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Salaries have been recalculated based on the changes in the consumer price index (CPI), averaged over the whole of each year and include all pay-related allowances.
Information prior to 2003 is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost as recalculation before that date would involve searching individual paper files.
The number of staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009 was 74.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) of 6 July 2009, Official Report, column 583W, on departmental pay, how many staff (a) received a salary of more than £100,00 in each year since 1997, expressed in 2009 prices and (b) were earning more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009. [290305]
Phil Hope: The number of the Department's staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 in each year, expressed in prices as at 1 April 2009, is presented in the following table.
| In post date | Number of staff |
Salaries have been recalculated based on the changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), averaged over the whole of each year and include all pay-related allowances.
Information prior to 2003 is not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost as recalculation before that date would involve searching individual paper files.
The number of staff receiving a salary of more than £100,000 on 1 April 2009 was 74.
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the percentage change in salary of each board member of each NHS (a) trust and (b) foundation was in each year since 2001; [291757]
(2) what (a) pay and (b) other benefits each board member of each NHS (i) trust and (ii) foundation has received in each year since 2001. [291758]
Phil Hope: This information is not collected centrally. National health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts are public bodies, and the remuneration of their senior executive teams is a matter of public record and published in their annual accounts.
NHS trusts and foundation trusts have full responsibility for determining the rates of remuneration for their senior executive board members. Foundation trusts have full responsibility for determining the remuneration of their non-executive directors (that is, of their board members).
Pay rates for non-executive board members in NHS trusts are set centrally by the Department. The rates for all years since 2001-02 are as follows:
| Chair-scale minimum | Chair-scale maximum | Non-executive director | Percentage increase | |
NHS: Per Capita Costs
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of per capita NHS spending in (a) North Yorkshire, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) England in 2009-10. [291693]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The following table shows the 2009-10 revenue allocations made to North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT), the sum of the allocations made to the PCTs within Yorkshire and
Humber Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and the England total. Over 80 per cent. of national health service revenue funding was allocated directly to PCTs for 2009-10 in this way. The table also shows the 2009-10 allocation per head and the total responsible population that each of these areas covers.
SHAs also receive funding, some of which is passed to PCTs. Yorkshire and Humber SHA received £703 million for 2009-10 or £133 per head of responsible population. PCTs also receive some funding through other, smaller, allocations.
| 2009-10 PCT revenue allocations | |||
| 2009-10 allocation (£000) | 2009-10 allocation per head (£) | 2009-10 responsible population( 1) | |
| (1) The responsible population is the number of people permanently registered with general practitioner (GP) practices within the PCT boundary, irrespective of where the people are resident. It also includes people not registered with a GP such as prisoners, armed forces including their dependants and asylum seekers. To reconcile 'list variation' between the GP registered population and Office for National Statistics (ONS) populations for PCTs, the GP registered populations were constrained to the 2006 based ONS population projections published on 12 June 2008. (2) SHAs do not receive allocations and the allocation shown here represents the sum of the allocations to PCTs within Yorkshire and the Humber SHA. | |||
NHS: Procurement
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what medicines and patient services have been procured through a reverse e-auction in each of the last 48 months; [290388]
(2) what criteria the Purchasing and Supply Agency uses in deciding whether to use a reverse e-auction to procure medicines or services for patients; [290389]
(3) what guidance his Department has issued to the Purchasing and Supply Agency on the use of e-auctions. [290390]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA) has undertaken one reverse e-auction in the last 12 months for water coolers. Information on what medicines and patient services are procured through reverse e-auctions in the national health service is not collected centrally.
The NHS PASA consider the following criteria before deciding on whether to undertake an e-auction:
an accurate and unambiguous specification of the buyer's requirement to ensure that suppliers are clear on what is required, and are bidding against the same criteria. The regulations state that the specification must be established with precision. Where your requirements cannot be established with precision, or where some elements of your requirements are negotiable, it will not be appropriate to use an e Auction;
a sufficient (proposed) spend to encourage competition and supplier participation;
a large enough pool of suppliers to ensure competition during the e Auction (and a willingness and aptitude of such suppliers to participate in electronic bidding-this can be driven by spend or the strategic importance of the contract);
availability of the goods/services - there should be no known market distortions such as shortages or surpluses as these may have an impact on e Auctions which is not beneficial to the buyer; and
there must be a credible "switching threat" -i.e. a willingness by stakeholders to switch to an alternative supplier if this is the result of the e Auction because any contract offer must be made to the winning tenderer.
No guidance has been provided to NHS PASA regarding the use of e-auctions. NHS PASA led the way in the NHS on e Tendering, e Auctions and e Sourcing. As early as 2003-04 NHS PASA instigated a pilot project on the use of e auctions in the NHS. The e Auctions managed by the Agency delivered substantial savings and the NHS continues to benefits by the appropriate use of e auctions.
NHS: Surveys
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 July 2009, Official Report, column 532W, on health visitors: crimes of violence, whether the results of NHS staff surveys are available to the NHS Security Management Service. [291450]
Phil Hope: The results of national health service staff surveys, such as the 2008 Healthcare Commission survey, are in the public domain and so are available to the NHS Security Management Service.
NHS: Telephone Services
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the results of his Department's consultation on the use of 0845 telephone numbers by the NHS will be published. [289568]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The results of the Department's public consultation on the use of 084 numbers in the national health service were announced on 14 September 2009. The Department's response to the consultation is available on the 'consultations' section of the Department's website at:
A copy has been placed in the Library.
NHS: Working Hours
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 July 2009, Official Report, column 546W, on NHS: working hours, when the Department plans to communicate to the European Commission on the provisions of the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2009. [289638]
Phil Hope: It is expected that information will be published following receipt of the European Commission's response to the Secretary of State's original notification to the Commission of our intention to derogate and our response in accordance with the directive.
Nurses
Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the Family Nurse Partnership to be extended to the Huddersfield and Calderdale primary care trust area. [291800]
Phil Hope: Calderdale primary care trust has been running a Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) since September 2008. Kirklees primary care trust, which encompasses most of Huddersfield, started to test FNP in July this year.
Nutrition
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) admission episodes and (b) discharge episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (i) malnutrition, (ii) nutritional anaemias and (iii) other nutritional deficiencies were recorded in each primary care trust area of commissioning responsibility in the Hospital Episodes Statistics database in 2007-08. [289455]
Gillian Merron: The information requested has been placed in the Library.
Osteopathy
David Tredinnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment he has made of levels of variability across the country in levels of access for patients to (a) osteopathy and (b) other manual therapies; [289641]
(2) what procedures have been put in place to ensure primary care trusts are informed of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines on low back pain of June 2009, with particular reference to the recommendation that GPs consider referral of patients to a course of manual therapy such as osteopathy. [289642]
Gillian Merron: Decisions on which treatments to provide in the best interests of patients are the responsibility of the national health service at local level taking into account the differing health needs of different communities.
To aid implementation of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance such as that on lower back pain, NICE also develop tools, available on their website alongside the guidance, which offer advice on costings and commissioning. The guidance and tools can be accessed at
Paediatrics: Hospital Beds
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the likely effect of a swine influenza pandemic and normal winter trends in hospital admissions on the availability of paediatric beds. [290009]
Gillian Merron: We continue to base our planning work with the national health service for the H1N1 pandemic on independent expert advice. The latest assumptions that we published on 3 September, assume that 1 per cent. of people who become ill with H1N1 will require hospitalisation. This would be above normal winter levels of flu activity and all NHS organisations have been planning to handle this if necessary, for both adult and paediatric services.
Measures that may be taken include the cancellation of out-patient services and elective admissions in order to free up staff and capacity to care for an increase in children admitted with H1N1.
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