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NHS: Procurement
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2010, Official Report, column 753W, on the NHS, when he expects the PCT Procurement Guide to be published. [320247]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The revised "PCT Procurement Guide" is due to be published before the end of March.
NHS: Public Relations
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what payments NHS North West has made to (a) Communiqué and (b) Burston Marsteller; for what services; and on what dates. [320720]
Ann Keen: The information requested is not collected centrally. The Department does not collect information on payments made by national health service bodies to their suppliers. This information may be obtained direct from the North West Strategic Health Authority.
Obesity: Children
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of children in (a) Hampshire Primary Care Trust, (b) Southampton Primary Care Trust and (c) nationally were recognised as clinically obese in each age group in each of the last five years. [320819]
Gillian Merron: The information is not available in the format requested. Data are not held nationally on children who have been diagnosed as clinically obese.
Children trend table 4 in the 'Health Survey for England-2008 trend tables' contains the percentage of children aged two to 10 and 11 to 15 in England who are obese in each year between 2004-08. This information has already been placed in the Library. Information is not available by primary care trust (PCT).
Further information on the proportion of children who are obese in England is collected through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Table A in the NCMP main report shows the prevalence of obese children aged four to five years and 10 to 11 years in Hampshire PCT and Southampton PCT between 2006-07 and 2008-09. This information has already been placed in the Library.
Obesity: Surgery
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each age group in (a) Hampshire Primary Care Trust, (b) Southampton Primary Care Trust and (c) nationally have received gastric surgery of each type for the treatment of obesity in each of the last 10 years. [320818]
Gillian Merron: This information has been placed in the Library.
Primary Care Trusts: Contracts
Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what powers a primary care trust has to influence the result of the sale of the remaining part of a contract with a private provider of out-of-hours care to a different provider; and what account primary care trusts take of local support for private providers in exercising such powers. [321404]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: A primary care trust (PCT) should be able to influence the sale of the remainder of a contract to the extent that was set out in the original contract between the PCT and the original out of hours provider.
In exerting any influence a PCT should ensure that it considers the implications for continuity and quality of care as well as value for money.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many cases of sexually transmitted infections were diagnosed in (a) under 12 year-olds, (b) 13 to 15 year-olds, (c) 16 and 17 year-olds and (d) people aged 18 years old or more in each region in each year since 1997; [320783]
(2) how many cases of (a) herpes, (b) Chlamydia, (c) HIV, (d) syphilis and (e) gonorrhoea were diagnosed in people of each age group in each region in each year since 1997. [320784]
Gillian Merron: Information on the number of diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections is not collected in the form requested.
Information on the number of diagnoses for herpes, Chlamydia, HIV, syphilis and gonorrhoea for people under 16, between 16-19 and 20 and over has been placed in the Library.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Essex
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) males and (b) females were diagnosed with (i) syphilis, (ii) gonorrhoea, (iii) Chlamydia (uncomplicated), (iv) herpes (first incidence), (v) genital warts (first incidence), (vi) HIV/AIDS, (vii) trichomonas vaginalis and (viii) non-specific urethritis in (A) the Mid-Essex Hospital Trust area and (B) Essex in each of the last three years. [321301]
Gillian Merron: Data are only available on the number of diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics by strategic health authority (SHA). Table 1 gives the number of diagnoses for syphilis, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia (uncomplicated), herpes (first incidence), HIV, trichomoniasis, non-specific urethritis in the East of England SHA between 2006 and 2008, the latest date for which figures are available.
Table 2 gives data for the number of new HIV diagnoses in Essex County and Mid Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT) between 2006 and 2008 the latest date for which figures are available.
In addition to STIs diagnosed in GUM clinics, the National Chlamydia Screening programme (NCSP) provides Chlamydia screening to asymptomatic people under the age of 25 in England. The NCSP was launched in 2003 when a phased implementation programme started. Table 3 includes the number of diagnoses of Chlamydia in patients between the ages of 15-24 years in Mid Essex, North East Essex and West Essex PCTs between 2006 to 2009, the latest date for which figures are available.
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