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Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) local involvement networks and (b) the hosts contracted to set up and run those networks. [288019]
Ann Keen: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman) on 11 June 2009, Official Report, column 964W.
Local authorities hold the contracts with host organisations and are responsible for the management of those contracts.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether all host organisations contracted to set up and run local involvement networks have taken out indemnity cover for members of those networks; and if he will make a statement. [288020]
Ann Keen: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Nurses: Training
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether continence education and training is included in the national curriculum for pre- and post-registration training for nurses. [286925]
Ann Keen: The responsibility for setting standards required for professional registration sits with the professional regulators, and the training curricula is designed to meet these standards by the higher education institutes in partnership with national health service providers and the regulators. The Department, along with local NHS bodies that commission professional training, continues to work with the regulators and higher education institutes to ensure that their standards and curricula reflect the changing needs of patients and service delivery.
Organs: Research
Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the merits of including in its National Organ Recovery scheme provisions for making organs which are not suitable for transplant available for research purposes. [288302]
Ann Keen: The Human Tissue Act 2004 allows organs donated for transplant but not used for transplant to be used for research where appropriate consent is in place. It is routine practice when seeking consent to donation for transplantation for donor transplant coordinators to also seek consent for research should the organs not be suitable for transplant.
Pain: Health Services
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS specialist pain management services there were in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in the latest period for which figures are available. [287497]
Ann Keen: This information is not held centrally.
Palliative Care
Laura Moffatt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made on the preparation of the interim reports on the implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Supportive and Palliative Care Guidance. [288210]
Ann Keen: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence published guidance on supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer in March 2004. The National Cancer Action Team is working closely with cancer networks to monitor and support the implementation of this guidance by the end of December 2009. Plans for the implementation of this guidance are now in place in every cancer network, and it is expected to be fully implemented by the December 2009 deadline.
Patients: Travel
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients in each primary care trust area have accessed funding through the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme in each of the last five years. [287852]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The Department does not collect information on the number of patients who have accessed funding through the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme. Our policy is to empower the local national health
service to manage services in a way which best meets the needs of their local population. The Department's role is to set national strategic direction, as it has done by providing guidance on eligibility and administration of the scheme.
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department takes to monitor the effectiveness of the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme. [287854]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department does not routinely monitor the operation of the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme. An evaluation will begin in autumn 2009, to assess the impact of revisions made in April 2008 which extended the scope of the scheme to include patients travelling to treatment following direct referral by a doctor or dentist, as well as those people under the care of a hospital consultant.
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2009, Official Report, columns 1121-22W, on prescriptions: fees and charges, which organisations responded to the written consultation; which stakeholders contributed to the oral evidence sessions; which GPs attended the workshops; and at what locations the workshops were held. [286912]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: A list of respondents to oral and written evidence is provided in the following list. For confidentiality reasons the names of individuals submitting evidence is withheld and we have included instead the organisations that they work for. For written submissions, in most cases but not all, the responses were on behalf of the listed organisation rather than the individual. We are unable to provide details of the general practitioners who participated in the workshops, because they did so on an anonymised basis. Workshops were held in London, Newton Abbot, Northampton, Manchester, Newcastle and Croydon.
The following organisations or individuals provided written evidence:
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Addison's Disease Self Help Group
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
The Association of Cancer Physicians
Asthma UK
British Heart Foundation
British Medical Association
British Society for Rheumatology
British Thoracic Society
Coeliac UK
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Diabetes UK
East Birmingham and Solihull GP Vocational training scheme-West Midlands Deanery
Epilepsy Action
Gorlin Syndrome Group
HEART UK
Highcliffe Medical Centre Patient Participation Group
Jubilee Medical Centre
MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital
MIND
Motor Neurone Disease
Parkinson's Disease Society
Prescriptions Coalition
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Royal College of Physicians, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Joint Specialty Committee
Royal College of Physicians, Ethical Issues in Medicine Committee
Royal College of Physicians GP Network
Royal College of Physicians, Palliative Medicine Joint Specialty Committee
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Sickle Cell Society
Socialist Health Association
Society for Endocrinology
South Bank University
Spinal Injuries Association
Submissions from individuals (three)
UK Thalassaemia Society.
Oral evidence was given by the following organisations:
Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances
British Medical Association
Citizen's Advice Bureaux
Dispensing Doctors' Association
Kings Fund
MIND
National Pharmacy Association
National Association of Primary Care
National Voices
Patients' Association
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
Prescriptions Pricing Division of the NHS Business Services Authority
Prescriptions Coalition of charities (including Asthma UK; Diabetes UK; Behcet's Syndrome Society; Parkinson's Disease Society)
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Nursing
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
A Strategic Health Authority prescribing adviser
University of Manchester.
Pressure Sores: Compensation
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases were dealt with by the NHS Litigation Authority in 2008-09 in which pressure ulcers were the ground for the claim; how many of them were settled in the claimant's favour; what the administrative cost was of dealing with such cases; and how much was paid in settlements and compensation in such cases. [287684]
Ann Keen: The data requested was provided by the NHS Litigation Authority in the following table.
| Number of clinical negligence claims closed 2008-09 where pressure sore was one of the injury codes | |||
| Closed-nil damages | Settled-damages paid | Total | |
Damages also cover other injuries that formed part of the claim.
| Number of clinical negligence claims closed in 2008-09 where damages were paid | |
| Number/£ million | |
Preventive Technology Grant
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to extend the provisions of the Preventative Technology Grant to apply in respect of the 2008-09 financial year. [288029]
Phil Hope: The Preventative Technology Grant funding ended in March 2008, although any remaining monies were allowed to be carried over into 2008-09 to sustain the momentum. It is now the responsibility of local authorities to ensure that they are able to provide mainstreamed telecare services.
Primary Care Trusts: Dorset
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes to the funding allocations to primary care trusts in Dorset there have been in financial year 2009-10; and what such changes he anticipates in financial year 2010-11. [287553]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department announced the primary care trust (PCT) revenue allocations for 2009-10 and 2010-11 on 8 December 2008. The allocations represent an investment of £164 billion in the national health service: £80 billion in 2009-10 and £84 billion in 2010-11.
The revenue allocations made to the two PCTs serving communities in the Dorset area are provided in the following table:
| 2009-10 allocation | 2009-10 increase | 2010-11 allocation | 2010-11 increase | |||
| £000 | £000 | Percentage | £000 | £000 | Percentage | |
| Source: Department of Health Resource Allocation, Efficiency and Income Generation. | ||||||
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