Anna Soubry: There are 8,316 primary medical care contractors in England. Of these, 4,920 provide services under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract arrangements. Of these, only two GMS contractors have opted out of the provision of contraception. The Department does not collect information on the provision of contraception by general practitioners through other contracting routes as these are a...
Anna Soubry: Information pertaining to emergency ambulance call-outs is collected centrally, but specific information about the nature of the call-out is not available.
Anna Soubry: The aim of the Diabetes Action Plan is to set out the actions that the national health service can take to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. The Department is working in consultation with NHS colleagues and leading stakeholders from the voluntary sector, including Diabetes UK, to produce an action plan that will be published later this year. In acknowledgement that...
Anna Soubry: The Department of Health is committed to improving standards of care and support for women and child victims of domestic violence. This commitment is outlined in “Improving services for women and child victims of violence: the Department of Health Action Plan”, published in November 2010, and sets out how the Department will work with the national health service and partners to address...
Anna Soubry: The information requested is not held centrally. Victims of domestic abuse may attend a variety of settings such as general practitioner surgeries, walk-in clinics or hospitals for treatment of an injury but may not disclose that an injury occurred as a result of domestic abuse. The Department has undertaken significant work to promote awareness, understanding and training on domestic...
Anna Soubry: The “National and regional estimates of the prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use 2009-10” report, published by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, summarises the results of work by the University of Glasgow's Centre for Drug Misuse Research and the University of Manchester's National Drug Evidence Centre, to estimate the prevalence of opiate and/or crack use in...
Anna Soubry: This information is not centrally collected.
Anna Soubry: The information requested is set out in the following table, which has been supplied by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care. Average number of general practitioners (GP) registered patients per GP (excluding retainers and registrars) by primary care trust (PCT) in England, 2007-11 Registered patients per General Practitioner 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011...
Anna Soubry: This information is not centrally collected.
Anna Soubry: The information requested is not held centrally.
Anna Soubry: The following table shows, for the years that are available, the total losses, bad debts and claims abandoned in relation to overseas visitors not entitled to free national health service hospital treatment that NHS trusts in England have recorded in their accounts. The chairman of Monitor has provided similar data for NHS foundation trusts, which are also in the table. The data may relate to...
Anna Soubry: For the year 2011-12, the United Kingdom incurred claims to the value of £134,819,831 from other European economic area countries for treating UK citizens under the European health insurance card scheme. The UK raised equivalent claims to the value of £34,885,773.47.
Anna Soubry: The importance of effective cardiac rehabilitation has been underlined in National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence clinical guidelines and in the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease. However, we recognise that more can be done to improve the quality and uptake of cardiac rehabilitation which is why it is being considered as part of the development of the...
Anna Soubry: Progress continues to be made on the development of the cardiovascular disease outcomes strategy. The joint report, “Tackling Cardiovascular Disease: Priorities for the Outcomes Strategy”, has made a valuable contribution to this along with the many views and comments that have been received through our engagement activity with a wide range of interests, including patients, carers, health...
Anna Soubry: The results of the Health Protection Agency study are in the process of submission for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal. The timing of publication is subject to completion of this process. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has no direct role in the Health Protection Agency study.
Anna Soubry: The Department has no current plans to collect data on insulin pump use in England. Insulin pumps and their consumables are non-prescription items and not currently captured in the annual Prescribing for Diabetes in England dataset. The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists recently commissioned an insulin pump audit. This showed that there are at least 11,985 people over the age of...
Anna Soubry: As of April 2012, in NHS England 26 designated major trauma centres (MTCs), shown as follows, now serve the public in the event of major national or regional incidents. They are the hub of regional trauma networks, composed of all the local hospitals and are also linked up to specialist services (such, as burns, spinal cord injury and paediatrics) as required. The whole network would be...
Anna Soubry: Ambulance services determine the level of resources required to attend a major incident using tools set out in the 2005 Department of Health Emergency Planning Guidance and in individual Trusts' Major Incidents Procedures. This is in line with the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Response times are set by the Department for ambulance services. Ambulance trusts are required to...
Anna Soubry: This Government have an ambitious vision to help people live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives, and to improve the health of the poorest, fastest. From 2013, public health services will be funded by a new ring-fenced grant that will be allocated to upper tier and unitary local authorities to carry out specific public health functions. The development of the funding formula to...
Anna Soubry: The consolidated figures for private patient income of NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts are provided in the table. The total private patient income for NHS foundation trusts in 2010-11 is £274 million. This corrects the answer given by the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Poulter), on 17 September 2012, Official...