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Guidance on direct payments: For community care, services for carers and children's services (September 2009). This departmental guidance provides information on how local councils might operate direct payments. It reflects the changes brought about by the new regulations and supersedes the 'Direct Payments guidance: community care, services for carers and children's services (Direct Payments) guidance England 2003'. It also reflects the Government's commitment to support independence, choice and control, as set out in Putting People First; A shared vision and commitment to the transformation of Adult Social Care and Aiming high for disabled children.
The Department has also published a self-assessment and action planning guide (May 2007) to support councils and their partners. These local solutions have been collated to form a web-based nation solution set which is available at:
Eating Disorders
Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidelines his Department has issued to NHS organisations on (a) diagnosing and (b) referring patients with eating disorders. [323765]
Phil Hope: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published clinical guidelines on core interventions in the treatment and management of eating disorders in 2004. Most people with an eating disorder are not admitted to hospital but treated in primary, out-patient or community care settings. General practitioners and clinicians are expected to refer to NICE guidance as often as is necessary.
People with very severe and intractable eating disorders may require referral to highly specialised services when their health needs cannot be met within local mental health services. Access to these specialised services should be made on the basis of tertiary referrals from consultant to consultant.
General Practitioners: Leeds
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) GPs and (b) dentists were practising in Leeds, North-West constituency in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. [322698]
Ann Keen:
The number of general practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) practising within the former Leeds health authority and the Leeds primary care trust
(PCT) area for 1997 and the latest date at which data is available is shown in the following table.
| Number | ||
| 1997 | 2008 | |
| n/a = Not applicable. Notes: 1. Data is not available at constituency level. Leeds PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of East Leeds PCT, Leeds North East PCT, Leeds North West PCT, Leeds West PCT and South Leeds PCT. Prior to 2002 Leeds was serviced by the Leeds Health Authority. This Health Authority may not map completely into the newly formed PCTs but has been provided here as background and appears consistent with subsequent aggregated PCT figures. 2. Data as at 1 October 1997 and 30 September 2008. 3. Data Quality: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care general and personal medical services statistics | ||
The numbers of national health service dentists, as at 31 March 1997 to 2006 are available in Annex E and Annex G of the NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report England: 31 March 2006. Annex E provides information by strategic health authority (SHA) and by PCT. Annex G provides information by constituency.
This information is based on the old contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This report, published on 23 August 2006, has already been placed in the Library and is available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
The numbers of dentists with NHS activity during the years ending 31 March 2007, 2008 and 2009 are available in Table G1 of Annex 3 of the NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2008-09 report. Information is provided for England and by SHA and PCT but is not available by constituency. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This report, published on 19 August 2009, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
Following a recent consultation exercise, this measure is based on a revised methodology and therefore supersedes any previously published workforce figures relating to the new dental contractual arrangements. It is not comparable to the information collected under the old contractual arrangements. This revised methodology counted the number of dental performers with NHS activity recorded via FP17 claim forms in each year ending 31 March.
These published figures relate to a headcount and do not differentiate between full-time and part-time dentists, nor do they account for the fact that some dentists may do more NHS work than others.
Health Centres: Finance
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) resource and (b) capital funding has been allocated to each primary care trust to build new GP-led health centres. [323042]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: A £250 million access revenue fund was secured for the national health service through the comprehensive spending review process to support the delivery of general practitioner (GP) health centres in every primary care trust (PCT) and over a 100 new GP practices in the most poorly served PCTs. In all, £120 million per annum has been allocated to PCTs for new GP health centres and this has been included using a weighted capitation formula to determine each PCTs fair share of resources.
No specific capital funding has been allocated for the development of GP health centres. Where capital investment is required to support the development of new GP facilities, PCTs can use the funds available to them for local capital investment priorities.
Home Care Services: Birmingham
Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of people aged 65 years or over in Birmingham received assistance to live at home in each year since 1997; and how much funding was provided for such purposes in each of those years. [321569]
Phil Hope: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care collects information on the number of people aged 65 and over in receipt of local authority funded community based services and the expenditure on these services. Reliable data about numbers of people receiving community-based services are only available from 2001-02. Information about expenditure on services is only available from 2000-01.
Table 1 shows the number of adults-aged 65 and over-in receipt of community based services from Birmingham city council as at 31 March for the years 2001-02 to 2004-05 and the total gross current expenditure on community based services for adults-aged 65 and over-for the financial years 2000-01 to 2004-05.
| Table 1 | ||||
| Number aged 65 or over in receipt of community-based services( 1) | Population aged 65 or over( 2) | Number aged 65 and over helped to live at home per 1,000 population( 1) | Expenditure( 3 ) (£000) | |
| (1) As at 31 March each year. Community based services/helped to live at home includes planned short breaks, professional support, transport and equipment and adaptations, in addition to home care, day care and meals services. The definition of people aged 65 and over is taken to be the same as the earlier Performance Assessment Framework Indicator AO/C32: Older people helped to live at home (BVPI 54). (2) Mid year population estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics. (3) Expenditure data are for the full financial year. Sources: RAP P2s and PSS EX1 returns. | ||||
In 2004-05, revised guidance was issued, excluding from the statistics people receiving services from grant-funded organisations who had not had a community care assessment. As a result, data on the number helped to live at home from that time onwards are not comparable to data from previous years.
Table 2 shows the number of adults-aged 65 and over-in receipt of community based services from Birmingham city council as at 31 March for the years 2005-06 to 2008-09 and the total gross current expenditure on community based services for adults-aged 65 and over-for the financial years 2005-06 to 2008-09.
| Table 2 | ||||
| Number aged 65 or over in receipt of community-based services( 1) | Population aged 65 or over( 2) | Number aged 65 and over helped to live at home per 1,000 population( 1) | Expenditure( 3) (£000) | |
| (1) As at 31 March each year. Community based services/helped to live at home includes planned short breaks, professional support, transport and equipment and adaptations, in addition to home care, day care and meals services. The definition of people aged 65 and over is taken to be the same as the earlier Performance Assessment Framework Indicator AO/C32: Older people helped to live at home (BVPI 54). (2) Mid year population estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics. (3) Expenditure data are for the full financial year. (4) 2008-09 data are provisional. Sources: RAP P2s and PSS EX1 returns. | ||||
Hospitals: Consultants
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) distinction awards and (b) clinical excellence awards were made to hospital consultants in each of the last five years; and what the (i) monetary value per grade and (ii) total monetary value of each such award was in each of those years. [323811]
Ann Keen: The last new distinction award was made in 2003.
From 2004, clinical excellence awards were made as a replacement for distinction awards. The number of new national clinical excellence awards granted in the last five years, by award level and the monetary value of each award, is shown in the following table:
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