Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the cost implications of the Chief Dental Officer's advice that all endodontic instruments should be treated as single-use; and how these will be reflected in the value of band 3 units of dental activity.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What guidelines they have issued to primary care trusts concerning the administration charges for the provision of private prescription forms.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many redundancies from public health departments have been made by each primary care trust in the past year; and how many of these redundancies have been made within the field of dental public health.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: Which primary care trusts have imposed restrictions on National Health Service dental activities as a result of budgetary pressure; and what restrictions have been imposed by each primary care trust.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What estimate they have made of the size of the market share of suppliers based in the Channel Islands in the food supplements and herbal remedies mail order sector in 1996 and 2006 respectively; and What powers are available to the Food Standards Agency to control the marketing by companies based in the Channel Islands to United Kingdom mainland consumers of...
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the recently published consultation paper from the Government of Guernsey in relation to the regulation of medicines; whether they will respond to that consultation; and whether they will request that the Guernsey authorities end the trade in marketing unlicensed medicines to United Kingdom mainland consumers; and What...
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What costs were involved in the current Ipsos MORI Hospital Choice general practitioner survey; and why the completed forms are returned via first-class mail when the consultation deadline is 6 April.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: When the current research by Ipsos-MORI, which was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, will be published.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What proportion of pubs, bars and restaurants have received live music permission since the coming into force of the Licensing Act 2003.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: When the follow-up survey to the 2004 MORI poll into live music, announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, will be commissioned.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, following the guidance on safety management of controlled drugs issued in June, they will clarify the procedures for the prescription of drugs by private medical and dental practitioners to (a) specific patients, and (b) practice store areas for use when appropriate.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What analysis the Dental Business Service has made of items prescribed under band 3 of the new dental contract since 1 April.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What percentage of (a) new general dental services contracts; and (b) new personal dental services agreements signed (i) are currently the subject of primary care trust internal dispute resolution procedures; or (ii) have been referred to the National Health Service Litigation Authority.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What percentage of dentists who were providing services under Section 35 of the National Health Service Act 1977 on 31 March now have no National Health Service contract.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether dental practices that have exceeded their units of dental activity targets receive payments from their primary care trusts for any additional National Health Service treatment they prescribe.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: In the light of the data they have collected since 1 April, how many dental practices they expect to exceed their annual units of dental activity quota.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many (a) new general dental contracts; and (b) new personal dental services agreements which have been offered to dentists have been (i) signed, and (ii) rejected in each primary care trust and in total in England on the most recent date for which information is available.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: In the last three years for which information is available, how many deaths in each strategic health authority arose from: (a) unnecessary surgery; (b) drug side effects; (c) hospital infections; (d) acupuncture; (e) homeopathy; and (f) misdiagnosis.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to investigate the National Health Service rapid review panel recommendation that the use of silver yarn fabric can significantly reduce or eliminate deaths from methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.
Lord Colwyn: asked Her Majesty's Government: In the last three years for which information is available, what was the total cost to the National Health Service of (a) drugs used in the hospital service; (b) drugs used in general practice; (c) homeopathic remedies used in the hospital service; and (d) homeopathic remedies used in general practice.