Written question asked by Mark Simmonds (Conservative) on Wednesday, 16 January 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 January 2008. It was answered by Baroness Primarolo (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 January 2008 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Health Trainers
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts (a) run a health trainers scheme and (b) plan to fund a scheme in 2008-09.
- Answer
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[holding answer 21 January 2008]: The following table provides information on the primary care trusts (PCTs) that run a Health Trainer Scheme.
PCT Programme in place Derbyshire County Yes Leicester City Yes Leicestershire County and Rutland Yes Lincolnshire Yes Northamptonshire ¹— Nottingham City Yes Nottinghamshire County and Bassetlaw ¹— Bedfordshire Yes Cambridgeshire ²— East and North Hertfordshire ²— Great Yarmouth and Waveney Yes Luton Teaching Yes Mid Essex ²— Norfolk Yes North East Essex Yes Peterborough Yes South East Essex ²— South West Essex ²— Suffolk ²— West Essex ²— West Hertfordshire ²— Barking and Dagenham Yes Brent Teaching Yes Camden Yes City and Hackney Yes Croydon Yes Enfield Yes Epping Forrest ¹— Greenwich Teaching Yes Hammersmith and Fulham ¹— Haringey Teaching ¹— Harrow ¹— Havering Yes Hounslow Yes Islington Yes Kensington and Chelsea Yes Lambeth Yes Lewisham Yes Newham Yes Southwark Yes Tower Hamlets Yes Westminster Yes County Durham Yes Gateshead Yes Hartlepool Yes Middlesbrough Yes Newcastle Yes North Tees Yes North Tyneside Yes Northumberland Care Trust Yes Redcar and Cleveland Yes South Tyneside Yes Sunderland Teaching Yes Blackburn and Darwen Teaching Yes Blackpool Yes Bolton Yes Bury Yes Central and Eastern Cheshire Yes Central Lancashire Yes Cumbria ¹— East Lancashire Yes Halton and St. Helens Yes Knowsley Yes Leigh and Wigan and Ashton Yes Liverpool Yes Manchester Yes Middleton and Rochdale and Heywood Yes North Lancashire ¹— Oldham Yes Salford Teaching Yes Sefton Yes Stockport ¹— Tameside and Glossop Yes Trafford ¹— Warrington ¹— Western Cheshire Yes Wirral Yes Offender health Yes Berkshire, East Yes Berkshire, West Yes Hampshire Yes Isle of Wight NHS Yes Milton Keynes ¹— Oxfordshire Yes Portsmouth City Teaching Yes Southampton City Yes Brighton and Hove City Yes East Sussex Downs and Weald ¹— Eastern and Coastal Kent ¹— Surrey Yes West Kent ¹— West Sussex Yes Bath and North East Somerset Yes Bournemouth and Poole ²— Bristol Yes Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Yes Devon Yes Dorset ²— Gloucestershire ¹— North Somerset ¹— Plymouth Teaching ²— Somerset ¹— Swindon ¹— Torbay Care Trust Yes Wiltshire ¹— Birmingham, East and North Yes Coventry Teaching ¹— Dudley ¹— Heart of Birmingham Teaching Yes Herefordshire ¹— Sandwell Yes Shropshire County ¹— Solihull ¹— South Birmingham ¹— South Staffordshire Yes Stoke on Trent ¹— Telford and Wrekin Yes Walsall Teaching Yes Warwickshire Yes Worcestershire ¹— Barnsley Yes Bradford and Airedale Yes Calderdale Yes Doncaster Yes East Riding of Yorkshire Yes Hull Yes Kirklees Yes Leeds Yes North East Lincolnshire Yes North Lincolnshire ¹— North Yorkshire and York ¹— Rotherham Yes Sheffield ¹— Wakefield District Yes ¹ PCT has advised programme is in place, but Health Trainer Scheme is not yet fully operational. ² information not currently held centrally by the Department. Notes: 1. Not all are directly employed by the NHS locally( breakdown not collected centrally) 2. Not all are funded solely by the NHS eg joint funding with local authority (breakdown not collected centrally) 3. Health Trainers in HM Prisons have been included Source: The Health Trainer National Implementation Team It is not possible at this stage of the planning process to identify those PCTs that are planning to fund Health Trainer Schemes in 2008-09. Individual PCTs will be in the process of making decisions about where they allocate resources including how many health trainers they will need to meet the needs of their local population.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 470 c1924-6W; 180684
- Session
- 2007-08
- Subjects
- Health trainers
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