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874608

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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

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

874704

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	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of hospitals in England with a Type 1 A&E department have a consultant presence on emergency wards for a minimum of 16 hours a day, seven days a week; and which hospitals in each region meet those criteria.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/04/2018 12:35:58 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874705

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, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of patients waiting more than six weeks for diagnostic tests by the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS Improvement and NHS England provide guidance and support to the National Health Service to help reduce elective waiting times by promoting effective management of patient pathways.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) plan to invest in 1,890 more diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers by 2021. They have identified system wide actions to secure a further 955, producing a total of 2,227 full time equivalent (FTE) more diagnostic radiographers and 1,560 FTE more therapeutic radiographers (an 18% increase from 2016), as well as 200 additional clinical endoscopists and a further 300 reporting radiographers to support an increase in capacity for earlier diagnosis by 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of patients are being diagnosed and treated promptly against a backdrop of more people being referred and diagnosed than ever before. In 2016/17 the NHS carried out 21.4 million diagnostic tests, seven million more than in 2010.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/04/2018 14:09:38 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874706

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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of NHS medical practitioners identified as (i) white British and (ii) from any other ethnic group in the most recent data available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity information is held by NHS Digital in the Electronic Staff Record, and is published on a six monthly basis. The most recent data from September 2017 is provided below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics: Ethnicity in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England by staff group, September 2017, percentage of ethnicity</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total number</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Other Ethnic Groups</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Not stated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>116,427</p></td><td><p>53.1%</p></td><td><p>38.5%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses and Health Visitors</p></td><td><p>320,024</p></td><td><p>75.2%</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midwives</p></td><td><p>26,001</p></td><td><p>85.4%</p></td><td><p>11.1%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Very Senior Managers</p></td><td><p>2,085</p></td><td><p>85.3%</p></td><td><p>5.8%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>6.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: percentages do not sum due to rounding.</p><p> </p><p>We do not currently collect data on the professional background of leaders in the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published the Race Disparity Audit in October 2017. Detailed NHS workforce statistics have been published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, which can be found at the link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest" target="_blank">https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest</a></p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), which has measured the experience of BAME staff in the NHS since 2016, has shown that the number of very senior managers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds increased by 18% from 2016 to 2017. There has also been a steady increase in the number of NHS trusts which have more than one BAME board member. There are now a total of 25 NHS trusts with three or more BAME members of the board; an increase of nine trusts since 2016. The December 2017 WRES publication can be found at the link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 135008 135009 question first answered 18/04/2018 12:33:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874707

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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of staff in clinical leadership positions in the NHS identified as (i) white British and (ii) from any other ethnic group in the most recent data available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity information is held by NHS Digital in the Electronic Staff Record, and is published on a six monthly basis. The most recent data from September 2017 is provided below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics: Ethnicity in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England by staff group, September 2017, percentage of ethnicity</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total number</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Other Ethnic Groups</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Not stated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>116,427</p></td><td><p>53.1%</p></td><td><p>38.5%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses and Health Visitors</p></td><td><p>320,024</p></td><td><p>75.2%</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midwives</p></td><td><p>26,001</p></td><td><p>85.4%</p></td><td><p>11.1%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Very Senior Managers</p></td><td><p>2,085</p></td><td><p>85.3%</p></td><td><p>5.8%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>6.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: percentages do not sum due to rounding.</p><p> </p><p>We do not currently collect data on the professional background of leaders in the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published the Race Disparity Audit in October 2017. Detailed NHS workforce statistics have been published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, which can be found at the link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest" target="_blank">https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest</a></p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), which has measured the experience of BAME staff in the NHS since 2016, has shown that the number of very senior managers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds increased by 18% from 2016 to 2017. There has also been a steady increase in the number of NHS trusts which have more than one BAME board member. There are now a total of 25 NHS trusts with three or more BAME members of the board; an increase of nine trusts since 2016. The December 2017 WRES publication can be found at the link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 135007 135009 question first answered 18/04/2018 12:33:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874708

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, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of NHS staff in administrative leadership roles identified as (i) white British and (ii) from any other ethnic group in the most recent data available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity information is held by NHS Digital in the Electronic Staff Record, and is published on a six monthly basis. The most recent data from September 2017 is provided below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics: Ethnicity in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England by staff group, September 2017, percentage of ethnicity</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total number</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Other Ethnic Groups</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Not stated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>116,427</p></td><td><p>53.1%</p></td><td><p>38.5%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses and Health Visitors</p></td><td><p>320,024</p></td><td><p>75.2%</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midwives</p></td><td><p>26,001</p></td><td><p>85.4%</p></td><td><p>11.1%</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Very Senior Managers</p></td><td><p>2,085</p></td><td><p>85.3%</p></td><td><p>5.8%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>6.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: percentages do not sum due to rounding.</p><p> </p><p>We do not currently collect data on the professional background of leaders in the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published the Race Disparity Audit in October 2017. Detailed NHS workforce statistics have been published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, which can be found at the link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest" target="_blank">https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest</a></p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), which has measured the experience of BAME staff in the NHS since 2016, has shown that the number of very senior managers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds increased by 18% from 2016 to 2017. There has also been a steady increase in the number of NHS trusts which have more than one BAME board member. There are now a total of 25 NHS trusts with three or more BAME members of the board; an increase of nine trusts since 2016. The December 2017 WRES publication can be found at the link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 135007 135008 question first answered 18/04/2018 12:33:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

874709

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	Sickle Cell 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 recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the NHS of treating sickle cell anaemia.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	135010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>The most recent figures from an NHS England annual collection exercise estimated that the expenditure to treat patients with sickle cell disease, including anaemias, was approximately £41.6 million for 2015/16 and £41.5 million for 2016/17. The value for 2017/18 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/04/2018 15:33:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth