Anna Soubry: Individual national health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts are responsible for developing and taking forward their own capital investment proposals following a well-established Business Case approvals system. Trusts are advised to contact and discuss projects with capital leads at their respective strategic health authorities (SHAs); the SHA's role includes advising on the guidance...
Anna Soubry: The numbers of reported physical assaults against staff in the national health service, in England have been collected annually since 2004-05. The numbers of reported physical assaults in each of the last five years are in the following table. Reported physical assaults against NHS staff 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 Acute/foundation trusts 9,685 10,983 11,088...
Anna Soubry: The available information is shown in the following tables: Number of patients that waited more than a year from referral for admitted treatment England London strategic health authority Southwark primary care trust 2008-09 21,819 6,499 109 2009-10 5,151 1,316 37 2010-11 4,160 978 29 2011-12 7,389 1,678 131 Number of patients that waited more than a...
Anna Soubry: The Government's information strategy for health and social care in England provides the clear case for change, the ambition and next steps for information and information technology across health and care to drive more joined up, safer, better care for everyone. The strategy, ‘The power of information’ which was published on 21 May 2012, sets out a ‘digital first' approach—adopting...
Anna Soubry: The Government have received pre-publication copies of the NHS and Senior Salaries Pay Review Body reports on market facing pay. We are considering the recommendations and will publish the reports in due course.
Anna Soubry: The Department has made no assessment of the number of NHS helplines that use 084 numbers, other than NHS Direct which is still accessible through 0845 4647 until the new, free-to-call, NHS 111 service is fully rolled-out. Such information as is available is in the following table: Calls to NHS Direct Number of calls (thousand) 2003-04 5,244 2004-05 5,369 2005-06 5,522 ...
Anna Soubry: The information is shown in the following tables: First attendances seen First attendances missed (did not attend) First appointments Subsequent attendances seen Subsequent attendances missed (did not attend) 2007-08 13,608,843 1,356,831 14,965,674 29,527,041 3,862,041 2008-09 14,953,410 1,430,296 16,383,706 31,808,019 4,090,929 2009-10 16,045,346 1,544,781...
Anna Soubry: Hyper-acute stroke units (HASUs) should be located where patients can gain timely access to high quality expertise in diagnosing, treating and managing strokes. The National Stroke Strategy described such a service as one where there is 24 hour, seven day week access to a stroke triage system, expert clinical assessment, timely imaging and intravenous thrombolysis, where appropriate. Neither...
Anna Soubry: The Department does not collect this information. However the information can be found within the National Sentinel Stroke Audit which is produced by the Royal College of Physicians. www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/national-sentinel-st roke-audit-2010-public-report-and-appendices_0.pdf
Anna Soubry: The following tables provide information on finished admission episodes (FAEs) for patients aged 21 and under with a primary or secondary diagnosis of stroke, by age, gender and strategic health authority of residence for the years 2006-07 to 2010-11. It is possible for an individual to have more than one admission to hospital with a stroke within any given year and so the information given...
Anna Soubry: The information is not available in the format requested. The number of finished consultant episodes where there was a main procedure or intervention (OPCS codes A00-O10 and O15-X97) recorded with university hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire national health service trust as the main provider from 2006-07 to 2010-11 is shown in the following table. It is not possible to identify...
Anna Soubry: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Post Office Ltd receives Government front desk contracts.
Anna Soubry: The Department has not provided any funding to One North West within the last seven years. This information is not routinely collected centrally from the Department's agencies.
Anna Soubry: The usual practice of the Department's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics: research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including sepsis. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open...
Anna Soubry: In hospitals within London Strategic Health Authority, breaches of the rules on mixed-sex accommodation fell from 2,679 in December 2010 (when compulsory reporting began) to 159 in July 2012 (the lowest yet recorded). The Government remain determined to end the indignity of patients staying in mixed-sex accommodation, except where it is clearly in their best interests to do so. The latest...
Anna Soubry: It is not possible to identify the highest paid position in the national health service from information held centrally.
Anna Soubry: At present, six officials in the Department work on the promotion of physical activity (including sport) for health purposes. In 2011-12, the Department allocated £12.35 million for physical activity, of which £11.8 million was used to fund sport in schools.
Anna Soubry: The Department has not commissioned research specifically on the incidence of depression following a stroke. The Department's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including post-stroke depression. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis...
Anna Soubry: Both the National Stroke Strategy and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Stroke Quality Standard underline the importance of providing psychological support for stroke survivors and their family and carers. While impressive improvements have been made in the acute care of stroke, we recognise there is still more to do in improving timely access to psychological support....
Anna Soubry: The impact assessment (IA), published alongside the ‘Consultation on standardised packaging of tobacco products’, is a consultation-stage IA, developed to inform responses to the consultation. It sets out the Government's initial approach to identifying the potential impacts of the policy, if it were to be adopted. The Government have an open mind on standardised packaging for tobacco...