Mr Bacon referred to the PCT population data provided in Appendix 2 (p 38) of the Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. This data refers to the total number of patients registered with the PCTs in the LIFT case study areas, as set out in their initial Strategic Service Development Plans. Mr Bacon asked whether the NAO could also supply for each case study scheme details of the number of patients registered with LIFT General Practitioners (GPs).
Data from the LIFT case studies (broken down by individual PCTs within the scheme where applicable) as at January 2005 is presented in Table 3.
Table 3
REGISTERED PATIENTS PER LIFT SCHEME
LIFT Area | PCT patients | ||
East London LIFT | 752,924 | 27,927 | 3.7 |
Newham PCT | 314,956 | 27,927 | 8.9 |
Tower Hamlets PCT | 230,000 | 0 | 01 |
City & Hackney PCT | 210,000 | 0 | 01 |
East Lancashire LIFT | 504,602 | 74,560 | 14.8 |
Burnley, Pendle & Rossendale PCT | 252,132 | 13,560 | 5.4 |
Hyndburn & Ribble Valley PCT | 115,000 | 33,000 | 28.7 |
Blackburn with Darwen PCT | 137,470 | 28,000 | 20.4 |
Ashton, Leigh & Wigan LIFT | 301,419 | 32,320 | 10.7 |
Barnsley LIFT | 237,973 | 38,561 | 16.2 |
Sandwell LIFT | 320,348 | 20,299 | 6.3 |
West Bromwich & Wednesbury PCT | 121,445 | 3,501 | 2.82 |
Oldbury & Smethwick PCT | 110,801 | 13,080 | 11.8 |
Rowley Regis & Tipton PCT | 88,102 | 3,648 | 4.1 |
Barking & Havering LIFT | 418,518 | 35,355 | 8.4 |
Barking & Dagenham PCT | 171,000 | 17,200 | 10.1 |
Havering PCT | 247,518 | 18,155 | 7.3 |
1 While both Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney PCTs were partners in the East London LIFT scheme, the initial development was one building in Newham.
2 The Birmingham Road scheme and the Whiteheath schemes in Sandwell relocated a single handed practitioner and a small practice both of which had smaller patient list sizes than other case studies. The focus of these schemes was less on GP provision and more on provision of wider primary care services.