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Healthcare Parliamentary Monitor Bulletin 565 - 09 Dec 2011

Parliamentary recess :

Consultancy firms :

  • Department of Health spend on management consultants

    • Department of Health spending on management consultants and private health providers since the last General Election was detailed by Health Minister Simon Burns in a parliamentary answer on 8 Dec.

  • Capita's £4 million health contracts

    • The consultancy firm Capita has been paid more than £4 million by the Department of Health since the Conservatives came into office last year Health Minister Simon Burns said in a parliamentary answer on 5 Dec.

Medicines :

Mental health :

NHS management :

  • NHS pension payments freeze threshold raised

    • An extra half a million NHS staff will not need to pay any more into their pensions next year, the Department of Health announced on 8 Dec.

  • Achieving better patient outcomes, giving more NHS choice

    • Health Secretary Andrew Lansley made three announcements about "driving up patient results" in the NHS and "giving patients more control over their healthcare" on 7 Dec.

  • Fatal negligence claims against NHS up19% in a year

    • The numbers of fatal negligence claims made against the NHS in 2009-10 rose by 19% on the previous year Health Minister Simon Burns said in a parliamentary answer on 5 Dec.

  • No cheap exit from PFI contracts

    • NHS Trusts cannot terminate their Private Finance Initiative contracts without fully compensating the contractors Health Minister Simon Burns said in a parliamentary answer on 5 Dec.

  • Capital expenditure

    • NHS capital expenditure in each of the next three years was predicted by Health Minister Simon Burns in a parliamentary answer on 7 Dec.

Official publications :

Older people :

  • Winterbourne View staff in court

    • Ten people charged with ill-treatment of residents at the closed Winterbourne View care home will appear in court in Bristol next week Health Minister Paul Burstow said in a Ministerial statement on 8 Dec.

Primary care :

  • Diagnostic waiting times

    • Latest data on NHS diagnostic waiting times and associated activity, for the month ending 31 October 2011, were published by the Department of Health on 7 Dec.

Public health :

  • Reduction in Tuberculosis in England

    • There has been an "encouraging" reduction in Tuberculosis cases in England Health Under Secretary Anne Milton said in a parliamentary answer on 5 Dec.

  • Costs of health advertising campaigns

    • The costs of Department of Health advertising campaigns in the last five years were detailed by Health Minister Simon Burns in a parliamentary answer on 6 Dec.

  • Infant mortality statistics

    • The Department of Health published an updated version of its annual mortality monitoring bulletin on infant mortality on 8 Dec.