§ Mr. BentonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been spent on health in Bootle in each of the last seven years. [171482]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information is not available in the format requested. Expenditure per weighted head in the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area, which includes the constituency of Bootle, has increased from £596.24 in 1997–98 to £1,103.34 in 2002–03 (the latest year available). This does not represent the total expenditure per head as an element of health expenditure cannot be identified by SHA area.
§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes he expects in the number of patients requiring health services in the constituency of Huntingdon over the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [172634]
§ Dr. LadymanFollowing the "Shifting the Balance of Power" initiative, it is for primary care trusts (PCTs) in partnership with health authorities and other local stakeholders to plan and commission local services for their local populations.
I understand that Huntingdonshire district council anticipates an increase in population from 158,000 in 2002 to 163,800 by 2011.
802WHuntingdonshire PCT is working with its local partners to ensure that services meet the future needs of an increased population.
§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the benefits for residents of the constituency of Huntingdon of the Health Development Agency. [172638]
§ Dr. LadymanThe Department has not required the Health Development Agency (HDA) to assess its effect separately at constituency level.
Much of the East of England regional work of the HDA, which includes Huntingdon, is focussed on service delivery that supports the whole of the region's public health development, particularly around cancer, coronary heart disease and respiratory diseases, national healthy schools standards and the ageing population.
§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of NHS staff working in Greater London hospitals, broken down by national health service trust, receive financial assistance with regard to(a) housing and (b) transportation. [170508]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information requested is not held centrally.
Information on the number of healthcare workers who have benefited from Government assistance in purchasing their own homes under the Starter Home Initiative scheme by the end of March 2004 broken down by London national health service trust is collected and is contained in the following table.
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SHI Completions 2001–02 to 2003–04 Number of Units Employer name 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Total completions by end March 2004 Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust — 1 4 5 Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS trust — 5 21 26 Barts and the London NHS trust — 7 58 65 Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford Primary Care Trust City and Hackney Primary Care Trust — 6 14 110 East London and the City Mental Health NHS Trust — 13 17 30 Havering Primary Care Trust — — 4 4 Homerton Hospital NHS Trust — 7 28 35 Newham Healthcare NHS Trust — 5 15 20 Newham Primary Care Trust — 5 13 18 North East London Mental Health NHS Trust — 3 10 13 Redbridge Primary Care Trust — — 2 2 Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust — 4 11 15 Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone Primary Care Trust — — 1 1 Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust — 7 12 19 Total NE London 0 63 201 264 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust — 4 33 37 Barnet Primary Care Trust — 2 12 14 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust — 3 7 10 Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust — 8 10 18 Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Trust — 7 29 36 Enfield Primary Care Trust 1 8 9 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust — 28 42 70 Haringev Primary Care Trust — 5 10 15 Moorfieids Eye Hospital NHS Trust — — 11 11 North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust — — 16 16 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust — 14 39 53 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust — 1 13 14 Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust — — 2 2 University College London Hospitals NHS Trust — 35 56 91 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 4 12 16 Total NC London 0 112 300 412
SHI Completions 2001–02 to 2003–04 Number of Units Employer name 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Total completions by end March 2004 Brent 4 4 Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Mental Health NHS Trust — 24 29 53 Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust 1 33 46 80 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust — 10 16 26 Harrow and Hillingdon Healthcare NHS Trust — 2 2 4 Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust — 9 16 25 Hillingdon Primary Care Trust — 1 4 5 Hounslow Primary Care NHS Trust — 1 13 14 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust — 16 28 44 Parkside Health NHS Trust (Hammersmith and Fulham PCT) 1 2 15 18 Riverside Community Healthcare NHS Trust (H and F PCT) — 3 3 6 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust — 10 17 27 St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust — 17 25 42 The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust 1 49 57 107 West London Mental Health NHS Trust — — 19 19 West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust — 7 10 17 Total NW London 3 184 304 491 Bexley Primary Care Trust 1 3 4 Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust — 7 12 19 Bromley Primary Care Trust — 2 2 4 Community Health South London NHS Trust — 6 14 20 Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust 3 11 14 Greenwich Primary Care Trust — 2 2 4 Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust — 30 54 84 King's Healthcare NHS Trust — 21 47 68 London Ambulance Service NHS Trust — 34 43 77 Oxleas NHS Trust — 1 13 14 Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust — 2 5 7 South London and Maudsley NHS Trust 1 37 45 83 The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust — 12 13 25 Total SE London 1 158 264 423 Croydon and Surrey Downs Community Health NHS Trust Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust — 11 212 313 Kingston Hospital NHS Trust — 4 11 15 Kingston PCT — 1 1 Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust — 7 16 23 South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust — 15 23 38 South West London Community NHS Trust — 4 17 21 St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust — 26 37 63 Teddington, Twickenham and Hamptons Primary Care Trust — 2 2 4 The Royal Marsden NHS Trust 2 10 14 26 Total SW London 2 71 134 207 Total 6 588 1,203 1,797
§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many cases of MRSA have been identified in hospitals within Greater London, broken down by national health service trust, in each year since 1997; [170509]
(2) what percentage of patients within hospitals in Greater London, broken down by national health service trust, are infected with MRSA; [170510]
(3) what percentage of NHS staff within hospitals in Greater London, broken down by national health service trust, are infected with MRSA. [170511]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonInformation on cases by individual Trust from 1997 is not available. The tables show data available from the mandatory methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood stream (bacteraemia) infections surveillance system that started804W in April 2001. Information on National Health Service staff is not available, but MRSA rarely infects healthy people such as healthcare staff.
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Reported MRSA bacteraemias and rates by acute NHS Trust (April 2001 Mar 2002) London region Total MRSA MRSA Rate per 1,000 bed days Trust Name Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust 92 0.19 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 62 0.18 Barts and the London NHS Trust 62 0.17 Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust 37 0.19 Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust 36 0.21 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 40 0.29 Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust 84 0.31 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust 7 0.09 Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Trust 114 0.31 Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust 89 0.27
Reported MRSA bacteraemias and rates by acute NHS Trust (April 2001 Mar 2002) London region Total MRSA MRSA Rate per 1,000 bed days Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust 33 0.15 Homerton Hospital NHS Trust 14 0.09 King's College Hospital NHS Trust 92 0.30 Kingston Hospital NHS Trust 23 0.12 Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust 54 0.29 Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust 39 0.16 Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust 0 0.00 Newham Healthcare NHS Trust 25 0.17 North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust 45 0.28 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 59 0.21 Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust 18 0.12 Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust 30 0.23 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust 9 0.07 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 122 0.43 Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust 6 0.09 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust 2 0.04 St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust 115 0.38 St. Mary's NHS Trust 64 0.30 University College London Hospitals NHS Trust 94 0.36 West Middlesex University NHS Trust 32 0.23 Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust 45 0.18 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 27 0.18
MRSA reported bacteraemias and rates by acute NHS Trust (April 2002 to March 2003) London region Total MRSA MRSA rate per 1,000 bed days Trust Name Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust 77 0.16 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 94 0.27 Barts and the London NHS Trust 74 0.21 Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust 32 0.17 Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust 32 0.19 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 38 0.28 Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust 72 0.26 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust 13 0.17 Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Trust 154 0.42 Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust 115 0.34 Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust 36 0.17 Homerton Hospital NHS Trust 19 0.13 King's College Hospital NHS Trust 108 0.35 Kingston Hospital NHS Trust 42 0.23 Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust 45 0.24 Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust 48 0.20 Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust 0 0.00 Newham Healthcare NHS Trust 33 0.23 North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust 48 0.30 Queen Elizabeth Hospital 35 0.23 Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust 32 0.24 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust 9 0.07 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 101 0.35 Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust 7 0.10 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust 6 0.13 St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust 75 0.25 St. Mary's NHS Trust 72 0.33 University College London Hospitals NHS Trust 84 0.32 West Middlesex University NHS Trust 41 0.30 Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust 43 0.18 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 30 0.20
§ Mr. BorrowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in South Ribble are receiving drug treatment. [171657]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonIn 2000–01, there were a total of 2,874 people receiving drug treatment in the area covered by the drug action team for Lancashire. This is806W the latest available data. Data broken down by drug action team for 2001–02 and 2002–03 has not yet been finalised and published.
Source:DH Statistics.
§ Mr. BorrowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS(a) doctors and (b) nurses there were in South Ribble in each of the last seven years. [171273]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested has been placed in the Library.
§ Mr. BorrowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been spent on(a) heart disease and (b) cancer care in South Ribble in each of the last five years. [171669]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested is not collected centrally. Allocations of funding for particular treatments are matters for local primary care trusts.
§ Mr. BorrowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been spent on health in South Ribble in each of the last five years. [171674]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information is not available in the format requested. Expenditure per weighted head in the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area, which includes the constituency of South Ribble, has increased from £600.03 in 1997–98 to £1,173.57 in 2002–03 (the latest year available). This does not represent the total expenditure per head, as an element of health expenditure cannot be identified by SHA area.
§ Mr. FlookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admission to Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust in the past three years. [172014]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonData on the levels of elective admission to Taunton and Somerset National Health Service Trust in the past three years is shown in the table.
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In year elective admission episodes for Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust Number 2000–01 31,329 2001–02 31,385 2002–03 31,907 Notes: In-year admissions An in-year admission is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider, excluding admissions beginning before 1 April at the start of the data year. Periods of care ongoing at the end of the data year (unfinished admission episodes) are included. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. Ungrossed Data Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.
§ Mr. FlookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS(a) therapists and (b) scientists were located in Taunton in each of the last three years. [172016]
Headcount 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Taunton Deane PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 13 14 Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust 418 421 432 454 384 377 410 n/a = not applicable. Source: Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census.
§ Mr. FlookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many rapid access chest pain clinics there are in Taunton. [172019]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThere is one rapid access chest pain clinic in Taunton, based at the Musgrove Park Hospital, part of the Taunton and Somerset national health service trust.
§ Mr. PickthallTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been spent on health in West Lancashire in each of the last seven years. [171550]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 10 May 2004]: The information is not available in the format requested. Expenditure per weighted head in the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area, which includes the constituency of West
NHS hospital and community health services: Qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff in each specified organisation as at 30 September each specified year Headcount 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 488 506 516 528 619 587 624 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT — — — — — 311 335 Wigan and Bolton HA — — — — 4 — — Wigan and Leigh Health Services NHS Trust 488 506 516 528 — — — Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust — — — — 615 276 289 Wrightington Hospitals NHS Trust 40 44 45 47 — — —
§ Tony CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make a statement on the numbers of NHS(a) doctors and (b) nurses in Workington constituency in each of the last seven years; [170706]
(2) what changes there have been to NHS waiting list time in the last seven years for the residents of Workington constituency. [170708]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested has been placed in the Library.
§ Tony CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on NHS waiting times for heart surgery in Workington constituency. [170710]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested is shown in the table.
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§ Ms Rosie WintertonRequested information on the number of national health service therapists and scientists located in Taunton in each of the last three years is shown in the table.
Lancashire, has increased from £600.03 in 1997–98 to £1,173.57 in 2002–03 (the latest year available). This does not represent the total expenditure per head as an element of health expenditure cannot be identified by SHA area.
§ Mr. Neil TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS(a) doctors and (b) nurses there were in Wigan in each of the last seven years; and if he will make a statement. [169345]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested has been placed in the Library.
§ Mr. Neil TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS(a) therapists and (b) scientists were located in Wigan in each of the last seven years. [169346]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested is shown in the table.
Coronary heart disease waiting time: West Cumbria Primary Care Trust Year/quarter Patients waiting over nine months 2002–03 1 5 2 12 3 2 4 0 2003–04 1 0 2 0 3 0 Source: Department of Health form QF01.