§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money has been allocated to NHS services in the London borough of Havering for financial year 2004–05. [150361]
§ Mr. HuttonFunding is allocated to primary care trusts (PCTs) on the basis of the relative needs of their populations. Revenue allocations for PCTs covering the period 2003–04 to 2005–06 were announced on 11 December 2002.
For 2004–05, the revenue allocation for Havering PCT is £234.9 million. Havering PCT is co-terminus with the London borough of Havering.
§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to improve the quality of buildings in which NHS treatment is provided in the London borough of Havering. [150364]
§ Mr. HuttonThe new acute hospital at Oldchurch Park in central Romford, costing £200 million, is already under way and is scheduled for completion in late 2006. This will replace the acute facilities at Oldchurch and Harold Wood Hospitals, part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service Trust, in purpose-built accommodation and will improve dramatically the quality of buildings available for acute care in Havering.
From May 2003, Havering primary care trust (PCT), together with neighbouring Barking and Dagenham PCT, local councils and the North-East London Mental Health Trust (NELMHT) have been working in partnership with Primaria to improve local health services and the buildings that house them. This partnership provides a new way of funding the development of modern, efficient community-based services and the buildings that they are in and follows the NHS local investment finance trust (LIFT) initiative. Five health care premises in Havering will be developed initially. The PCT is currently identifying further developments to be undertaken in Havering through LIFT. Havering, Barking and Dagenham PCTs and NELMHT have developed a strategic outline 324W case (SOC), which was approved by the North-East London Strategic Health Authority in September 2003. The SOC establishes the case for investment, and considers options for the reprovision of facilities for all existing services provided at St. George's hospital, Hornchurch, and the Harold Wood and Hornchurch local health clinics.
§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of NHS spending in the London borough of Havering was spent on the(a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in the last period for which figures are available. [150365]
§ Mr. HuttonThis information is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money the Havering NHS Trust was given in the financial year 2003–04. [150375]
§ Mr. HuttonThe data concerning the financial allocation to Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service Trust is not collected centrally; NHS trusts receive their funding from contractual relationships with primary care trusts (PCTs).
The allocation of funding to Havering PCT for 2003–04 was £214.0 million, a 7.2 per cent. increase in real terms and a 9.6 per cent. increase in cash terms.
§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the average cost of performing a cataract operation in the NHS was in the London Borough of Havering in 2003; and what the cost was in(a) Barking and (b) Brentwood; [150435]
(2) how many cataract operations were performed in the London borough of Havering in 2003.[150434]
§ Mr. HuttonThe data regarding the average cost of performing a cataract operation and the number of cataract operations performed, are not collected by London borough but by national health service trust.
The latest information available is for the financial year 2001–02. In 2001–02, the average cost of performing a cataract operation at Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust was £689.
In 2001–02, Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals carried out a total of 779 cataract extractions with lens implants as day cases.