Health Services: Salford Hazel Blears To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average time was for which a resident of Salford waited for (a) cancer treatment to start, (b) a heart by-pass operation, (c) a hip replacement and (d) a cataract removal from the time of first presenting to a GP in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest period for which figures are available. Ann Keen The information is not available in the format requested. Table 1 shows the average (median) referral to treatment waiting times in weeks for admitted patients' resident within the Salford Primary Care Trust (PCT) area for the specialities listed. Statistics on average waiting times between urgent referral and treatment for cancer are not collected centrally. The cancer waiting time standard of a maximum wait of 62 days from urgent referral for suspected cancer to first cancer treatment was introduced for all patients from December 2005. Statistics showing overall performance are published on a quarterly basis on the Department of Health website at: www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/CancerWaitingTimes/index.htm Table 2 shows the performance against this standard for the first and latest available period on this standard1 (January - March 2006 and July - September 2009) for Salford residents and England overall. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Cardiothoracic Surgery|Trauma and Orthopaedics|Opthalmology| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |March 2008 |November 2009 |March 2008 |November 2009|March 2008|November 2009| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Salford PCT |5.9 |5.5 |8.2 |10.0|10.6|10.9| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. Figures on Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times for admitted patients are presented on an adjusted basis (i.e. excluding periods for which the RTT waiting time clock was paused).2. RTT admitted data were first collected on an adjusted basis in March 2008.3. RTT waiting times have only been collected since March 2007, only down to treatment function (specialty) level, and only on an adjusted basis (i.e. excluding periods for which the RTT waiting time clock was paused) since March 2008.Source:Department of Health| | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Percentage | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Organisation |2005-06 Quarter 3|2009-10 Quarter 2| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |96.5|90.9| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust |93.2|80.5| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |90.5|91.2| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |England1 |91.1|85.7| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1 Note that due to a change in reporting methodology from 1 January 2009, figures for the two periods are not directly comparable.| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hazel Blears To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) dentists there were in Salford in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest date for which information is available; and what assessment he has made of the standard of healthcare provided in Salford in each of those periods. Ann Keen The following table shows the number of nurses, doctors and dentists in national health service organisations in Salford in 1997 and 2008. Regarding the assessment made of the standard of healthcare provided in Salford in each of these periods, the role of the Department is to secure adequate resources for funding the NHS and to set out a strategic framework for the NHS to work within. This allows decisions about local NHS services to be taken at a local level. Local NHS organisations are best placed to decide what staff they require to deliver services that best meet the needs of the local population. NHS Hospital and Community Health services (HCHS) qualified nurses, medical and dental doctors and general practitioners (GP) and GP practice nurses. 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| |HCHS qualified nurses|HCHS medical and dental doctors|GPs|Practice nurses|HCHS qualified nurses|HCHS medical and dental doctors|GPs|Practice nurses| 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|Salford Primary Care Trust (PCT)3,4 |1— |1—|1—|1—|370|26|163|98| 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|Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust |1,112 |308|2—|2—|1,727|558|2—|2—| 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|Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust5 |2,288 |762|2—|2—|3,274|994|2—|2—| 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|Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust6 |1— |1—|2—|2—|3,264|1,242|2—|2—| 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|1 Denotes not available2 Denotes not applicable3 The PCT figure excludes data for medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals and have been excluded to avoid double counting.4 PCTs first came into existence in 2001, therefore data for 1997 is not available.5 Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 2001 from a complete merger of Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust and Manchester Children's Hospital NHS Trust. Figures for 1997 are an aggregate of these two predecessor organisations.6 Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 2002 by merging acute services from four other NHS Trusts. It is not possible to accurately map figures from the workforce census for part mergers, therefore 1997 data has not been provided.Data quality:Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and PCTs in England. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens any impact on figures already published will be assessed but unless this is significant at national level they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level this will be footnoted in relevant analyses.Source:The Information Centre for health and social care| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------