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Jobs/Welfare

 

 

· Employment has risen by almost 187’852 (4.9%) since the comparable period (Dec-Feb 1998 to Jan-Mar 2008)

· Claimant unemployment has fallen by 52’240 (40%) since 1997  (Aug 1997 – Aug 2008)

· Long-term unemployment has fallen by 31’100 (82.1%) since 1997  (Aug 1997 – Aug 2008)

· The New Deal for 18 to 24-year-olds has helped to cut long-term youth unemployment by more than two-thirds since 1997

· 554,600 families in South East are receiving Working Tax Credits and/or Child Tax Credits (April 2008)

· Nearly 1,600,000 pensioners have seen the biggest rise in basic state pension for a generation

· Nearly 520,000 pensioners aged 75 or over are eligible for free TV licences (one per household)

· Over 1,700,000 pensioners got the winter fuel payment last winter worth £200 per household

Health  (South East Coast SHA/South Central SHA)

 

· There are 1,536 MORE consultants and 863 MORE GPs as well an estimated 7,043 MORE nurses and an estimated 876 MORE dentists since 1997.

· There is an estimated total of 28,767 MORE NHS staff since 1997.

· 12 patients waiting over 26 weeks (as at August 2008) for in-patient treatment compared to over 52,000 in 1997.

· 22 patients waiting over 13 weeks (as at August 2008) for a first out-patient, compared to over 25,000 in March 1998.

· 96.9% of patients diagnosed with cancer are treated within 62 days of an urgent GP referral (June 2008) [South Central SHA].

· 96.8% of patients diagnosed with cancer are treated within 62 days of an urgent GP referral (June 2008) [South East Coast SHA].

· 98.4% of patients seen within 4 hours at A&E (June 2008) compared to 85.9% in June 2003 [South Central SHA].

· 98.4% of patients seen within 4 hours at A&E (June 2008) compared to 88.6% in June 2003 [South East Coast SHA].

· 8 NHS Walk-In Centres across the two SHA areas.

· 35 CT scanners, 17 MRI scanners and 21 LINACs scanners installed since 1997.

· 8 buildings open to patients through NHS LIFT [across both SHA areas] with a further 2 buildings [in the South Central SHA area] under construction. Examples include:

· £13.2m East Oxford Health Centre opened in March 2007.  The centre will also house Oxfordshire PCT’s dental services for patients with special needs along with the dental access service for those who cannot access local NHS dental care within the general dental services.  It will also be the location of the countywide out of hours emergency dental service.

· 15 [£692m] PFI/public capital funded hospital build schemes open with a further 4 [£698m] under construction [across both SHA areas].

· Funding up from £6.7bn in 2003/04 to £11.1bn in 2008/09

Education

Crime

 

1,196 ASBOs issued to date

51,842 Penalty Notice Disorders issued to date

Increases in Police force budgets (cash terms): Hampshire – up 63%; Kent – up 58.2%; Surrey up 116.6%¹; Sussex up 57.4%; Thames Valley up 69.7%

¹ Surrey budget for 2008/09 is currently being considered for possible capping action.

1,121 more police officers in the South East since 2001 supported by 1,805 CSOs

 

BCS Regional Crime, 2001/02 to 2007/08 (rate per 10,000 adults/households), South East region:

 

1. '**↑/↓' denotes a statistically significant change at the 5% level from 2001/02 to 2007/08. 

2. Where an apparent change over time is not statistically significant the figures are described in the text as ‘stable’.

 

Recorded crime, 2004/05 – 2007/08: South East region: