§ Dr. MurrisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times a year the Board of the National Patient Safety Agency is scheduled to meet; and when it last met. [175346]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe board of the National Patient Safety Agency is scheduled to meet in public every two months. The last meeting took place on 12 May 2004.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 30 April 2004,Official Report, column 1354W, if he will list those bodies which are still in existence. [174534]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe following departmental task forces, ad hoc advisory groups and reviews are still in existence
- Adoption and permanence task force is now sponsored by the Department for Education and Skills.
- Cancer task force.
- Children's task force.
- Coronary heart disease task force.
- Mental health task force.
- National health service modernisation board.
- The scientific committee on tobacco and health/advisory committee on the misuse of drugs working group on cannabis and tobacco smoking.
- National users panel of the community equipment services external reference group.
- Interagency working group to develop a memorandum of understanding between the Department, the Police and the Health and Safety Executive.
- NHS information technology task force.
- Patient environment steering group.
- Practice learning task force.
- Work force task force.
- Advisory committee for topic selection.
- Advisory group for genetics research.
- "Agenda for Change" central negotiating group.
- Children's national service framework strategy group.
- Expert group on mental health in prisons.
- Implementation board for modernising NHS hospital medicines manufacturing.
§ Mr. LansleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how often the British Pharmacopoeia Commission is scheduled to convene; and on what date it last met. [175339]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe British Pharmacopoeia Commission is scheduled to meet four times per year. The date of its last meeting was 15 March 2004.