| Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
22 Feb 2010 : Column 130W—continued
Health: Sunlight
Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has commissioned research into the potential effects on health of low levels of sunlight in the UK relative to such levels in other countries. [317001]
Gillian Merron: The Department has not commissioned research of this kind and at present has no plans to do so.
Heroin: Overdoses
Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of former prisoners died as a result of a heroin overdose within (a) one week, (b) one month and (c) one year of their release from prison in the last three years. [317553]
Phil Hope: This information is not collected by the Department.
Home Care Services: Finance
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health under what budget headings he expects the estimated £2.7 billion of savings consequent on moving more care from hospital to home to be made. [317116]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
By 2013-14 we estimate that up to £2.7 billion a year can be saved in the national health service by transforming the care and lives of those with long-term conditions and by reforming community services
across the NHS. These are part of the £15-20 billion savings which we have said the NHS will deliver by 2013-14.
£750 million of savings are possible through driving down variation across the country by ensuring current best practice in terms of case management, care planning -care support. A further £750 million of savings are possible through reducing emergency admissions for people with long-term conditions to the level of the best performing systems internationally. This raises the quality of care for patients and helps the NHS, provided the care is good enough and we intend to ensure it is.
The remaining £1.2 billion is achievable through reforms to community services, driving improvements in the efficiency of community services, so that in all areas of the country efficiency levels meet those currently achieved by the best performing areas.
Hospitals: Admissions
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency readmissions there were in each NHS trust in each year since 1997. [313972]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information available, based on information provided by the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development, is set out in a table which I have placed in the Library. Figures are given separately for the age groups 0-15 years and 16 years and above. The table also includes information on the standardised rate of emergency readmissions, defined as the number of emergency readmissions divided by the total number of hospital discharges, adjusted for the different case mix and age and sex of patients to allow a more valid comparison between different years or different provider units.
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency admissions relating to orthopaedic injuries there were in each primary care trust in England in (a) November, (b) December and (c) January in each of the last five years. [317197]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is not available in the format requested. Tables showing counts of finished admission episodes where the method of admission was emergency for episodes with a main consultant speciality of 'Trauma and Orthopaedics' separated by primary care trust of residence where the episode ended in months November, December and January from 2004-05 to 2008-09 have been placed in the Library.
Hospitals: Reviews
Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department has given to regional health authorities in England who are undertaking reviews of acute hospital sectors; and if he will make a statement. [317716]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department, in conjunction with its key stakeholders, has issued a raft of helpful guidance to strategic health authorities in England who are considering or undertaking reviews of acute hospital sectors.
It is the responsibility of the local national health service to plan, develop and improve health services
according to the health care needs of the local population. The Department's 2008 publication-"Leading Local Change"-makes it clear that any changes should be locally led, clinically driven and built upon a sound clinical case for change. A copy of the publication has already been placed in the Library.
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the median waiting time for (a) in-patient and (b) out-patient treatment was for patients in York in each year since 1997. [317222]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The following tables show the median inpatient and outpatient waiting times for the York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and its predecessor trusts from 1997 to 2009.
| Table 1: Inpatient waiting times | |
| Month ending | Median (weeks) |
| Notes: 1. Inpatient waiting times are measured from decision to admit by the consultant to admission to hospital. 2. The figures show the median waiting times for patients still waiting for admission at the end of the period stated. 3. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits. Source: Department of Health waiting list collections KH07 and MMRPROV. | |
| Table 2: Median outpatient waiting time for first outpatient appointment, patients seen in the year all specialties, provider organisations in the York area | |
| Inpatient waiting times for York Health Services Trust 1997 to 2009 | |
| Financial year | Median (weeks) |
| Notes: 1. Outpatient waiting times are measured from referral by the general practitioner to first outpatient appointment with a consultant. 2. The outpatient seen figures relate to the average wait for patients seen during the whole of each year. 3. Outpatient waiting times on this basis no longer available. 4. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits. Source: Department of Health waiting list collections QM08. | |
| Table 3: Median outpatient waiting time for first outpatient appointment, patients still waiting at period end, all specialties, provider organisations in the York area | |
| Outpatient waiting times for York Health Services Trust 2005 to 2009 | |
| Month ending | Median (weeks) |
| Notes: 1. Outpatient waiting times are measured from referral by the general practitioner to first outpatient appointment to the consultant. 2. Full waiting list was only collected from 2004 so average waiting first outpatient times on this basis have only been available from then. 3. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits. 4. Historically, since 1997, outpatient waiting times were collected based on numbers seen during the quarter. 5. In addition, data were collected on a 'still waiting' basis in the monthly return alongside the inpatient waiting times figures. However, unlike the inpatient figures, the full waiting list on outpatients, was not collected, just the long waiters. Therefore, it was not possible to calculate the average wait on this basis. Source: Department of Health Waiting List Collections QM08 and MMRPROV. | |
Mental Health Services
Keith Vaz:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been treated as an (a)
in-patient and (b) out-patient for a mental health condition (i) in Leicester, (ii) in the East Midlands and (iii) nationally in each of the last five years. [317351]
Phil Hope: Information is available on the number of patients in contact with specialist mental health services who received inpatient treatment for a mental health condition. Data are also available on the number of people in contact with specialist mental health services who received consultant outpatient appointments for a mental health condition in each of the last five years for which data are available.
Data have been collected in respect of inpatients and outpatients treated for a mental health condition by Leicestershire Partnerships National Health Service Trust, East Midlands Strategic Health Authority and in England between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2009. This information is shown in the following table.
The data should be used with caution as they do not record non-consultant led outpatient appointments, and they record patients who received both inpatient and outpatient treatment as inpatients only. The data therefore underestimate the total number of outpatient appointments recorded in each year.
| Number of people in contact with specialist mental health services and who received NHS inpatient and outpatient appointments for a mental health problem in Leicester, East Midlands and in England between 2004-05 and 2008-09: male and female, all ages | ||||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | ||
| Source: NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care Mental Health Minimum Data Set 2004-2009 Annual Returns. | ||||||
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people have been (a) killed and (b) seriously injured by a person who has received treatment for mental health reasons in the three years before the incident (i) in Leicester, (ii) in the East Midlands and (iii) nationally in each of the last 10 years; [317352]
(2) how many people have been (a) killed and (b) seriously injured by a person who has received treatment for mental health reasons (i) in Leicester, (ii) in the East Midlands and (iii) nationally in each of the last 10 years; [317353]
(3) what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of independent investigations commissioned relating to patients receiving treatment for mental health reasons (a) in the East Midlands and (b) nationally in each of the last five years; [317354]
(4) how many independent investigations commissioned relating to patients receiving treatment for mental health reasons have been commissioned (a) in the East Midlands and (b) nationally in each of the last five years. [317358]
Phil Hope: Precise data on the number of homicides or serious injuries in England committed by people with mental illness are not collected centrally. However, we estimate that every year over 1,300 mental health patients take their own lives and between 50 and 70 per year are involved in taking the lives of others.
Nor does the Department collect data about homicide or serious injury committed by people with mental illness at local or regional levels. Strategic health authorities are responsible for commissioning independent investigations into adverse events in mental health services, including homicides committed by mental health service users. The Department does not collect routine information or cost data on such local investigations, and nor has there been a national estimate of their cost.
Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many independent investigations commissioned relating to patients receiving treatment for mental health reasons there have been (a) in Mid Bedfordshire constituency and (b) England in each of the last five years. [317529]
Phil Hope: This information is not collected routinely by the Department, but is collected by strategic health authorities, who are responsible for commissioning independent investigations into patients with a mental illness.
| Next Section | Index | Home Page |