David Ruffley: DHSC: Written Answers (19)

Written Question

NHS: Temporary Employment

Monday 26th January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will direct his Department to collect information on (a) how many agency staff were employed and (b) what proportion of the total medical staff employed consisted of agency staff in NHS hospitals, by county, in each year since 2005.

Answered by Dan Poulter

Ministers will not direct the Department to collect this information centrally.

However, we expect National Health Service organisations to have a firm grip on their workforce planning and management including their use of medical and non-medical agency staff. Trusts have access to a wide range of advice, guidance and best practice to help them with this.

Written Question

Accident and Emergency Departments: East of England

Thursday 22nd January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to hospital for alcohol-related conditions through A&E in NHS hospitals in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format or for the period requested.

Information on the sum of alcohol attributable fractions of finished admission episodes for hospital providers in the east of England with an admission through accident and emergency departments from 2005-06 to 2012-13 is shown in the attached table.

Written Question

Accident and Emergency Departments: East of England

Thursday 22nd January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-emergency admissions to hospital via A&E departments were made in each NHS hospital in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The information requested is not collected centrally. The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Hospital Episode Statistics database classes all admissions through accident and emergency as emergency admissions.

Written Question

Accident and Emergency Departments: East of England

Friday 16th January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital through A&E with an alcohol-related diagnosis involving people (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 there were in each NHS hospital trust in the East of England in each year since 2005.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format or for the period requested.

Written Question

Nurses

Tuesday 13th January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses there were in (a) West Suffolk Hospital, (b) Ipswich Hospital and (c) England in each year since 2010.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The Health and Social Care Information Centre publish an annual workforce census, which shows staff working in the National Health Service in England. The latest information from the census was published in March 2014 and shows the position at 30 September 2013; the next annual census will be published in March 2015 showing the position as at 30 September 2014. The Health and Social Care Information Centre also publish monthly National Health Service workforce statistics. The latest data as at September 2014 was published on 17 December.

The numbers of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff in West Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich Hospital, Health Education East of England region and England in each year from September 2004 are set out in the attached table.

Written Question

Clinical Commissioning Groups

Friday 9th January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk spent on salaries and wages for (i) general and senior managers, (ii) nurses and midwives and (iii) administrative and clerical staff in each year since their inception.

Answered by Dan Poulter

Information is not available for every clinical commissioning group (CCG) requested.

Information on how much CCGs in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk spent on salaries and wages for (i) managers and senior managers, (ii) qualified midwifery and health nursing staff and (iii) administrative and clerical staff for 2013-14 is in the table below:

	Managers and senior managers	Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff	Admin and clerical staff
Suffolk¹
NHS West Suffolk CCG	£5,405,305	£336,754	£1,599,079
NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG¹	£1,670,798	£414,275	£661,367
Bedfordshire
NHS Bedfordshire CCG	£3,741,697	£514,422	£1,118,727
NHS Luton CCG	£1,320,940	£198,582	£505,207
Cambridgeshire
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG	£2,422,647	£561,384	£2,640,130
Essex
NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG	£567,495	*	£337,640
NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG	£407,702	*	£259,035
NHS Mid Essex CCG	£780,923	£364,799	£1,136,240
NHS North East Essex CCG	£864,616	*	£1,098,138
NHS Southend CCG	£972,910	£356,912	£574,193
NHS Thurrock CCG	£331,591	*	£169,836
NHS West Essex CCG	£1,032,463	£375,640	£1,371,972
Hertfordshire
NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG	£1,789,417	£106,725	£692,885
NHS Herts Valleys CCG	£1,561,066	-	£573,772
Norfolk
NHS North Norfolk CCG	£564,737	*	£405,318
NHS Norwich CCG	£726,744	-	£288,031
NHS South Norfolk CCG	£954,474	*	£528,648
NHS West Norfolk CCG	£495,501	-	£257,962

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS Staff Earnings: Estimates.

Notes:

There is no data available for Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG; this may be due to its hosting arrangements. NHS West Suffolk CCG and NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG share a Management Delivery Team (hosted by NHS West Suffolk CCG).
Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG cannot be split between Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and for the purposes of this table has been included in Suffolk.
The majority of CCGs opened in April 2013, so only one year of complete total earnings data is available.
Figures in the table are provisional NHS Staff Earnings estimates.
The following key applies:

- Not applicable

* Data is obscured as the group had 5 or fewer staff, in line with The Data Protection Act

As expected with provisional data, some figures may be revised prior to the next publication as issues are uncovered and resolved.
Figures rounded to the nearest pound.
These figures represent payments made using the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system to NHS Staff who are employed and directly paid by NHS organisations.
Figures based on data from all English NHS organisations who are using ESR (two foundation trusts do not use ESR).
Figures are based on staff with contracted hours more than zero. Bank and locum staff that typically have no contracted hours are not included in these figures.
These statistics include "negative" payments - for example instances where a payment field has had money subtracted to correct an overpayment.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
As from 21 July 2010 the Health and Social Care Information Centre has published provisional monthly NHS workforce data. As expected with provisional statistics, some figures may be revised from month to month as issues are uncovered and resolved. The monthly workforce data is not directly comparable with the annual workforce census; it only includes those staff on the ESR (i.e. it does not include Primary care staff or Bank staff), it also includes locum doctors (not counted in the annual census). There are also new methods of presenting data (headcount methodology is different and there is now a role count). This information is available from September 2009 onwards at the following website: www.hscic.gov.uk

Written Question

NHS: Per Capita Costs

Friday 9th January 2015

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total public expenditure per head of population was on (a) capital and (b) running costs of the NHS in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each year since 1997.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The Department does not collect any information for the National Health Service by county or English region. Individual trusts have therefore been grouped together by region based on their geographical location.

Capital spend per head of population for 2007-08 to 2013-14 for primary care trusts, NHS trusts and foundation trusts collectively, and the Department of Health Group as a whole (England only) are shown in the table below.

Region	2007-08 £	2008-09 £	2009-10 £	2010-11 £	2011-12 £	2012-13 £	2013-14 £
Bedfordshire	24.12	31.90	31.00	42.15	32.30	34.46	40.60
Suffolk	23.66	25.98	27.87	29.51	33.09	42.48	22.10
Cambridgeshire	72.58	85.45	66.35	62.53	45.00	49.02	52.83
Essex	44.79	43.77	59.60	46.75	31.06	23.30	58.11
Hertfordshire	34.25	41.52	40.66	33.28	36.74	30.77	49.61
Norfolk	27.69	43.80	51.34	43.16	28.90	36.31	26.87
England	78.23	85.30	99.73	79.42	71.65	71.39	80.74

Source: Audited summarisation schedules of NHS bodies, 2007-08 to 2013-14; Departmental Group Resource Account 2007-08 to 2013-14; Monitor

Running costs per head of population for 2007-08 to 2013-14 by primary care trust and the Department of Health Group (England only) are shown in the table below.

Region	2007-08 £	2008-09 £	2009-10 £	2010-11 £	2011-12 £	2012-13 £	2013-14 £
Bedfordshire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	44.15	54.03	n/a
Suffolk	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30.60	32.84	n/a
Cambridgeshire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	43.35	41.44	n/a
Essex	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	48.63	46.20	n/a
Hertfordshire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	41.00	42.02	n/a
Norfolk	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	29.06	33.39	n/a
England	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	62.83	66.09	56.36

Source: Audited summarisation schedules of Primary Care Trusts, 2011-12 to 2012-13; Departmental Group Resource Account 2011-12 to 2013-14

Running costs per head of population for the clinical commissioning groups have been summarised within the following NHS England Area Team areas for 2013-14 in the table below.

Area Team	2013-14 £
East Anglia	20.82
Essex	21.43
Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	21.04

Source: NHS England

Information on running costs was not separately identified in the accounts prior to 2011-12.

Information on NHS trust and foundation trust running costs is not available centrally.

Written Question

Dental Services

Monday 15th December 2014

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists are operating under (a) general dental services contracts and (b) personal dental services agreements in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The information requested is shown in the following tables. Number of dentists in England between schedule period December 2013 to November 2014
Number of performers operating under GDS Contracts	21,573
Number of performers operating under PDS Agreements	3,687
Total	25,260

Number of dentists in selected Area Teams and local authority area between schedule period December 2013 to November 2014

Babergh	East Anglia	25	19
Forest Heath	East Anglia	30	19
Ipswich	East Anglia	74	29
Mid Suffolk	East Anglia	41	18
St Edmundsbury	East Anglia	65	12
Suffolk Coastal	East Anglia	54	2
Waveney	East Anglia	67	7
	Sub Total	356	106

Luton	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	95	3
Bedford	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	87	55
Central Bedfordshire	East Anglia	-	1
Central Bedfordshire	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	144	11
Milton Keynes	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	101	11
	Sub Total	427	81

Cambridge	East Anglia	109	66
East Cambridgeshire	East Anglia	31	2
Fenland	East Anglia	31	11
Huntingdonshire	East Anglia	59	30
South Cambridgeshire	East Anglia	56	4
Peterborough	East Anglia	77	31
	Sub Total	363	144

Basildon	Essex	113	10
Braintree	Essex	66	20
Brentwood	Essex	37	3
Castle Point	Essex	55	-
Chelmsford	Essex	90	9
Colchester	Essex	93	13
Epping Forest	Essex	53	3
Harlow	Essex	47	-
Maldon	Essex	19	6
Rochford	Essex	56	-
Tendring	Essex	67	11
Uttlesford	Essex	27	-
Southend-on-Sea	Essex	93	19
Thurrock	Essex	67	1
	Sub Total	883	95

Broxbourne	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	61	12
Dacorum	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	107	10
East Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	95	14
Hertsmere	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	58	5
North Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	96	10
St Albans	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	126	18
Stevenage	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	50	3
Three Rivers	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	49	57
Watford	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	67	11
Welwyn Hatfield	Hertfordshire and the South Midlands	56	6
	Sub Total	765	146

Breckland	East Anglia	81	6
Broadland	East Anglia	84	24
Great Yarmouth	East Anglia	60	5
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	East Anglia	58	-
North Norfolk	East Anglia	49	17
Norwich	East Anglia	79	17
South Norfolk	East Anglia	77	1
	Sub Total	488	70

Sources:

NHSBSA Dental Services Payments on line (POL)

Information entered by commissioners to administer and monitor contracts to enable payments to dentists.

NHSBSA Dental Services data warehouse

The information we collect from dental activity forms (FP17s) combined with the information taken from POL

Notes:

Caveats:

Data included is for contracts in England entered on POL by commissioners from Area Teams (AT).

Number of performers. This will be the performer reported on an FP17 or where this is not reported this will be the provider number where there is only one performer; else the form is rejected.

Performers will be counted in each contract type where they have submitted an FP17. This could be both GDS and PDS type contracts during the time period.

Performers in East of England may be counted more than once as they will be counted in each local authority that they have submitted FP17s from.

Definitions:

FP17: Dentists are required to submit a form called an FP17 for every course of NHS dental treatment they provide. The FP17 form can be submitted either on paper or electronically. The information contained on the FP17 form is either scanned (if a paper submission) and imported or imported directly (if an electronic submission) and stored electronically in the NHS dental services data repository (NHS DS data warehouse).

FP17O: Dentists are required to submit a form called an FP17O for every course of NHS orthodontic dental treatment they provide. The FP17O form can be submitted either on paper or electronically. The information contained on the FP17O form is either scanned (if a paper submission) and imported or imported directly (if an electronic submission) and stored electronically in the NHS dental services data repository (NHS DS data warehouse).

Contract Type Name :

GDS – General Dental Services

PDS – Personal Dental Services

Time Period:

Active Performers identified are those submitting FP17s between scheduled months of December 2013 and November 2014 where the treatment completion date falls within the financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Local Authority Name - The identifying local Authority name of the Performer

Number of performers - The count of the active performers

Area Team Name - The identifying Area Team code of the Performer

Data extracted from the Data Warehouse on 9 December 2014

NHS Business Services Authority

Information Services

Written Question

Health Services: Suffolk

Monday 15th December 2014

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust and (b) Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust spent on salaries and wages for (i) general and senior managers, (ii) nurses and midwives and (iii) administrative and clerical staff in each year since 2009-10.

Answered by Dan Poulter

Information is not available in the format requested.

Information on the cost of (a) Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff, (b) Administrative and Clerical Staff and (c) Total Senior Managers and Managers, from 2009-10 to 2011-12, for West Suffolk NHS Trust (now Foundation Trust) and Ipswich NHS Trust has been attached.

Written Question

Hospital Beds: East of England

Friday 5th December 2014

Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital beds per head of population there were in the (a) East of England Strategic Health Authority area and (b) Suffolk Primary Care Trust area in each year since 2007-08.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The information is not collected centrally in the format requested.