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103W
Written Answers
26 OCTOBER 2009
Written Answers
104W
Elderly: Leeds
Health Services: Travelling People
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
what recent estimate he has made of the number of
people aged 75 years and over who have a disability or
limiting long-term illness in (a) Leeds West
constituency and (b) the City of Leeds. [295355]
Phil Hope: Data on the number of people aged 75
years and over who have a disability or limiting long-term
illness is not collected centrally.
Data on the number of people receiving social services
funded either fully or partially by councils with adult
social services responsibilities (CASSRs) in England is
collected and published by the Information Centre for
health and social care as part of the Referrals, Assessments
and Packages of Care (RAP) return. Provisional data
for 2008-09 was published in September 2009.
During the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, the
number of adults aged 65 and over with physical disabilities,
frailty or a sensory impairment receiving a social care
service funded either partly or wholly by their CASSR
following a community care assessment by Leeds city
council was 10,060.
Data are not centrally available at constituency level.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care.
Health Service Commissioner: Public Service
Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
for what reasons the Health Service Ombudsman is
unable to investigate matters relating to public service
personnel. [295463]
Ann Keen: Personnel matters are a specific exemption
under the Ombudsman’s legislation: section 7(1) of the
Health Service Commissioners Act 1993, and paragraph
10(1) of schedule 3 of the Parliamentary Commissioners
Act 1967.
Health Services: Finance
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health what funding (a) the Department for Communities
and Local Government and (b) local authorities will be
expected to provide towards the proposed new regime
of free care for the elderly. [292741]
Phil Hope: The commitment to offer free personal
care at home to those with the highest needs is expected
to cost up to £670 million per full year. The Government,
through the Department of Health, will provide the
bulk of this funding (an estimated £420 million per full
year) for this historic first step towards a national care
service. However, it is right that councils play their part
alongside central Government. The remainder of the
funding will come from efficiencies in local government
which has already delivered £1.764 billion in 2008-09, is
due to have delivered at least £3.2 billion by the end of
2009-10, with a target to deliver £5.5 billion over the
comprehensive spending review period.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State
for Health pursuant to the answer of 16 September
2009, Official Report, column 2238W, on health
services: Travelling people, what benefits he expects
Travellers to receive as a consequence of the Friends,
Families and Travellers scheme. [294910]
Phil Hope: The Department’s funding for the Friends,
Families and Travellers scheme is expected to support
better access to healthcare for Travellers by establishing
three centres of regional excellence in the South East,
East of England and South West. Working in partnership
with Gypsy and Traveller communities, the national
health service and other stakeholders, the centres will
help develop and deliver better services for Gypsies and
Travellers and enable their good practice to be spread to
other regions.
Health Visitors: Training
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health what the mechanisms are for funding of
training health visitors; and how much such funding is
being provided by (a) the Government and (b) private
sources in 2009-10. [295460]
Ann Keen: Health visitor training is funded from the
£4.6 billion multi-professional education and training
budget (MPET) allocated to strategic health authorities
(SHAs) and is commissioned by SHAs. Within the
overall MPET resources allocated, it is a matter for
each SHA to determine their own priorities including
how much is spent on post-registration training commissions
for health visitors. Under the current service level agreement
with SHAs, each SHA is expected to provide for investment
in training commissions based on long term workforce
need and local financial plans.
Information on how much funding is being provided
for health visitor training from private sources in 2009-10
is not held centrally.
Incontinence: Children
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health what plans his Department has made for
children’s continence services in the next five years.
[295468]
Ann Keen: The Department has not made specific
new plans for children’s continence services.
The National Service Framework for Children, Young
People and Maternity Services (the NSF) included guidance
on the importance of joined up continence services for
children and young people.
In October 2007 the Department published a Continence
Exemplar. This was one in a series of exemplar journeys
(patient pathways), illustrating key themes in the NSF
and is available on the Department’s website at:
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/
PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_079004
A copy has already been placed in the Library.