§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the provision of NHS dental services in(a) the Huntingdon constituency and (b) Cambridgeshire. [170858]
§ Dr. LadymanThe information relating to the provision of national health service dental services in the Huntingdon constituency and Cambridge have been placed in the Library.
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) will have increased influence and control over the spread of NHS dental provision across their catchment area, and will have budgets devolved to them, so that the PCT will be able to keep the money locally for dentistry if a dentist leaves.
Nationally we have provided new investment totalling £90 million over the last year. £59 million will support access, and strategic health authorities have been advised of their shares and are working with their
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Patients waiting for elective in-patient admission Patients waiting for admission by months waiting Month-end/NHS trust Total number of patients waiting for admission Less than 3 months 3–5 months 6–8 months March 1997 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 8,106 4,026 2,092 1,220 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 3,850 1,836 1,238 568 March 1998 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 7,936 3,790 1,978 1,218 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 4,428 1,826 1,470 688 March 1999 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 6,628 3,846 1,666 772 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 3,760 1,742 1,020 622 March 2000 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 7,074 4,026 1,632 896 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 3,836 1,628 1,146 598 PCTs to address access issues. £30 million is to support information technology and the balance of £1 million will support organisational development locally.
§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of suspected cancer patients in the Huntingdon constituency saw an NHS consultant within two weeks in each of the last seven years. [170859]
§ Dr. LadymanThe number of patients with suspected cancer who saw consultants within two weeks are as shown in the table for the two trusts within the Huntingdon constituency.
Number of urgent GP referrals for suspected cancer Percentage seen by specialist with two weeks of referral Hinchingbrooke Healthcare National Health Service March 2002 468 99.8 March 2003 415 100.0 June 2003 499 100.0 September 2003 576 99.8 December 2003 593 100.0 Papworth hospital NHS Trust March 2002 7 100.0 March 2003 13 100.0 June 2003 8 100.0 September 2003 5 100.0 December 2003 5 100.0 Source: Department of Health Statistics
§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes there have been to NHS waiting list times in the last seven years for the residents of the Huntingdon constituency. [170860]
§ Dr. LadymanThe table shows the changes in national health service waiting list times over the past seven years for the residents of Huntingdon constituency.
The total number of patients on the in-patient waiting list fell by 28,198 between the end of January 2004 and the end of February 2004 to 941,162. This is the ninth successive month the waiting list has been below a million.
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Patients waiting for elective in-patient admission Patients waiting for admission by months waiting Month-end/NHS trust Total number of patients waiting for admission Less than 3 months 3–5 months 6–8 months March 2001 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 6,948 3,898 1,756 894 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 4,906 2,342 1,602 736 March 2002 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 8,192 4,244 2,320 1,086 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 4,432 2,046 1,482 684 March 2003 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 3,877 2,216 936 513 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 2,104 1,323 584 178 March 2004 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 3,494 2,282 944 268 Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 2,110 1,630 450 30 Huntingdonshire PCT 20 17 3 —
Patients waiting for admission by months waiting Month-end/NHS trust 9–11 months 12–14 months 15–17 months 18 + months March 1997 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trutt 758 10 — — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 204 4 — — March 1998 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 728 194 28 — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 404 34 6 — March 1999 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 290 54 — — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 300 76 — — March 2000 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 468 52 — — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 360 104 — — March 2001 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 326 66 8 — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 184 38 4 — March 2002 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 526 16 — — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 220 — — — March 2003 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 212 — — — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust 19 — — — March 2004 Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust — — — — Papworth Hospital NHS Trust — — — — Huntingdonshire PCT — — — — Source: DH form KH07
§ Mr. KilfoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) overseas doctors and (b) overseas nurses there were in Liverpool in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2003. [166949]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested on overseas doctors has been placed in the Library. The equivalent information on over seas nurses is not collected centrally.
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§ Mr. Ben ChapmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admissions to the NHS in Wirral, South in the past five years. [166618]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested is shown in the table.
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Provider of treatment RBL Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust, count of finished elective (waiting list, planned and booked) admission episodes—NHS hospitals, 1998–99 to 2002–03 Finished Admission Episodes 1998–99 36,667 1999–2000 29,759 2000–01 32,018 2001–02 33,351 2002–03 29,664 Notes: 1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. 2. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e., the data are ungrossed). Source: Hospital episode statistics, Department of Health.