§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what new steps her Department took in 2001–02 to consult the users of its services about their wishes and expectations; and if he will publish the findings. [47313]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 10 April 2002]: Data to monitor the Public Service Agreement (PSA) target to reduce the death rate from cancer amongst people aged under 75 years are obtained from mortality data published by the Office for National Statistics. Data are for England.
This PSA target is the target published in 2000 in the NHS Plan and previously in 1999 in the White Paper `Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation' for a 20 per cent. reduction against a baseline of the average age standardised mortality rate for the three years 1995–96–97.
368WThe trend data are as follows:
Three-year average age standardized Period Mortality rate per 100,000 population 1995–96–97 139.72 1996–97–98 136.99 1997–98–99 133.43 1998–99–2000 130.86