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| “*” denotes nil or negligible. Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and displayed in thousands. Some additional disclosure control has been applied. Totals may not sum due to rounding method used. 2. Varied length sanctions are where the JSA claimant has their payment temporarily suspended for anything up to 26 weeks 3. Fixed length sanctions are where the JSA claimant has their payment temporarily suspended for either two, four or 26 weeks. 4. Entitlement Decisions are where the JSA claimant has their entitlement lo JSA ended. 5 This information is published at the DWP website: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page=tabtool 6. Data are shown in financial years with 2010-11 containing data up to January 2011. 7. Reason for referral Sanctions for Failure to Attend Back to Work Sessions have been applied since April 2009. Flexible New Deal scheme sanctions have been applied in some parts of Great Britain since October 2009. Prior to April 2010. a Failure to Attend Advisory Interview attracted an entitlement decision. Since then, it has attracted a Fixed length sanction of between one and two weeks. Source: DWP Information Directorate: JSA Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database | ||||||||
Pensions: Inflation
Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department has estimated the average rate of inflation experienced by pensioner households. [71212]
Steve Webb: There is no official estimate of the average rate of inflation experienced by all pensioner households.
The pensioner prices indices produced by the office for National Statistics are based solely on households who receive 75% or more of their income from the state, equating to around 20% of retired pensioner households according to ONS. Therefore those indices do not reflect the entire pensioner population.
As variants of the RPI measure of inflation, the pensioner indices also employ the same methodology, which does not allow for a substitution effect and which arguably overstates inflation as a result.
Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent assessment he has made of the effect of inflation on pensioner poverty. [71214]
Steve Webb: The most commonly used measure of pensioner poverty relates to those with incomes below 60% of contemporary median income, after housing costs.
An alternative measure of poverty uses the 1998-99 median income held constant in real terms, after housing costs. This is often referred to as absolute poverty. The absolute measure gives an indication of how many pensioners are in poverty compared to 1998-99, after taking account of the effects of price inflation.
Estimates of both measures are published in the Households Below Average Income series. The following table shows the number and percentage of pensioners in the UK in relative and absolute low income, after housing costs for the ‘anchor’ year of 1998-99 and the three most recent years for which figures are available.
The table shows that since 1998-99 the level of absolute poverty has fallen by 21 percentage points (2.1 million pensioners) to a historic low of 8%.
| Table: Number and proportion of pensioners in the United Kingdom in low income according to relative and absolute measures, after housing costs | ||||
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The Government recognise the pressures that those on fixed incomes such as pensioners face when prices increase.
We have restored the earnings link for the basic state pension and given a “triple guarantee” so that the basic state pension will increase by the highest of the growth in average earnings, price increases (as measured by the consumer prices index) or 2.5%. The restoration of the earnings link and the triple guarantee will benefit both existing and future pensioners by providing a more generous state pension, giving a solid financial foundation from the state, which is essential as part of the pensions system. We also have a long-term commitment to uprating
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the standard minimum guarantee aspect of pension credit at least in line with earnings.
We are protecting key support for older people: free eye tests; free NHS prescription charges; free bus passes; free television licences for those aged 75 and over and winter fuel payments will remain exactly as budgeted for by the previous Government. We have permanently increased the cold weather payment from £8.50 to £25.
Notes:
1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). This uses disposable household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living.
2. In the absolute measure of poverty the low income threshold is uprated by the retail prices index excluding housing costs (ONS series CHAZ) from the 1998-99 ‘anchor' year.
3. Net disposable incomes have been used to answer the question. This includes earnings from employment and self-employment, state support, income from occupational and private pensions, investment income and other sources. Income tax payments, national insurance contributions, council tax/domestic rates and some other payments are deducted from incomes.
4. Figures have been presented on an after housing cost basis. For after housing costs, housing costs are deducted from income.
5. All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty. Small differences should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response.
6. The reference period for HBAI figures is the financial year.
7. Numbers of pensioners have been rounded to the nearest 100,000 pensioners.
8. Proportions of pensioners in low-income households have been rounded to the nearest percentage point.
9. Changes between periods are calculated based on unrounded figures and then rounded to the nearest 100,000. Therefore they may differ from the difference between the rounded figures.
Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who will opt out of automatic enrolment in each year from 2012 to 2017; and what effect opting out will have on the cost to the public purse of automatic enrolment. [71215]
Steve Webb: In 2009, the Department commissioned a nationally representative survey of individuals eligible for automatic-enrolment to measure their intended response. The results from the survey on expected opt-out are presented in the following table:
| Participation | Proportion (%) |
If opt-out were 0%, this would increase tax-relief resulting from additional pension saving by an estimated £650 million between 2012-13 and 2016-17 (at 2011-12 earnings levels). There would also be a relatively marginal increase in the administrative costs associated with operating NEST (the National Employment Savings Trust).
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Social Security Benefits: Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people with musculoskeletal conditions living in each (a) region of England and (b) country in Great Britain were in receipt of (i) employment and support allowance and (ii) disability living allowance in (A) 2008, (B) 2009 and (C) 2010. [70534]
Chris Grayling: The information requested is provided in the following tables:
| The number of employment and support allowance (ESA) and incapacity benefit (IB)/severe disablement allowance (SDA) recipients with diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue as main disabling condition by country in Great Britain and region in England—November 2008 to November 2010 | ||||||
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| n/a = not applicable Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 2. To qualify for incapacity benefit, claimants have to undertake a medical assessment of incapacity for work called a personal capability assessment. Under the employment support allowance regime, new claimants have to undergo the work capability assessment. From April 2011 incapacity benefit recipients will begin also to undertake this assessment. The medical condition recorded on the claim form does not itself confer entitlement to IB or ESA. So, for example, a decision on entitlement for a customer claiming IB or ESA on the basis of mental and behavioural disorders would be based on their ability to carry out the range of activities assessed by the personal/work capability assessment. 3. incapacity benefit was replaced by employment support allowance from October 2008. 4. Figures by medical condition are not available for employment support allowance prior to 2010. 5. Data include people in receipt of benefit and also those who fail the contributions conditions but receive a national insurance credit, i.e. ‘credits only cases’. Source: DWP Information Directorate 100% WPLS | ||||||
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| The number of disability living allowance (DLA) recipients with musculoskeletal conditions as main disabling condition by country in Great Britain and region in England—November 2008 to November 2010 | |||
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| (1) Figures 500 and under. These figures are subject to a high degree of sampling error and should only be used as a guide. (2) Denotes nil or negligible. Notes: 1. The preferred statistics on benefits are now derived from 100% data sources. However, the 5% sample data still provide some detail not yet available from the 100% data sources, in particular, more complete information on the disabling condition of DLA claimants. DWP recommends that, where the detail is only available on the 5% sample data, or disabling condition is required, the proportions derived should be scaled up to the overall 100% total for the benefit. These figures have been scaled up to the overall total. 2. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 100. 3. Figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 4. Where more than one disability is present only the main disabling condition is recorded. Source: DWP Information Directorate 5% sample | |||
Telephones
Mr Davidson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much revenue was obtained by his Department from telephone calls from members of the public to his Department's 0800, 0845 and 0870 telephone numbers in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [70044]
Chris Grayling: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) does not receive any revenue through the use of 0800, 0845 and 0870 telephone numbers.
Working Tax Credit: Parents
Jonathan Reynolds: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he plans to inform couples who claim working tax credit on the basis of between 16 and 24 hours work a week that their entitlement to working tax credit will be ended on 5 April 2012 unless their hours of work are over 24 a week. [70471]
Mr Gauke: I have been asked to reply.
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HM Revenue and Customs plans to write to couples with children, currently claiming working tax credit, who are most likely to be affected by the changes announced in the comprehensive spending review. The letter will explain the changes to the working hours conditions and advise them what steps they can take to ensure they continue to be entitled. Letters will be sent later this year.
Health
Accident and Emergency Departments
Mr Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in each hospital trust in the west midlands and Warwickshire as a result of an assault with a sharp or blunt object; [70357]
(2) how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in each hospital trust in the west midlands and Warwickshire as a result of intentional self-harming or self-poisoning in each of the last five years; [70358]
(3) how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in each hospital trust in the west midlands and Warwickshire as a result of firework-related injury in each of the last five years. [70360]
Mr Simon Burns: The information requested is not held by the Department. The National Health Service Information Centre for health and social care provides Accident and Emergency Hospital Episode Statistics data for the years 2007-08 to 2009-10. This document has been placed in the Library.
Mr Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in each hospital trust in the West Midlands and Warwickshire as a result of drowning and submersion whilst in a swimming pool or natural water in each of the last five years; [70359]
(2) how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in each hospital trust in the West Midlands and Warwickshire as a result of evidence of alcohol involvement determined by (i) level of intoxication and (ii) blood alcohol level in each of the last five years; [70361]
(3) how many (a) adults and (b) children were admitted to accident and emergency departments in each hospital trust in the West Midlands and Warwickshire as a result of attacks by dogs in each of the last five years; [70362]
(4) what estimate he has made for the redundancy costs of staff of Coventry Primary Care Trust who will be eligible for employment by GP commissioning consortia. [70388]
Mr Simon Burns: The information requested is not held by the Department.
Asthma: Ipswich
Dr Poulter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients with asthma have been seen by a consultant at Ipswich Hospital in each year since 2000; and how many such patients were under the age of 16 years. [70221]
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Paul Burstow:
A count of finished consultant episodes where the primary diagnosis was asthma for all patients, aged 15 and under, and 16 and over, at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust is shown in the following table. This does
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not include patients treated in an out-patient setting for asthma, nor does it include in-patients where asthma was recorded as a secondary diagnosis.
| Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | |||
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| Notes: 1. Finished consultant episode (FCE): FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year. 2. Primary diagnosis: The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital. ICD-10 codes for asthma are as follows: J45.0 Predominantly allergic asthma J45.1 Nonallergic asthma J45.8 Mixed asthma J45.9 Asthma, unspecified J46.X Status asthmaticus 3. Data quality: HES are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England and from some independent sector organisations for activity commissioned by the English NHS. 4. Assessing growth through time: HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in out-patient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. 5. In-patients: In-patients are patients who are admitted to hospital and occupy a bed, including both admissions where an overnight stay is planned and day cases. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics. The Information Centre for health and social care | |||
Asthma: Suffolk
Dr Poulter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each district in Suffolk have been diagnosed with asthma since 2000. [70030]
Paul Burstow: Information is not available in the format requested.
The national Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) records the number of people on general practice registers with asthma. Patients may have been diagnosed at any time. These register counts are available for the last six financial years, beginning in 2004-05, by the primary care trusts (PCTs) covering the county of Suffolk. The information is shown in the following table.
| Number of patients on the asthma registers of practices within PCTs in Suffolk | ||||||
| Primary care trust | ||||||
| Financial year | Central Suffolk | Ipswich | Suffolk Coastal | Suffolk West | Suffolk (1) | Total |
| (1) From 2006-07. Notes: 1. In October 2006 there was a re-organisation of PCTs and the existing PCTs in Suffolk were amalgamated into one, Suffolk PCT. 2. The asthma register covers patients with asthma excluding patients with asthma who have been prescribed no asthma-related drugs in the previous 12 months. 3. QOF was introduced as part of the new general medical services (GMS) contract on 1 April 2004. Participation by practices in the QOF is voluntary, though participation rates are very high, with most personal medical services (PMS) practices also taking part. 4. The published QOF information was derived from the Quality Management Analysis System (QMAS), a national information technology system developed by NHS Connecting for Health. QMAS uses data from general practices to calculate individual practices' QOF achievement. 5. QMAS captures the number of patients on the various disease registers for each practice. The number of patients on the clinical registers can be used to calculate measures of disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices' lists. 6. Patients will only contribute to the figures in QOF if they are registered with a general practice participating in QOF. Not all practices participate in QOF and some participate in only some parts (especially PMS practices, which are paid under different arrangements for providing services which are part of QOF for GMS practices). Most indicators in QOF have rules that allow for patients to be excluded (e.g. patient refuses treatment) and so the denominator for a given indicator may be less than the number of patients on the register for that disease. It should be noted that some indicators have age limits and so exclude some patients on the register. Source: QOF, The NHS Information Centre for health and social care | ||||||
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Bladder Cancer
Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the symptoms of bladder cancer. [70162]
Mr Simon Burns: Improving public awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer and encouraging people to visit their general practitioner when they have symptoms is a key ambition of ‘Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer’, published on 12 January 2011.
On 28 June 2011, we wrote to all primary care trusts to invite bids for funding to run local awareness campaigns on three issues, which included the symptom of blood in the urine. This symptom is common to a number of cancers, including bladder cancer.
We expect the projects to run from early 2012 and are in the process of finalising decisions on all trust bids.
Breast Cancer: Screening
Tessa Munt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) mobile and (b) fixed breast screening units there are in the (i) NHS and (ii) private healthcare sector. [70141]
Mr Simon Burns: Each of the 81 local breast screening programmes has at least one static unit but some centres have more than one location; each with an x-ray set. According to data supplied by NHS Cancer Screening Programmes there are 312 x-ray sets in static locations and 152 sets in 151 mobile units.
The Department does not hold data on the number of x-ray sets maintained for symptomatic services and it does not collect information regarding the number of sets within the private sector.
Diseases
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health who will represent the Government at the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases in September 2011. [70049]
Anne Milton: The Secretary of State for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr Lansley) will represent the Government at the United Nations high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases in September 2011. He will be supported by officials from the Department of Health and the Department for International Development. The decision on the composition of this small team has taken into account how best to represent the United Kingdom's interests, given the domestic and global priority attached to tackling non-communicable diseases, as well as the need for the efficient use of taxpayers' money in funding overseas trips.
Health and Social Care Bill
Rushanara Ali: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to bring forward amendments to the (a) Designated Services and (b) Insolvency and Health Special Administration chapter of the Health and Social Care Bill. [69209]
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Mr Simon Burns: Amendments to the designation and insolvency elements of the Bill were brought forward at Commons Report stage where Parliament had the opportunity to debate them and put them into the Bill.
Health Research Authority
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) duties, (b) budget and (c) key personnel are of the Health Research Authority. [71111]
Mr Simon Burns: The Health Research Authority will be established this year as a Special Health Authority with the National Research Ethics Service as its core. It will be responsible for appointing, supporting and managing research ethics committees. It will also work closely with other bodies, such as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, to create a unified approval process and promote proportionate standards for compliance and inspection within a consistent national system of research governance. The planned budget for the Health Research Authority is £10.1 million. It will have 25 head office posts and approximately 100 further staff in National Research Ethics Service regional centres.
HIV Infection
Stephen Gilbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what requirements there are for (a) GPs, (b) dentists, (c) nurses and (d) social care workers to receive training on HIV; and what (i) undergraduate and (ii) postgraduate courses provide HIV-specific training for healthcare professionals in each such category. [71025]
Anne Milton: The content and standard of healthcare training is the responsibility of the independent regulatory bodies for the healthcare professions.
Through their role as the custodians of quality standards in education and practice, the profession regulators are committed to ensuring high quality patient care delivered by high quality health professionals and that healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to deal with the problems and conditions they will encounter in practice, including HIV and AIDS.
The House of Lords ad hoc Select Committee on HIV and AIDS issued a report on the 1 September 2011. The report includes 60 recommendations some of which include a review of certain aspects of training and education of healthcare professionals. The Department will respond to the recommendations raised in the report later this year.
IVF
Andrew Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cycles of IVF each primary care trust offers to eligible couples under the age of 40 years. [71205]
Anne Milton: This information is no longer collected centrally.
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The Department has previously published this information in their report “Primary Care Trust survey—provision of IVF in England 2008”, which has been placed in the Library and is available on the Department's website at:
www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_101074.pdf
Primary care trusts are well aware of their statutory commissioning responsibilities and the need to base commissioning decisions on clinical evidence and discussions with local general practitioner commissioners, secondary care clinicians and providers, having regard to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence fertility guidelines, including the recommendation that up to three cycles of in vitro fertilisation are offered to eligible couples where the woman is aged between 23 and 39.
KPMG
Mr Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what contracts KPMG currently holds with his Department. [70086]
Mr Simon Burns: The Department holds the following information on its central systems about current contracts with KPMG LLP.
Learning Disability
Naomi Long: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) Health and Wellbeing Boards and (b) GP consortia identify the (i) needs and (ii) number of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in their locality; and if he will make a statement. [70038]
Paul Burstow: Local authorities, clinical commissioning groups and local communities, through the health and wellbeing board, will have a duty to involve users and the public when developing the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). The JSNA should include a comprehensive analysis of health and social care needs in their local area including those of vulnerable groups such as people with multiple learning difficulties.
Clinical commissioning groups and local authorities will, subject to the passage of the Bill, also be under a duty to agree a joint health and wellbeing strategy which will inform their commissioning plans.
In the development of the JSNA and the joint health and wellbeing strategy, the health and wellbeing board will be able to consider how to help services join up
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around individuals, rather than isolated services, which can particularly improve the experience of the people with needs that can require action across multiple services.
Monitor: Finance
Rushanara Ali: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he intends to publish information on Monitor's expected operating budget in the first financial year following enactment of the Health and Social Care Bill. [69210]
Mr Simon Burns: The Government published a revised impact assessment on 8 September 2011 for the Health and Social Care Bill following the Bill's introduction to the House of Lords. The impact assessment contains information on the expected costs of running Monitor.
Multiple Sclerosis: Drugs
Ben Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 13 June 2011, Official Report, columns 646-48W on Sativex, what definition of a prescription item was used in the answer; and whether the information given in the answer referred to (a) 5ml bottles of Sativex, (b) 10ml bottles of Sativex and (c) other prescribed doses of Sativex. [70480]
Mr Simon Burns: Prescriptions are written on a prescription form known as a FP10. Each single item written on the form is counted as a prescription item. An item does not refer to the amount being prescribed and therefore an item could be a number of doses, a single vial or multiple vials.
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the effects of changing levels of prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions on the national health service; and if he will make a statement. [70409]
Paul Burstow: National health service commissioners are responsible for assessing the changing needs of their populations and for commissioning appropriate services within available resources. Information on the national prevalence of the major musculoskeletal conditions is available from various publicly available sources. In assessing the overall funding needed for the NHS, the Department takes into account a range of factors including changes in demand resulting from the changing health needs of an aging population.
NHS: Crimes of Violence
Mr Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many violent attacks there were by patients on (a) other patients and (b) staff in each hospital trust in the west midlands and Warwickshire in each of the last five years. [70356]
Mr Simon Burns: The information requested is not held by the Department. Data on violence against national health service staff are available on the NHS Business Services Authority website at the following address:
www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/SecurityManagement/2286.aspx
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NHS: Manpower
Mr Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) GPs, (b) NHS dentists, (c) NHS nurses and (d) NHS doctors have been employed in (i) the Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England and Wales in each year since 1997. [70095]
Mr Simon Burns:
The annual NHS work force census collects the number of staff employed in the NHS in
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England at 30 September each year. The numbers of general practitioners (GPs), dentists, nurses and doctors employed in the Jarrow constituency are not available, however, Jarrow is contained within the trusts shown in the following tables. The numbers for South Tyneside Primary Care Trust (PCT) and NHS Foundation Trust, the North East Strategic Health Authority and England are shown in the following tables:
| Number of GPs, NHS nurses and NHS doctors in selected areas (1) in England, 1997-2010 | ||||||||
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| Number of GDS and PDS dentists (1) by strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT), for selected organisations (2) in England, as at 31 March each year | |||||||||||
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| (1) This information is based on the old dental contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. (2) NHS Workforce data are not available at constituency level. Jarrow is contained within and serviced by the trusts provided here. Notes: 1. The postcode of the dental practice was used to allocate dentists to specific geographic areas. PCT and SHA areas have been defined using the Office for National Statistics All Fields Postcode Directory. 2. Dentists consist of principals, assistant and trainees. Information on NHS dentistry in the community dental service, in hospitals and in prisons are excluded. 3. The data in this report are based on NHS dentists on PCT lists. These details were passed on to the BSA who paid dentists based on activity undertaken. A dentist can provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or has agreed with the PCT. In some cases an NHS dentist may appear on a PCT list but not perform any NHS work in that period. Most NHS dentists do some private work. The data do not take into account the proportion of NHS work undertaken by dentists. 4. Figures for the numbers of dentists at specified dates may vary depending on the date the figures are compiled. This is because the NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) may be notified of joiners or leavers to or from the GDS or PDS up to several months, or more, after the move has taken place. 5. SHA and PCT data include all dentists practising in that area. Some dentists may have an open GDS or PDS contract in more than one PCT or SHA and therefore they have been counted more than once. The total number of dentists given for England does not include duplication. 6. The boundaries used are as at 31 March 2006. Sources: 1. The Information Centre for health and social care. 2. NHS Business Services Authority (BSA). | |||||||||||
NHS: Redundancy
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on redundancy packages for staff in the NHS who have gone on to work in another role in the NHS within (a) three, (b) six and (c) 12 months in each of the last three years. [69738]
Mr Simon Burns: Information on the amount of expenditure on redundancy packages for national health service staff who have gone on to work in another NHS role is not collected centrally.
NHS: Reorganisation
Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether there will be a neurology advisory group within the NHS Commissioning Board, as part of the new NHS structure to be established under the provisions of the Health and Social Care Bill. [70411]
Mr Simon Burns: Professional and clinical leadership and advice will be central to the decisions made by the NHS Commissioning Board. ‘Developing the NHS Commissioning Board’ sets out the intention to structure the board around the five domains of the outcomes framework, with clear arrangements for key service areas that would gain particular benefit from dedicated professional and clinical leadership. The NHS Commissioning Board, once established in legislation, will determine the governance structures for these service areas.
Nurses: Manpower
Mr Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses are currently employed in NHS hospitals in each region; and what estimate his Department has made of the number which will be employed in 2014-15. [70077]
Anne Milton: Owing to the way the numbers of staff employed are reported, it is not possible to separate nurses from the all qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff group. The following table gives the headcount and full-time equivalent figures from the NHS Information Centre annual census as at 30 September 2010.
| Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Staff | ||
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| Note: As at 30 September 2010 | ||
Local healthcare organisations know the healthcare needs and priorities of their local populations. They are best placed to determine the work force required to deliver safe patient care within their available resources. Strategic health authorities (SHAs) produce integrated plans for their own areas and as part of the 2011-12 integrated planning process, the Department has agreed and signed off the SHA integrated plans for 2011-12. These will be published shortly.
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Obesity: Health Services
Conor Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has any plans to review the regulation by the Care Quality Commission of organisations that offer medical anti-obesity services. [69566]
Mr Simon Burns: The scope of registration by the Care Quality Commission is set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010. The regulated activities include:
treatment of disease, disorder or injury by, or under the supervision of, a specified health care professional;
surgical procedures carried out by a health care professional for the purposes of treating disease, disorder or injury or for cosmetic purposes; and
services in slimming clinics by or under the direction of a medical practitioner, where that includes the prescribing of weight reduction medication.
All providers of regulated activities must be registered with the Care Quality Commission and meet 16 essential requirements of safety and quality.
In keeping with the regulatory reform agenda, the Department is committed to keeping the regulations under review.
Physical Therapy
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consideration his Department has given to promoting World Physical Therapy Day; and if he will make a statement. [70533]
Mr Buckland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department plans to promote World Physical Therapy Day in 2011. [71244]
Anne Milton:
While the Department did not plan to promote World Physical Therapy Day on 8 September 2011 it was aware of the Workout at Work Day which the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy launched that day and of the many events, small and large, that were being planned locally as part of this initiative. The initiative complements the NHS 2012 Sport and Physical Activity Challenge to have national health service employees
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actively engaged in sport or physical activity as part of, or associated with, their NHS employment, by the time of the Olympics in 2012.
Solvents: Misuse
Mr Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many deaths there have been arising from volatile substance abuse (a) nationwide, (b) in each region, (c) by age group, (d) by sex and (e) by substance determined as the cause of death in each of the last five years. [70469]
Mr Hurd: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated September 2011:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many deaths there have been arising from volatile substance abuse (a) nationwide, (b) in each region, (c) by age group, (d) by sex and (e) by substance determined as the cause of death in each of the last five years. (70469)
The tables provide the number of deaths where the underlying cause was drug poisoning and a volatile substance was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate for England, Wales, and English regions (Table 1), by age group (Table 2) and by sex (Table 3), in England and Wales, from 2006 to 2010 (the latest year available). Figures showing the substances involved in these deaths are not provided, as this information has not been consistently recorded over time.
ONS reports annually on deaths relating to drug poisoning in England and Wales. For each death, every substance noted on the death certificate or mentioned by the coroner is recorded. It is important to note that the figures presented are not the total number of deaths involving volatile substances as (i) the underlying cause must be within the ONS definition of drug poisoning and (ii) the volatile substance may not be recorded by the coroner on the death certificate.
Deaths associated with volatile substance abuse are under-reported in official statistics based on death registration data. A project called the ‘National Programme for Substance Abuse Deaths' (NPSAD), funded by the Department of Health, was established to measure trends in these deaths in the UK. The latest report from NPSAD on deaths associated with the abuse of volatile substances is available at:
www.vsareport.org.
| Table 1. Number of deaths attributed to drug poisoning where a volatile substance was mentioned on the death certificate, England, Wal es and English regions, 2006-10 (1, 2, 3, 4) | |||||
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| (1) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Deaths were included where the underlying cause was due to drug poisoning (ICD 10 codes shown in Box 1) and where a volatile substance was mentioned on the death certificate. (2) Based on boundaries as of 2011. (3) Deaths of non-residents are excluded. (4) Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year. | |||||
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| Table 2. Number of deaths attributed to drug poisoning where a volatile substance was mentioned on the death certificate, by age, England and Wales , 2006-10 (1, 2, 3) | |||||
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