Health

written question – answered on 9 March 2009.

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  • Accident and Emergency Departments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS hospital trusts in England have more than one type 1 (major) accident and emergency department.

  • Accident and Emergency Departments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many accident and emergency departments there are in each NHS hospital trust in England.

  • Accident and Emergency Departments: Admissions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to accident and emergency departments there were in each hospital trust in each day in February 2009.

  • Cancer: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of patients diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma who are expected to be suitable for sunitinib as a first-line...

  • Colorectal Cancer

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of his Department's progress in raising awareness of bowel cancer.

  • Colorectal Cancer: Radiotherapy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) longest and (b) average waiting time was for patients receiving radiotherapy treatment for bowel cancer in (i) Lancashire and (ii) England...

  • Colorectal Cancer: Screening

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people aged over 50 years were screened for bowel cancer in (a) Lancashire and (b) England in 2008; (2) how many bowel cancer screening...

  • Continuing Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to the rules on eligibility for NHS continuing care introduced in 2007.

  • Departmental Absenteeism

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff of his Department were recorded absent for non-medical reasons on (a) 2 February 2009 and (b) 3 February 2009; what estimate he has...

  • Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been claimed in reimbursable expenses by special advisers in his Department in 2008-09 to date.

  • Departmental Official Hospitality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department's entertainment budget was in each of the last five years.

  • Departmental Official Hospitality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on (a) alcohol and (b) food in each of the last five years.

  • Departmental Postal Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of letters sent by his Department were given to (a) the Royal Mail and (b) another postal services provider for delivery in...

  • Departmental Public Appointments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department holds on the number of persons appointed to executive positions in bodies for which his Department has responsibility in...

  • Departmental Public Consultation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were...

  • Departmental Rail Travel

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to his Department was of travel by train by its staff in each year since 1997.

  • Departmental Surveys

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which companies were contracted to carry out the surveys.

  • Departmental Training

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has provided voice coaching to any of its employees in the last 12 months.

  • Eating Disorders

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) children and (b) adults were admitted to hospital for a suspected eating disorder in each of the last five years.

  • Eating Disorders

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many 18 to 21-year-olds were admitted to each (a) hospital and (b) university hospital for bulimia in each of the last 10 years; (2) how many...

  • Environmental Health: Restaurants

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number and percentage of restaurants which have been visited and inspected by local authority environmental health...

  • Food Poisoning

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of food poisoning by (a) salmonella, (b) campylobacter, (c) E. coli and (d) other food-borne pathogens were recorded in each of the...

  • Health Services: Republic of Ireland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 216-7W, on health services: Republic of Ireland, how much the Government has paid...

  • Hospitals

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps were taken by his Department to consult NHS staff on the development of administrative systems within NHS hospital trusts in the last three years.

  • Hospitals: Admissions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients spent a night in hospital but not in a (a) hospital bed and (b) ward in each of the last five years.

  • Hospitals: Malnutrition

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 26 February 2009, Official Report, column 1029W, on malnutrition, how many people were (a) admitted to and (b) discharged...

  • Influenza: Vaccination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government has taken to publicise the availability of influenza vaccinations in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley...

  • Learning Disability: Social Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each local authority has spent on adult learning disability services in each year since 1997; and by how much each authority (a) exceeded or...

  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust: Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will direct the Chief Executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to reply to the outstanding issues raised by the right hon. Member...

  • Memory Clinics

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to his Dementia Strategy, published on 3 February 2009, how many memory clinics there are in the NHS; how many memory clinics he intends...

  • Mental Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average daily cost of keeping a person in (a) high secure and (b) medium secure mental health accommodation was in the latest period for which...

  • Mental Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) pursuant to the answer of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 1196W on mental health services, how many primary care trusts provide...

  • Mental Health Services: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the number of people who required access to child and adolescent mental health services in each year since 1997.

  • Mentally Ill: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many 18 to 21-year-olds were admitted to (a) all hospitals and (b) university hospitals for mental health conditions in each of the last 10 years,...

  • NHS Treatment Centres: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether patients transferred from an NHS hospital to an independent sector treatment centre are covered by NHS indemnity arrangements.

  • NHS Treatment Centres: Southampton

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many scheduled operations at Southampton independent sector treatment centre have been cancelled by his Department.

  • NHS Treatment Centres: Southampton

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors from Southampton General hospital have been seconded to the independent sector treatment centre in Southampton in each month since its...

  • NHS: Databases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the development costs of the NHS Summary Care Record database have been; and what the estimated annual running costs of the database are.

  • NHS: Discrimination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of (a) bullying and (b) disability discrimination in NHS organisations.

  • NHS: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on the implementation of the recommendations of the Richards Report on improving access to medicines for NHS patients.

  • NHS: Energy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much was spent by each health trust in England on each type of energy purchased through the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency contract in...

  • NHS: Equality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 241W, on NHS: equality, when he expects the advisory group on the implications of...

  • NHS: Fees and Charges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what evaluation he has made of the results of his Department's consultation on draft guidance on NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care;...

  • NHS: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health which capital investment programmes in NHS hospitals announced by the Government since 1997 have not been fulfilled; what the reason was in each case; and...

  • NHS: Negligence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 24 February 2009, Official Report, column 661W, on NHS negligence, if he will publish the breakdown of the global...

  • NHS: Prescriptions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps his Department is taking to prevent the over-prescription of medicines within the NHS; (2) what estimate his Department has made of the...

  • NHS: Prescriptions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS has spent on drugs of all types in each year since 1997 in (a) England and (b) the geographical area now covered by NHS Cumbria.

  • NHS: Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS trusts (a) use patient recorded outcome measures (PROMS) and (b) have purchased PROMS IT systems.

  • Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will consider the merits of exempting patients with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia from prescription charges from April 2009; and if he will...

  • Ru486

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women in each age group and region taking mifepristone required further treatment because the womb was not completely emptied of its contents or...

  • Social Services: Elderly

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each local authority spent on domiciliary care for older people (a) in total and (b) per person in such care in 2008-09.

  • Social Services: Elderly

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much on average has been recouped in charges for (a) personal social services, (b) home care and (c) day care for each older person in each local...

  • Social Services: Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the proportion of spending on personal care that was met by (a) local authorities, (b) the NHS and (c) individual service...

  • Stafford Hospital

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will request that the Healthcare Commission expedite the publication of its report on Stafford Hospital.

  • Teenage Pregnancy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the evidential basis was for the statement made in paragraph 5.28 of Healthy lives brighter futures: The strategy for children and young...

  • Wheelchairs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2009, Official Report, column 1177W, on wheelchairs, what categories and types of wheelchair are included under...