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874608

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to ensure that research into a cure for diabetes is undertaken in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL6828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including diabetes; it is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p>The NIHR supports research studies through its funding programmes, training and support for health researchers, and through providing world-class research facilities. The NIHR currently has £23,171,620 of funding for research into treatments for diabetes. Last year, NIHR infrastructure, through the Clinical Research Network, supported more than 100 new studies and recruited 37,857 patients to diabetes studies.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 16/04/2018 13:54:12 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

874610

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes: Health Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that there is adequate education for newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetics.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL6830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Diabetes Transformation Fund is supporting 137 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), in partnership with local providers, to expand the numbers of structured education places for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. £10.2 million is being made available to support this in 2018/19. Evidence has also been highlighted to CCGs setting out how investment in structured education should both improve outcomes and result in re-investable savings over the medium term.</p><p>The National Diabetes Audit, carried out by NHS Digital with funding from NHS England, supports CCGs and providers to understand local levels of referral to, and attendance at type 1 structured education and how these compare to other CCGs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 16/04/2018 13:54:49 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

874611

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for the long-term approach to diabetes.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL6831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The long-term approach to diabetes involves both seeking to reduce the increase in the prevalence of diabetes and, for those with diabetes, seeking to reduce the likelihood of developing complications and improving overall levels of treatment and care.</p><p>Work to reduce the increase in future prevalence of type 2 diabetes is being delivered through the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme. By 2020, the programme will support up to 100,000 people at high risk of type 2 diabetes each year across England. Those referred will get tailored, personalised support over at least nine months to achieve a healthy weight, improve nutrition and increase levels of physical activity in order to reduce risks of developing type 2 diabetes.</p><p>Work on reducing the likelihood of those with diabetes developing complications is through the diabetes treatment and care programme. This focuses on four key interventions:</p><p>- Increasing attendance at structured education by both those newly diagnosed with diabetes and those who have had the condition for a longer period;</p><p>- Increasing achievement of the diabetes treatment targets and reducing variation in achievement of these targets between clinical commissioning groups and between general practitioner practices;</p><p>- Reducing the levels of amputations by increasing the availability of multidisciplinary footcare teams; and</p><p>- Reducing lengths of inpatient stay for people with diabetes by increasing the availability of diabetes inpatient specialist nurses.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 16/04/2018 14:02:32 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

874662

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people aged (a) 16 or under and (b) 17-18 presenting in a mental health crisis were detained in a Section 136 suite for over four hours in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	134963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Before 2016, data on detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983 were collected in aggregate form in the KP90 collection, which cannot be broken down any further by age or duration. From 2016, the information requested is collected, but could only be provided from the Mental Health Services Data Set at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/04/2018 15:57:44 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

874681

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on recruiting additional GPs in rural locations.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	134982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme funds a £20,000 salary supplement to attract general practitioner (GP) trainees to work in areas of the country where GP training places have been unfilled for a number of years. The scheme was launched as a one-year pilot in 2016 and was extended for a further year in 2017 and again in 2018. The scheme is open to GP trainees committed to working for three years in areas identified by the GP National Recruitment Office as having the hardest to recruit to training places in England. At the end of January 2018, 238 GP trainee vacancies were filled, of which, 105 trainees entered the scheme in its first year in 2016, and a further 133 entered the scheme in 2017. The fill rate increased from 86% in 2016 to 92% in 2017. 250 places are being made available in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England are working with partners such as Health Education England, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of GPs, and the General Medical Council, on International GP Recruitment. The programme was extended in August 2017, and will now aim to recruit at least 2,000 GPs into England from overseas by 2020. Recruitment is now underway in a number of areas across England, including in rural communities.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also provided funding to increase the number of GP training places in England each year to 3,250 and invested additional resources to attract former GPs back to practice. Both of these initiatives will support rural communities by building the overall GP workforce.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time, NHS England is supporting rural practices by building the wider general practice workforce, including significant investment in other patient facing roles such as clinical pharmacists and practice nurses.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s expectation is that these programmes, in conjunction with the range of other initiatives being delivered as part of the General Practice Forward View, will help alleviate some of the pressures that general practices currently face.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/04/2018 12:50:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

874686

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2018 to Question 132059 on Mental Health Services: North East, in what format is the information requested held.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	134987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>National Health Service statistics on beds is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy</a></p><p> </p><p>This collection, KH03, collects the total number of available bed days and the total number of occupied bed days by consultant speciality.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/04/2018 15:58:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

874695

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Infectious Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of screeing for infectious diseases in pregnant women in (a) West Midlands and (b) Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	134996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Screening is offered and recommended to all pregnant women in England as part of the United Kingdom National Screening Committee’s National Health Service Infectious Disease in Pregnancy Screening (IDPS) Programme. The aim of antenatal screening is not to promote uptake but to ensure that eligible women are able to make an informed choice as to whether to participate in screening or not.</p><p> </p><p>Coverage is measured in the IDPS programme and reports a steady increase in the number of eligible women taking up the offer to be screened. This has risen from 96% in 2010 to 99% in 2016 in England. Further information is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/583576/hpr0217_naism.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/583576/hpr0217_naism.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Midwives and healthcare professionals offer screening to all pregnant women as part of their antenatal care package. The first offer to screen is at the start of the pregnancy and then a second reoffer at around 20 weeks. This is following a recommendation from a HIV expert review panel in response to findings from the Perinatal HIV Audit conducted by the National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood.</p><p> </p><p>Published data for coverage on screening for IDPS can be viewed at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/682471/Screening_KPI_SummaryFactsheets_Feb2018_Issue2_V1.1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/682471/Screening_KPI_SummaryFactsheets_Feb2018_Issue2_V1.1.pdf</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/04/2018 15:55:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

874697

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in England have been waiting longer than (a) 52 weeks, (b) 104 weeks, (c) 156 weeks from referral to treatment in England.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	134998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Data is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes monthly data for Referral to Treatment waiting times on its statistical work areas website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2017-18/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2017-18/</a></p><p> </p><p>This includes data on the total number of incomplete patient treatments where the waiting time has been over 52 weeks, which in the latest reporting period of January 2018, was 1,869.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 16/04/2018 10:36:51 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874700

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Professions: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital consultant posts are vacant; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of the number of hospital consultants working in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of hospital consultant posts which are vacant.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has committed to a historic expansion of 1,500 undergraduate medical school places. On 20 March 2018, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the allocation of the new medical school places in England, including places at five brand new medical schools in Lancashire (Edge Hill University), Sunderland, Chelmsford (Anglia Ruskin University), Lincoln and Canterbury. Of the 1,500 new places, 630 will be available to students from this September.</p><p> </p><p>As at latest NHS Digital data, at December 2017, there are record numbers of full time equivalent consultants (including directors of public health) employed in the National Health Service, an increase of 10,249 (28.6%) since May 2010, up from 35,880 to 46,130 in December 2017.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 16/04/2018 10:38:54 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874701

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department (a) records and (b) publishes on the nationality of NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital, an arm’s length body of the Department, publishes National Health Service Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce statistics, which is drawn from the electronic staff record (ESR), and this includes data on the nationality of staff working in the NHS in England. Nationality data from NHS Digital also includes statistics for staff employed at two foundation trusts which do not use ESR (Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust).</p><p> </p><p>Nationality data is published on a quarterly basis in, March, June, September and December of each year in headcount and full-time equivalent. This data is available from September 2015 to latest data as at December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>This includes data on the following:</p><p> </p><p>- All staff by nationality and staff group in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs);</p><p>- Joiners and leavers to and from NHS trusts and CCGs in England, by nationality and age; and</p><p>- Joiners and leavers to and from NHS trusts and CCGs by nationality, grade, staff group and Health Education England region.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 16/04/2018 10:27:44 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth