Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which local spending bodies in the city of Birmingham (a) his Department is responsible for and (b) draw on funds voted to his Department.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Information on local spending bodies in the city of Birmingham is not centrally held.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request that Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, reply to the letter of 21 November 2014 from the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, on A&E services at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department understands that NHS England will be replying to the hon. Member’s letter of 21 November 2014.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged under 18 have presented at accident and emergency departments in need of treatment for self-harm at hospitals in the Greater Birmingham area in each of the last five years.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The information is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances for 0-17 year olds, with a patient group of deliberate self harm and with a primary care trust (PCT) of treatment within Greater Birmingham in each of the last five years, is shown in the following table:
PCT of Treatment | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 (provisional) |
Birmingham East and North PCT | 74 | 95 | 59 | 60 | 68 |
Dudley PCT | 402 | 351 | 330 | 245 | 327 |
Heart of Birmingham PCT | 36 | 78 | 42 | 47 | 68 |
South Birmingham PCT | 94 | 97 | 101 | 100 | 114 |
Walsall Teaching PCT | 157 | 117 | 138 | 179 | 164 |
Wolverhampton PCT | 0 | 147 | 255 | 211 | 228 |
Notes:
1. Self-harm:
A&E Patient Group - a code that indicates the reason for the A&E episode. Group 30 indicates those attending because of intentional self-harm. There were no A&E attendances recorded with a patient group for deliberate self-harm for Wolverhampton PCT in 2009-10. Patient group is a non-mandatory field and nil entry may indicate that the PCT did not submit any data for patient group for this year.
2. PCT of main provider:
This indicates the PCT area within which the organisation providing treatment was located. The following PCTs were identified as having an A&E department located within Greater Birmingham:
5PG - Birmingham East and North PCT
5PE - Dudley PCT
5MX - Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
5M1 - South Birmingham PCT
5M3 - Walsall Teaching PCT
5MV - Wolverhampton City PCT
Data for Sandwell and Solihull PCTs is not included due to the PCTs not submitting A&E data to Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) for the time period covered.
3. PCT of treatment 2013-14 data:
Although PCTs ceased to exist after 31 March 2013, HES A&E data for 2013-14 still contains data for PCT of treatment. The relationship between providers and their respective PCTs as at the end of 2012-13 has been propagated through to 2013-14 data to allow the relevant PCT to be reported, continuing a time series.
4. Provisional data:
The data is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.
5. Accessing growth through time (A&E):
HES figures are available from 2007-08 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage and changes in National Health Service practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.
6. Official Source of A&E data:
HES is not the official source of total A&E activity, this is the NHS England situation reports collection:
www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
However, HES permits further analysis of A&E activity as there are a range of data items by which HES can be analysed.
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES),Health and Social care Information Centre (HSCIC)
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings he has had with his Department's Chief Scientific Adviser in the last 12 months.
Answered by Dan Poulter
As was the case under previous administrations, details of internal meetings are not normally disclosed.