§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many ward housekeepers were in post using the most recent figures available, broken down by(a) region and (b) health authority. [16762]
§ Ms Blears[holding answer 21 November 2001]: The NHS plan set the target that:
578WHalf of all hospitals will have ward housekeepers by 2004".To date, 29 per cent. of acute hospitals and 23 per cent. of mental health hospitals have begun to introduce the service (although not necessarily across all wards). Because there are local variations in how services are organised, we do not have data on the number of housekeepers in post. However, the latest figures provided by trusts to National Health Service Estates indicate that of the 9,000 wards within England, 2,266 have a housekeeping service.
Breakdown by region Region Number of wards with housekeeping service Northern and Yorkshire 409 Trent 309 West Midlands 240 North West 177 Eastern 220 London 276 South East 426 South West 209 Total 2,266 579W
Breakdown by health authorities Health authority Number of wards with housekeeping service Northern and Yorkshire region Bradford HA 25 County Durham and Darlington HA 26 East Riding and Hull HA 55 Gateshead and South Tyneside HA 0 Leeds HA 116 Newcastle and North Tyneside HA 3 North Cumbria HA 3 Northumberland HA 26 Sunderland HA 41 Tees HA 37 Wakefield HA 56 North Yorkshire HA 17 Calderdale and Kirklees HA 4 Trent region Barnsley HA 5 North Derbyshire HA 0 South Derbyshire HA 16 Doncaster HA 0 Leicestershire HA 40 Lincolnshire HA 48 North Nottinghamshire HA 38 Nottingham HA 55 Rotherham HA 0 Sheffield HA 107 South Humber HA 0 West Midlands region Birmingham HA 106 Coventry HA 7 Dudley HA 3 Herefordshire HA 0 Sandwell HA 23 Shropshire HA 12 Solihull HA 0 North Staffordshire HA 0 South Staffordshire HA 36 Walsall HA 26 Warwickshire HA 22 Wolverhampton HA 4 Worcestershire HA 1 580W
Breakdown by health authorities Health authority Number of wards with housekeeping service North West region South Lancashire HA 0 Liverpool HA 14 Manchester HA 0 Morecambe Bay HA 2 St. Helen's and Knowsley HA 31 Salford and Trafford HA 26 Sefton HA 3 Stockport HA 0 West Pennine HA 36 Bury and Rochdale HA 31 North Cheshire HA 0 South Cheshire HA 4 East Lancashire HA 14 North West Lancashire HA 6 Wigan and Bolton HA 10 Wirral HA 0 Eastern region Bedfordshire HA 9 North Essex HA 34 South Essex HA 12 Suffolk HA 30 Cambridgeshire HA 62 Norfolk HA 12 Hertfordshire HA 61 London region Hillingdon HA 0 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster HA 25 Redbridge and Waltham Forest HA 0 Croydon HA 0 Kingston and Richmond HA 0 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham HA 74 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA 16 Barking and Havering HA 0 Brent and Harrow HA 4 Camden and Islington HA 5 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow HA 76 East London and the City HA 0 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey HA 37 Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich HA 39 South East region Berkshire HA 13 Buckinghamshire HA 28 East Kent HA 65 West Kent HA 22 East Surrey HA 25 West Surrey HA 49 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove HA 63 West Sussex HA 49 Northamptonshire HA 27 Oxfordshire HA 25 North and Mid Hampshire HA 6 Southampton and South West Hampshire HA 16 Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire HA 38 South West region Somerset HA 0 South and West Devon HA 39 Wiltshire HA 2 Avon HA 43 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HA 37 Dorset HA 13 North and East Devon HA 54 Gloucestershire HA 21