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1230110

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Staff
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 roles in his Department have either equality, diversity or inclusion in the job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	83929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department is committed to Diversity and Inclusion (D&amp;I), with a strategy which aims to create an inclusive culture where difference is valued, diversity is harnessed, and everyone has equal opportunity to achieve their potential.</p><p>Within the Department we have 10 posts which have either ‘equality, diversity or inclusion’ in the job title. Seven of these roles are within Human Resources and the remaining are in the different business areas.</p><p>Within the Department, there are also five posts with ‘inequalities’ in the job title and two posts with ‘neurodiversity’ in the job title.</p><p>In addition to this, we have visible Senior D&amp;I Champions in place and their role includes sponsorship and aligning priorities and forward plans with staff networks. The Departmental Champions works with other Civil Service D&amp;I Champions to push forward the diversity and inclusion agenda across the Civil Service.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 12:12:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1230328

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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 Services: 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, when he estimates waiting lists for (a) outpatients appointments, (b) day cases and (c) non-emergency surgery will return to pre-covid-19 levels.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	83872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>On 31 July, further guidance was issued to local National Health Service providers and commissioners on outlining the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 and concurrent non-COVID-19 activity. Focus is on accelerating the return of non-COVID-19 health services to near-normal levels, including making full use of available capacity between now and winter, whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures. This will be done alongside continued vigilance in light of any further COVID-19 surges. The guidance sets out that trusts and systems are now expected to re-establish (and where necessary redesign) services to deliver through their own local NHS (non-independent sector) capacity the following elective activity levels:</p><p>- In September, delivering at least 80% of last year’s activity for both overnight electives and for outpatient/daycase procedures, rising to 90% in October;</p><p>- Return to at least 90% of their last year’s levels of MRI/CT and endoscopy procedures, with the goal to reach 100% by October; and</p><p>- 100% of last year’s activity for first outpatient attendances and follow-ups (face to face or virtually) from September through the balance of the year (and aiming for 90% in August).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 12:16:27 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1230372

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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	Medical Treatments: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the number of patients receiving elective NHS treatment in (a) Wirral and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	83839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The number of patients who completed Referral-To-Treatment pathways between March and June 2020 was down 44% in England on the same period last year. For patients seen at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, the effect was slightly larger, with a drop of 46% for the period March to June 2020 compared with the same period last year.</p><p>On 31 July further guidance was issued to local National Health Service providers and commissioners on outlining the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 and concurrent non-COVID-19 activity. The focus is on accelerating the return of non-COVID-19 health services to near-normal levels, including making full use of available capacity between now and winter, whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures. This will be done alongside continued vigilance in light of any further COVID-19 spikes locally and possibly nationally.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 12:19:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 45030 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1230378

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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	Surgery: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the number of elective surgeries before a potential second wave of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	83953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>On 31 July, further guidance was issued to local National Health Service providers and commissioners on outlining the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 and concurrent non- COVID-19 activity. Focus is on accelerating the return of non- COVID-19 health services to near-normal levels, including making full use of available capacity between now and winter, whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures. This will be done alongside continued vigilance in light of any further COVID-19 surges. The guidance sets out that trusts and systems are now expected to re-establish (and where necessary redesign) services to deliver through their own local NHS (non-independent sector) capacity the following elective activity levels:</p><p>- In September, delivering at least 80% of last year’s activity for both overnight electives and for outpatient/daycase procedures, rising to 90% in October;</p><p>- Return to at least 90% of their last year’s levels of MRI/CT and endoscopy procedures, with the goal to reach 100% by October; and</p><p>- 100% of last year’s activity for first outpatient attendances and follow-ups (face to face or virtually) from September through the balance of the year (and aiming for 90% in August).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 12:10:05 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1228676

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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 Services
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 develop plans to tackle the effect of delayed care in people's health after the end of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	82464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>On 31 July, further guidance was issued to local National Health Service providers and commissioners on outlining the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 and concurrent non-COVID-19 activity. Focus is on accelerating the return of non-COVID-19 health services to near-normal levels, including making full use of available capacity between now and winter, whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures.</p><p>General practice, community and optometry services have been advised, where clinically appropriate, to reach out proactively to clinically vulnerable patients and those whose care may have been delayed. Trusts, working with general practitioner practices, have been asked to ensure that every patient whose planned care has been disrupted by COVID-19 receives clear communication about how they will be looked after, and who to contact in the event that their clinical circumstances change. Clinically urgent patients should continue to be treated first, with priority then given to the longest waiting patients, specifically those breaching or at risk of breaching 52 weeks by the end of March 2021.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 09:49:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1228891

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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 Trusts: Influenza
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 his Answer of 3 July 2020 to Question 64076, what recent assessment he has made of the capacity of acute NHS Hospital Trusts in England to manage a seasonal flu outbreak combined with a significant increase in covid-19 cases.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	81538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>As outlined in the answer on 3 July 2020, the Government continues to support the National Health Service to manage winter pressures. The flu vaccination programme will be a critical part of preparing the United Kingdom for winter, and to manage pressures on the NHS should we have co-circulation of seasonal flu and COVID-19 this winter.</p><p>In July, the Prime Minister announced £3 billion to support NHS capacity this winter. In addition, in August a further £300 million of capital funding was announced to upgrade accident and emergency departments across the country to help prepare the NHS for winter.</p><p>Guidance has already been issued to the NHS on the process of starting to restore urgent non-COVID services in a safe way, whilst ensuring surge capacity can be stood up again should it be needed.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 12:02:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 44274 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1228896

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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 Trusts: Hospital Beds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of bed occupancy is in acute NHS Hospital Trusts in England, by (a) Trust and (b) region.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	81542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>Bed availability and occupancy rates are collected and published via NHS England. Data are available by trust and by region at the following link:</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> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 07/09/2020 15:01:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 44278 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1228901

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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 Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current level of restoration of NHS services is as covid-19 restrictions are eased, by region.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	81543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>On 31 July, further guidance was issued to local National Health Service providers and commissioners on outlining the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19 and concurrent non-COVID activity. The focus is on accelerating the return of non-COVID health services to near-normal levels, including making full use of available capacity between now and winter, whilst also preparing for winter demand pressures. This will be done alongside continued vigilance in light of any further COVID-19 spikes locally and possibly nationally.</p><p>Providers, working as local systems, were asked to submit draft plans for how they intend to intend to meet the key actions in the guidance by 1 September, with final plans due by 21 September. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/07/Phase-3-letter-July-31-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/07/Phase-3-letter-July-31-2020.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 07/09/2020 15:04:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 44279 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1228993

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Out-patients
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 he has taken to ensure that people who require outpatient services have access to them as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	82397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>As outlined in the latest guidance issued to local National Health Service providers and commissioners on the next phase of the NHS response to COVID-19, trusts and systems are now expected to deliver 100% of their last year’s activity for first outpatient attendances and follow-ups (face to face or virtually) from September, through the balance of the year. This is to be done by re-establishing (and where necessary, redesigning) services to deliver through their own local NHS (non-independent sector) capacity.</p><p> </p><p>To reduce infection risk and to support social distancing, clinicians have been advised to consider avoiding asking patients to attend physical outpatient appointments where a clinically appropriate and accessible alternative exists. The guidance is available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/07/Phase-3-letter-July-31-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/07/Phase-3-letter-July-31-2020.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 09:59:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1229010

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include reference to the statutory duty to involve patients in service delivery in future guidance to NHS (a) trusts and (b) integrated care systems.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Kate Osborne
uin	82486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The priorities set across the National Health Service for the third phase of the COVID-19 response were published on 31 July in a letter sent to NHS leaders including integrated care systems, sustainability and transformation partnerships and trust chairs. The letter emphasises the need to listen and learn from patients and communities; and encouraged a renewed focus on health inequalities.</p><p>Beyond this work to ensure the prioritisation of the patient voice within the system, there is also existing statutory guidance on involving patients in the commissioning of health services. This includes duties across the system applying to NHS England, clinical commissioning groups, and NHS trusts. This guidance has been maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic and engagement has continued with the public in a range of virtual ways.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2020 17:08:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 44332 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527
tabling member	4783 label Biography information for Kate Osborne