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NHS: Finance

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 26 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been awarded by her Department under “Our health, our care, our community” since July 2006, broken down by (a) strategic health authority and (b) primary care trust; how many bids have been submitted; what the final period is for the submission of bids; and if she will make a statement. (126426)

Ten proposals were received in wave 1. An announcement about four of these was made on the 21 December. Two of the schemes were withdrawn, one did not meet the criteria and we are resolving an outstanding query on one of the schemes. Two of the schemes were carried forward and announced with the second wave.

The funding allocated to these four schemes totals £44.5 million, and the following chart breaks this down into strategic health authority (SHAs) and primary care trust (PCT) area, and the amount allocated to each scheme.

SHA

PCT

Amount awarded (£ million)

North East

Sunderland (Washington Primary care centre)

8.96

South Central

Hampshire (Gosport War Memorial Hospital)

6.122

South West

South Gloucestershire (Yate Community Health Centre)

5

South West

Somerset (West Somerset Healthy Living Park)

24.5

Total

44.58

Decisions are still outstanding on the following schemes.

SHA

PCT

Amount requested (£ million)

Outstanding from wave one

East Midlands

Lincolnshire (Stamford and Rutland Hospital)

0.5

Outstanding from wave two

North East

Hartlepool (Primary care centre—Hartlepool)

7.25

North East

Berwick upon Tweed (Community Hospital Berwick)

24.701

Yorkshire and Humber

North East Lincolnshire (Primary care centre—Grimsby)

2.225

Yorkshire and Humber

North Yorkshire and York (New Community campus—Selby War Memorial Hospital)

3.65

South West Peninsula

Gloucestershire (New community services—Bourton and Moreton)

13.23

South West Peninsula

Gloucestershire (New facilities for community services—Berkley Vale)

6.46

South West Peninsula

Gloucestershire (Refurbishment—Cirencester Hospital)

0.25

South West Peninsula

Gloucestershire (Refurbishment—Stroud Hospital)

1.1

South West Peninsula

South Gloucestershire (Community Hospital—Kingswood)

16.99

South West Peninsula

Bath and North East Somerset (Community care centre—Keynsham)

6.51

South West Peninsula

North Somerset (Redevelopment—Clevedon Hospital)

15.13

South West Peninsula

Somerset (Redevelopment—South Petherton Hospital)

15.32

South West Peninsula

Wiltshire (Redevelopment Chippenham Hospital)

17.85

South West Peninsula

Wiltshire (Primary Care Centre—Salisbury)

32.92

South West Peninsula

Wiltshire (Primary Care Centre—Salisbury)

11.6

South West Peninsula

Bournemouth and Poole (Community hospital Boscombe)

7.17

South West Peninsula

Torbay (Redevelopment—Brixham Hospital)

10.34

Total

193.20

Twenty-five schemes were submitted in wave 2. We approved and announced details of 10 schemes, including two that were carried forward from wave 1, on 11 April.

The schemes announced on 11 April are listed in the following table.

SHA

PCT

Amount awarded (£ million)

South Central

Southampton City (Royal South Hampshire Hospital)

6.079

East of England

Suffolk (Felixstowe Community Hospitals)

1.76

London

Barking and Dagenham (Barking Hospital)

5

London

Richmond and Twickenham (New health and social care centre—Teddington Memorial Hospital)

3.98

London

Haringey (Hornsey Central Hospital)

1.6

Yorkshire and Humber

Calderdale and Kirklees (Redevelopment of Sites—Huddersfield)

12.91

Yorkshire and Humber

Rotherham (Primary care centre—Rotherham)

0.961

East Midlands

Nottinghamshire County (Redevelopment of Ashfield Hospital)

1.149

South West

Bristol (South Bristol Community Hospital)

3.9

South East Coast

Hastings and Rother (Station Plaza Primary Health Centre)

12

Total

49.34

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects the group tasked with the review of general medical services funding to report on its findings and recommendations. (131933)

The report of the general medical services global sum formula review group, which contains a number of recommendations on changes to the current formula, is now available. The report is currently out for consultation until 11 May. A copy of the report has been placed in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) total expenditure on enhanced services under the General Medical Services contract and (b) the total primary care trust enhanced services expenditure floor was expected to be in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07; what actual expenditure on enhanced services was in 2005-06; and what expenditure on enhanced services she expects in 2006-07. (131962)

Total expenditure on enhanced services under the new general medical services contract (over the period 2004-05 to 2006-07) is estimated to be £2,067 million.

In 2005-06, the total primary care trust (PCT) enhanced services floor was £676 million. For 2006-07, it was agreed with the British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee that enhanced services floors would be frozen at 2005-06 levels.

The overall level of investment by PCTs in 2005-06 is £655 million (based on their audited annual accounts). Forecasts received from PCTs for 2006-07 indicates an overall spend on enhanced services of £824 million.