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1678058

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date	14/12/2023
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	Community Health Services: Children
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 she is taking to help reduce waiting times in children’s community health services.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	6950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>We monitor community health services waiting lists for children and young people and hold NHS England to account on actions to reduce waiting times.</p><p>NHS England has asked local health systems to develop plans to reduce waiting lists for community health services.</p><p>Recognising the waiting times for speech and language therapy, in September 2023, the Department for Education launched 'Early Language Support for Every Child' (ELSEC), with NHS England. ELSEC is a two-year pathfinder programme funding innovative workforce models to improve early identification and support for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs within early years and primary school settings. ELSEC will take place in nine sites across England, one in each Change Programme Partnership. It is running across two academic years from September 2023 to August 2025.</p><p>In future more healthcare will be provided in the community, and that is why the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan includes commitments to increase the community workforce, with increases in training places for community nurses and allied health professionals, and a renewed focus on retaining existing staff.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 12/01/2024 14:20:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 8840 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1307773

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	IVF: LGBT+ People
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 potential merits of giving same sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples to access IVF treatment.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	178755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>In England, decisions about local fertility services are determined by clinical commissioning groups, taking account of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) fertility guidelines.</p><p>The NICE guidelines were updated in 2013 to include provision for same sex female couples, who have demonstrated their clinical infertility. The criteria in the guidelines were developed as a way of achieving equivalence between opposite-sex and same-sex couples in establishing clinical infertility and accessing National Health Service fertility treatment services. The guidelines are now due for review and the Department has started discussions with NICE about plans for such a review.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 20/04/2021 13:59:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 96523 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1302493

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
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	Nurses: Recruitment
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 nurses have been recruited to the NHS since August 2019.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	168815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The number of nurses and health visitors joining hospitals and CCGs between August 2019 and November 2020 was 50,904. This is based on headcount.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/03/2021 17:35:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 91492 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1302509

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
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: Nurses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of nurses working in the NHS in (a) August 2019 and (b) March 2021 (i) as full time equivalents and (ii) in total.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	168816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, excluding staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>As at August 2019 there were 287,458 full time equivalent (FTE) nurse and health visitors working in the HCHS workforce, 322,810 headcount.</p><p>Data for March 2021 is not yet available. In November 2020, the latest period for which data for FTE and headcount is available, there were 307,227 FTE nurse and health visitors working in the National Health Service, or 343,240 headcount.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/03/2021 11:40:37 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 91500 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1223918

registered interest
date	13/07/2020
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	Social Services: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what most recent estimate he has made of social worker vacancy rates for each local authority in England.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	72748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p>The data is published on Skills for Care’s website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/publications/local-information/Local-authority-comparison.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/publications/local-information/Local-authority-comparison.aspx</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 04/08/2020 09:46:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 37923 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton