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date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted via accident and emergency departments with a primary diagnosis for a respiratory condition in age groups (a) under one, (b) one to four, (c) five to nine, (d) 10 to 14, (e) 15 to 19, (f) 20 to 24, (g) 25 to 29, (h) 30 to 34, (i) 35 to 39, (j) 40 to 44, (k) 45 to 49, (l) 50 to 54, (m) 55 to 59, (n) 60 to 64, (o) 65 to 69, (p) 70 to 74, (q) 75 to 79, (r) 80 to 84 and (s) 85 and over in each month of the financial years (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14, (v) 2014-15, (vi) 2015-16 and (vii) 2016-17 to date.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	109518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>A table showing a count of unplanned accident and emergency attendances resulting in an admission and a primary diagnosis of respiratory condition, tabulated by month and age category for the financial years between 2010-11 and 2016-17 is attached.</p><p> </p><p>This is a count of hospital attendances resulting in admissions, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 01/11/2017 16:38:59 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne attachment 1 file name Data for PQ109518 - Respiratory Admissions.xlsx title PQ109518 attached table
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

777660

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Kidney Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the prognosis for (a) adults and (b) children diagnosed with kidney disease.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	109519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>NHS England commissions specialist renal services for adults, children and young people and has recently published renal service specifications (that cover dialysis, acute kidney injury, renal assessment and transplantation) that should lead to uniform high levels of kidney care across England. Further information can be found via the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-a/a06/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-a/a06/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/11/2017 11:38:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

777661

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Vaccination: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to change levels of funding for vaccination programmes; and which vaccines will be so affected.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	109520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>Funding for vaccination programmes (both the cost of vaccines and administering those vaccines) were estimated up to 2020/21 as part of the Department’s 2015 Spending Review process. These estimates are updated on an ongoing basis to take account of expert advice as well as changes in demand and pricing.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 02/11/2017 16:19:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

777662

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Psychiatry: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage doctors to specialise in (a) psychiatry in general and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	109502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.</p><p> </p><p>In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 109504 109505 question first answered 02/11/2017 11:56:20 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

777663

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Psychiatry: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the number of doctors working in (a) psychiatry and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the east of England.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	109503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p><strong></strong>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics including data on psychiatrists and mental health services in the east of England which is available at the link below.</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/media/32979/NHS-Workforce-Statistics-July-2017-Provisional-Statistics-Doctors-by-Grade-and-Specialty/default/NHS_Workforce_Statistics__July_2017_Doctors_by_Grade_and_Specialty" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/media/32979/NHS-Workforce-Statistics-July-2017-Provisional-Statistics-Doctors-by-Grade-and-Specialty/default/NHS_Workforce_Statistics__July_2017_Doctors_by_Grade_and_Specialty</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/11/2017 11:26:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

777664

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many additional medical places will be at medical schools with mental health as a priority.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	109504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.</p><p> </p><p>In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 109502 109505 question first answered 02/11/2017 11:56:20 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

777665

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Psychiatry: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage medical schools to support the Royal College of Psychiatry Choose Psychiatry campaign; and what assessment he has made of workforce capacity to meet increased demand.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	109505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.</p><p> </p><p>In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 109502 109504 question first answered 02/11/2017 11:56:20 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

777666

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Psychiatry: Hertfordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many unfilled psychiatry posts there are in the North East Hertfordshire constituency.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	109506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>Data on the number of unfilled psychiatry posts in the North East Hertfordshire constituency is not available centrally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital collects data on the number of published vacancy adverts obtained from NHS Jobs, the main recruitment website for the National Health Service by Health Education England region. The number of advertised vacancy full-time equivalents within the Psychiatry Area of Work in Health Education East of England region as at 1 January 2017 - 31 March 2017 was 738.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 02/11/2017 11:48:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

777810

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of vacancies in the NHS diagnostic workforce; and what assessment he has made of the implications of that number of vacancies for (a) meeting cancer waiting time targets and (b) introducing FIT to bowel screening to the level planned.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	109563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The data on the number of vacancies in the National Health Service diagnostic workforce is not available centrally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital collects data on the number of advertised vacancies across the NHS. The NHS vacancy statistics for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 shows there were 1,261 full-time equivalent vacancies with ‘diagnostic’ in the title.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is meeting six out of eight cancer waiting times standards (August 2017). This is despite 970,000 more people being urgently referred in 2016/17 compared to 2009/10 - an increase of 108%.</p><p> </p><p>Specific work has been taking place on the recruitment of Clinical (non-medical) Endoscopists. Progress is on track to meet the target of 200 new non-medical Endoscopists by the end of 2018.</p><p> </p><p>This work is taking place alongside a greater focus on the 62 day cancer waiting time target with investments in pathway coordinators and redesigned, quicker clinical pathways.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England, which leads the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) screening programme, is working with Health Education England and others to understand the training and capacity demand deriving from the introduction of FIT in April 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/10/2017 15:52:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

777811

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with GPs and medical defence organisations on providing appropriate funding to meet additional costs incurred following changes to the discount rate in February 2017.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	109551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department is aware that the rise in the cost of indemnity as a result of the change in the personal discount rate announced by the then Lord Chancellor (Rt. hon. Elizabeth Truss MP) in February 2017 is an area of concern for general practitioners (GPs).</p><p> </p><p>The Department has been assessing the potential effect of the discount rate change by working closely with GPs and Medical Defence Organisations to ensure that appropriate funding is available to meet the additional costs to GPs, recognising the crucial role they play in the delivery of National Health Service care.</p><p> </p><p>On 12 October 2017, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced that the Department is planning, subject to examination of relevant issues, the development of a state-backed indemnity scheme for general practice in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will continue to work with the Royal College of General Practitioners, the British Medical Association and other GP representatives to engage with the sector on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/11/2017 11:54:39 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas