Northern Ireland

written question – answered on 8 December 2004.

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  • Agenda for Change

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the extra costs that will result from the implementation of Agenda for Change in the Province.

  • Agenda for Change

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he has taken to address the concerns of radiographers in the Province regarding the impact of Agenda For Change on their profession.

  • Agenda for Change

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the starting salary is of radiographers in the Province; and if he will estimate the starting salary for radiographers in the Province...

  • Anti-TNF Medications

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients are waiting to commence anti-TNF medications in the Province.

  • Asbestosis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in the Province suffer from asbestosis.

  • Audiology

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will estimate the expenditure per head of population in the Province on audiology goods and services provision in each of the last three years.

  • Belfast City Airport

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions he has had with the operators of Belfast City Airport on the recently proposed scheduling of services.

  • Bowel Cancer

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will introduce screening in the Province for bowel cancer.

  • Care Costs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of providing (a) elderly, (b) hospital, (c) community, (d) maternity and child health, (e) family and childcare and (f) learning...

  • Child Protection

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on progress in developing an information-sharing protocol between child protection agencies and the Police Service...

  • Children in Need

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety's Children in Need strategy will be published for consultation; what issues the...

  • Commissioner for Children and Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much will be spent per head of child population by the Children's Commissioner for Northern Ireland in 2005–06.

  • Community Care Packages

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) residential, (b) nursing home and (c) domiciliary community care packages were provided in the Province in each of the last 10 years.

  • Community-based Health Professionals

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the merits of providing community-based health professionals in the Province with hand-held computers.

  • Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost was of administration in the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in each of the last five years.

  • Digital Hearing Aids

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients were waiting for digital hearing aids in the Province (a) on 1 January and (b) at the latest available date.

  • Disabled Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assistance his Department is providing to the families of children with disabilities.

  • Disabled Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will introduce multidisciplinary inter-specialty combined screening for disabilities amongst children.

  • Eating Disorders

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what services there are in the Province for those with eating disorders.

  • Emergency Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of providing (a) ambulance and (b) fire services in the Province was in each of the last five years.

  • General Practitioners

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on plans for out-of-hours GP cover in the Kilkeel and Annalong areas from 1 January 2005.

  • General Practitioners

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proportion of the superannuation contribution of staff employed in family doctor practices will be provided through the practice global sum...

  • Health and Personal Social Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the expenditure per head of population in the Province on health and personal social services was in the last year for which figures are...

  • Health and Social Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to evaluate the role of local health and social services care groups, with particular reference to the participation of...

  • Health and Social Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much money has been spent on the creation of Local Health and Social Services Care Groups.

  • Health Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) general practitioner consultations, (b) eye tests and (c) prescription items were provided in the province (i) in the last year for...

  • Health Service Agency Staff

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will estimate the level of expenditure in the Province on Health Service agency staff in each of the last five years.

  • Home Help Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many individuals have received home help services in each of the last 10 years.

  • Hospital-acquired Infection

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what his latest estimate is of the cost in a year of hospital-acquired infections to the Province's health service.

  • Hospital-acquired Infection

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he is taking to ensure that MRSA is cited on death certificates for all deaths in which it has been a contributory factor.

  • Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what account is taken of claims of intimidation in applications for social housing in Northern Ireland; what assessment has been made of (a) the...

  • Junior Doctors

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of training junior doctors in the Province was in the last year for which figures are available.

  • Looked-after Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of looked after children in the Province are fostered.

  • Meningitis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients in the Province have been diagnosed with meningitis in each month in each of the last five years.

  • Mental Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the impact of new Crisis Response and Assertive Outreach mental health services in the Province on the level of...

  • Multiple Sclerosis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the provision of beta interferon and glatiramer for multiple sclerosis in Northern Ireland.

  • Necrotising Fasciitis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of necrotising fasciitis there were in each of the last five years; and what steps he has taken to limit the number of cases of...

  • NHS (Treatment Eligibility)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what checks on citizenship and permanent residence are carried out by the national health service in Northern Ireland on patients presenting for...

  • NHS Dentistry

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many whole-time equivalent dentists are employed within the NHS in the Province; and how many there were (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years ago.

  • Prescriptions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assistance is being provided to elderly patients who no longer have their medications prescribed on a weekly basis; and if he will estimate...

  • Priorities for Action

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the needs of families of children with disabilities are addressed in Priorities for Action 2005–06.

  • Priority Treatment (Ex-service Personnel)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2004, Official Report, column 24W, on priority treatment (ex-service personnel), if he will authorise...

  • Psychiatry

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many individuals in the Province are waiting for assessment by child and adolescent psychiatry services.

  • Psychiatry

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will assess the merits of re-structuring child and adolescent psychiatry services on a Province-wide basis.

  • Psychiatry

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many in-patients are in the new Regional Adolescent Psychiatry Unit; and on what date the most recent patient was admitted.

  • Psychiatry

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the Regional In-patient Adolescent Psychiatry Unit remains closed to admissions.

  • Toxin Pollution (River Strule)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the toxin responsible for the major fish kill on the River Strule, West Tyrone, discovered on 5 August, has been identified; what action...

  • Toxin Pollution (River Strule)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many incidents of pollution in the River Strule, West Tyrone, have been recorded in the last six years; whether those responsible for...

  • Wounds

    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what his latest estimate is of the cost incurred in a year in the Province from dressing wounds.