HC Deb 16 November 1992 vol 214 cc97-8W
Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will place in the Library a copy of the health and safety policy of each of the agencies within her Department.

Mr. Sackville

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the NHS Estates Agency under its chief executive, Mr. John Locke, and to the Medicines Control Agency under its chief executive, Dr. Keith Jones. I have asked them to reply to the hon. Member.

Day case self-deferred—March 1992 by region and specialty
Region Northern Yorkshire Trent East Anglia North West Thames North East Thames South East Thames South West Thames Wessex Oxford South Western West Midlands Mersey North Western SHAs England
*Data includes Trusts
General Surgery 230 220 391 214 123 318 248 333 105 151 311 592 279 371 24 3,908
Urology 119 83 79 74 54 178 37 75 51 19 112 114 58 87 18 1,158
Trauma and Orthopaedics 148 92 249 110 141 187 70 203 98 177 275 274 134 119 29 2,304
ENT 28 29 71 46 36 60 10 82 13 53 56 55 25 72 4 639
Opthalmology 27 17 28 38 32 17 6 75 18 9 41 50 50 70 72 546
Oral Surgery 18 74 56 65 46 48 37 94 39 29 89 107 35 110 6 853
Restorative Dentistry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Paediatric Dentistry 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 63 79
Orthodontics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Neurosurgery 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 12
Plastic Surgery 41 8 52 16 63 25 10 26 0 68 56 25 15 131 0 634
Cardiothoracic Surgery 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Paediatric Surgery 16 6 0 0 2 0 6 16 35 0 1 13 0 1 15 111
Accident and Emergency 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 11 1 0 0 29 0 0 0 47
Anaesthetics 2 21 6 12 0 6 0 8 0 8 0 29 9 16 0 117
General Medicine 0 0 13 121 20 30 2 60 4 3 14 188 3 83 0 541
Gastroenterology 0 30 21 0 32 41 0 3 0 13 2 5 28 16 0 191
Endocrinology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
Clinical Haematology 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Clinical Physiology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clinical Pharmacology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Audiological Medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clinical Genetics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CL Cytogenetics/Molecul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rehabilitation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Palliative Medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cardiology 0 5 2 0 2 13 0 11 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 46
Dermatology 5 1 4 0 0 0 0 7 4 0 0 2 0 27 2 52
Thoracic Medicine 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9
Infectious Diseases 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Genito-Urinary Medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nephrology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Medical Oncology 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Nuclear Medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Neurology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
Clinical Neuro-Physiology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rheumatology 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 7
Paediatrics 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Paediatric Neurology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Geriatric Medicine 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 13
Dental Medicine Specialist 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Obs and Gyn (Gynaecology) 59 215 143 150 35 273 61 254 82 120 47 281 137 86 7 1,950
GP (Non Maternity) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 8

Letter from J. Locke to Mr. John McAllion, dated 13 November 1992:

The Secretary of State for Health has asked me to reply in writing to the Parliamentary Question (No. 1779) you tabled on the health and safety policy of the NHS Estates agency.

NHS Estates currently adopts the policy of the Department of Health as a whole. A copy has been placed in the House of Commons Library as requested.

We shall be moving to our own offices in Leeds next year and may have to develop our own health and safety policy for staff in that building and administer it within the agency then.

I hope that you find this helpful.

Letter from R. A. Alder to Mr. John McAllion, dated 16 November 1992:

The Secretary of State for Health will have advised you that your recent Parliamentary Question will be answered directly by the Chief Executive of the relevant agencies. I give below the response for the Medicines Control Agency6:

Parliamentary Question P.1779

This Agency, being part of the Department of Health, operates the same policies on health and safety at work as the Department. Therefore, we are arranging for a copy of the Department's Policy Statement to be placed in the Library.

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