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Carers: Derbyshire
Natascha Engel: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many carers are registered in (a) Derbyshire and (b) North East Derbyshire. [294762]
Phil Hope: Carers may register with a range of organisations for different purposes-there is no single register as such.
The number of carers who care for a person aged 18 and over who are offered a carer's assessment or review during the year (1 April to 31 March) is collected annually from councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities on the Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care returns. Provisional data for 2008-09 were published in September.
8,700 carers in Derbyshire county council and 1,700 carers in Derby unitary authority were offered an assessment or review in 2008-09.
Christmas
Mr. Prisk: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many Christmas functions arranged by his Department and its agencies (a) the then Secretary of State, (b) officials of his Department and (c) officials of its agencies (i) hosted and (ii) attended in 2008; and if he will make a statement. [295444]
Phil Hope: The then Secretary of State attended the annual Christmas drinks arranged by the Department for journalists on 16 December 2008. The Department did not host any other official Christmas functions last year. Information about functions hosted by agencies is not held centrally.
Continuing Care
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people (a) in total and (b) per 50,000 of the population received continuing care in each primary care trust area in England in each quarter of 2008. [294767]
Phil Hope: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State (Mr. Mike O'Brien) on 9 September 2009, Official Report, columns 1979-984W.
Dental Services
Mr. Crausby: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the percentage of people in (a) Bolton and (b) England who have access to an NHS dentist. [295305]
Ann Keen: Information on the number of patients seen by an national health service dentist in the previous 24 months as a percentage of the population is available in Table E4 of Annex 3 of the 'NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2008/09' report. Information is provided by primary care trust and strategic health authority in England and is available at quarterly intervals, from 31 March 2006 to 30 June 2009.
This report, published on 19 August 2009, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether (a) the Minister, (b) his advisers and (c) officials of his Department saw the notes of the visits by the Chief Dental Officer or his representatives to (i) maxillofacial and (ii) dental hospitals which were subsequently used in the production of the report by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board on oral and maxillofacial surgery. [295835]
Ann Keen: As the report indicated, the terms of the review did not extend to formal reporting on the visits. Departmental officials who were members of the review group have seen any notes taken. The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board is an independent regulatory body.
Dental Services: Leeds
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists were providing NHS services in Leeds West constituency on the latest date for which figures are available. [295347]
Ann Keen:
The numbers of dentists with national health service activity during the year ending 31 March 2009 are available in Table G1 of Annex 3 of the 'NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2008/09' report. Information is provided for England and by strategic health authority and primary care trust, but is not available by constituency. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This report,
published on 19 August 2009, has been placed in the Library and is also available on The Information Centre for health and social care website at:
Following a recent consultation exercise, this measure is based on a revised methodology and therefore supersedes any previously published work force figures relating to the new dental contractual arrangements. It is not comparable to the information collected under the old contractual arrangements. This revised methodology counted the number of dental performers with NHS activity recorded via FP17 claim forms in each year ending 31 March.
These published figures relate to a headcount and do not differentiate between full-time and part-time dentists, nor do they account for the fact that some dentists may do more NHS work than others.
Departmental Advertising
Mr. Scott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on advertising (a) in the printed press, (b) on television and (c) on radio in each of the last three years. [295208]
Phil Hope: The following table shows the Department's spend on press, television and radio advertising in each of the last three complete financial years.
It should be noted that the figures will not cover the Department's complete spend on advertising as other media (posters, cinema, online) will also have been used during the period.
| £ | ||||
| Financial year | Press advertising | Regional press advertising | Television advertising | Radio advertising |
| Notes: 1. Advertising spend is defined as covering only media spend (inclusive of agency commissions but excluding production costs, COI commission and VAT). 2. These figures do not include the Departments recruitment/classified advertising costs and ad hoc spend under £10,000 and all sums have been rounded to the nearest £10,000. 3. These figures may include occasional minor spend through COI by NHS organisations, to supplement national campaigns in their area. While this expenditure has been excluded as far as possible so that these figures reflect central departmental spend, it would incur disproportionate cost to validate that every item of NHS expenditure has been removed. Source: Central Office of Information (COI) | ||||
Departmental Energy
Dr. Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has a strategy for voltage optimisation in its estate. [295277]
Phil Hope: The Department is currently sourcing voltage optimiser products for use within departmental buildings as part of our sustainable development measures to reduce energy consumption.
Elderly: Leeds
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent estimate he has made of the number of people aged 75 years and over who have a disability or limiting long-term illness in (a) Leeds West constituency and (b) the city of Leeds. [295355]
Phil Hope: Data on the number of people aged 75 years and over who have a disability or limiting long-term illness are not collected centrally.
Data on the number of people receiving social services funded either fully or partially by councils with adult social services responsibilities (CASSRs) in England are collected and published by the Information Centre for health and social care as part of the Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care (RAP) return. Provisional data for 2008-09 was published in September 2009.
During the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, the number of adults aged 65 and over with physical disabilities, frailty or a sensory impairment receiving a social care service funded either partly or wholly by their CASSR following a community care assessment by Leeds city council was 10,060.
Data are not centrally available at constituency level.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care.
Health Service Commissioner: Public Service
Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons the Health Service Ombudsman is unable to investigate matters relating to public service personnel. [295463]
Ann Keen: Personnel matters are a specific exemption under the Ombudsman's legislation: section 7(1) of the Health Service Commissioners Act 1993, and paragraph 10(1) of schedule 3 of the Parliamentary Commissioners Act 1967.
Health Services: Finance
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding (a) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (b) local authorities will be expected to provide towards the proposed new regime of free care for the elderly. [292741]
Phil Hope: The commitment to offer free personal care at home to those with the highest needs is expected to cost up to £670 million per full year. The Government, through the Department of Health, will provide the bulk of this funding (an estimated £420 million per full year) for this historic first step towards a national care service. However, it is right that councils play their part alongside central Government. The remainder of the funding will come from efficiencies in local government which has already delivered £1.764 billion in 2008-09, is due to have delivered at least £3.2 billion by the end of 2009-10, with a target to deliver £5.5 billion over the comprehensive spending review period.
Health Services: Travelling People
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 16 September 2009, Official Report, column 2238W, on health services: Travelling people, what benefits he expects Travellers to receive as a consequence of the Friends, Families and Travellers scheme. [294910]
Phil Hope: The Department's funding for the Friends, Families and Travellers scheme is expected to support better access to healthcare for Travellers by establishing three centres of regional excellence in the South East, East of England and South West. Working in partnership with Gypsy and Traveller communities, the national health service and other stakeholders, the centres will help develop and deliver better services for Gypsies and Travellers and enable their good practice to be spread to other regions.
Health Visitors: Training
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the mechanisms are for funding of training health visitors; and how much such funding is being provided by (a) the Government and (b) private sources in 2009-10. [295460]
Ann Keen: Health visitor training is funded from the £4.6 billion multi-professional education and training budget (MPET) allocated to strategic health authorities (SHAs) and is commissioned by SHAs. Within the overall MPET resources allocated, it is a matter for each SHA to determine their own priorities including how much is spent on post-registration training commissions for health visitors. Under the current service level agreement with SHAs, each SHA is expected to provide for investment in training commissions based on long term workforce need and local financial plans.
Information on how much funding is being provided for health visitor training from private sources in 2009-10 is not held centrally.
Incontinence: Children
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has made for children's continence services in the next five years. [295468]
Ann Keen: The Department has not made specific new plans for children's continence services.
The National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (the NSF) included guidance on the importance of joined up continence services for children and young people.
In October 2007 the Department published a Continence Exemplar. This was one in a series of exemplar journeys (patient pathways), illustrating key themes in the NSF and is available on the Department's website at:
A copy has already been placed in the Library.
Infectious Diseases: Nottinghamshire
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the rate of (a) clostridium difficile and (b) MRSA infection in (i) Bassetlaw primary care trust and (ii) Nottinghamshire County Teaching primary care trust was in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [294930]
Ann Keen: Information on the number of Clostridium difficile infections, broken down by requested primary care trust (PCT) level, is available since 2007-08 and has been set out in the following table.
| Clostridium difficile | ||
| Number of cases | Rate per 100,000 population | |
| So urce: Health Protection Agency | ||
Data on methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections have published at acute trust level only. The information is therefore not available in the format requested. Data for the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust have been set out in the following table.
| MRSA bacteraemia | ||
| Number of cases | Rate per 100,000 population | |
| Notes: 1. No acute trust headquarters are located in Bassetlaw PCT. However, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is located in Nottinghamshire Country Teaching PCT. Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust is located in Doncaster PCT. 2. Services at Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust are mainly commissioned by Doncaster PCT. Source: Health Protection Agency | ||
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