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	Report title	X93	X94	X95
Q01	Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire HA	—	—	2
Q02	Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire HA	1	—	1
Q03	Essex HA	—	1	3
Q04	North West London HA	6	3	5
Q05	North Central London HA	1	—	3
Q06	North East London HA	3	4	2
Q07	South East London HA	3	5	10
Q08	South West London HA	3	0	—
Q09	Northumberland, Tyne and Wear HA	—	2	5
Q10	County Durham and Tees Valley HA	1	3	1
Q11	North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire HA	—	1	2
Q12	West Yorkshire HA	3	12	5
Q13	Cumbria And Lancashire HA	—	—	1
Q14	Greater Manchester HA	1	3	9
Q15	Cheshire and Merseyside HA	2	3	5
Q16	Thames Valley HA	2	1	3
Q17	Hampshire and Isle Of Wight HA	1	2	1
Q19	Surrey and Sussex HA	2	2	2
Q20	Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire HA	—	—	3
Q22	Dorset and Somerset HA	—	—	1
Q23	South Yorkshire HA	—	—	1
Q24	Trent HA	—	2	2
Q25	Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland HA	—	1	1
Q26	Shropshire and Staffordshire HA	—	—	1
Q27	Birmingham and The Black Country HA	1	2	6
Q28	Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA	1	1	—
Y	Not known	—	1	2
	Other/unknown/foreign SHAs	2	3	9
Notes: Ungrossed data Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed). Finished admission episodes A finished admission episode is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one health care provider. Finished admission episodes are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. Cause Code(1)( )The cause code is a supplementary code that indicates the nature of any external cause of injury, poisoning or other adverse effects. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) has used the following ICD-10 external cause codes as requested for this parliamentary question. It should be noted that this is not the full list of codes used to identify gunshot wounds and so the data should not be used to illustrate this. X93—Assault by handgun discharge X94—Assault by rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge X95—Assault by other and unspecified firearm discharge. Data quality HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) in England. Data is also received from a number of independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. 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 via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain. PCT/SHA data quality PCT and SHA data was added to historic data years in the HES database using 2002-03 boundaries, as a one-off exercise in 2004. The quality of the data on PCT of treatment and SHA of treatment is poor in 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99, with over a third of all finished episodes having missing values in these years. Data quality of PCT of general practitioner (GP) practice and SHA of GP practice in 1997-98 and 1998-99 is also poor, with a high proportion missing values where practices changed or ceased to exist. There is less change in completeness of the residence-based fields over time, where the majority of unknown values are due to missing postcodes on birth episodes. Users of time series analysis including these years need to be aware of these issues in their interpretation of the data. Assessing growth through time HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. The quality and coverage of the data have improved over time. These improvements in information submitted by the NHS have been particularly marked in the earlier years and need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. Some of the increase in figures for later years (particularly 2006-07 onwards) may be due to the improvement in the coverage of independent sector activity. Changes in NHS practice also need to be borne in mind when analysing time series. For example, a number of procedures may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and may no longer be accounted for in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.

Intensive Care: Isle of Wight

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on how many occasions an excess of demand for intensive care unit beds on the Isle of Wight has resulted in patients being taken off the island for treatment in each week in the last 12 months. [257071]

Phil Hope: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Intermediate Care

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to revise his Department’s 2001 guidance on intermediate care. [256786]

Phil Hope: The Department is currently exploring the possibility of publishing revised guidance on intermediate care as part of the work on a wider prevention package for older people to be published in spring 2009.

LinkAge Plus

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made on the LinkAge Plus Programme; and if he will make a statement. [245737]

Ms Rosie Winterton: I've been asked to reply.

The LinkAge Plus pilots have been testing the principles of joined-up working. Going beyond the traditional benefits and care agendas, they also provide access to a wide range of services encompassing housing, transport and volunteering opportunities to form aspects of a seamless service for older people.

Each pilot focuses on local needs, and how best to integrate services within those locations, being driven by the needs and aspirations of older people themselves, while also developing existing links between central Government, local authorities and other organisations The pilots finished in September 2008. They are currently being evaluated and a final summary report is scheduled for publication by March 2009.

Early findings from the pilots suggest that LinkAge Plus is successful in enabling older people to access multiple services through a single contact and reaches those who are socially excluded.

In Gloucestershire, for example, they have set up a network of Village Agents who work directly with isolated older people in rural areas. Their presence within the community enables older people to get access to information and advice about the entitlements and services available to them—direct from a friendly, local contact.

We are also starting to disseminate the learning and core principles for LinkAge Plus across local authorities. To help do so, toolkit has been developed jointly with the Department of Health Partnership for Older People Projects. This seeks to help local authorities to put in place similar services.

Local Public Health Laboratories

Mr. Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received on the funding of
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accredited laboratory testing services by the Food Standards Agency; and if he will make a statement. [257804]

Dawn Primarolo: The Food Standards Agency has not made any representations on the funding of accredited laboratory testing services.

Maternity Services

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) name and (b) postcode location of each maternity unit in England listed on the NHS Choices website is. [255303]

Ann Keen: The NHS Choices service, launched in June 2007, is the Department's and national health services primary online service to the public for health related information and advice. All data records published via NHS Choices, including 254 NHS Maternity Units with their contact and location details, are freely available to the public via the NHS Choices website at:

www.nhs.uk.

The name and postcode location of each maternity unit in England listed on NHS Choices has been placed in the Library.

Maternity Services: Finance

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) on which date the £330 million announced in January 2008 for maternity services was given to primary care trusts; [257069]

(2) what assessment he has made of the effect on maternity services of the £330 million of extra funding announced in January 2008. [257070]

Ann Keen: The £330 million announced for Maternity Matters covers three years, 2008-09 to 2010-11. This additional funding is included within the 2008-09 to 2010-11 primary care trust (PCT) revenue allocations. PCTs were informed of their revenue allocations for 2008-09 in December 2007. The 2009-10 and 2010-11 revenue allocations were announced on 8 December 2008. Revenue allocations for the year are made available to PCTs at the start of the financial year. We are in the first year of this additional funding and it is too early to assess the actual impact. However, through the national tariff money automatically flows to trusts when they do more maternity activity. In addition, the price itself for maternity services for 2008-09 has been uplifted by 10 per cent. compared to 2007-08, so even if there were no increase in activity, trusts would be getting 10 per cent. more. This equates to well over £100 million over the current year and means that we know PCTs are passing on to trusts much more that the first year share of the £330 million.

Mental Health Services: Elderly

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much he plans to provide for (a) commissioning of specialist in-reach services from older people’s community mental health teams to work in care homes and (b) specification and commissioning of other in-reach services. [256783]

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Phil Hope: The Department provides funding for primary care trusts (PCTs) to commission or provide healthcare for their local populations from national health service or independent sector providers. PCTs are responsible for ensuring that adequate healthcare provision exists in their localities, including healthcare provision for the community mental health teams to work in care homes and on the specification and commissioning of other in-reach services.

It is for each PCT to decide how much to spend on the provision or commissioning of any specific treatment or service. In reaching their decisions, PCTs will need to take into account the overall funding of £150 million already announced to support implementation of the National Dementia Strategy in 2009-10 and 2010-11 and of the NHS operating framework.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much he has allocated for the (a) gathering and (b) analysis of data on the (i) nature and (ii) effect of specialist older people's mental health liaison teams' work in general hospitals. [256831]

Phil Hope: The Department has allocated £700,000 for this work to take place during 2009-10 and 2010-11.

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