HC Deb 04 May 2004 vol 420 cc1467-8W
Jim Dobbin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many senior citizens in Heywood and Middleton have access to free eye tests; [168482]

(2) how many residents in Heywood and Middleton aged over 60 years have benefited from the abolition of charges for eye tests; [168483]

Count of finished in-year admission episodes by strategic health

authority (SHA) of treatment—NHS hospitals, England 2002–03
SHA of treatment Finished in-year admission episodes
Q28 Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire HA 1,561
England 66,434

The Department does not collect information on the number of patients who attend (but are not admitted to) national health service hospitals and clinics as a result of the self-administering of drugs.

Mr. Meale

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what current or past research conducted or funded on behalf of the NHS has examined the relationships between self administered drug use and patients' attendance at NHS hospitals and clinics. [168854]

Ms Rosie Winterton

The Department has not commissioned research specifically on the relationships between self administered drug use and patients' attendance at national health service hospitals and clinics.