HC Deb 25 January 1994 vol 236 cc233-4W
17. Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the treatment of asthmatic people.

Mr. Sackville

We attach high importance to the prompt and appropriate treatment of people with asthma. Last July the Department launched the chronic disease management programme, which is an organised programme of care run by general practitioners for people with asthma. And only last month the National Health Service Management Executive asked purchasers to reflect in contracts the professionally developed clinical guidelines produced by the British Thoracic Society on the management of asthma.

21. Ms Quin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has recently received about the incidence of asthma in young people.

Mr. Sackville

In the last three months one representation has been received specifically about a young person with asthma.

24. Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what work her Department is doing to secure a reduction in the incidence of asthma.

Mr. Sackville

Officials of the Department have initiated discussions with experts in the field with a view to identifying priorities for research aimed at a reduction in the incidence of asthma.

25. Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals in Britain have not applied for trust status.

Dr. Mawhinney

A list of the directly managed units in England not awaiting a decision on national health service trust status is set out as follows. Information relating to Scotland and Wales are matters for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales.

  • Directly Managed Units not awaiting a decision on NHS Trust status
  • West Midlands
  • Wolverhampton Primary Healthcare1
  • Sandwell Mental Health
  • Trent
  • Glenfrith Unit1 (Merger with Fosse Health NHS Trust in the 5th Wave)
  • Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital
  • Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital
  • Charles Clifford Dental Hospital
  • North East Thames
  • Homerton Hospital
  • Essex Herts Acute1
  • Essex Herts Community1
  • City and East London Family and Community Health Services
  • South West Thames
  • North West Surrey Learning Difficulties
  • Pathfinder (Wandsworth Mental Health)1
  • Croydon Mental Health Unit (Warlingham Park)1
  • Yorkshire
  • Seacroft, Killingbeck and Wharfedale Hospital
1 My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has given permission for these units to submit applications in the fifth wave of NHS trusts.