§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many units operating a newborn screening unit for deafness at birth(a) there are now and (b) are planned to open in 2003; where they are located; and if he will make a statement. [91667]
§ Jacqui SmithTwenty-three sites are currently providing newborn hearing screening. We expect to bring on a further 16 sites by the end of May 2003, with approximately 30 additional sites during the remainder of the financial year 2003–04.
First and second phase sites, by health authority (HA) area, are as follows.
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- First Phase
- Avon HA
- Barnsley HA
- Bath HA
- Bradford HA
- Calderdale and Huddersfield HA
- Camden and Islington HA
- Dewsbury HA
- Tower Hamlets HA
- East Sussex HA
- Manchester HA
- Milton Keynes HA
- North Cheshire HA
- North Derbyshire HA
- North Staffordshire HA
- Northumberland HA
- Nottingham HA
- Oxfordshire HA
- Sheffield HA
- Shropshire HA
- Southampton and Winchester HA
- Stockport HA
- Swindon HA
- Waltham Forest HA
- Second Phase
- Barnet, Enfield and Haringey HA
- Bedfordshire HA
- Bury, Rochdale and Oldham HA
- Cambridgeshire HA
- Croydon HA
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw HA
- Dudley HA
- Gloucestershire HA
- North Hants HA
- Redbridge HA
- Salford HA
- Trafford HA
- South Wiltshire HA
- Bolton HA
- East Riding and Hull HA
- Portsmouth and Isle of Wight HA
Sites are listed by former Health Authority areas, as these were the boundaries in existence when the selection process started.
Cancer Care Coronary Care Orthopaedics King Edward VII, Midhurst King Edward VII, Midhurst Esperance Hospital, Eastbourne Prospect Hospice, Swindon Winterbourne Hospital, Dorchester Horder Centre Crowborough Winterbourne Hospital, Dorchester Harbour Hospital, Poole BUPA Hastings Nuffield (Derwent Suite) Bournemouth King Edward VII, Midhurst New Hall Hospital, Salisbury Nuffield Hospital, Ashdown BUPA, Southampton Nuffield Hospital, Chichester Wessex Nuffield Hospital, Eastleigh BUPA Gatwick Sarum Road Hospital, Winchester BMI, Goring Hall CAPIO, North Downs BMI, Runnymede Woking, Nuffield Nuffield, Guildford Ridgeway Hospital, Swindon Harbour Hospital, Poole Nuffield Hospital, Bournemouth Winterbourne Hospital, Dorchester BUPA, Portsmouth Sarum Road Hospital, Winchester The Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke The Orchard Hospital, Isle of Wight