Health

written question – answered on 21 March 2007.

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  • Accident and Emergency departments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many accident and emergency departments there are in each strategic health authority, broken down by type.

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2007 , Official Report, columns 931-2W, on alcohol drinks: misuse, if she will break down the figures for admissions...

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage the £15 million earmarked to improve alcohol interventions in 2007-08 represents of the total uplift in revenue for NHS primary care...

  • Alcohol Misuse

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to persuade primary care trusts to give alcohol reduction strategies a higher priority in their funding.

  • Animal Feed: Additives

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her most recent estimate is of the (a) one-off cost and (b) recurring costs of implementing the Additives for Use in Animal Nutrition (England)...

  • Blood: Contamination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects Lord Archer of Sandwell's enquiry into contaminated NHS blood and blood products to be completed.

  • Cancer: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will ask the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to reconsider its decision on Gliadel; and if she will make a statement.

  • Cancer: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals have been issued with the cancer drug Tarceva since March 2006; and which NHS trusts have (a) funded and (b) prescribed the cancer...

  • Cancer: Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures are in place to record how many new cancer treatments developed through basic research (a) go forward to clinical trials and (b) become...

  • Cancer: Research

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent research she has examined on the use of eggs from genetically modified hens in research into treatment for cancer; and if she will make a...

  • Cervical Cancer: Vaccination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when she expects the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) (a) to come to a conclusion and (b) to publish its findings on the...

  • Clostridium Difficile

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the possibility of transmission of Clostridium difficile by airborne means.

  • Clostridium Difficile

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people contracted clostridium difficile from hospitals in Lancashire in each of the last five years.

  • Complementary Medicine: Channel Islands

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints about food supplements and herbal remedies being marketed in the United Kingdom with health claims illegal in the UK by companies...

  • Complementary Medicine: Channel Islands

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date and for what reasons it was made illegal to offer (a) melatonin and (b) kava kava for sale in the United Kingdom; and what assessment she...

  • Complementary Medicine: Channel Islands

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will take steps to stem the flow of direct mail advertising from the Channel Islands offering products banned in the UK and products for which...

  • Departments: Business Plans

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health when her Department expects to publish its business plan for 2007-08.

  • Departments: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what databases are controlled by her Department and its agencies; and what percentage of the data in each database she estimates is inaccurate or out of date.

  • Departments: Marketing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what powers she has to examine the (a) veracity, (b) legality and (c) acceptability of claims made by companies outside the UK in their direct...

  • Diamorphine

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to ensure the safe and secure availability of diamorphine for the treatment of patients with serious or terminal conditions; and if she...

  • Drugs: Misuse

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will (a) increase the number of tier 4 interventions for young people with drug addiction and (b) increase access to services on a regional basis.

  • Family Planning

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many specialist family planning clinics there were in each of the last five years.

  • Food: Advertising

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what criteria the Government will use to assess whether the change in the nature and balance of food advertising to children has altered enough to...

  • Food: Hygiene

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her most recent estimate is of the (a) one-off cost and (b) recurring costs of implementing the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2005 to (i)...

  • Food: Labelling

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the (a) one-off and (b) ongoing costs of implementing the Food Labelling (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 to...

  • Health Visitors: Manpower

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health visitors there were in each English primary care trust in each quarter from Q1 1997 to Q1 2007; and if she will make a statement.

  • Health: Regulatory Impact Assessments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the progress in implementing the commitment in her Department's White Paper 'Choosing Health' for health to be a component...

  • Herbal Medicine: Regulation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) discussions she has had with and (b) representations she has received from (i) the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and (ii)...

  • Heroin

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the potential effect on the health of long-term heroin users of prescription of heroin on the NHS.

  • Homeopathy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimates she has made of the effect on costs to the NHS in 2005-06 of the referral of patients to NHS homeopathic facilities; (2) which...

  • Homeopathy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent guidance she has issued to primary care trusts on provision of the option of access to homeopathy care and treatment in the NHS; and what...

  • Hospital Beds: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many respite beds are available in each London borough; and what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting period is for respite beds in each London...

  • Hospitals: Admissions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were admitted to NHS hospitals for (a) drug-related and (b) alcohol-related illnesses and injuries in each strategic health authority...

  • Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of a link between contract cleaning services and levels of hospital-acquired infections in hospitals; when the assessment was...

  • Hyperactivity: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prescriptions for drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were issued in each year since 1997-98.

  • In Vitro Fertilisation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance her Department gives to primary care trusts on the implementation of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines in...

  • Insulin

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to submit a request to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to undertake a comparison of the different types of...

  • Local Government Targets

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what targets her Department sets for local authorities.

  • Maternity Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many episodes of maternity care there were in (a) consultant-led units with more than 3,000 live births per year, (b) consultant-led units...

  • Medical Records: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many electronic patient records she expects there to be; and how many she expects to have (a) sealed and (b) sealed and locked data on them.

  • Midwives: Training

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many training places there were for midwives in each health region in England in each of the last three years.

  • Missing Persons

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 March 2007, Official Report, column 428W, on missing persons, what bilateral contact her Department has had with other...

  • Mrsa

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will place in the Library information she has on the incidence rates of MRSA in other (a) EU and (b) World Health Organisation member states; and...

  • MRSA: Lancashire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people contracted MRSA in hospitals in Lancashire in each of the last five years.

  • Multiple Sclerosis: AIDS

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her Department's budget was for research into (a) multiple sclerosis and (b) AIDS in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

  • NHS: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many medicines were reclassified from prescription-only status to over-the-counter status in each year since 2002-03; and whether it remains her...

  • NHS: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) drugs and (b) treatments are not available on NHS prescriptions in England that are available in other parts of the UK.

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what statutory responsibilities (a) she and (b) the NHS Director of IT has in the sale of (i) any NHS IT supplier and (ii) iSoft.

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health which clinical specialists have been removed on a temporary basis as options on the Choose and Book IT system for general practitioners in Bedfordshire in...

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her statement whether her Department has had to revise any of the (a) costs incurred and (b) total expected contract cost over five years of...

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when the national programme for IT in the NHS will be launched; (2) what projection she has made of the total implementation cost of the national...

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS trusts have bought new computer services outside the NHS national programme for IT during the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the costs of (a) the Personal Demographic Service, (b) the Personal Spine Information Service, (c) the Transaction Messaging Service, (d) the...

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made of the compatibility of the new NHS IT system with hospitals' present IT systems.

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate has been made of how long it will take hospitals to transfer all information from their present IT systems onto the new NHS IT system.

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of their budget each hospital is expected to spend implementing the new NHS IT system; and what assessment has been made of the impact of...

  • NHS: Ict

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment has been made of alternatives to a central database for storing patient records; (2) whether an assessment has been carried out of...

  • NHS: Negligence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many claims for clinical negligence there were against the NHS in each year since 1995; and what percentage of these claims were successful in...

  • NHS: Pay

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what average pay per head of NHS staff in England was in each year since 1997; and what the average paybill per head was for each NHS organisation in...

  • NHS: Pensions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated total staff pensions liability is of the NHS Pensions Agency.

  • Nitrous Oxide

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prosecutions there have been since 1977 under section 52 of the Medicines Act 1968 for the sale of nitrous oxide; and if she will make a statement.

  • Nitrous Oxide

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the availability of nitrous oxide for recreational use in nightclubs and bars; and what assessment she has made of the...

  • Nutrition

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to revise the nutrient profiling model used by the Food Standards Agency.

  • Obesity: Lancashire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children in Lancashire under the age of 12 years were classified as (a) obese and (b) overweight in each of the last five years.

  • Patients: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made of the security implications of housing patient data in a central database.

  • Patients: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which (a) Government agencies and (b) other public bodies will have access to a centrally held NHS patient database; (2) what arrangements are...

  • Patients: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements are in place to allow patients to opt-out of the centrally held NHS database; and what the conditions for opt-out are.

  • Plastic Surgery

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to regulate the use of dermal fillers.

  • Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to publish the findings of her Department's review of prescription charges; who is undertaking the review; whether third-party...

  • Smoking: Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Smoke Free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007 will apply to privately owned houses (a) when they are being used for public purposes...

  • Sunitinib

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the licensed drug Sunitinib is available on NHS prescription.