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North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust: Pay
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on employment costs of (a) managers, (b) nurses, (c) doctors and (d) other administrative staff at North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust in each of the last five years. [297563]
Ann Keen: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the staffing costs of (a) managers and senior managers, (b) nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, (c) medical staff and (d) administrative and clerical staff at the North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) in each of the last five years.
| Annual Staffing Costs-North Yorkshire and York PCT | ||||
| £000 | ||||
| Managers and senior managers | Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff | Medical staff | Admin and clerical staff | |
| Notes: 1. The figures provided are for total expenditure on staff and will include social security costs, pension contributions and early retirement costs. Redundancy costs are not included. The figures also include staff not directly employed by the organisation, such as agency staff. 2. Information is from the financial returns of national health service bodies. The data are not audited but are validated to the audited summarisation schedules. 3. North Yorkshire and York PCT was formed in October 2006 as a result of the merger of the Hambleton and Richmondshire PCT, the Craven, Harrogate and Rural District PCT, the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale PCT and the Selby and York PCT. Therefore, the figures reported for 2005-06 and 2004-05 are the sum of the four predecessor PCTs. Source: Financial Returns. | ||||
Pain: Drugs
Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what medication the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is assessing in relation to the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome. [297219]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is not developing guidance specifically on the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome.
NICE is developing a short clinical guideline on the pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in adults in non-specialist settings and recently published draft guidance for consultation. The published scope for this guideline, which details the treatments it will cover, is available on NICE's website at:
www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action= download&o=44204
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of administering the NHS prescription charging system in each of the last three years. [297716]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The following table provides an estimate of direct and overhead costs for the administration of prescription pre-payment, maternity exemption and medical exemption certificates for the last three complete financial years in England. These costs are the only elements of the prescription charging system that can be separately identified.
| Pre-payment certificates maternity and medical exemption certificate | |
| National health service prescription charge administrative process | £000 |
Costs for processing prescription charges cannot be provided, because they are processed as part of the reimbursement arrangements for dispensers in England and are not separately identifiable. Costs cannot be provided for the pursuit of prescription charge fraud as it is not possible to separately identify this from the cost of tackling other types of NHS fraud.
There are additional costs associated with the issuing of NHS tax credit certificates and assessment of eligibility for the NHS Low Income Scheme. These are not included
in the table because the English costs cannot be isolated from costs for the devolved Administrations. In addition these certificates do not solely relate to prescription charges as NHS tax credit certificates and the NHS Low Income Scheme also provides help with the cost of NHS dental treatment, sight tests, a voucher towards the cost of glasses or contact lenses, NHS wigs and fabric supports, the cost of travel to receive NHS treatment, as well as help with NHS prescription charges.
Private Patients
Mr. Baron:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to issue guidance to primary care trusts on the circumstances in which they (a) may and (b) may not reimburse patients for treatments initially
paid for privately which were the subject of an appeal by the patient. [297317]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We have no plans to issue further guidance. Individual cases are a matter for primary care trusts to determine.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Manpower
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were employed as (a) managers, (b) nurses, (c) doctors and (d) other administrative staff by South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last five years. [297642]
Ann Keen: The information requested is shown in the following table:
| National health service hospital and community health services (HCHS): NHS staff in the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as at 30 September each year | |||||||
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |||
| n/a= Not applicable Notes: 1. General practitioners (GPs) work for primary care trusts (PCTs) which operate within strategic health authorities (SHAs), no GPs are employed directly by NHS trusts. General practice nurses are employed by the individual GP partnerships. 2. Examples of staff in central functions are staff in human resources, informatics, payroll, and library staff. Examples of staff in hotel, property and estates are clerical laundry staff, domestic services and home wardens. Examples of staff in scientific, therapeutic and technical support are clerical staff in audiology, haematology, dietetics and microbiology. Examples of staff in clinical support are clerical staff in medical records, patient services, medical secretaries. 3. Data Quality: Work force statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England. The NHS 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 NHS Information Centre for health and social care | |||||||
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Pay
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the staffing costs of (a) managers, (b) nurses, (c) doctors and (d) other administrative staff at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were in each of the last five years. [297643]
Ann Keen: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the staffing costs of (a) managers and senior managers, (b) nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, (c) medical staff and (d) administrative and clerical staff at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last five years.
| Annual staffing costs: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | ||||
| £000 | ||||
| Managers and senior managers | Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff | Medical staff | Admin istrative and clerical staff | |
| Notes: 1. The figures provided are for total expenditure on staff and will include social security costs, pension contributions and early retirement costs. Redundancy costs are not included. The figures also include staff not directly employed by the organisation, such as agency staff. 2. Information is from the financial returns of national health service bodies. The data are not audited but are validated to the audited summarisation schedules. 3. The South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was licensed as a foundation trust in May 2009. Source: Financial Returns. | ||||
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