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HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England. Data are 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.
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.
Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in the data, i.e. the data are ungrossed.
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many 18 to 21-year-olds were admitted to each (a) hospital and (b) university hospital for bulimia in each of the last 10 years; [260922]
(2) how many 18 to 21-year-olds were admitted to each (a) hospital and (b) university hospital for anorexia in each of the last 10 years. [260923]
Phil Hope: The information we have regarding 18 to 21-year-olds who were admitted to hospital for bulimia and anorexia in each of the last 10 years has been placed in the Library.
Environmental Health: Restaurants
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number and percentage of restaurants which have been visited and inspected by local authority environmental health officers in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [261401]
Dawn Primarolo: Local authority returns to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for the period 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007—the latest available 12 month period—reported that there were 386,206 United Kingdom restaurant and catering businesses, of which 246,279 (63 per cent.) received an official control inspection or visit during that period.
A total of 397,865 inspections or visits were carried out, some premises being inspected or visited more than once during this period.
Official control inspections and visits cover both food hygiene and food standards (i.e. food labelling and composition) arrangements.
Full UK data on all local authority food control enforcement activity are available on the FSA website:
Food Poisoning
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of food poisoning by (a) salmonella, (b) campylobacter, (c) E. coli and (d) other food-borne pathogens were recorded in each of the last five years. [261501]
Dawn Primarolo: The number of laboratory-confirmed cases of United Kingdom-acquired salmonella, campylobacter, E. coli 0157, clostridium perfringens, and listeria monocytogenes infections in each of the last five years is shown in the following table.
The most recent data available at present are from 2007.
The Food Standards Agency has monitored the number of cases of these five key food-borne pathogens in the UK since 2000.
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Source: Health Protection Agency, Health Protection Scotland, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Northern Ireland. | |||||
Health Services: Republic of Ireland
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 216-7W, on health services: Republic of Ireland, how much the Government has paid to the Republic of Ireland under the bilateral agreement in each year since the agreement came into force. [260832]
Dawn Primarolo: The bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has been in place since 1971. Data relating to payments made are not available going back this far. According to departmental data, under the terms of the agreement, the UK has paid the Republic of Ireland around €2 billion over last five years. The majority of these payments related to the provision of health care for around 50,000 pensioners that the UK pays for each year in the Republic of Ireland.
Hospitals
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps were taken by his Department to consult NHS staff on the development of administrative systems within NHS hospital trusts in the last three years. [259180]
Mr. Bradshaw: Over the past three years, the Choose and Book programme has conducted stakeholder engagement on the future development of the Choose and Book application via various stakeholder forums. Representatives from national health service hospital trusts are members of the National Clinical Reference Panel; National Design Steering Group; local and strategic health authority user groups; National Specialty Reference Group; and the clinical leadership team.
Hospitals: Admissions
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients spent a night in hospital but not in a (a) hospital bed and (b) ward in each of the last five years. [260417]
Mr. Bradshaw: This information is not collected centrally. You may wish to contact your local national health service organisations for further information.
Hospitals: Malnutrition
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 26 February 2009, Official Report, column 1029W, on malnutrition, how many people were (a) admitted to and (b) discharged from each NHS hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (i) malnutrition, (ii) nutritional anaemias and (iii) other nutritional deficiencies in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08. [261614]
Dawn Primarolo [holding answer 6 March 2009]: We regret the delay in placing this information in the Library. As set out in my earlier answer, the information requested requires intensive and time-consuming use of statistical information systems. A copy of the information has been placed in the Library.
Influenza: Vaccination
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government has taken to publicise the availability of influenza vaccinations in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. [260797]
Dawn Primarolo: The Department ran the annual national influenza immunisation communications campaign with television, radio, and pharmacy bag advertising from early October to mid November 2008, and with online and public relations activity continuing into December. There was also additional radio advertising in late November/early December in the south east of England, where vaccine takeup was lower.
Leaflets, posters and an online toolkit were also made freely available for the national health service to support their local activities.
Primary care trusts covering the north east, the Tees Valley and Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland constituency implemented the national influenza campaign.
Learning Disability: Social Services
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each local authority has spent on adult learning disability services in each year since 1997; and by how much each authority (a) exceeded or (b) underspent its budget for such services in each such year. [260528]
Phil Hope:
Data on local authority expenditure on state funded care are collected and published by the NHS information centre for health and social care. Tables, showing the gross current expenditure by councils with adult social services responsibilities on adults aged
18 to 64 with learning disabilities as their primary client group between 1997-98 and 2007-08, in both cash and real terms respectively, have been placed in the Library.
Data on how much each authority exceeded or underspent its budget for adult learning disability services are not collected centrally.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust: Correspondence
Sir John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will direct the Chief Executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to reply to the outstanding issues raised by the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling in his letters to him of 26 August 2008 and 11 December 2008 following the death of a child of his constituents. [261574]
Ann Keen: We were concerned to learn about the delay in the hon. Member receiving a response from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust. Departmental officials have investigated and we are assured that Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust will respond to the hon. Member by 11 March 2009.
Memory Clinics
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to his Dementia Strategy, published on 3 February 2009, how many memory clinics there are in the NHS; how many memory clinics he intends to establish; and by what date. [262302]
Phil Hope: Information on the number of memory clinics there are in the national health service is not collected centrally. The decisions about the establishment of memory services will be made locally by primary care trusts.
Mental Health Services
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average daily cost of keeping a person in (a) high secure and (b) medium secure mental health accommodation was in the latest period for which information is available; and how many (i) beds and (ii) vacant beds there were in each type of accommodation on 31 January in each year from 2000 to 2009. [260432]
Phil Hope: The average cost per high secure bed in 2008-09, based on service level agreements, is £286,740 per annum and the average cost per medium secure bed per bed day is £453.
Note:
The figure for medium secure beds is for NHS trusts and primary care trusts combined and is sourced from Schedule 4 of the 2006-07 Reference Costs (published February 2008).
We do not collect data on bed availability in medium secure units centrally.
The number of beds currently available in high secure services is shown in the following table.
| Beds currently available | |
| Number | |
We do not collect the average occupancy of beds rates in each category for each of the last three years. What data we do have are contained in the following tables.
| Current occupancy rates at 30 September 2008 | |
| Percentage | |
| Note: This excludes patients on trial leave i.e. patients who are staying in medium security as part of their progression plan. | |
| Month/year | Beds | Occupancy rates (percentage) |
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