public have to attend meetings of (i) boards of directors and (ii) boards of governors of their local foundation trust. [243431]
Mr. Bradshaw: The National Health Service Act 2006 requires that the constitution of a national health service foundation trust must provide for meetings of the board of governors to be to open to the public. There is no equivalent provision for meetings of the board of directors. This would be a matter for each trust. Monitor (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts) has however issued a Code of Governance for National Health Service foundation trusts which advises directors to follow a policy of openness and transparency in their proceedings and decision making, unless this conflicts with a need to protect the wider interests of the public or the trust, including commercial-in-confidence matters.
NHS: ICT
Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department holds on when a complete version of Lorenzo Release 2 will undergo tests in the UK. [243191]
Mr. Bradshaw: We anticipate that the main build of Lorenzo release 2.0, containing care management functionality, will be available for ongoing testing in the United Kingdom by the end of December 2008.
Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many users of the Lorenzo system there are at the (a) Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (c) South Birmingham Primary Care Trust; and what the average number of concurrent users of the Lorenzo product was at each of those trusts in the last month for which figures are available. [243193]
Mr. Bradshaw: At Morecambe Bay hospitals NHS trust there is currently limited clinical usage in a single ward, with 10 system users. At South Birmingham primary care trust, the system is being used by the podiatry team, involving 14 users. Bradford teaching hospitals NHS foundation are preparing to go live in the new year and there are therefore no live system users at present.
Information on the number of concurrent users is not held centrally.
Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what dates (a) Department of Health officials received a demonstration of the Lorenzo software product and (b) local service provider contracts were signed under the National Programme for IT in the NHS for the Lorenzo software product; and what the planned delivery date for the Lorenzo software product was when those contracts were signed. [243434]
Mr. Bradshaw: Lorenzo release 1.0 and components of release 2.0 were first demonstrated to NHS Connecting for Health officials in India during 2007, followed by a number of demonstrations to NHS clinicians, officials and to some Public Accounts Committee members in the UK in 2008. More general demonstrations of the software have been provided since September 2008 to national health service staff.
The original relevant local service provider contracts signed in 2003 did not refer specifically to the Lorenzo product by name but to an integrated care service. A later contract reset on 8 January 2007 covered a two-release strategy for Lorenzo with the following release key milestones:
Lorenzo release 3.5—30 June 2008; and
Lorenzo release 4.0—30 June 2009.
A four-release strategy has now been adopted.
NHS: Repairs and Maintenance
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the size of the (a) high risk, (b) significant risk, (c) moderate risk and (d) low risk maintenance backlog was in each NHS trust in England in each year since 1997-98; [243834]
(2) what (a) plans and (b) targets his Department has on reducing the maintenance backlog in the NHS; and how much is planned to be spent on reducing the backlog in the next three years. [243835]
Mr. Bradshaw: The information is not available in the format requested.
Levels of backlog maintenance categorised by risk were not collected prior to 2004-05. The information relating to 2004-05 onwards has been placed in the Library.
The Department collects data on backlog maintenance annually from national health service trusts through its estates return information collection (ERIC). These data have not been amended centrally and therefore their accuracy is the responsibility of the contributing NHS organisations.
NHS organisations are locally responsible for the provision and maintenance of their facilities. This includes planning and investment to reduce backlog maintenance.
Obesity
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished consultant episodes there were for (a) paediatric and (b) adolescent obesity treatment in (i) England and (ii) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. [241051]
Dawn Primarolo: Data are available between 1997-98 and 2006-07. This information has been placed in the Library.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many surgical procedures to treat obesity were carried out on the NHS in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each strategic health authority area in each year since 1997. [241052]
Dawn Primarolo: Data on finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary diagnosis of obesity as well as a main procedure of bariatric surgery are provided in the following table. Data are available between 1997-98 to 2006-07.
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