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Health Professions: Disclosure of Information
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with (a) the General Medical Council, (b) the Royal College of Nursing, (c) the British Medical Association and (d) other organisations representing the allied medical professions on the implementation and practice of whistleblowing policies. [268611]
Ann Keen: On 20 March 2009, the Department published the report of the “Tackling Concerns Locally” Working Group, which has been advising Ministers on improvements to clinical governance in the national health service. A copy has been placed in the Library. The group included representatives of the General Medical Council, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing, the General Optical Council and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The report recommended that there should be better support for the public and for staff in health care organisations who wish to raise concerns about care. The Department is currently considering the report.
Health Service Commissioner
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what effect the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (a) has had and (b) is expected to have on the workload of the Health Service Ombudsman. [268654]
Ann Keen: These are matters for the health service ombudsman.
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has requested additional funding from HM Treasury in relation to the Health Ombudsman’s new role in the NHS complaints process. [268656]
Health: Greater London
Mr. Evennett:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the Independent
Review Panel’s report on A Picture of Health for South East London; and if he will make a statement. [268681]
Ann Keen: The Secretary of State for Health received the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s (IRP) report into A Picture of Health (proposals for changes to the distribution of services between Bromley Hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospitals Greenwich, Queen Mary’s Hospitals Sidcup and University Hospitals Lewisham and the associated development of community services) in South East London on 31 March 2009. He will now carefully consider the panel’s recommendations and respond in due course.
HIV Infection: Charities
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding his Department provided for (a) the Eileen Trust and (b) the MacFarlane Trust in 2008-09. [267738]
Dawn Primarolo: The funding from the Department for the Macfarlane Trust and Eileen Trust in 2008-09 was £3,754,000 and £178,000 respectively.
Hospitals: Crimes of Violence
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many reports of physical attacks against NHS hospital staff there were in each of the last three years; and how many prosecutions were made in respect of each which resulted in conviction. [261868]
Ann Keen: For information on the numbers of reported physical assaults against national health service staff, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) on 20 January 2009, Official Report, column 1378W.
Information on the number of prosecutions following assaults against NHS hospital staff is not currently available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. For information on criminal sanctions following cases of physical assault against NHS staff, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) on 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 246W.
Hospitals: Food
Mr. Lansley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health in what percentage of hospitals in each NHS organisation recorded in ERIC returns clinical ward
activity was suspended during mealtimes except in emergency or very high dependency cases to enable ward-based staff to focus on the service of meals and assistance to patients in the most recent period for which figures are available. [263686]
Ann Keen: The information is not available in the format requested.
The Department has collected annual data from national health service trusts through the Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC) relating to:
“The percentage of wards in the hospital where clinical ward activity (except in emergency or very high dependency cases) is suspended during mealtimes so as to enable ward based staff to focus on the service of meals and assistance to patients.”
The data for 2007-08 have been placed in the Library.
The information provided has been supplied by the NHS and had not been amended centrally. The accuracy and completeness of the information is the responsibility of the provider organisation. Provision of this data was mandatory for NHS Trusts but voluntary for foundation trusts, therefore it will not be complete.
The protected mealtimes initiative (PMI) was introduced by NHS Estates in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing in 2004, as part of the Better Hospital Food programme. These are periods of time when all non-urgent clinical activity stops, allowing the patient to eat without interruption.
When NHS Estates closed in September 2005, lead responsibility for the protected mealtimes initiative passed to the national patient safety agency (NPSA). The NPSA has been working with key stakeholders in the development of a toolkit to assist NHS organisations in the implementation of the ‘10 Key Characteristics of Good Nutritional Care’. A fact sheet relating to protected mealtimes was developed and launched in April 2008 and the NPSA will be launching the complete toolkit later this year.
Human Papilloma Virus: Vaccination
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many girls, of each age, have been vaccinated against human Papilloma virus in (a) Sunderland and (b) England. [268381]
Dawn Primarolo: The Human Papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination is a three-dose schedule offered over a period of six months, in a vaccination programme which started in September 2008. Provisional data at the end of February 2009 is shown in the following tables.
| Cohort 1: Routine 12-13 year olds school year 8 | |||||||
| Doses given since 1 September 2008 | |||||||
| Dose 1 | Dose 1 and 2 | All 3 Doses | |||||
| Total n umber in Cohort 1 | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
| Cohort 2: Catch-up 17-18 y ear olds school year 13 | |||||||
| Doses given since 1 September 2008 | |||||||
| Dose 1 | Dose 1 and 2 | All 3 Doses | |||||
| Total number in Cohort 2 | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
HPV vaccine uptake information is provided monthly by PCTs and is published on the website:
The provisional data for all PCTs in England at the end of February 2009 has been placed in the Library.
Influenza
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the illustrative assessment of the impact of an influenza pandemic on the economy referred to on pages 21 to 22 of his Department’s national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic. [245630]
Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.
Estimates of the economic impact of influenza pandemic on the economy are conditional on what assumptions are made regarding the severity and duration of the pandemic.
Learning Disability: Finance
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received from local authorities on the transfer of learning disability commissioning funds from primary care trusts to local authorities. [268657]
Phil Hope: All areas (primary care trusts and local authorities) have made a return. Some areas made provisional returns by the 1 December 2008 deadline. 70 per cent. made complete or nearly complete returns. We will consider all replies that have been submitted by the expiry date of 31 March 2009.
Maternity Services
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health from which primary care trusts his Department has (a) sought and (b) received assurances in relation to the delivery of the guarantees made in “Maternity Matters” by December 2009. [268152]
Ann Keen: As part of the planning process for 2009-10, the Department has written to all strategic health authorities (SHAs) seeking assurances about the delivery by the end of 2009 of the “Maternity Matters” commitments. This information is currently being reviewed with SHAs.
A copy of “Maternity Matters” has already been placed in the Library.
Mental Health: Cannabis
Mr. Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) teenagers and (b) people were admitted to psychiatric units for mental health problems associated with cannabis use in each of the last 15 years. [267652]
Dawn Primarolo: Data on the number of finished admission episodes as a result of cannabis use for teenagers (aged 12 to 19 years) and those persons aged over 20 years for each year since 1995-96 are in the following table.
| Count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids and where consultant main specialty was a mental health specialty: activity in national health service hospitals and NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | ||||
| Age Group | ||||
| Aged 12-19 | Aged 20 and over | Age not known | All ages | |
| Notes: 1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient 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 in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. 2. Diagnosis (Primary Diagnosis): The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. ICD10 Code used = F12 Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cannabinoids (including cannabis). 3. Consultant Main Specialty: This defines the specialty under which the consultant responsible for the care of the patient at that time is registered. Care is needed when analysing HES data by specialty, or by groups of specialties (such as ‘acute’). Trusts have different ways of managing specialties and attributing codes so it is better to analyse by specific diagnoses, operations or other patient or service information. 4. Counts are restricted to the following consultant main specialties: 710 = Mental illness 711 = Child and adolescent psychiatry 712 = Forensic psychiatry 713 = Psychotherapy 715 = Old age psychiatry (available from 1990-91) Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care | ||||
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