§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how the £100 million growth package referred to in his Department's press release of 4 March 2004 is being spent. [160346]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonA capital growth scheme was launched in January 2004, which gives financial rewards to trusts providing better and faster access to emergency care. Trusts that deliver real, significant and sustained improvements will be able to access extra money to help them to carry on improving their services and facilities.
250WDetails of the scheme are as follows:
Acute national health service trusts can access a flat payment of up to £500,000 for faster progress to meeting the minimum operating standard of treating 98 per cent. of patients in accident and emergency departments within four hours;Ambulance services can access up to an average of £250,000 (payment weighted by size of trust) for responding to 75 per cent. of category A calls within eight minutes for three consecutive months.Mental health trusts which improve crisis access to mental health services will be able to access a flat £200,000 one-off payment.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 26 February 2004,Official Report, column 548W, on NHS budgets, what the £37 million will be spent on. [160456]
§ Mr. Hutton£35.6 million of the estimated balance of £37 million has now been formally allocated to primary care trusts. Details are shown in the following table:
Centrally funded initiatives and services and special allocations Budget Allocations made since 6 February 2004 (£) ABC Project (Invest to Save) 50,000 Audiology Services 804,000 Cancer Network Support 426,000 Choice Programme 32,000 Commercial Director Feasibility Analysis 388,000 Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorders 3,000 Distinction Awards 718,000 Drug Market Response Group(Invest to Save) 413,000 E-Harp (Invest to Save) 22,000 Equality and Ethnic Minority Health 110,000 Flu Vaccination Programme 12,780,000 GP Recruitment and Retention 199,000 High Security Psychiatric Services Central Element 450,000 National Clinical Governance Support Team 1,170,000 National Institute of Mental Health 40,000 Neo-Natal Intensive Care National Audit 200,000 NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service 22,000 NHS Pay Modernisation 1,445,000 Older People in the Community (Invest to Save) 116,000 Palliative Care 74,000 Premises Improvements 741,000 Prescribing training for Nurses, Pharmacists and other Health Professionals 10,000 Revascularisation 10,000 Schedule 5—Programme Budgeting 3,000 Securing Recombinant Clotting Factors 11,890,000 Service Improvement Teams 2,880,000 Strategic Management and Support 1,804,000 Waiting lists—Booked Admissions 450,000 Youth Services in Basset Law 52,000 Total 35,602,000