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Written Question
York Hospital
Tuesday 8th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients at York Hospital were unable to get (a) an MRI scan, (b) a CT scan and (c) another diagnostic test carried out within the six week timescale specified in the NHS Constitution in 2009-10 and each year since then.

Answered by Jane Ellison

This information is not available in the format requested. Tables showing monthly data from April 2009 to April 2014 have been placed in the Library. These are waiting list figures and show the number of patients waiting at month end. Therefore, these cannot be added to obtain an annual figure as the same patient could potentially appear in several consecutive months.


Written Question
York Hospital
Tuesday 8th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients attending the accident and emergency department at York Hospital waited longer than four hours before seeing a doctor in 2009-10 and each year since then; and what the average waiting time was in each of those years.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Data is not available in the format requested. Information as is available is shown in the attached. Table 1 shows the number and percentage of patients waiting more than four hours for discharge, admission, or transfer from York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust accident and emergency (A&E) departments: Table 2 shows the mean and median waiting times for assessment, treatment, and departure at A&E departments at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.


Written Question
Dental Services: North Yorkshire
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on NHS general dental services in North Yorkshire in 2008-09 and in each year since.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The information is not available in the format requested.

The total amount spent on general dental services and personal dental services contracts by the former North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) for 2008-09 to 2012-13 is shown in the following table:

General and Personal Dental Services

£000s

2008-09

38,857

2009-10

40,632

2010-11

41,773

2011-12

43,438

2012-13

46,694

Source: NHS Summarisation schedules

Notes:

1. General dental services cannot be separately identified in the published figures. The total gross expenditure for general dental service and personal dental service contracts is categorised between either independent contractor led contracts or on salaried led services provided by the PCT.

2. Contractor led contracts are all primary care dental services commissioned from practitioners or corporate bodies where payments are processed on the PCT's behalf by the Dental Services division of the NHS Business Services Authority. Salaried led services include the cost of any dental or support staff directly employed by the PCT and personal dental services or PCT dental services that are directly managed by PCTs or commissioned from other National Health Service trusts either within or outside their area.


Written Question
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients had been waiting for (a) over six months and (b) three months for in-patient admission at York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in March 1997 and in each year since.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format requested. Information on the number of patients waiting over six months and three months for in-patient admission at what is now York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from March 1997 to March 2010 is shown in the attached table.

Since 2007, waiting times on a referral to treatment (RTT) basis have been published. Information on the number of patients who waited over six months and over three months on an admitted RTT pathway at York Teaching Hospital NHS FT between March 2008 and March 2012 is shown in the attached table.


Written Question
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were waiting for elective admission at York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April in 1996 and in each year since.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The number of patients waiting for elective admission at York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for each year between March 1996 and March 2010 is shown in the following table:

Month ending

Number waiting at period end

March 1996

6,081

March 1997

6,846

March 1998

8,445

March 1999

6,715

March 2000

6,477

March 2001

6,317

March 2002

6,354

March 2003

6,425

March 2004

5,714

March 2005

5,211

March 2006

4,738

March 2007

3,055

March 2008

2,536

March 2009

2,675

March 2010

2,336

Note: Data on inpatient waiting lists not collected after March 2010

Source: Department of Health KH07, Monthly monitoring return


Written Question
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mean and median waiting time was for treatment at accident and emergency in York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2007-08 and in each year since.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The attached table shows the mean and median waiting times for assessment, treatment, and departure at accident and emergency departments at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.


Written Question
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were waiting for a first out-patient appointment at York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April and 1 October in 2004 and on the same dates in each year since.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format requested. The number of patients waiting for a first out-patient appointment at York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April and 1 October in each year since 2004 are shown in the following table:

Month ending

Number waiting at period end

September 2004

4,800

March 2005

7,697

September 2005

7,644

March 2006

5,530

September 2006

4,416

March 2007

2,728

September 2007

3,423

March 2008

2,237

September 2008

2,311

March 2009

2,067

September 2009

1,987

March 2010

1,602

Notes:

  1. Outpatient waiting times are measured from general practitioner referral to first outpatient appointment.
  2. Figures first published June 2004 and last published March 2010.

Source: Department of Health QM08, monthly monitoring return


Written Question
Nurses: Pay
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average gross earnings of a full-time equivalent NHS nurse were in (a) cash and (b) real terms in (i) England and (ii) York in 1996-97 and in each year since.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The primary source of National Health Service earnings data is published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Data on average basic pay per full-time equivalent is taken from this publication. This is based on Electronic Staff Record data which is only available from 2008-09 onwards so the data series cannot be extended into early years. Data relating to York relates to the former North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust and York Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. For reference a comparison of basic pay per headcount, which has not specifically been requested, is provided.

England

Year

Average Total Earnings

Cash

£
(Headcount)
(England Average)

Average Total Earnings

Real Terms

£
(Headcount)
(England Average)

2008-09

28,384

31,784

2009-10

29,412

32,056

2010-11

30,174

32,050

2011-12

30,439

31,596

2012-13

30,657

31,270

2013-14

30,917

30,917

York

Year

Average Total Earnings

Cash

£
(Headcount)
(York Average)

Average Total Earnings

Real Terms

£
(Headcount)
(York Average)

2008-09

27,988

31,341

2009-10

29,000

31,607

2010-11

30,194

32,071

2011-12

30,743

31,912

2012-13

31,787

32,423

2013-14

30,123

30,123


Written Question
Nurses: Pay
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the starting salary of a full-time equivalent NHS nurse in York was in (a) cash and (b) real terms in 1996-97 and in each year since.

Answered by Dan Poulter

Since the introduction of Agenda for Change in October 2004, nurses who are newly qualified start at Agenda for Change Band 5. Prior to Agenda for Change they started at Whitley Grade D. National salary scales apply for NHS nurses in York. The starting salary for a full-time equivalent NHS nurse in cash and real terms is shown in the following table.

Year

Cash Terms Starting Salary (£)

(Full Time)

(National Scale)

Real Terms Starting Salary (£)

(Full Time)

(National Scale)

1996-97

11,895

17,254

1997-98

12,385

17,646

1998-99

12,855

17,972

1999-00

14,400

19,744

2000-01

14,890

20,271

2001-02

15,445

20,470

2002-03

16,005

20,730

2003-04

16,525

20,997

2004-05

18,114

22,397

2005-06

18,698

22,705

2006-07

19,166

22,623

2007-08

19,683

22,663

2008-09

20,225

22,648

2009-10

20,710

22,572

2010-11

21,176

22,492

2011-12

21,176

21,981

2012-13

21,176

21,600

2013-14

21,388

21,388

2014-15

21,478

Notes:

1. Starting pay for a newly qualified nurse is normally the minimum of the scale applicable to basic grade qualified nurses as follows:

1996-97 to 2003-04: Whitley D Grade

2004-05 o 2013-14: Agenda for Change Band 5

2. Starting pay is taken from national pay scales.

3. Figures given include any staged increases in the year in question.

4. The starting pay given for 2004-05 is the minimum of the Agenda for Change Band 5 scale at the effective date of implementation of Agenda for Change on 1 October 2004.

5. The 2014-15 starting salary change is due to an adjustment to ensure all staff on Spine Point 15 eligible for incremental progression received at least 1% when progressing to Spine Point 16, which is also the current starting Spine Point for a newly qualified nurse.

6. The cash terms data has been converted into real terms using the latest official Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflator series taken from the HM Treasury website on 30 June 2014 and last updated on 20 December 2013.

7. It is not possible to convert the 2014-15 cash starting salary to real terms because of the way the GDP deflator series operates.

8. To be as up to date as possible, the real terms data is presented in 2013-14 prices. This involves using the HM Treasury forecast GDP deflator value for 2013-14.


Written Question
Health Professions: Pay
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual basic pay per full-time employee for qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff in (a) England, (b) the former North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT), (c) Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group and (d) York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was in 1996-97 and in each year since.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The primary source of National Health Service earnings data is published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Data on average basic pay per full-time equivalent (FTE) is taken from this publication. This is based on Electronic Staff Record data which is only available from 2008-09 onwards so the data series cannot be extended into early years. Data relating to the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group cannot be provided as it is merged with data from other organisations. For ease a comparison of basic pay per headcount, which has not specifically been requested, is provided.

England

Year

Average Basic Pay

Cash Terms

£
(England Average)

FTE

Headcount

2008-09

28,028

24,464

2009-10

29,111

25,433

2010-11

30,122

26,287

2011-12

30,390

26,542

2012-13

30,544

26,739

2013-14

30,782

27,043

York

Year

Average Basic Pay

Cash Terms

£

(York Average)

Former North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

2008-09

29,261

26,715

2009-10

30,153

27,847

2010-11

31,392

28,996

2011-12

32,010

29,477

2012-13

33,740

29,835

2013-14

30,123