Written Statement of 18 October 2004

  NHS Foundation Trusts
  The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Warner)
  My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Health has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.

  We announced on 7 September (cols 102–103WS) that Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) would handle the 20 applicants for NHS foundation trust status in wave 1A as two groups, with target dates for authorisation being 1 November 2004 and 1 February 2005.

  Monitor has revised the target dates to 1 January 2005 (previously 1 November 2004) and 1 April 2005 (previously 1 February 2005).

  Details of the two groups are as follows:

  1 January 2004

  Barnsley District General Hospital NHS Trust

  Burton Hospitals NHS Trust

  Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospitals NHS Trust

  Gateshead Health NHS Trust

  Harrogate Healthcare NHS Trust

  Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust

  Southend Hospital NHS Trust

  South Tyneside Healthcare NHS Trust

  West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust

  1 April 2005

  Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust

  Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust

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  Birmingham Women's Healthcare NHS Trust

  East Somerset NHS Trust

  Frimley Park Hospitals NHS Trust

  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Trust

  Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust

  Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Trust

  Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Trust

  Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust

  Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit
  Lord Warner
  My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.

  The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit's (NCJDSU) 12th annual report has been published today. The report documents the unit's findings in relation to sporadic, familial and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJ D), up to 31 December 2003. Copies have been placed in the Library, and the report is also available on the NCJDSU's website at www.cjd.ed.ac.uk.

  Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland: Annual Report 2003–04
  The Lord President of the Council (Baroness Amos)
  My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

  I have received the annual report of the chief inspector of Criminal Justice Northern Ireland for the financial year 2003–04. The report outlines Criminal Justice Inspection's performance from August 2003, when the chief inspector was appointed, to 31 March 2004.

  I have arranged for copies of the report to be laid before the House today.