Hugh Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent in (a) cash and (b) real terms on NHS general dental services in York in each year since 1996-97. [295227]
Ann Keen:
Information is not available in the format requested.
Since 2006-07, data on primary dental care expenditure can be derived from primary care trust (PCT) accounts. Expenditure on primary dental care services in the North Yorkshire and York PCT in the last three years is shown in the following table. The PCT's accounts do not separately distinguish between expenditure in North Yorkshire, and York City.
Financial year
Expenditure type
Gross expenditure (£000)
Dental charges paid by patients (£000)
Net expenditure (£000)
2006-07
Actual
32,165
8,875
23,290
At 2008-09 prices
33,906
9,355
24,551
2007-08
actual
32,089
8,879
23,210
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At 2008-09 prices
32,876
9,097
23,779
2008-09
Actual
39,241
10,358
28,883
Notes:
1. As the data reflect the contract framework for primary dental care services introduced from 1 April 2006, it includes all relevant service costs, and is based on the PCT areas introduced from 1 October 2006, it is not directly comparable with the available pre-2006 data.
2. Actual expenditure figures have been converted into 2008-09 prices using the gross domestic product deflator index as at 29 September 2009. Source:
Calculated from details of gross primary dental care expenditure, and income from dental charges, recorded in the notes to the PCT's accounts.
Prior to April 2006, most primary dental services were provided under former general dental service (GDS) arrangements. These were demand-led services where the pattern of dental expenditure was largely determined by where dentists chose to practice and how much national health service work they chose to undertake.
The Information Centre for health and social care holds local-level information on the expenditure for NHS primary dental care under the former GDS and personal dental service arrangements. The Information Centre for health and social care published the following report on 26 March 2008: 'NHS Expenditure for General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services: England 1997/98 - 2005/06'. This report has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the Information Centre website at:
The report includes information on primary dental care expenditure in cash terms by parliamentary constituency for 1997-98 to 2005-06 in Tables A3 and B3 of Annex 3. Further notes to aid interpretation of the information are shown in the 'Contents and Notes' page of Annex 3.
Departmental Postal Services
Mr. Carmichael:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services; and when each such contract expires. [296087]
Phil Hope:
The Department uses a number of companies for different mail delivery services.
External mail is collected and delivered by Royal Mail. This is an on-going rolling arrangement.
For urgent deliveries of documents and for deliveries between buildings alternative suppliers are used. These are:
Urgent motorcycle or van deliveries by Point to Point under contract to April 2011;
and
Inter-Office deliveries by arrangement with Government mail services operated by Government Car and Despatch Agency, a part of Department for Transport. This is subject to an annual service level agreement renewable each October.
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Departmental Telephone Services
Mr. Oaten:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will consider the merits of securing accreditation of his Department's helplines to the Helplines Association's quality standard; and if he will make a statement. [295723]
Phil Hope:
The Department's Communications Directorate 0800 helpline numbers are accredited, when it is considered appropriate, with The Helplines Association via the Central Office of Information who manage them on our behalf.
Information on any other telephone services that may be run on behalf of the Department is not held centrally and cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.
East of England Strategic Health Authority: Finance
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of running the East of England Strategic Health Authority was in each year for which figures are available. [296162]
Phil Hope:
Figures published in the East of England Strategic Health Authority's (SHA's) annual reports show the following total management costs:
£ million
2005-06
15.719
2006-07
30.577
2007-08
12.373
2008-09
13.636
It should be noted that the 2005-06 figures are the combined management costs of three distinct SHAs: (i) Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, (ii) Essex, and (iii) Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, which officially merged to form the East of England SHA in July 2006. The 2006-07 management costs reflect non-recurring costs involved in the merger of the three existing SHAs into a unitary body in July 2006.
General Practitioners: Leeds
John Battle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners were providing NHS services in Leeds West constituency on the latest date for which figures are available. [295345]
Ann Keen:
The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of general practitioners (GPs) excluding retainers and registrars for Leeds Primary Care Trust (PCT) as at 30 September 2008.
Number of GPs
Leeds PCT
518
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Notes:
1. Figures are not available at constituency level. Leeds West is contained within and served by Leeds PCT.
2. Data include all GPs who were attached to an active GP Practice on 30 September 2008. The annual GP census does not contain data on NHS walk-in centres, asylum seeker and refugee health centres or homeless shelters, where GPs may also be practising on a part-time or locum basis.
3. GP Locums are not included in the data.
4. Work force statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 national health service trusts and PCTs in England. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens any impact on figures already published will be assessed but unless this is significant at national level they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level this will be footnoted in relevant analyses.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care-general and personal medical services statistics
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Health Services: York
Hugh Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished consultant episodes there have been (a) in total and (b) in each speciality at York Hospitals NHS Trust in each year since 1996-97. [295231]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The information requested is shown in the following table.
Count of finished consultant episodes there have been in total and in each main speciality at York Hospitals NHS Trust (RCB) from 1996-97 to 2007-09 activity in English national health service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector
Main speciality description
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03
2001-02
2000-01
1999-2000
1998-99
1997-98
1996-97
Total
78,310
80,936
81,586
75,531
69,699
64,015
63,032
61,827
61,758
64,367
60,536
60,404
General surgery
9,880
10,102
9,512
8,972
8,727
8,034
7,440
7,493
7,620
7,618
6,929
7,290
Urology
6,155
6,434
6,244
5,326
5,345
4,817
4,719
4,860
4,432
4,441
4,319
4,390
Trauma and Orthopaedics
4,277
4,887
5,371
5,548
5,566
5,158
4,649
4,660
4,468
4,560
4,274
4,375
Ear Nose and Throat (ENT)
2,039
2,111
2,181
2,075
2,041
2,050
2,301
2,193
2,166
2,134
1,833
2,211
Ophthalmology
3,290
3,258
3,509
3,134
2,534
2,290
2,272
2,253
2,288
2,175
1,885
1,923
Oral surgery
1,702
1,756
1,574
1,491
1,409
1,354
1,223
1,244
1,368
1,351
1,268
1,215
Restorative Dentistry
-
-
-
-
-
-
339
336
333
364
397
422
Plastic surgery
-
-
-
-
-
*
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cardiothoracic Surgery
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
*
-
-
Accident and Emergency
1,568
1,546
1,693
356
7
29
*
-
134
460
731
1,361
Anaesthetics
1,946
2,043
2,018
1,900
1,879
1,882
1,918
1,906
2,292
2,469
2,345
1,174
General Medicine
17,656
19,276
20,389
18,003
16,536
15,561
14,076
12,888
12,002
11,592
10,961
10,604
Haematology (clinical)
917
1,650
1,206
991
684
667
824
938
1,391
1,310
1,043
814
Dermatology
29
*
*
49
62
75
103
127
148
170
113
132
Genito-urinary medicine
-
-
-
-
*
-
-
-
-
-
*
-
Medical oncology
459
221
225
166
165
190
269
348
126
*
*
-
Neurology
409
453
468
508
670
520
510
429
397
404
409
441
Clinical Neurophysiology
-
*
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Rheumatology
828
753
568
233
256
172
184
190
265
318
351
290
Paediatrics
7,075
7,080
4,835
4,898
4,651
4,124
4,158
3,908
4,168
3,741
3,321
3,291
Geriatric medicine
10,089
9,501
9,193
9,316
7,756
6,160
5,448
5,216
5,021
5,254
4,561
4,311
Obstetrics
4,265
4,055
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Gynaecology
3,295
3,384
9,199
10,664
9,738
9,310
9,463
9,312
9,306
13,257
13,471
13,572
Midwife episode
1,996
1,855
2,998
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
General Medical Practice
-
-
-
1,687
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
General practice with maternity function(1)
-
-
-
-
1,631
1,581
1,359
1,648
1,737
493
125
201
General Practice other than maternity(1)
-
-
-
-
-
-
370
411
437
480
522
519
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Mental Handicap
-
-
-
-
-
-
*
35
*
38
42
76
Mental Illness
-
-
-
-
-
-
614
686
694
904
874
993
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
-
-
-
-
-
-
53
50
48
42
44
53
Old Age Psychiatry
-
-
-
-
-
-
612
616
685
663
643
677
Clinical oncology (previously Radiotherapy)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Radiology
-
*
*
-
*
*
-
-
*
*
-
-
Chemical Pathology
435
544
376
214
40
38
80
80
190
121
72
*
Histopathology
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
*
-
-
-
(1) These fields were only available up to 2003-04. Note:
To protect patient confidentiality, figures between one and five have been suppressed and replaced with "*" (an asterisk). Where it was possible to identify numbers from the total due to a single suppressed number in a row or column, an additional number (the next smallest) has been suppressed. Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care.
