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Written Question
Secure Accommodation: South West
Thursday 12th June 2014

Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many secure places there are in the South West region for children with mental health conditions involving violent behaviour.

Answered by Norman Lamb

We are advised that there are no secure services for children commissioned by NHS England in the South West. There are services commissioned in other areas used by children from the South West area.

We understand that NHS England has identified a number of actions needed to reduce the number of long distance transfers within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and is currently considering how to take this forward including any necessary tendering for services in due course.

Written Question
Eyesight: Health Services
Wednesday 11th June 2014

Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs of a patient who presents with eye conditions as a first point of call (a) a GP, (b) a hospital eye service, (c) an accident and emergency department and (d) a primary eyecare acute referral scheme.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.

Estimated unit costs of a patient contact , 2012-13

Type of patient contact

Unit cost

General practitioner (GP) consultation1

£37

First consultant-led appointment in an ophthalmology outpatient clinic2

£108

Accident and emergency attendance3

£130

Primary eyecare acute referral scheme

Not known

Notes:

1The Department does not collect information on the unit cost of a GP consultation. An estimate of £37 per patient contact lasting 11.7 minutes, including direct care staff costs and excluding qualification costs, is included in page 198 of Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013 at www.pssru.ac.uk/project-pages/unit-costs/2013/. The data does not separately identify patients presenting with eye conditions or any other conditions.

2The average unit cost of first, face-to-face, consultant-led contacts in ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology and paediatric ophthalmology, weighted for activity. The information is from reference costs, which are the unit costs to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients, collected annually and published by the Department for 2012-13 at www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-reference-costs-2012-to-2013

3The average unit of cost of accident and emergency attendances from 2012-13 reference costs. Includes attendances resulting in and not resulting in an admission. Excludes attendances submitted against Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) for Emergency Medicine, Dental Care (VB10Z) and Emergency Medicine, No Investigation with No Significant Treatment (VB11Z). The data does not separately identify patients presenting with eye conditions or any other conditions.

Sources:

2012/13 reference costs, Department of Health

Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013, Personal Social Services Research Unit

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