Mr. Michael J. FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Defence Medical Training Organisation for the financial year 1999–2000 [85235]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonKey Targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the DMTO for the financial year 1999–2000. The targets build on the progress already made by the Agency since it formed in April 1997 and are as follows:
Key Target 1—Academic Success (Quality and Quantity)
To achieve the following academic success rate:
Common Core Course (CCC)—94 per cent.
Specialist Registrars (SpR)—96 per cent.
Pre Registration Nurses (Pre Reg Nurses)—96 per cent.
Key Target 2—Academic Success (Timeliness)
The following per cent. of trainees achieving academic success to be delivered on time agreed with the customer:
CCC—96 per cent. (remainder within 6 weeks)
SpR—96 per cent.
Pre Reg Nurses—98 per cent.
Key Target 3—Individual Medical Services Training
Establish and agree with customers the baseline requirement for external medical services training by 31 march 2000.
Key Target 4—Agreed Annual Training Requirement
To achieve 1.5 per cent. efficiency gain in matching capacity to the Agreed Annual Training Requirement.
Key Target 5—Systems Approach to Training
To ensure comprehensive application of the Systems Approach to Training, to a minimum of 33 per cent. of all appropriate courses.
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§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Defence Secondary Care Agency for the financial year 1999–2000. [85236]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonKey Targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the DSCA for the financial year 1999–2000. The targets build on the progress already made by the Agency since it formed in April 1996 and are as follows:
Key Target 1—The Operational Requirement
From within the personnel resources provided to DSCA by the single Services, to meet 100 per cent. of the requirement of the Commanders in Chief for secondary care trained personnel for operational deployments.
Key Target 2—Outpatient Waiting Times
To ensure that 50 per cent. of Service patients referred to the Agency are offered a first outpatient appointment within 4 weeks of receipt of a referral and 90 per cent. within 13 weeks.
Key Target 3—Inpatient Waiting Times
To ensure that 80 per cent. of Service patients are offered a treatment date which is within 13 weeks of the decision to give inpatient treatment.
Key Target 4—Efficiency
To put in place the systems required to calculate the new efficiency measure defined for the DSCA in financial year 1998–99 and confirm by 31 December 1999 that a baseline value for the reporting year as a whole can be established on which to calculate efficiency targets in subsequent years.
Key Target 5—Quality
The DSCA will carry out the NHS requirements for progress in clinical governance in the current year and, by 31 December 1999, will deliver specific reports on performance in the patients' understanding of treatment, the monitoring of complaints and the incidence of adverse occurrences.
Key Target 6—Military Training
To ensure that 80 per cent. of all DSCA personnel whose medical category permits, are released to receive their respective Service's annual mandatory military training.
Key Target 7—Personnel for Exercises
To ensure that 80 per cent. of DSCA based personnel nominated to established posts in their Service's operational core requirement are released to attend appropriate exercises.
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency for the financial year 1999–2000. [85237]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonThe following Key Targets have been set for the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency for 1999–2000:
Key Target 1:
To deliver personnel to the trained strength (or to other training organisations) within 5 per cent. variance from the tasked requirement.
Key Target 2:
To obtain 95 per cent. satisfactory assessments from the employers of NRTA trainees.
Key Target 3:
To maintain success rates of 95 per cent. in Career Training and 97 per cent. in examined Pre-joining training.
Key Target 4:
To reduce the variance between RNR Trained Strength and Trained Requirement to 39 per cent.
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To retain tasked capacity while operating NRTA within its 1999–2000 cash allocation.
Key Target 6:
To achieve net benefits of £8.1 million in Financial Year 1999–2000 from the partnering arrangement with Flagship Training Ltd.
§ Mr. HesfordTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Defence Dental Agency for the financial year 1999–2000. [85275]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonKey Targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the DDA for financial year 1999–2000. The targets build on the progress already made by the Agency since it formed in March 1996 and are as follows:
Key Target 1: The Operational Requirement
From within available personnel resources, achieve 100 per cent. of required professionally and militarily trained personnel, at the specified readiness required for deployment in support of the National Contingency Force.
Key Target 2: Overall Dental Fitness
For each Service, maintain the agreed fitness target of 75 per cent. of all Service personnel to be fit for deployment or such targets as may be decided by mutual agreement with the Agency's customers.
Key Target 3: Treatment Needs
To show a zero increase in the Treatment Needs Index.
Key Target 4: Dental Fitness Category D
To limit the number of personnel in dental fitness Category D4 (those personnel who have not received a dental inspection and charting for 12 months or more) to 14 per cent. of the total Service population.
Key Target 5: Training
To achieve a success rate for Vocational Dental Practitioner, Dental Hygienist and Basic Dental Support Specialist (DSS) training of 90 per cent. within the normal duration of each course.