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| Urology | ||||
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| All staff | Consultant | Doctors in training and equivalents | ||
| (1) Doctors in Training and Equivalents is the term used to refer to people in the registrar group, foundation year 2 staff, senior house officers, house officers and foundation year 1 staff and other staff in equivalent grades who are not in an educationally approved post. — = denotes zero Notes: Data Quality: Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts (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 Medical and Dental Workforce Census | ||||
NHS: Cleaning Services
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health according to the most recent ERIC returns made to his Department, how much each NHS trust spent on cleaning services; what their audit score against national specifications for cleanliness for the NHS was; and how many whole time equivalent cleaning staff they employed. [248460]
Ann Keen: The information requested has been placed in the Library.
Estimates Returns Information Collection returns are not amended centrally and therefore their accuracy is the responsibility of the contributing national health service organisations.
NHS: Finance
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to paragraph 3 on page 33 of the NHS Operating Framework for 2009-10, whether all surpluses will be spent by the organisations that generated them. [248444]
Mr. Bradshaw: The surpluses generated are held locally and it will be for individual organisations to decide in conjunction with the direction and priorities agreed with their strategic health authorities and the priorities set out in the Operating Framework, how to invest their surplus for the benefit of their patients.
NHS: Manpower
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff were employed by the NHS in (a) England and (b) Gloucestershire in the most recent year for which figures are available. [248436]
Ann Keen: The total number of staff employed within the national health service in England and Gloucestershire as of 30 September 2007 is given in the following table.
| All NHS staff within Gloucestershire( 1) | ||
| Numbers (headcount) and full-time equivalents | ||
| As at 30 September 2007 | headcount | fte |
| (1) Gloucestershire consists of the following organisations: South Gloucestershire PCT, Gloucestershire PCT and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Notes: Data Quality Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts (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 Medical and Dental Workforce Census. The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. The Information Centre for health and social care. Non-Medical Workforce Census. | ||
Primary Care Trusts: Telephone Services
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts use (a) 084 telephone numbers and (b) other telephone numbers that charge more than the local rate for calls from the public. [247616]
Mr. Bradshaw: The Department does not hold this information centrally and it cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost. However the Department remains clear that it does not expect patients to pay more than the equivalent cost of a local rate call when contacting the local national health service.
We recently launched a public consultation on the intention to prohibit the use of 084 numbers in the NHS. This will run from 16 December 2008 until 31 March 2009.
Smoking
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults aged 35 and over were admitted to hospital with diseases caused by smoking in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) England in (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2006-07. [247615]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available in the exact format requested. Data for 1996-97 are not available for both England and North Yorkshire. Figures for North Yorkshire County are not collected. Data for England and for North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trusts (PCT) are available for 2006-07.
Detailed Information on specific diseases that can be caused by smoking for England 2006-07 is available from the Statistics on Smoking: England, 2008. This information can be found in table 5.2 on page 83. This publication has already been placed in the Library.
Figures are available and provided on the number of admissions in National Health Service hospitals for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of diseases that can be caused by smoking and estimates of the number of those admissions that are attributable to smoking.
The following table shows the number of admissions for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of various diseases that can be caused by smoking and estimates of the number of those admissions that can be attributed to smoking. Figures have been provided for 2006-07 in England and for North Yorkshire and York PCT. It is acknowledged that not all of the observed admissions included in the table will be attributable to smoking as there are other contributory factors to these diseases. Therefore the relative risks of these diseases for current and ex-smokers, compared to non-smokers have been used to estimate smoking-attributable admissions.
| NHS( 1) hospital admissions( 2) for primary diagnosis( 3) of diseases that can be caused by smoking and those attributable to smoking , 2006-07 | ||
| Number | ||
| Observed admissions( 4) | Smoking attributable admissions( 5) | |
| Notes: (1) The data include private patients in NHS hospitals (but not private patients in private hospitals). (2) A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. (3) The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the hospital episode statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital. (4) Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data. Observed admissions only includes those where gender was recorded (5) Estimated attributable number, rounded to the nearest 100 | ||
Social Services: Children
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what inspections the Healthcare Commission and its predecessor inspectorates has undertaken into Haringey Council in relation to services that relate to children since 2000. [245967]
Ann Keen: The Healthcare Commission, like its predecessor the Commission for Health Improvement, has no specific locus for inspections of local government. On occasion, the Healthcare Commission will work with other regulators. The Commission took part in a Joint Area Review of Haringey in 2006 and in the recent urgent review of safeguarding in Haringey. The Commission for Health Improvement was involved in the follow up to the Victoria Climbié report in 2003.
Strokes: East of England
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent progress has been made in (a) Peterborough and (b) the East of England in establishing in each health authority or trust a stroke care pathway; and if he will make a statement. [248529]
Ann Keen: The National Stroke Strategy mandates the establishment of stroke care networks. All proposed networks originally proposed have now been established and are expected to be fully functional by spring 2009. Details of the networks can be found on the Stroke Improvement programme website at:
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what provision is available in (a) Peterborough and (b) the East of England for patients who have undergone a stroke to receive support with communication skills; and if he will make a statement. [248530]
Ann Keen: This information is not held centrally. However, the new national stroke strategy recognises that people who have had a stroke, including those with aphasia and other communication difficulties, will have specific support needs. The services which primary care trusts (PCTs) and local authorities provide for those people will depend on local needs and priorities. The strategy also makes clear that those with aphasia and related conditions should be involved in the planning of the support services they require.
In addition to the funding that has gone to PCTs, central funding over three years will support implementation of the new national strategy, including £45 million to local authorities to help them develop or accelerate their existing provision of long-term support to those who live with the effects of a stroke. We expect that PCTs and local authorities will use the funding available to meet these needs in line with local needs and priorities.
Work and Pensions
Departmental Computers
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many laptops his Department owns which are (a) encrypted and (b) unencrypted. [246676]
Jonathan Shaw: The Department's computers are provided to it under arrangements with its IT service provider.
The Department has replaced all laptop computers that had not been installed with encryption software with encrypted laptops as part of its review of data security. Currently all departmental laptops that are used to store and process personal data have to be encrypted, and employees are prohibited from using non-encrypted laptop computers.
Departmental Data Protection
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 398W, on departmental data protection, where the data centres are located; who manages them; and what steps have been taken to test their physical security. [246938]
Jonathan Shaw: The Data Centres used by the Department are located in North East England and are managed, on behalf of the Department, by EDS. Regular tests and formal audits are undertaken by both EDS and the Department to ensure that physical security barriers, controls and processes associated with their operation and effectiveness conform to agreed requirements. The tests are in line with Information Systems Security Standards (ISSS).
Departmental Freedom of Information
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were made to his Department since 2005; how many requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. [244830]
Jonathan Shaw: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Justice (Mr. Wills) on 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 507W.
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