§ Dr. Richard TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the progress of implementation of NHS Elect. [189452]
§ Mr. HuttonNHS Elect was set up at the start of 2003 by four national health service treatment centres as a way of sharing best practice in optimising patients' outcomes and experience in short stay elective care.
The Department is considering working with NHS Elect to help other NHS treatment centres implement the principles of the NHS Elect model, to support and encourage delivery and excellence.
Outpatient waiting times, mean and median (trust based) for the selected specialties (England figures) Quarter ending June 2004 QI Number of outpatients seen by a consultant following a general practitioner referral Specialty Specialty name Week 0 to 3 Week 4 to 12 Week 13 to 25 Week 26 plus Total Median (weeks) 700 Mental handicap 366 216 15 0 597 3.27 710 Mental illness 8,980 4,870 465 0 14,315 3.19 711 Child and adolescent psychiatry 818 872 322 0 2,012 5.95 712 Forensic psychiatry 8 3 0 0 11 3.00 713 Psychotherapy 149 176 21 0 346 5.25 715 Old age psychiatry 5,268 2,047 216 0 7,531 2.86 Psychiatry services Total grouped together of the above specialties 15,589 8,184 1,039 0 24,812 3.18 Source: Department of Health QM08