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Departmental Internet
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1352-58W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by each website operated by his Department in each of the last 12 months. [280721]
Phil Hope: The information is as follows:
Page impressions and unique visitors for the last 12 months—The Department’s website at:
| Unique visitors | Page impressions | |
Page impressions and unique visitors—The Department’s advisory bodies website for the last 12 months at:
| Unique visitors | Page impressions | |
Page impressions and unique visitors for the last 12 months—NHS Choices website.
Page impressions from November 2008 onwards differ to those given in the answer of 4 February 2009 as these now include visitors and page impressions at:
which is hosted by NHS Direct although branded NHS Choices at:
| Unique visitors | Page impressions | |
| Notes: Unique visitors: the number of unique visitors that have entered a website within a given timescale. Thus, multiple visits within that given timescale are not recorded. Page impressions: also known as ‘hits’, this is when a website page is displayed on a visitor’s browser. To provide the number of unique visitors and page hits for all other websites listed in the answer of 4 February 2009 would incur disproportionate costs. | ||
Departmental Location
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on relocation costs for new members of staff in each of the last three years. [280775]
Phil Hope: For the financial year 2008-09, any relocation costs for new members of staff will be reported in the Department’s remuneration report, which will be published as part of the 2009 resource accounts in July.
For 2007-08, relocation costs of £41,900 were paid on the resettlement of one new member of staff whose overall benefits-in-kind were reported in the 2007-08 remuneration report and can be found on page 25 at:
For 2006-07 no relocation costs were incurred for new members of staff.
Departmental Work Experience
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) paid and (b) unpaid graduate internships his Department has awarded in each of the last six months. [281518]
Phil Hope: The Department does not hold records centrally of graduate internships, which may be arranged locally and independently by individual managers in its directorates.
Elderly: Social Services
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to page 12 of his Department's Resource Accounts for 2007-08, HC (2007-08) 1042, for what reason his Department reported slippage against its target for increasing the proportion of older people being supported to live in their own home; to what extent the target was met in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. [280974]
Phil Hope: The Department reported slippage in the 2007-08 Department's Resource Accounts for the number of older people helped to live at home. The number of older people as at 31 March per 1,000 had decreased from 81 in 2005-06 to 80 in 2006-07 representing a decrease of 1.3 per cent. However, the data (when it became available in December 2008) showed that by 31 March in 2007-08 the number increased to 81 representing an increase of 1.4 per cent.
There are a range of reasons to account for the change, including the potential impact of increasing the level of local eligibility criteria being met locally; an increased local focus on shorter periods of rehabilitation; the increased use of support provided through the voluntary sector such as grant funded services; and the improved information and signposting to enable people to access appropriate and relevant local support thereby reducing the numbers of older people recorded as receiving “care managed” services.
Fractures
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent steps his Department has taken to improve the clinical management of patients affected by falls, fragility fractures and osteoporosis. [279635]
Ann Keen:
The Department has taken steps to improve the outcomes of patients with fragility
fractures with the appointment of a National Clinical Director for Trauma Care, Professor Keith Willett. He will play an important role in the development of clinical policy for trauma care, including the care of older people with fractures.
The Department is also working with stakeholders on a number of initiatives in support of the further development of integrated falls and osteoporosis services including:
working with the Royal College of Physicians and local services to take forward work to improve services for people who fall and are at risk of falling;
additional investment in DXA scanning bringing investment up to £20 million to increase capacity in osteoporosis services, resulting in waits over 13 weeks falling by 90 per cent.; and
working, as part of the wider Prevention Package announced in May 2008, to encourage older people to exercise which helps them to improve bone mass and provide general lifestyle messages, around diet, exercise, reducing smoking and avoiding excessive consumption of alcohol, which are helpful in the prevention of osteoporosis.
In addition, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has produced recent clinical guidelines on the use of drugs to prevent osteoporotic fractures in post-menopausal women.
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what mechanisms his Department has in place for the assessment of standards of care for people (a) at risk of falls, fragility fractures and osteoporosis and (b) with fragility fractures and osteoporosis. [279636]
Phil Hope: It is the responsibility of strategic health authorities, working in partnership with local authorities, to commission appropriate standards of care locally for people with, or at risk from, fragility fractures and osteoporosis.
The Quality Care Commission have been given the power to monitor and inspect the provision of local health and social care services, including pathways of care or themes where there are particular concerns about quality.
Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the largest (a) single and (b) aggregate claim for NHS treatment made by a carrier of a European Health Insurance Card was in each of the last 10 years; [280858]
(2) how much of the sums paid by the Government to other EU member states under the provisions of the European Health Insurance Card arose from treatment in each NHS trust in each of the last 10 years. [281109]
Gillian Merron: The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) allows the holder to access treatment that becomes necessary during a visit to another European Economic Area member state, not in the home state itself. Therefore the sums paid by the United Kingdom to another member state in respect of the EHIC, relate to treatment provided in that member state, rather than by the national health service.
Hospitals
Mr. Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department provides to strategic health authorities on provision of information to those in the catchment area of hospitals on decisions to reduce levels of services at those hospitals. [282135]
Ann Keen: The Department provides no specific guidance to strategic health authorities on the provision of information to those in the catchment area of hospitals on decisions to reduce levels of services at those hospitals. These are matters for the local primary care trusts who have responsibility for involving service users in the planning of services and development of proposals for change in services.
Hospitals: Admissions
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) T40.0, (b) T40.1, (c) T40.2, (d) T40.3, (e) T40.4, (f) T40.5, (g) T40.6, (h) T40.7, (i) T40.8 and (j) T40.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years. [280478]
Gillian Merron: The information has been placed in the Library. The information requested is shown in the tables by strategic health authority (SHA). Were the data presented by primary care trust, the majority of entries would be small numbers and would therefore be suppressed in order to preserve confidentiality.
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital admissions there have been for (a) measles, (b) mumps and (c) rubella for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 10, (B) 10 to 13, (C) 14 to 17 and (D) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [280479]
Gillian Merron: The available information is given in the following tables. This covers activity in English national health service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
| Count of finished admission episodes where the admission was for measles, mumps or rubella | |||||||||
| Measles | |||||||||
| Sex/age | |||||||||
| Male | Female | Unknown | |||||||
| 0-9 | 10-13 | 14-17 | 18+ | 0-9 | 10-13 | 14-17 | 18+ | 18+ | |
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