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Hearing Impaired: Health Services
Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what changes have been made to the level of funding provided for audiology training courses by strategic health authorities in England in the last 12 months; [321654]
(2) what steps his Department is taking to prevent strategic health authorities in England reducing the number of audiology training courses. [321656]
Ann Keen: Local national health service organisations are best placed to assess the health needs of their local health community and plan the workforce they need. Strategic health authorities are responsible for commissioning the correct number of training places to meet the needs of the local population.
Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to maintain the number of trained paediatric audiologists in the next three years. [321655]
Ann Keen: Working with stakeholders, we are developing a range of education and training programmes which will have a focus on audiology as part of Modernising Scientific Careers. These will encompass the needs of both adult and paediatric services. We are working with strategic health authorities to ensure a smooth transition to implementation.
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what deaf awareness training is provided for NHS staff. [322360]
Ann Keen: The responsibility for setting education standards on pre-registration training courses for health professionals rests with the independent health regulatory bodies. The content and standards of postgraduate training for doctors is the responsibility of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. Ongoing training for all staff is the responsibility of employers, who are best placed to understand the training needs of their staff. Specific training courses in deaf awareness are available and are provided at a local level, according to need.
Hospitals: Construction
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals have been built in (a) South Tyneside, (b) the North East and (c) England in each year since 1997. [321586]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The number of major hospital schemes that have been built and opened in each year since 1997 is tabled as follows:
| Number | |||
| South Tyneside | The north-east | The rest of England | |
There have been a number of smaller scale health service projects in the South Tyneside area which include The Washington primary care centre (capital cost £6 million) which opened in 2008; the Gateshead and South Tyneside Joint Assessment Unit (£4.5 million) and three other schemes at the South Tyneside primary care trust amounting to £9.5 million.
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was for a diagnostic test in Birmingham in each year since 1997. [321537]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the average waiting time for a diagnostic test in each year since April 2006 is shown in the following table:
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were on waiting lists for hospital treatment in (a) South Tyneside, (b) the North East and (c) England in each year since 1997. [321584]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The data requested are shown in the following table.
Before 2003, South Tyneside Primary Care Trust (PCT) was part of Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority (HA), therefore these organisations are shown separately.
| Total in-patients waiting at month end since 1997 (commissioner based) | ||||
| Gateshead and South Tyneside HA | South Tyneside PCT | North East SHA | England | |
| Notes: 1. Data for South Tyneside PCT prior to March 2003 relate to Gateshead and South Tyneside HA. 2. Data for 2003 to 2006 for North East Strategic Health Authority (SHA) include previous SHAs: County Durham and Tees Valley and Northumberland Tyne and Wear. 3. Data prior to March 2003 for North East SHA relate to previous HAs: Tees, County Durham, Newcastle and North Tyneside, Gateshead and South Tyneside, Sunderland and Northumberland. Source: QF01 and monthly returns from PCTs and HAs | ||||
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people waited for over six months for NHS treatment in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 1997. [321585]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The data requested are shown in the following table.
Before 2003, South Tyneside Primary Care Trust (PCT) was part of Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority (HA), therefore these organisations are shown separately.
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