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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent to which and reasons why people with mental health problems self-fund their (a) medication, (b) treatment and (c) care.

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

140108; 413 c1397W;413 c1393W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been allocated by his Department to cancer prevention in each of the last three years; and how much was spent in each year. - Inc no figures.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

413 c1364W;413 c1360W; 136731

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of the recent Doctor's Forum event held at the Novotel Hotel in Hammersmith; and what the (a) objectives and (b) progamme for the event were. - Inc figures and refs to www.doh.gov.uk/conferences/improvingoct03.htm.

Asked by

Tim Loughton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

413 c1379W;413 c1375W; 138934

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy that the same value of minimum practice income guarantee should be offered to GPs if the number of patients on their rolls falls below the 2002-03 figures.

Asked by

Barry Gardiner (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

138586; 413 c1382-3W;413 c1378-9W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the new GP funding formula will not result in less money than the previous formula being offered for general practitioners, with particular reference to GPs in Brent.

Asked by

Barry Gardiner (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

138587; 413 c1383W;413 c1379W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what adjustment he will make to the funding of (a) primary health care trusts and (b) other health trusts in Manchester following the adjustment to the census figures for Manchester made by the Office of National Statistics on 4th November. - (Holding...

Asked by

Graham Stringer (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

413 c1395W;413 c1391W; 137224

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 18th September, reference 127592 on midwives administering, if he will list the non-medical products midwives can supply; what the criteria are for such supply; and what financial arrangements apply, with particular reference to the right to reclaim...

Asked by

Harry Cohen (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

133328; 413 c1398-9W;413 c1394-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ring-fence spending for cancer services. - (Holding answer 13 November 2003).

Asked by

Ian Gibson (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

138338; 413 c1363W;413 c1359W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on plans for the NHS Live 2004 event; what the budget for the event is; and who is responsible for organising the event. - Inc no figures.

Asked by

Tim Loughton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

138488; 413 c1403-4W;413 c1399-400W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether limits to candidates' expenditure are to be imposed in the elections to the governing boards of foundation hospital trusts. - Inc ref to the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill.

Asked by

Gordon Prentice (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

138520; 413 c1382W;413 c1378W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the amount of Government funding for (a) drug misuse treatment and (b) alcohol misuse treatment in (i) England and (ii) each strategic health authority in each of the last six years. - Inc figures and fact that figures...

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 November 2003

For answer on

20 November 2003

Answered on

20 November 2003

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the amount of Government funding for (a) drug misuse treatment and (b) alcohol misuse treatment in (i) England and (ii) each strategic health authority in each of the last six years. [138755] Miss Melanie Johnson: The pooled drug treatment budget was £195.7 million in 2002-03 and this increased to £243.6 million in 2003-04. It is estimated that the pooled treatment budget is matched with an additional 200 million of mainstream funding. Figures are not available prior to 2002-03 when the majority of drug treatment was funded through mainstreamed health monies. Figures are not available for each strategic health authority. However, the table shows pooled treatment budget allocations for each National Treatment Agency region. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Region 2002-03 2003-04 London 43.80 55.20 East Midlands 12.96 16.42 West Midlands 19.20 24.61 Eastern Region 17.15 20.07 North East 11.72 14.87 North West 25.90 32.93 South East 25.44 29.23 South West 15.47 18.19 Yorkshire and Humber 19.57 24.57 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Responsibility for funding alcohol treatment services lies with primary care trusts, who commission these services in line with local needs. The Department does not hold centrally collected information on expenditure on alcohol treatment services, but we estimate that around £95 million is spent annually on these services, with the bulk of this funding being drawn from Government sources.

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

138755; 413 c1380-1W;413 c1376-7W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources his Department has allocated to HIV/AIDS (a) treatment and (b) prevention in financial year 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Tony Lloyd (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

413 c1386W;413 c1382W; 139475

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on joint working between primary health care trusts and citizen advice bureaux; and how much funding primary health care trusts contributed to citizens advice bureaux in each of the past three years. - Includes fact that...

Asked by

Barry Sheerman (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

135873; 413 c1117W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has spent centrally on the National School Fruit Scheme in the last five years for which figures are available; and what central allocations have been made for this in this year and future years; what central funding sources...

Asked by

Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

413 c1128W; 128229;128230

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15th September 2003, 410 c616W, on Medicines and Health Care Products Agency, what the value was of each of the contracts listed; and if he will make a statement. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

413 c1120-1W; 134119

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the transfer of NHS records to an electronic system will be funded. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Austin Mitchell (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

135630; 413 c1129-30W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations (a) he and (b) his ministerial colleagues has received from (i) the Royal College of Opthalmology, (ii) the AMD Alliance and (iii) the RNIB on the implementation of NICE guidance for wet age-related macular degeneration; and if he will make...

Asked by

Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

138049; 413 c1118-9W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate the NHS has made of potential savings derived from sending only one copy of the influenza vaccination reminder letter to a household, even if more than one resident in the household is affected.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

132774; 413 c1111W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the (a) formula and (b) calculations on which the NHS reference costs are based.

Asked by

Liam Fox (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 October 2003

For answer on

19 November 2003

Answered on

19 November 2003

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out the formula and (b) calculations on which the NHS reference costs are based. [134951] Mr. Hutton: The Reference Costs collection entails collecting unit cost and activity data from all National Health Service providers in England, for each financial year. Various appropriate activity currencies are used for a range of services and treatments provided by the NHS, which form part of the scope of the Reference Costs collection. Unit cost data is produced by submitting NHS organisations in accordance with the rules detailed in the NHS Costing Manual, to ensure that both cost and activity data are calculated on a consistent and comparable basis. The Department of Health collates such data, and produces national average unit cost figures, by calculating, for each service/treatment area, the total national cost for the service, and then dividing this by the total reported activity for that service, at national level. All national average costs are published in the National Schedule of Reference Costs, at service level, in conjunction with national activity levels, and interquartile ranges, detailing the ranges between which the middle 50 per cent. of NHS provider costs lie. To calculate National Reference Cost Index scores at individual organisation level, the individual NHS providers' activity is multiplied by the national average unit costs for each service/treatment category, undertaken by that NHS provider. This produces a total expected cost for each service/treatment area for each provider. When added together, this establishes an expected cost that each provider would be expected to incur if they were operating at the national average cost per treatment, procedure, etc. An Index score of 100 signifies that on average, a provider is operating at national average cost levels. A score higher than 100 indicates that for their current level of activity, on average, an NHS provider is operating at costs higher than would be expected for this level of activity. Conversely, a score of less than 100 indicates that the organisation is operating at costs less than would be expected, were they to be operating at national average unit cost levels, for a particular financial year.

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

413 c1130-1W; 134951

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Government has made in reducing the incidence of prostate cancer in the last five years; what his Department's strategy is for tackling prostate cancer. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Bob Spink (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

20 October 2003

For answer on

19 November 2003

Answered on

19 November 2003

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what progress the Government has made in reducing the incidence of prostate cancer in the last five years; [133863] (2) what his Department's strategy is for tackling prostate cancer. [133882] Miss Melanie Johnson: Good progress has been made since the National Health Service Prostate Cancer Programme was launched on 6 September 2000, setting out the Government's approach to improving prostate cancer services in England and Wales. As part of the Prostate Cancer Risk Management Programme (PCRMP), evidence-based primary care resource packs were sent to all general practitioners in England from 23 September 2002 to aid them in counselling men who are worried about prostate cancer, ensuring the men make an informed choice about whether or not to have a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. Other elements of the PCRMP include ensuring that a systematic and standardised follow up pathway is available for individuals whose test result is above the PSA threshold and action to improve the quality of laboratory testing of PSA samples. Primary care and laboratories were informed of the related recommendations from the scientific reference group, which supports the PCRMP, in September 2002. In 2003-04 the Department will be directly funding £4.2 million of research a year on prostate cancer. This compares with just £98,000 in 1996-97. Two National Cancer Research Institute prostate cancer research collaboratives have been established in Newcastle and London. Funded research includes studies on various treatments for prostate cancer, improving the PSA test and ethnic differences in prostate cancer incidence. The National Cancer Research Institute considered prostate cancer as part of its strategic analysis in 2002, but made no specific recommendations. The Department has funded the following regarding public awareness: Section 64 grant to the Prostate Cancer Charity to increase further information about prostate cancer. Section 64 grant to the Prostate Cancer Charity to improve awareness of the risks and symptoms of prostate cancer in African and Afro-Caribbean men in Britain. The database of individual patient experiences in prostate cancer. 97.5 per cent. of patients with suspected urological cancers (including prostate) were seen for their first out-patient appointment within two weeks of their general practitioner deciding they should be urgently referred, and the hospital receiving the referral within 24 hours, between April and July 2003. The cancer services collaborative is modernising cancer care, including prostate cancer, by reducing unnecessary delays in the system for patients throughout the cancer journey. There has been an increase in the number of consultant urologists from 427 in 2001 to 466 to 2002, and is set to grow to 504 in 2005. The incidence of prostate cancer has risen over the last five years. Much of this increase is thought to be due to an increased use of the PSA test and a lengthening of life expectancy. Much has been achieved on prostate cancer since the Prostate Cancer Programme was launched, but we recognise that there is still much to be done. That is why we welcomed the launch of the Prostate Cancer Charter for Action on 29 January 2003, and set up the Prostate Cancer Advisory Group (PCAG) to ensure better collaboration and communication between the charter members and Government. PCAG is already taking forward work on information for prostate cancer patients, public awareness and a national prostate cancer resource website.

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

413 c1137-8W; 133863;133882

House

House of Commons

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