Anna Soubry: The NHS Choices website provides information to the public about vitamin D and the risks associated with vitamin D deficiency. All of the pages on NHS Choices about vitamin D state that people who have darker skin (particularly people of African, African-Caribbean and South Asian origin) are at risk of not getting enough vitamin D. This includes advice that people with darker skin will need...
Anna Soubry: The total numbers of accident and emergency (A and E) attendances during 2010-11 and 2011-12 for the trusts covering the specified hospitals are shown in the following tables, together with figures showing duration to departure. Data for 2011-12 are provisional and therefore subject to change until the final annual publication of data. 2010-11 Trust name Total A&E attendances 0-120...
Anna Soubry: Currently there are no plans to refer a topic on the treatment of Hepatitis C to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for Quality Standard development. The National Quality Board will continue to keep the library of Quality Standards under review and ensure that it is fit for purpose; and respond to any new or emerging priorities.
Anna Soubry: The Department is continuing to work on this issue.
Anna Soubry: Information about the absolute and percentage change in the number of accident and emergency attendances at each English acute hospital trust in each of the last five years has been placed in the Library. This includes data for full year 2011-12, which is the last 12 months for which figures are available. Patients are not admitted to accident and emergency departments; though they may be...
Anna Soubry: This information is not held centrally. The hon. Member may wish to approach the London Ambulance Service.
Anna Soubry: The total numbers of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances during 2010-11 for the trusts covering the specified hospitals is shown in the following table, together with figures showing duration to departure. There are no A&E facilities at Great Ormond Street hospital. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available. 2010-11 Duration to departure Trust name Total accident and emergency...
Anna Soubry: The total numbers of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances during 2010-11 for the trusts covering the specified hospitals is shown in the following table, together with figures showing duration to departure. There are no A&E facilities at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available. 2010-11 Duration to Departure Trust name Total A&E...
Anna Soubry: The number of attendances at accident and emergency for the specified providers by the duration to departure for each attendance in 2010-11 is shown in the following table. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available and will be published in due course. Trust Total 0 to 120 minutes 121 to 240 minutes >240 minutes Unknown St George's Healthcare NHS Trust 117,577 31,322 81,232 4,994...
Anna Soubry: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Anne Milton), on 4 September 2012, Official Report, column 307W, to the hon. Member for Batley and Spen (Mike Wood).
Anna Soubry: This information is not centrally collected.
Anna Soubry: The number of ambulance staff by trust in May 2010 and May 2012 is shown in the following table: NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) monthly workforce statistics provisional statistics: Non-medical staff in ambulance trusts in England by, main staff group and by organisation as at 31 May each specified year East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust East of England...
Anna Soubry: We are advised by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) that in its view and in line with international scientific consensus, low dose exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) from food contact materials does not represent a health risk to consumers, including potentially vulnerable groups. This is based on the most recent scientific evaluation by independent experts who advise the European Food Safety...
Anna Soubry: The European Union already bans the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in polycarbonate baby bottles for infants up to 12 months of age. We are advised that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) sees no basis for further phasing out the use of BPA from food and drink applications. In line with other international scientific opinions, the FSA's view is that exposure to BPA from food contact materials does not...
Anna Soubry: Ambulance Service Clinical Practice Guidelines are produced by the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC). The use of these guidelines and the introduction of new clinical protocols is a matter for individual national health service ambulance trusts.
Anna Soubry: This information is not centrally collected.
Anna Soubry: I refer the hon. Member to the answer the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Poulter), gave on 5 September 2012, Official Report, columns 363-64W.
Anna Soubry: The information is not available in the format requested. The number of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) and mean and median time waited (days) for knee replacement procedures during 2010-11 at each acute hospital trust in north west London is shown in the following table. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available and will be published in due course. Name of Trust Total FAEs Mean time...
Anna Soubry: We are advised by the Food Standards Agency, the central competent authority in the United Kingdom for food safety, that this information is not held centrally.
Anna Soubry: The information is not available in the format requested. The number of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) and mean and median time waited (days) for North West London Hospitals NHS Trust for hernia repair procedures during 2010-11 is shown in the following table. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available and will be published in due course. Number Total FAEs 790 Mean time waited...