Anna Soubry: This is a matter for the East London NHS Foundation Trust. We have written to the Trust's chair, Baroness Molly Meacher, informing her of your enquiry. She will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.
Anna Soubry: As part of the general practitioner (GP) contract agreement reached with the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association last year, GP practices should agree with their primary care trust an outer practice boundary area where they will retain, where clinically appropriate, existing patients who have moved house in the outer boundary area. In addition, following a...
Anna Soubry: The GP Patient Survey asks patients about their experiences of general practitioner (GP) services. The latest results were published on 14 June 2012. No information is collected on the average time patients have to wait for a GP appointment. Results relating to waiting in surgeries prior to GP appointments are as follows: How long after your appointment time do you normally wait to be...
Anna Soubry: The following table shows spend figures for mass media public health campaigns in each of the last five years: £ million Campaigns 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Alcohol 0.61 4.77 4.65 — 0.98 Antibiotics 0.39 1.15 — — — Children's Health/Pregnancy — — — 0.40 — Cancer—Lung — — — — 0.59 Cancer—Bowel — —...
Anna Soubry: The NHS Commissioning Board Special Health Authority's plans to establish a small number of national strategic clinical networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions were set out in “The Way Forward: Strategic clinical networks”, published on 26 July 2012. A copy of the document has been placed in the Library. Strategic clinical networks, hosted and funded...
Anna Soubry: The Department does not issue licences or permits. Six of the Department's 19 public bodies issue permits and/or licences to businesses, as shown in the following table: Arm’s length bodies Permits issued to businesses Licences issued to businesses Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Nil The authority grants licences described in section 11 of the Human Fertilisation and...
Anna Soubry: Ministers are currently considering the recommendations made by the Clinical Advisory Group on the list of services that will be directly commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board from April 2013. It is expected that Ministers will be in a position to make an announcement shortly.
Anna Soubry: The Department published Directions to the national health service in December 2009 and issued further guidance on 23 February 2012 on the cost of telephone calls. These Directions and guidance prohibit the use of telephone numbers which charge people more than the equivalent cost of calling a geographical number to contact any part of the NHS from landlines and mobile telephones. Where NHS...
Anna Soubry: The information requested is not held centrally.
Anna Soubry: The information requested will be available in October 2012, once the Department's Annual Report and Accounts are laid before Parliament.
Anna Soubry: The Department does not collect the information at stroke network level. However, information at primary care trust level has been placed in the Library. This provides information on Transient Ischaemic Attack cases with a higher risk of stroke who are treated within 24 hours and percentage of patients who spend at least 90 of their time on a stroke unit. The information is derived from...
Anna Soubry: Currently we have no plans to review implementation of the Stroke Strategy. The Stroke Strategy along with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) quality standards provide the framework for improving stroke services and we expect heath and social services to continue to implement them. The Department receives very significant, and independent information from various...
Anna Soubry: Data on urinary tract infections (UTIs) are not collected in the format requested. However, data from the Hospital Episode Statistics database suggest that urinary tract infections have increased overall in the last five years from 167,918 consultant episodes with a primary diagnosis of UTI in 2006-07 to 245,478 consultant episodes in 2010-11, and currently form about 1% of all admissions in...
Anna Soubry: The Government are encouraging health care organisations to focus on driving up quality, and reducing the harm from a number of common patient safety issues, including urinary tract infections, through the use of the NHS Safety Thermometer and incentive payments are provided if healthcare organisations collect and submit data using the NHS Safety Thermometer. The Government have also asked...
Anna Soubry: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has received from campaign groups on the case of Gambian national, Brigadier General O. B. Mbye.
Anna Soubry: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department is taking following the announcement that people sentenced to death in The Gambia will be executed in September; and if he will make a statement.
Anna Soubry: The Department took an average of 12 working days to reply to correspondence received between 1 August 2011 and 31 July 2012 from hon. Members and peers. Within that period, the following table shows the proportion of correspondence where the time taken to respond was over one month, six weeks, two months, three months and six months. Time taken to respond Proportion of correspondence...
Anna Soubry: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is the agency responsible for the safety and licensing of medicines. Reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are collected by the MHRA and Commission for Human Medicines (CHM) through a spontaneous reporting scheme, the Yellow Card Scheme. The scheme collects ADR reports from across the whole of the United Kingdom and...
Anna Soubry: This information is not collected centrally.
Anna Soubry: Vascular services are being reviewed locally across England in response to robust evidence, which shows that better patient outcomes are achieved when complex procedures, such as vascular surgery, are provided by units, which treat higher volumes of patients. The Cumbria and Lancashire Vascular Clinical Advisory Group reviewed vascular services in the region, including University Hospitals of...